Archives 2012

Thurs, Dec 6th, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Sophie DENEVE (homepage)

Group for Neural Theory, LNC, DEC, ENS


  Title:
Balanced spiking networks can implement dynamical systems with predictive coding

Abstract

 


 

Thursday, November 29th, 2012: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Series in CMU, Geneva
 

Time: 15h10 – 16h30

Peter LATHAM (homepage)

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University College London

  Title:
Noise, correlations and computing

Abstract
     
Time: 16h30 – 17h00
Coffee Break
     
Time: 17h00 – 18h30
Matthias BETGHE (homepage)

Center for Integrative Science, Tuebingen, Germany

  Title:
Efficient coding from the neurons’ perspective

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Nov. 22nd, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Alfonso RENART (homepage)

Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation

  Title:
Does the variability of sensory neurons constrain the accuracy of perception?

Abstract

 


 

Mon, Nov. 19th, 2012
IC Colloquium
Location: BC 420
Time: 16:30 – 17:45

Olivier FAUGERAS (homepage)

INRIA

  Title:
Some of the upcoming challenges in computational and mathematical neuroscience

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Nov. 15th, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Prof. Florentin WOERGOETTER (homepage)

Center for Systems Neuroscience, Göttingen


  Title:
Time Scales of Learning and Memory

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Nov. 8th, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Prof. Israel NELKEN (homepage)

Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University

  Title:
The coding of surprise in the auditory system

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Nov. 1st, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Frédéric GAMBINO (homepage)

Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Geneva

  Title:
A compound mechanism of deprivation-mediated sensory surround potentiation in the adult somatosensory cortex

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, October 11th, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Axel HUTT (homepage)

INRIA CR Nancy

  Title:
Dynamics of neural fields in the presence of additive noise

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Sept. 27th, 2012
Location: SG 0213
Time: 13h30

Prof. Fred WOLF (homepage)

Head of the Research Group ‘Theoretical Neurophysics’, Department of Nonlinear Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

  Title:
Universality in the Evolution of Neocortical Circuits

Abstract

 


 

Thursday, September 20th, 2012: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Series in EPFL, Lausanne
 

Location: BC04

Time: 15h15 – 16h45

Maneesh SAHANI (homepage)

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University College London

  Title:
Predictive models of auditory cortical responses to dynamic stimuli

Abstract
     
Time: 16h45 – 17h00
Coffee Break
     
Time: 17h00 – 18h30
Tatyana SHARPEE (homepage)

Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
SALK Institute

  Title:
Minimal models of neural responses to natural stimuli

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, Sept. 6th, 2012
Location: SV 1717a
Time: 15h15

Prof. Stephen GROSSBERG (homepage)

Founding Chairman,
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

  Title:
Foundations and New Paradigms of Brain Computing: Principles, Equations, Modules, and Architectures

Abstract

 


 

Wed, Aug 29th, 2012
Location: SV2510
Time: 12h15

Kechen ZHANG (homepage)

Theoretical Neuroscience Laboratory,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  Title:
Optimality in sensory representations

Abstract

 


 

Monday, June 4th, 2012
SUmmer Research Institute Talks
Location: BC01
Time: 10h30

Lai-Sang YOUNG (homepage)

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU

  Title:
Emergent dynamics in a model of visual cortex

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, May 31st, 2012
Location: BC01
Time: 14h15

Prof. Peter TASS (homepage)

Juelich Forschungszentrum

  Title:
Long-lasting neuronal desynchronization caused by coordinated reset neuromodulation

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, May 24th, 2012
Location: BC01
Time: 14h15

Tilo SCHWALGER (homepage)

Theory of Complex Systems and Neurophysics, BCCN Berlin

  Title:
Theory for neurons with non-renewal spike trains

Abstract

 


 

Wednesay, May 23rd, 2012
Location: SV 2615
Time: 10h30

Volker PERNICE (homepage)

Bernstein Center Freiburg

  Title:
From networks to spike train covariances and back

Abstract

 


 

Thursday,  May 10th, 2012: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Series in ETHZ, Zurich
 

Time: 13h00 – 14h30

 

Prof. Kenneth HARRIS (homepage)

Imperial College London

Title: The neural marketplace
Abstract

     
Time: 14h30 – 15h00
Coffee Break
     
Time: 15h00 – 17h00
 

Dr. Arnd ROTH (homepage)

London Centre for Nanotechnology

Title: The power of the single neuron
Abstract

 

 


Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Location: BC01
Time: 15h15

Kristofer BOUCHARD (homepage)

University of California, San Francisco:
Dpt of Neurosurgery
Dpt of Physiology
Center for Neuralengineering, UCB
Center for Integrative Neuroscience

  Title:
Functional Organization of Sensory-Motor Cortex During Speech Articulation

Abstract

 


 

Wed, May 2nd, 2012
BMI SEMINAR SERIES
Location: SV1717A
Time: 12h15

Prof. Alexandre POUGET (homepage)

Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dept, University Rochester

  Title:
Not noisy, just wrong: the role of suboptimal inference in behavioral

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, April 26th, 2012
Location: BC01
Time: 15h15

Florian JUG (homepage)

Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms, ETH Zurich

  Title:
On Competition and Learning in Cortical Structures

Abstract

 


 

Wednesay, April 25th, 2012
Location: SV 2715
Time: 10h30

 

Moritz DEGER (homepage)

Bernstein Center Freiburg

  Title:
Stochastic models of neurons and of the plasticity of neocortical synaptic connections

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, April 19th, 2012
Location: BC01
Time: 15h15

David KASTNER (homepage)

School of Medicine, Stanford University

  Title:
Population encoding for dynamically changing stimuli

Abstract

 


 

Thurs, March 29th, 2012
Location: BC01
Time: 15h15

Dr. Anita DISNEY (homepage)

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

  Title:
Modulating gain: cholinergic mechanisms in macaque V1

Abstract

 


 

 

Thurs, February 17th, 2012
Location: BC03
Time: 15h15

Jonathan BINAS (homepage)

Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich

  Title:
State-Dependent Computation in Spiking (Neuromorphic) Systems

Abstract

 


 

 

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
LCN LAB Meeting
Location: SV2510
Time: 14h15

Prof. Stefan ROTTER, (homepage)

Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg

 

  Title:
Spike Train Correlations Derived from Anatomical Microstructure

Abstract
   
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Prof. Gaute EINEVOLL, (homepage)

Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology Norwegian University of Life Sciences

  Title:
How local is the local field potential?
Abstract

 


 

Wed, January 11th, 2012
BMI SEMINAR SERIES
Location: SV1717A
Time: 12h15

Dr. Matthew LARKUM, (homepage)

Dept. of Physiology, Uni Bern

  Title:
Contribution of active dendrites to the neural dynamics of cortical circuits
Abstract