Archives 2011

Thurs, December 15th, 2011
Location: BC 01
Time: 15h15

Jaime de la ROCHA, (homepage)
IDIBAPS, Barcelona
The correlation structure of spontaneous activity in populations of cortical neurons
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Thurs, December 8th, 2011
Location: BC 01
Time: 15h15

Udo ERNST, (homepage)
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen
Feature integration in generative models of visual cortex
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Thurs, December 1st, 2011
Location: BC 01
Time: 15h15

Robert GÜTIG, (homepage)
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University
Spike-timing based neuronal information processing: applications to vision and speech
Abstract

 

Thurs, November 17th, 2011
Location: BC 01
Time: 15h15

Marc TIMME, (homepage)
Network Dynamics Group, MPIDS and BCCN Goettingen
Challenges in Network Dynamics: From Processing in Single Neurons to Behavior
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Series in CMU, Geneva
 
Time: 15h00-16h30


Time: 16h30-17h00

Time: 17h00-18h30

Tim BEHRENS, (homepage)
Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford
Computations and mechanisms underlying activity in the rostromedial prefrontal cortex during choice
Abstract

Coffee Break

Peter DAYAN, (homepage)
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Interactions between Model-free and Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Abstract

 

Thurs, October 27th, 2011
Location: BC 01
Time: 15h15
 		Tim VOGELS, (homepage)
Lab. of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL, Switzerland
Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity balances excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents in signal pathways and memory networks
Abstract

 

Thursday, October 13th, 2011, BC01
   
Time: 15h15
 		Nicolas BRUNEL, (homepage)
Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, CNRS, Paris
Is brain connectivity optimal?
Abstract
 
Time: 16h15

 Coffee Break
Time: 16h30

Larry ABBOTT, (homepage)
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University
Functional consequences of different forms of spike-timing dependent plasticity
Abstract

 

Thursday, September 22th, 2011, BC01
 
Time: 15h15 Emilio SALINAS, (homepage)
Wake Forrest, School of Medicine
Clocking perceptual processing speed
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Coffee Break
   
Time: 16h30 Carlos BRODY, (homepage)
Princeton University, Dept of Molecular Biology
Optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat
Abstract
   
  Break
   
Time: 17h30 Michael HERZOG, (homepage)
EPFL, Switzerland, Laboratory of Psychophysics
The silent period of decision making
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Thurs, September 8th, 2011
Location:  BC 03
Time: 15h15

Marc-Olivier GEWALTIG, (homepage)
Blue Brain Project, EPFL, Switzerland
Self-sustained dynamics of sparsely connected networks without external noise
Abstract

 

Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Location: AI 114
Time: 10h15
 		Idan SEGEV, (homepage)
The Hebrew University
Principles governing the operation of synaptic inhibition in dendrites
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Tuesday, June14th, 2011
Location: CO122
Time: 10h15
 		Kris BOUCHARD,
Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco
Production and Learning of Probabilistic Sequences
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
Location: CM 1368
Time: 14h15
 		Matthieu GILSON, (lab page)
Lab for Neural Circuit Theory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Stability versus Neuronal Specialization for STDP: Long-Tail Weight Distributions Solve the Dilemma
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
Location: BC01
Time: 12h15

Susanne SCHREIBER (homepage)
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University Berlin
How ionic conductances help to shape temporal firing characteristics
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Wed, May 4th, 2011
BMI SEMINAR SERIES
Location: SV1717A
Time: 12h15

Hugh ROBINSON, (homepage)
Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, UK
Irregular spiking in cortical inhibitory interneurons
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
Location: BC01
Time:11h15

Jannis HILDEBRANDT, (homepage)
Department of Biology, HU Berlin
Neural adaptation in the auditory system: competing demands
for object recognition and localization
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Location: BC02
Time:12h15

Nicolas BRUNEL, (homepage)
CNRS, Paris
Spike timing and firing rate dependent plasticity as calcium-induced transitions in a bistable synapse model
abstract

 

 

Friday February 4th, 2011
Location: BC01
Time: 12h15 		Gasper TKACIK, (homepage)
Department of Physics and Astronomy / University of Pennsylvania
Population coding in the retina: from data to spin-glass models and optimal codes
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
Location: BC01
Time: 12h15 		Pietro BERKES, (homepage)
Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
Linking Bayesian models of perception and neural responses with spontaneous activity
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Mon, January 24th, 2011
Location: BC01
Time: 11h15
Host: Martin HASLER

Gordon PIPA, (homepage)
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck
Our Brain plays jazz: Self-Organization of the Liquid State Machine
Abstract