Archives 2013

Thurs, Dec 19th, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:30

Brent DOIRON (homepage)

Theoretical Neuroscience Research Group,
University of Pittsburgh

  Title:
Formation of neuronal assemblies and their maintenance during spontaneous cortical activity

Abstract

 


 

Monday, December 16th, 2013: Computational Neuroscience Seminars – INM 203
 

Time: 09:00 – 09:40

Claudia CLOPATH (homepage)

Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London

  Title:
Synaptic plasticity and its functional implications

Abstract
     

Time: 09:40 – 10:30

Daniel BRAUN (homepage)

Emmy-Noether Group Leader, MPI for Biological Cybernetics

  Title:
Sensorimotor learning and decision-making in complex environments

Abstract
     
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Time: 11:00 – 11:40

Eftychios PNEVMATIKAKIS (homepage)

Department of Statistics and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University

  Title:
Extracting information from calcium imaging data
Abstract
     
Time: 11:50 – 12:30

Jakob MACKE (homepage)

Neural Computation and Behaviour, MPI for Biological Cybernetics

  Title:
Statistical methods for characterizing cortical population dynamics
Abstract

 


 

Thursday, December 12th, 2013: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Seminars –
EPFL, Lausanne
. Location AAC 132
 

Time: 14:15 – 15:45

Bard ERMENTROUT (homepage)

Complex Biological Systems Group,
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics

  Title:
Oscillations, noise, and synchrony

Abstract
     
Time: 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
     
Time: 16:15 – 17:45

Benjamin LINDNER (homepage)

Theory of Complex Systems and Neurophysics at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and the Physics Department of the Humboldt University Berlin

  Title:
Features of spontaneous activity and signal transmission in models of stochastic neurons
Abstract

 


 

Tuesday, December 10th, 2013: Computational Neuroscience Seminars – INM 200
 

Time: 09:00 – 09:50

Jean-Pascal PFISTER (homepage)

Dept. of Physiology, Uni Bern

  Title:
Short-term and long-term plasticity from a normative perspective

Abstract
     

Time: 09:50 – 10:40

Wolfgang EINHÄUSER (homepage)

Neurophysik Philipps-Universität Marburg

  Title:
Ambiguity and Attention in the Real World

Abstract
     
Time: 10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break
     
Time: 11:00 – 11:50

Costas ANASTASSIOU (homepage)

Allen Institute for Brain Science

  Title:
Electric fields in the brain
Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Dec 5th, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:30

Christian MACHENS (homepage)

Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme in Lisbon, Portugal

  Title:
Efficient Coding and Balanced Networks: A Unification

Abstract

 


 

Friday, Nov 29th, 2013
Location: SV1717a
Time: 11:00

Dmitri “Mitya” CHKLOVSKII (homepage)

Janelia Farms Research Campus,
Hugues Howard Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD ‎


  Title:
Understanding the building blocks of neural computation: Insights from connectomics and theory

Abstract

 


 

Thursday, November 28th, 2013: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Seminars –
University of Zurich
. Location: lecture hall Y 15 G 19
 

Time: 14h00 – 15h45

Surya GANGULI (homepage)

Department of Applied Physics,
Stanford University

  Title:
A theory of neural dimensionality and dynamics

Abstract
     
Time: 15h45 – 16h15 Coffee Break
     
Time: 16h15 – 18h00

Dmitri B. CHKLOVSKII (homepage)

Janelia Farms Research Campus,
Hugues Howard Medical Institute,
Chevy Chase, MD ‎

  Title:
Towards a holistic view of single-neuron computation
Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Nov21st, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:45

Romain BRETTE (homepage)

Lab of Psychology and Perception, Hearing Group
ENS, Paris

  Title:
What is the most realistic single-compartment neuron model?

Abstract

 


 

Friday, Nov 15th, 2013
Location: SV1717a
Time: 14:15

Angela YU (homepage)

Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Cognitive Science,
University of California, San Diego


  Title:
Decision-Making in Perception and Action

Abstract

 


 

Monday, Nov 11th, 2013
Location: SV1717a
Time: 10:00

Peter TASS (homepage)

Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Centre Jülich


  Title:
Unlearning pathological neuronal synchrony by coordinated reset neuromodulation

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Oct 31st, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:30

Petr LANSKY (homepage)

Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic


  Title:
Variability of neuronal signal: from diffusion models to statistical methods

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Oct 10th, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:30 

Joel ZYLBERBERG (homepage)

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington


  Title:
Causes and effects of noise correlations in neural populations

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Oct 3rd, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:30

Michael OKUN (homepage)

Systems and Computational Neuroscience, University College London


  Title:
Structure of spontaneous activity in rodent sensory cortex

Abstract

 


 

Mon, Sept 30th, 2013
Location: SV 2715
Time: 14:00

Ahmed EL HADY (homepage)

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Goettingen, Germany

  Title:
Non-invasive characterization of individual neurons with Continuous dynamic photo-stimulation

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Sept 19th, 2013
Location: SG0213
Time: 13:15

Tatjana TCHUMATCHENKO (homepage)

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main


  Title:
Response of neural networks to external stimuli

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Sept 5th, 2013
Location: BC02
Time: 13:30

Andreas STEIMER (homepage)

Institute of Neuroinformatics, Uni Zurich


  Title:
Spike-Based Probabilistic Inference in Analog Graphical Models Using Interspike-Interval Coding

Abstract

 


 

Wed, July 24, 2013
Location:SV 2510
Time: 13:30

Taro TOYOIZUMI (homepage)

RIKEN Brain Science Institute


  Title:
available soon

Abstract

 


 

Monday, July 22, 2013
Location: AAB 136
Time: 14:00

Florence KLEBERG (homepage)

RIKEN Brain Science Institute


  Title:
Inhibitory Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and efficient spike transmission

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, June 6th, 2013
Location: BC02
Time: 15h15

Danielle MERSCH (homepage)

Faculté de biologie et de médecine,
Department of Ecology and Evolution ,
University of Lausanne

  Title:
Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization

Abstract

 


Thurs, May 30th, 2013
Location: BC02
Time: 15h15

Michael GRAUPNER (homepage)

Center for Neural Science,
New York University

  Title:
Natural firing patterns reduce sensitivity of synaptic plasticity to > spike-timing

Abstract

 


 

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Seminars –
University of Zurich, Irchel Campus, room Y17 M05
(directions)
 

Time: 14h00 – 15h30

Mayank MEHTA (homepage)

Center for Neurophysics,
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

  Title:
Virtually there: Experimental tests of hippocampal theories

Abstract
     
Time: 15h30 – 16h00
Coffee Break
     
Time: 16h00 – 17h30
Neil BURGESS(homepage)

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept. Anatomy,
University College London, UK

  Title:
Neural mechanisms of spatial cognition

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, May 16th, 2013
Location: AAC 120
Time: 13h45

Eilif MULLER (homepage)

The Blue Brain Project, EPFL

  Title:
Self-organized criticality emerges when synapses compete to potentiate

Abstract

 


 

Wed, May 15th, 2013
Location: to be confirmed
Time: 10h30

Joshua BROWN (homepage)

Dpt. of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Indiana University

  Title:
Cognitive control as a process of prediction and evaluation

Abstract

 


 


Monday, May 6th, 2013: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Seminars – University of Bern

General Program
 


Misha TSODYKS (homepage)

Department of Neurobiology,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

 Time:14h15 – 15h45 Title:
Attractor models of place representation – from place to grid cells

Abstract
     
Time: 15h45 – 16h15
Coffee Break
     
 Time: 16h15 – 17h45 Title:
Information retrieval in neural network models of long-term memory

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, March 14th, 2013
Location: AAC 120
Time: 15:15

David HOUSE (homepage)

Cellular Mechanisms of Dependence and Addiction, University of Geneva


  Title:
Experience co-regulates feedforward excitation and inhibition during whisker map plasticity

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Feb. 14th, 2013
Location: AAB 032
Time: 13:30

Yonatan LOEWENSTEIN (homepage)

Laboratory of Decision Making, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


  Title:
Is there “value” in reinforcement learning?

Abstract

 


 

Wed, Jan 16th, 2013
Location: SV2715
Time: 10h30

Guillaume LAJOIE (homepage)

Dept of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington


  Title:
Chaos and reliability in fluctuation-driven, balanced spiking networks

Abstract