Annual Summer Meeting 2003
Saturday, July 26 to Tuesday, July 28, 2003
Del Mar Hilton (Del Mar, California)
Saturday – July 26, 2003
Afternoon Chair: Tom Albright
Natural Sounds and Images
12:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Mike Lewicki – CMU (Salk)
“Learning higher order structures in natural images”
2:00 PM
Frederic Theunissen – UC Berkeley (UCSF)
“Processing of natural sounds in the avian auditory system”
2:30 PM
Kamal Sen – Boston University (UCSF)
“Dynamics of song discrimination in the songbird auditory forebrain”
3:00 PM
BREAK
Basic Vision
3:30 PM
Dario Ringach - UCLA (NYU)
“Analysis of ON/OFF subfield overlap in macaque V1”
4:00 PM
Matteo Carandini - Smith Kettlewell Eye Institute (NYU)
"Signal and noise in thalamus and cortex"
4:30 PM
Kukjin Kang – NYU
“Information tuning of a population of neurons in primary visual cortex”
Sunday – July 27
Morning Chair: Terry Sejnowski
Neural Development
8:00-9:00
Breakfast served in Conference Room
9:00 AM
Niraj Desai - Neurosciences Institute (Brandeis)
"Synaptic scaling in the developing visual cortex."
9:30 AM
Paul Kulesa - Stowers Institute (Caltech)
“Insights into vertebrate development: merging bioimaging and computational modeling”
10:00 AM
BREAK
Spikes
10:30 AM
Mike DeWeese – Cold Spring Harbor (Salk)
“Binary spiking in auditory cortex”
11:00 AM
Frances Chance – UC Irvine (Brandeis)
"Modulating Neuronal Sensitivity to Synchronous Input"
11:30 AM
Duane Nykamp - UCLA (NYU)
“Reconstructing the coupling of neurons from spike times”
12:00 Noon
LUNCH
Afternoon Chair: Allison Doupe
Sensorimotor Processing
2:00 PM
Flip Sabes – UCSF (Caltech)
“Sensorimotor adaptation as a dynamical system”
2:30 PM
Bijan Pesaran - Caltech (Caltech)
“Eye-hand coordination and the posterior parietal cortex"
3:00 PM
BREAK
Cortical Networks
3:30 PM
Raj Rao – University of Washington (Salk)
“Probabilistic Computation in Recurrent Neural Circuits”
4:00 PM
Virginia de Sa – UCSD (UCSF)
“Benefits of constrained cortical connectivity”
4:30 PM
Albert Compte – Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain (Brandeis)
"Emergent oscillatory activity at distinct frequencies in the cortical network in vitro: experiment and model"
6:00 PM
Banquet – Cuvee, 2334 Carmel Valley Road, Del Mar, +1.858.259.5878
Monday, July 28
Morning Chair: Richard Andersen
Cortical Activity
8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Ken Miller – UCSF
“Multiplicative gain modulation can result from excitation or inhibition alone”
9:30 AM
Xiao-Jing Wang – Brandeis
"Division of labor among distinct inhibitory neurons in a microcircuit of working memory"
10:00 AM
Tim Lewis – NYU
“Wave propagation in electrically-coupled interneuron networks”
10:30 AM
BREAK
Cortical Plasticity
11:00 AM
Corette Wierenga – Brandeis
"Homeostatic scaling of excitatory synapses does not alter short-term synaptic dynamics"
11:30 AM
Michael Shelley – NYU
“The Plasticity of Simple and Complex Cells in Visual Cortex”
12:00 PM
Larry Abbott – Brandeis
"Supervised Learning Through Neuronal Response Modulation"
12:30 Noon
LUNCH
Monday – July 28 (Continued)
Afternoon Chair: Bob Shapley
Timing
2:00 PM
Rodridgo Quian Quiroga- Caltech
“Unsupervised spike sorting with wavelets and super-paramagnetic clustering”
2:30 PM
Allison Doupe – UCSF
“Correlation, variability, and context in songbird basal ganglia”
3:00 PM
Alfonso Renart – Brandeis
"Interval timing through ramping activity in a recurrent network model"
3:30 PM
BREAK
Sensorimotor Systems
4:00 PM
Richard Andersen – Caltech
“Cognitive control signals for neural prosthetics”
4:30 PM
Elizabeth Torres – Caltech
"Learning and adaptation strategies in an obstacle avoidance task performed in monkeys."
5:00 PM
Leslie Osborne – UCSF
“Tight correlation between the time courses of sensory and motor estimates of target direction in smooth pursuit eye movements”
Salk Institute
Tuesday – July 29
Morning Chair: Ken Miller
Vision
8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Alexander Heimel - Brandeis
"Characterizing receptive fields of V1 neurons in the gray squirrel"
9:30 AM
Clara Bodelón – Salk
"Temporal resolution of color and orientation processing in
macaque Area V4"
10:00 AM
Bob Shapley - NYU
“A New View of the Primary Visual Cortex”
10:30 AM
BREAK
Motion
11:00 AM
EJ Chichilnisky – Salk
“Ensemble Coding of Visual Motion in Primate Retina”
11:30 AM
Bart Krekelberg – Salk
“Motion Mechanisms in Macaque MT”
12:00 PM
“Studying motion perception”
12:30 Noon
LUNCH
Salk Institute
Tuesday – July 29 (continued)
Afternoon Chair: Tom Albright
Communication
2:00 PM
Robert Liu – UCSF
“Communication and cortex: the computational neuroethology of mouse vocalizations”
2:30 PM
Mark Changizi- Caltech
“Fundamental principles governing complex networks, with special
attention to the brain”
3:00 PM
Joel Burdick – Caltech
“Movable Electrodes: Automated optimization of neural recordings”
3:30 PM
Analog Processing
4:00 PM
Jutta Kretzberg – Salk
“Non-spiking neuronal information transmission”
4:30 PM
David Holcman – UCSF
“Photo-transduction from the molecular to the cellular level:
The role of geometry in diffusion”
5:00 PM
Terry Sejnowski – Salk
“Space-time computing with calcium in dendritic spines”
5:30 PM
OPEN HOUSE
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