June, 6th, Wednesday
9.30 – 10.00 – Registration and meet together
10.00 – 10.40 — Ernest Montbrió – Kuramoto model for excitation-inhibition-based oscillations
10.40 – 11.00 — Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.40 — Olivier Faugeras — Neural networks do not become asynchronous in the large size limit when synaptic weights are correlated: there is no propagation of chaos
11.40 — 12.20 — Simon Thorpe – Finding repeating patterns – a key to biological intelligence?
12.20 — 13.00 — Eva Löcherbach — Phase transition for infinite systems of spiking neurons
13.00 – 13.10 – Arnaud Lefranc – Director of IAS – Presentation of the Institute of Advanced Studies
13.00 — 14.30 Lunch + Poster Session
14.30 — 15.10 — Thierry Mora — Blindfold learning of a neural metric
15.10 — 15.50 — Simona Olmi — Death and rebirth of neural activity in sparse inhibitory networks
15.50 — 16.20 — Coffee Break
16.20 – 17.00 — Olivier Marre — Closed-loop estimation of retinal network sensitivity by local empirical linearization
17.00 – 18.00 Poster Session
June, 7th, Thursday
10.00 – 10.40 — Matthias Hennig — Null-spaces in neural encoding and plasticity
10.40 – 11.00 — Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.40 — Yulia Timofeeva — Action potential counting at giant mossy fiber
11.40 — 12.20 — Ekkehard Ullner — Self-sustained collective irregular dynamics
12.20 — 13.00 — Frederic Chavane – The role of cortical waves in shaping dynamically the processing of visual information
13.00 — 14.30 Lunch + Poster Session
14.30 — 15.10 — Alain Destexhe — Mean-field models of propagating waves in visual cortex
15.10 — 15.50 — Matteo di Volo — A general framework for conductance-based mean field models of adaptive cortical networks
15.50 — 16.20 — Coffee Break
16.20 – 17.00 — Diemut Regel — Anomalous Collective Dynamics Induced by Pulse-Coupling? – from asymmetric frequency locking to chaos
17.00 – 18.00 Poster Session
June, 8th, Friday
10.00 – 10.40 — Moritz Helias — Indications for optimality of motor cortex
10.40 – 11.00 — Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.40 — Bruno Cessac – Multi scale dynamics in retinal waves
11.40 — 12.20 — Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer – Growing critical: Self-organized criticality in a developing neural system
12.20 — 13.00 — Stefano Luccioli — Modeling driver cells in developing neuronal networks
13.00 — 14.30 Lunch + Poster Session
14.30 — 15.10 — Farzad Farkhooi — How relevant is connectivity patterns for the mean-field dynamics of the balanced state?
15.10 — 15.50 — Francesca Mastrogiuseppe — Linking connectivity and dynamics in low-rank recurrent neural networks
15.50 – 16.00 — Conclusions
