Program

Saturday Evening
6:00 PM Fine Hall Prof. Lounge	Reception
8:00 PM McDonnell Hall Rm.A01	Keynote Speaker: Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller)	Circuit Computation Underlying Concentration-Invariant Odor Perception
Sunday
8:00 AM LTL Rm.003	Breakfast
9:00 AM	Columbia Posters Overview: Larry Abbott
9:15	Invited Speaker: Eve Marder (Brandeis)	Variability, Compensation, Homeostasis and Neuromodulation in Rhythmic Motor Circuits
10:00	Break
10:10	Talk Sessions: Learning and Memory
10:10	Vladimir Itskov (Columbia)	Structured memory spaces arising from recurrent network activity
10:30	Paul Miller (Brandeis)	Learning associations while retaining specificity: competing demands on network plasticity rules
10:50	Yale Posters Overview: XJ Wang
11:05	Coffee Break
11:25	Talk Sessions: Decision-Making
11:25	Adam Kepecs (CSHL)	Decision confidence; computational models; and neural correlates
11:40	Moran Furman (Yale)	A line-attractor network model for multiple-choice decision making
12:00	Nate Smith (Yale)	Simultaneous versus alternating sampling in multiple-choice decisions
12:10	KongFatt Wong-Lin (Princeton)	Optimality, robustness, and dynamics of decision-making under norepinephrine modulation: a spiking neuronal network model
12:30 McDonnell Hall Brush Gallery	Lunch
2:00 LTL Rm.003	CSHL Posters Overview: Tony Zador
2:15	Invited Speaker: Peter Robinson (Sydney)	Multiscale Modeling of Brain Activity
3:00	Break
3:10	Talk Sessions: Local Field Potential
3:10	Josh Milstein (Caltech)	Noise, power laws, and the local field potential
3:35	Chess Stetson (Caltech)	Relationship of spike-field and field-field coherence across parietal and frontal lobes
4:00	Flavio Frohlich (Yale)	Does the field potential influence normal network activity?
4:15	Break
4:45	Talk Sessions: Network Dynamics
4:45	Yoram Burak (Harvard)	Path integration and grid cell dynamics in the medial entorhinal cortex
5:05	Ken Miller (Columbia)	Strong, balanced excitation and inhibition yield selective amplification of activity patterns without slowing of dynamics
5:25	Gergo Orban (Brandeis)	Relating evoked and spontaneous cortical activities in a generative modeling framework
5:45	Break
5:55	Princeton Posters Overview: Bill Bialek
6:10-6:25	Yi Sun (NYU)	Numerical I&F reduction of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons and their network dynamics.
7:30-10:30 Prospect House	Banquet
Monday
9:00 LTL Rm.003	NYU Posters Overview: Bob Shapley
9:10	Invited Speaker: Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton)	Primate communication through coupled oscillations
09:55	Break
10:10	Talk Sessions: Motor Control
10:10	Maurice Smith (Harvard)	Basis Elements for Motor Adaptation Reflect Neural Representations of Motion
10:30	Heather Dean (NYU)	Reaction time correlations as a measure of eye-hand coordination
10:45	Bernstein Posters Overview: Julia Veit
11:00	Coffee Break
11:20	Salk Posters Overview: Terry Sejnowski
11:35	Arpan Banerjee (NYU)	Spatiotemporal emergence of movement plans in the posterior parietal cortex during eye-hand coordination
11:50	Flip Sabes and UCSF Posters Overview	Normative models and networks: sensorimotor learning from two perspectives
12:30 Icahn Lab. Rm.280	Director's Lunch
12:30 McDonnell Hall Brush Gallery	Lunch
2:30 LTL Rm.003	Brandeis Posters Overview: Eve Marder
2:45	Talk Sessions: Multiscale Human Electrophysiology
2:45	Scott Makeig (UCSD)	Modeling large-scale and neural-scale dynamics in multi-resolution human data
3:05	Maxim Bazhenov (UC Riverside)	Large-scale neural modeling of multi-resolution human data
3:30	Zeynep Akalin Acar (UCSD)	Neuroelectromagnetic Forward Modeling Toolbox and cortical source localization in epilepsy
3:50	Makeig, Bazhenov, & Acar: Joint discussion
4:00	Coffee Break
4:30	Talk Sessions: Oscillations and Spikes
4:30	Dave Markowitz (Princeton)	Rate-specific synchrony: Using noisy oscillations to detect equally active neurons
4:50	Zoltan Nadasdy (Caltech)	Information coding with the phases of action potentials
5:15	Haim Sompolinsky	TBA
5:30 Icahn Lab Atrium	Poster Setup and Browsing
6:00 free time	Dinner (Browse posters or dine in town.)
8:00-10:00 Icahn Lab Atrium	Poster Session
Tuesday
8:30 LTL Rm.003	Breakfast
9:30	Talk Sessions: Vision and Coding
9:30	Xaq Pitkow (Columbia)	Benchmarks for vision: probabilities of feature conjunctions in naturalistic images
9:50	Stephanie Palmer (Princeton)	Predictive information in the retina
10:10	Sergei Gepshtein (Salk)	Economics of visual sensitivity and sensorimotor behavior
10:40	Nava Rubin (NYU)	A Hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in human cortex
11:00	Coffee Break
11:05	Talk Sessions: Topology, Development, and Structure
11:15	Mitya Tsigankov (CSHL)	Can formation of ocular dominance pattern be instructed by molecular labels?"
11:30	Florin Albeanu (CSHL)	Precision and diversity of the odor map on the olfactory bulb of mice and rats
11:45	Moritz Helias (BCCN Freiburg)	From correlation detection towards structural plasticity in cortical networks
12:00	Ping Wang (Salk)	Synchrony and stochasticity in thalamocortical neural coding
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Talk Sessions: Rodent Behavior and Learning
2:00	Mark Laubach (Yale)	Dynamic modulation of neural activity following changes in stimulus-reward association
2:15	Santiago Jaramillo (CSHL)	Effects of expectation on the processing of auditory stimuli
2:30	Alfredo Fontanini (Brandeis)	Active and passive sensing differentially modulate sensory responses
2:50	Loren Frank (UCSF)	A neural mechanism for the generation of sparse, informative representations in the hippocampus
3:05	Coffee Break
3:35	Yuri Dabaghian (UCSF)	Topological structure of the hippocampal code
3:50	Sen Cheng (UCSF)	A theoretical analysis of neurogenesis and transient memory storage in the dentate gyrus
4:05	Uri Rokni (Harvard)	Compensating fixational eye movements: A network model
4:25	Break
4:40 - 5:25	Invited Speaker: Randy Gallistel (Rutgers)	An information-theoretic analysis of basic conditioning