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