MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop and Seminar on
Problems in Systems Neuroscience
Workshop: September 4 - 8, 2000
Seminar: August 29 - September 22, 2000
Scientific Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. J. Leo van Hemmen
Physik Department, TU München
Germany
Prof. Dr. Terrence J. Sejnowski
The Salk Institute, La Jolla
USA
18:00 | REGISTRATION
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19:00 | Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute)
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
08:45 - 09:00 | OPENING | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | J. Leo van Hemmen (München) | ||
What is a neuronal map and what is it good for? | |||
10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
What do brains do? | |||
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10:30 - 11:30 | Dorothee P. Auer (München) | ||
11:30 - 12:30 | Amiram Grinvald (Rehovot) | ||
Visualization of cortical dynamics | |||
12:30 | LUNCH | ||
What is the cortex good for? | |||
15:00 - 16:00 | Günter Ehret (Ulm) | ||
Hemisphere dominance of brain functions - advantages over | |||
symmetrical processing? | |||
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
16:30 - 17:30 | Michael P. Stryker (San Francisco) | ||
18:00 | SUPPER | ||
20:00 - 21:30 | Michael Merzenich (San Francisco) | ||
Plastic self-organization of cortical systems |
What is the cortex good for? | |||
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09:00 - 10:00 | Laurenz Wiskott (Berlin) | ||
Unsupervised learning of invariances in a model of the visual system | |||
10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
10:30 - 11:30 | Steven W. Zucker (New Haven) | ||
Computational neuroscience and early vision | |||
What is begin fed back? | |||
11:30 - 12:30 | Andreas V. M. Herz (Berlin) | ||
On time (without derailing spike trains) | |||
12:30 | LUNCH | ||
15:00 - 16:00 | Jean Bullier (Toulouse) | ||
Interarea interactions in the visual system or 'What is being fed back?' | |||
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
16:30 - 17:30 | S. Murray Sherman (Oxford) | ||
Role of the Thalamus | |||
18:00 | SUPPER | ||
19:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session (2nd floor) |
To what extent is the brain reconfigurable? | |||
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09:00 - 10:00 | Robert Desimone (Bethesda) | ||
10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
How do we hear/see transients? | |||
10:30 - 11:30 | Henning Scheich (Magdeburg) | ||
11:30 | LUNCH | ||
14:00 | EXCURSION TO PILLNITZ CASTLE |
09:00 - 10:00 | Catherine E. Carr (College Park) | ||
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10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
10:30 - 11:30 | Wulfram Gerstner (Lausanne) | ||
How fast is neuronal signal transmission? | |||
11:30 - 12:30 | Richard Kempter (San Francisco) | ||
Sound localization and formation of temporal feature maps in | |||
the barn owl's auditory system | |||
12:30 | LUNCH | ||
15:00 - 16:00 | David McAlpine (London) | ||
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
16:30 - 17:30 | Hermann Wagner (Aachen) | ||
Can we understand the action of brains in natural environment | |||
19:00 | WORKSHOP DINNER IN THE RESTAURANT 'PULVERTURM' |
What is it all good for? | |||
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09:00 - 10:00 | Klaus Pawelzik (Bremen) | ||
How is time represented in cortex? | |||
10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
10:30 - 11:30 | Carl van Vreeswijk (London) | ||
The origin and functional implications of irregular activity | |||
11:30 - 12:30 | Rudolf Rübsamen (Leipzig) | ||
What is inhibition good for? | |||
12:30 | LUNCH | ||
15:00 - 16:00 | Georg Klump (München) | ||
How acoustic temporal patterns affect signal detection and object formation | |||
16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
16:30 - 17:30 | Terrence J. Sejnowski (La Jolla) | ||
18:00 | SUPPER |