Talks+&+Discussions

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= **Week 1: The Technological Face of Neuroscience**  =

All talks will be in the Main Seminar Room unless otherwise indicated. Director's Lunchtime Seminar ||= ** 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ** ||= ** 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM ** ||
 * =  ||= ** 10:15 AM to 10:30 AM ** ||= ** 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM ** || ** 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM **
 * = ** Monday **

** 20 ** ** September ** ||= ** Greeting & salutations from Adrienne, David & Fred ** ||= ====John J. Hopfield ====

How have experiment and theory informed each other in the past 25 years? || ==== Maciek Lewenstein ====

Beyond Standard Optical Lattices ||= ==== Karl Deisseroth ====

Experimental approaches to psychiatric disorders ||= **Wine & Cheese** ||


 * || ** 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM ** || ** 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ** || ** 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM ** || ** Coffee, tea & cookies ** || ** 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM ** ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 21 September ** || ==== David Kleinfeld====

Primer on classical brain connectivity || ==== Van J. Wedeen====

Tracing neuronal connections on an areal basis with DTI || ==== David J. Heeger====

Spatiotemporal dynamics of activity in human visual cortex ||  || ==== R. Clay Reid ====

Experimental approaches to delineating signal pathways ||
 * ** Wednesday **

** 22 September ** || ==== Anirvan Ghosh====

Molecular approaches to unraveling circuits || ==== Stephen J. Smith ====

The synaptic architecture of the brain || ==== ====

Charles F. Stevens
Principles that govern the structure of arbors ||  || ==== Adrienne L. Fairhall====

Open theoretical issues and the potential impact of new technologies ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 23 September ** || ==== Ralph Greenspan====

The present and future face of behavioral genetics || ==== Dmitri B. Chklovskii====

Hold that thought: Networks that support persistence || ==== Axel Nimmerjahn====

Optical imaging of cell dynamics in behaving animals ||  || ==== Richard H. Hahnloser====

Neural theory and practice of song learning
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 * ** Friday **

** 24 September ** || ==== Edward M. Callaway====

Rabies-based tools to elucidate circuits and link connectivity to function || ==== Srinivas C. Turaga====

Constructing the connectome to deconstruct the brain ||  ||   ||   ||


 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 27 September ** || 10.00am || MSR || **Winfried Denk** || //Structural neurobiology, the new old bottleneck// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || **Fred Wolf** || //Perturbing neural circuit dynamics// || All invited ||
 * || 5:00pm || Court ||  || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 28 September ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Jimmy Zhou** || //Cholinergic network in the retina: from development to computation.// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Alla Karpova** || //Optimizing behavior in variable and competitive environments// ||  ||
 * || 2:30pm || MSR || **Coordinators** || Organizational Meeting || All participants ||
 * ** Wednesday **

** 29 September ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Elad Schneidman** || //Correlated neural population codes and optimal networks// ||  ||
 * || 11:00 || MSR || **Steve Baccus** || //Understanding inhibitory circuits in the retina// ||  ||
 * || 2:00 ||  ||   || //PICNIC//.. //soccer// ||   ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 30 September ** || 9:30am || MSR || **David Perkel** || //Functions and mechanisms of behavioral variability during motor learning// ||  || //Starting presentation: Elad, discussants Peter, Sara, Eran ...// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Anne Churchland** || //Spiking variability as a window into neural computation// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || **Focus Group**
 * Population Statistics** || //Group discussion: High order correlations and maximum entropy models of population activity in retina and cortex.//
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Friday **

** 1 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Jason Kerr** || //Release the hounds: imaging activity in neuronal populations in the freely moving animal// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Albert Compte** || //A sensory-executive circuit model for visual selective attention// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || **Eran Mukamel** || //Shaky, spiky, STORMy and sharp: Neural visual inference for hyperacuity amid fixational eye movements.// ||  ||


 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 4 October ** || 10.00 am || MSR || **Jeff Magee** || //Processing and storage in neuronal dendrites// ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm || FR || **//Informal discussion//** || //Quantum neural networks// || Anna Sanpera, Sara Solla, Peter Latham, Fred Wolf, Maciek Lewenstein,.. ||
 * || 3:30pm || MSR || **Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer** || //Nonlinear dendrites, hippocampal ripples, and association of spike patterns// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 5 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Mark Ellisman** || //Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where's the Dark Matter?// ||  || //applications to vision and speech.// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Robert Guetig** || //Spike-timing based neuronal information processing://
 * ** Wednesday **

** 6 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Jackie Schiller** || //Non linear dendritic integration in neocortical// //pyramidal neurons.// ||  ||
 * || 11:00 || MSR || **Guoqiang Bi** || //Self-organizing plasticity in small neuronal networks// ||  ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 7 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Peter Latham** || //Probabilistic inference in networks of spiking neurons// || http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/kitp10.ppt ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Surya Ganguli** || //Compressive sensing tutorial// ||  ||
 * || 3:30pm || MSR || **Tao Hu** || //Estimating conectomes with compressed sensing// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || MSR || **Fleur Zeldenrust** || //Characterizing neurons in networks with noisy input.// ||  ||
 * || 5:30pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Friday **

** 8 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Elisha Moses** || //Architecture and computation in neuronal networks// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Sophie Deneve** || //Bayesian approaches to dynamics and coding in single neurons and networks// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Tower Room || **//Informal discussion//** || Dendritic nonlinear processing and single neuron modelling || Sara Solla, Jackie Schiller, Raoul Memmesheimer ||


 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 11 October ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || 3:30pm || AUD || **William Spain** || //Adaptation of spike timing precision: implications for sound localization// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || Court ||  || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 12 October ** || 9:30am || AUD || **Michael Gutnick** || //TBA// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || AUD || **Charles Wilson** || //Neuronal Dynamics in the Subthalamic Nucleus// ||  ||
 * ** Wednesday **

** 13 October ** || 9:30am || AUD || **David McCormick** || //Neocortical network dynamics// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || AUD || **Herb Levine** || //Biophysical models of complex neuronal components// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || AUD || **Fred Wolf** || //Single neuron dynamics for retaining and destroying network information// ||  ||
 * || 6:00pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 14 October ** || 9:30am || AUD || **David Golomb** || //Short-term synaptic plasticity, interneurons, and cortical responses// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || AUD || **Dirk Trauner** || //Teaching old receptors new tricks// || Abstract ||
 * || 2:00pm || AUD || **Andrea Hasenstaub** || //Fast-spiking interneurons, network dynamics, and response flexibility// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Friday **
 * ** Friday **

** 15 October ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || 9:30am || AUD || **Mike Famulare** || //Deriving the spike code from single neuron dynamics// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || AUD || **Ben Strowbridge** || //Cellular mechanisms of persistent activity in the hippocampus and olfactory bulb// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Tower Room || **Group discussion** || //Dynamic single neuron models and instant "adaptation"// ||  ||

= Week 5 Network computation =


 * ~ **Week 5** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 18 October ** || 10.00am || MSR || **Mayank Mehta** || //Relating plasticity, place cells, oscillations and sleep// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Tower Room || **Group discussion** || //Is stimulus reconstruction an important criterion for choosing single neuron models?// || Discussants: Deneve, Sola, Gütig ||
 * || 3:30pm || Aud || **Surya Ganguli** || //Fischer Information, compressed sensing, and the origins of short-term sequence memory in neuronal networks// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || Court ||  || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 19 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Massimo Scanziani** || //Excitation and Inhibition in Cortical Space// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Michael Hausser** || //Temporal sequence processing in cortical neurons// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **Group**
 * discussion** || //Normalization models// || Discussants: Compte, Heeeger, Miller ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida || **Herbie Levine** || //How Eukaryotic Cells Know Where to Go? Models and Experiments on Chemotaxis// || Physics colloquium ||
 * ** Wednesday **

** 20 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Rainer Friedrich** || //Dynamics and discrete network states in the olfactory system// ||  ||
 * || 11:00 || MSR || **Theo Geisel** || //Phase transitions towards self-organized criticality in networks of neurons with dynamical synapses// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || **Michael Hausser** || //Using light to control behaviour - the promise of optogenetics// || KITP colloquium. All welcome ||
 * || 4:00pm || MSR || **Group**
 * discussion** || Network Dynamics in Olfactory Processing || Discussants: Friedrich, Strowbridge, etc. ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 21 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Alex Reyes** || //Stimulus-dependent switching of excitatory/inhibitory configurations in neural networks// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Ken Miller** || //Contrast-dependent center-surround interactions & "normalizing" nonlinearities in visual cortex: A simple unified circuit model// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm ||  || **Livia deHoz** || //Sensory memory in the auditory cortex of behaving rodents// ||   ||
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Friday **

** 22 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Michale Fee** || //Localizing and understanding dynamics in neural circuits// ||  || = =
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Sara Solla** || //Effective connectivity reveals induced network reorganization in behaving animals// ||  ||

= Week 6 Neurovascular coupling and network computation, cont. =


 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __ Place __ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 25 October ** || 10.00am || MSR || **David Kleinfeld** || //Welcome and introduction to neurovascular coupling// ||  ||
 * || 10:30am || MSR || **Martin Lauritzen** || //So many signals: how the vasculature feeds the brain// ||  ||
 * || 12:00pm ||  || **Simon Trebst** ||   || Director's Black Board Lunch; all welcome ||
 * || 2:30pm || MSR || **Brian MacVicar** || //Regulation of cerebral blood vessels by astrocytes and the influence of metabolism// ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm || Court ||  || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 26 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Frank Kirchhoff** || //Two-photon imaging and genetic models to study glial function// in vivo ||  || **Andy Shih** **Pablo Blinder** || //Single-vessel strokes// //Illuminating the angiotome// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Edith Hamel** || //Neuronal networks in the control of cerebral blood flow// ||  ||
 * || 3:00pm ||  || **Junior fellows:**
 * ** Wednesday **

** 27 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Bruno Weber** || //Cerebral blood flow and metabolism: Feeding a hungry organ// ||  ||
 * || 11:00 || MSR || **Open discussion** ||  ||   ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 28 October ** || 9:30am || MSR || **David Hansel** || //Selective persistent states in balanced networks// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Ila Fiete** || //Beyond classical population coding for nearly exact estimation in the brain// ||  ||
 * || 3:30pm || MSR || **Carl von Vreeswijk** || //Emerging techniques for the analysis of network dynamic//s ||  ||
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Friday **

** 29 October ** || 7:30am ||  ||   || **Hiking trip!** ||   ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR ||  ||   ||

= = = Week 7 Plasticity and adaptation =


 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 1 November ** || 3:30pm ||  || **Rob Froemke** || //Long-term cortical synaptic plasticity improves sensory perception// ||   ||
 * || 5:00pm || Court ||  || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 2 November ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Matthias Kaschube** || //Nature, nurture, nonlinearity// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Tim Murphy** || //Synapse and circuit level plasticity after stroke// ||  ||
 * ** Wednesday **
 * ** Wednesday **

** 3 November ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Siegrid Lowel** || //The dynamic architecture of the cortex during development and after lesions// ||  ||
 * || 11:00 || MSR || **Gord Fishell** || //The requirement for neuronal activity for cortical interneuron development// ||  ||
 * || 2:00 || MSR || **Charles F. Stevens** ||< //Physics-style theory can be used to discover a universal principle governing the design of neural network// ||
 * > KITP Colloquium ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 4 November ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Venki Murthy** || //Synaptic circuits and odor processing in the mouse olfactory system// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Botond Roska** || //Retinal hardware// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm ||  || **Julijana Gjorgjieva** || //Plasticity in developing circuits driven by spontaneous activity// ||   ||
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || //Drinks at the beach// ||   ||
 * ** Friday **

** 5 November ** || 9:00am || MSR || **Andy Huberman** || //Mechanisms for wiring up visual circuits// ||  ||  = Week 8: Perception to action; wrap-up =
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Vijay Balasubramanian** || //Principles of population coding: maps, parallel channels, interactions// ||
 * || 2:00pm || Tower room || Discussion || //Covariance methods and single neurons// ||


 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ** Monday **

** 8 November ** || 10.00am || MSR || **Peter Strick** || //'Old' and 'New' M1: A Tale of Two Cortical Motor Areas// ||  ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || **David Kleinfeld & Adrienne Fairhall** || //What an Experimentalist (Theorist) thinks Theorists (Experimentalists) should and should not be doing in Neuroscience// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Group discussion** || //Emerging Techniques: Perspectives and Challenges// ||  ||
 * || 3:30pm ||  || **Chris Fang-yen (Samuel lab)** || //Optical dissection of worm behavior// ||   ||
 * || 5:00pm || Court ||  || //Wine and cheese// ||   ||
 * ** Tuesday **

** 9 November ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Mark van Rossum** || //Weight dependent synaptic plasticity rules// ||  ||
 * ** Wednesday **

** 10 November ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Yoram Burak** || //Models of neural inference under dynamic// //transformations// ||  ||
 * || 11:00am || MSR || **Ehud Ahissar** || //Closed loop perception in whisking rats and humans// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Tower || //Discussion// || //Covariance methods and single neurons// || Mike Famulare leading ||
 * || 3:30pm || MSR || **Yasser Roudi** || //Mean field theory for non-equilibrium network reconstruction// ||  ||
 * || 5:30pm ||  ||   || //Group dinner// ||   ||
 * ** Thursday **

** 11 November ** || 9:30am || MSR || **Alexander Gail** || //The frontoparietal sensorimotor loop for reaching// ||  ||
 * || 11:30am || MSR || **Wrap-up discussion** ||  ||   ||

***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room** **FR=Founders' Room** ⬆TOP