SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm Arrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Keynote Session
Discussion Leader: Bruno Olshausen (UC Davis/RNI)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Horace Barlow (Cambridge University)
"Changing ideas about what the brain computes and how it does it"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm David Field (Cornell University)
"New Attempts at a Unified Theory of Sensory Coding: Why Ecology Provides Hope"
MONDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Sensory Coding in Vertebrates
9:00 am - 9:20 am Discussion Leader: Mike Berry (Princeton University)
9:20 am - 10:00 am Jason Puchalla (Princeton University)
"Parallel Visual Channels and Redundancy in the Retina"
10:00 am - 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Charles Gray (Montana State University, Bozeman)
"Multi-Neuron Dynamics in Visual Cortex in Response to Time-Varying Natural Scenes"
11:20 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Matthew Diamond (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
"Neuronal basis of texture sensation in the rat whisker system"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:45 pm Lunch / Photo
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Psychophysics and Behavior
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Bill Geisler (University of Texas, Austin)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm Ted Adelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Image statistics of materials and surface"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm Tom Troscianko (Bristol)
"Encoding of chromatic content of natural scenes"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Image Statistics and Coding
9:00 am - 9:20 am Discussion Leader: Mike Lewicki (Carnegie Mellon University)
9:20 am - 10:00 am Song Chun Zhu (University of California, Los Angeles)
"From Scaling Laws of Natural Images to Regimes of Image Models"
10:00 am - 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Eero Simoncelli (New York University)
"Statistical Image Models: Empirical Construction and Validation"
11:20 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Daniel Osorio (Bristol)
"The ecology of color vision"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Receptive Fields
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm Stephen David (UC Berkeley)
"Nonlinear neurons and natural vision"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm Jennifer Linden / Mahneesh Sahani (UCSF)
"Linearity and nonlinearity in auditory cortical responses"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Physiology of High-Level Vision
9:00 am - 9:20 am Discussion Leader: Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley)
9:20 am - 10:00 am Ed Rolls (Oxford University)
"Encoding in the inferior temporal visual cortex during the perception of natural scenes"
10:00 am - 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Jamie Mazer (UC Berkeley)
"Natural scenes and natural eye movements: Salience maps in V4"
11:20 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Rafael Malach (Weizmann Institute)
"Deciphering human brain activity during natural sensory stimulation"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Invertebrate Vision
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Hans van Hateren (University of Groningen)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm Martin Egelhaaf (University of Bielefield)
"Neural encoding of behaviourally relevant information by the blowfly visual system"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm M.V. Srinivasan (Australian National University, Canberra)
"Making a beeline for the food: Recent progress in understanding honeybee flight and navigation"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Animal Communication
9:00 am - 9:20 am Discussion Leader: Frederic Theunissen (UC Berkeley)
9:20 am - 10:00 am Jag Kanwal (Georgetown University)
"Mapping Acoustic Communication Signals within Cortical Activity"
10:00 am - 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Sarah Wooley (UC Berkeley)
"Linear models of auditory tuning in songbird neurons reveal efficient coding of vocalizations"
11:20 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Carl Hopkins (Cornell University)
"Structure in Electric Communication Signals of fish"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Active Sensing
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Pam Reinagel (University of California, San Diego)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann)
"Active sensing in Vibrissa Somatosensation"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm Peter Konig (Universitat Osnabruck, Germany)
"Mechanisms of overt visual attention under natural conditions"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Departure
Meeting concludes