scientific program
MONDAY (October 25)
TUESDAY (October 26)
WEDNESDAY (October 27)
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Registration |
| 19.00 - | Reception with food and beverages |
| 08.45 - 09.00 | Roderich Moessner (Director MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) & Scientific Coordinators |
| Opening | |
| Auditory system | |
| 09.00 - 09.30 | David McAlpine (University College London) |
| Neural circuits and adaptive coding in the auditory brain | |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Kai Hildebrandt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Neural adaptation in the auditory system: Competing demands for localization and temporal pattern processing | |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Discussion |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Coffee break |
| Supra- versus subthreshold adaptation | |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Maurice Chacron (McGill University, Montreal) |
| Supra and subthreshold adaptation currents differentially affect the frequency tuning of sensory neurons | |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Renaud Jolivet (Universität Zürich) |
| Modeling the interaction between currents supporting spike-frequency adaptation | |
| 11.45 - 12.15 | Magnus Richardson (University of Warwick, Coventry) |
| Dynamics of neurons with voltage-activated and calcium-activated currents | |
| 12.15 - 12.30 | Discussion |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| Electrosensory systems | |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Alexander Neiman (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Interaction of adaptation and epithelial oscillations in ampullary electroreceptors | |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | John E. Lewis (University of Ottawa) |
| The spatial resolution of electrosensory perception | |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | William Nesse (University of Ottawa) |
| Information representation in temporally correlated spike trains | |
| 15.30 - 15.45 | Discussion |
| 15.45 - 16.15 | Coffee break |
| Stochastic models | |
| 16.15 - 16.45 | Eilif Muller (Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne) |
| Modeling dynamic spiking with a stimulus modulated adapting point process | |
| 16.45 - 17.15 | Martin Nawrot (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Successive stages of response adaptation in feedforward networks: Implications for the insect olfactory pathway | |
| 17.15 - 17.30 | Discussion |
| 17.30 - 18.15 | Poster flash-talks (16 poster á 2 min) |
| 18.15 | Supper |
| 19.30 | Poster session I (including beverages) |
| Visual system I | |
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Fabrizio Gabbiani (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston) |
| Biophysics of looming stimulus selectivity in a collision-detecting neuron | |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Klaus Obermayer (Technische Universität Berlin) |
| Models of adaptation induced plasticity of orientation tuning | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Rafael Kurtz (Universität Bielefeld) |
| Role of adaptation in feature extraction from optic flow | |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Discussion |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Coffee break |
| Adaptation noise | |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Tilo Schwalger (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Analysis of interspike interval statistics of noisy neuron models with adaptation | |
| 11.45 - 12.15 | Karin Fisch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Slow adaptation currents contribute to spike-response variability in a sensory neuron | |
| 12.15 - 12.30 | Discussion |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Poster session II |
| Adaptation time scales | |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Brian Lundstrom (University of Washington) |
| Characterizing rate adaptation as fractional differentiation | |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Richard Naud (EPFL, Lausanne) |
| Extracting mutli-scale adaptation parameters of spiking neuron models from data | |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Giancarlo La Camera (Universität Bern) |
| Experimental and theoretical characterization of firing rate adaptation in neocortical neurons | |
| 16.00 - 16.15 | Discussion |
| 16.15 - 16.45 | Coffee break |
| Visual system II | |
| 16.45 - 17.15 | Lars Schwabe (Universität Rostock) |
| Spike-frequency adaptation in network models of contextual effects in primary visual cortex with strong local recurrent connections | |
| 17.15 - 17.45 | Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge) |
| Adaptation and the efficiency of sensory coding | |
| 17.45 - 18.15 | Final Discussion |
| 19.00 - | Conference dinner takes place in the restaurant Villandry |
Last updated: September 7, 2010
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