Detailed Program
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Wednesday, September 12
In conjunction with Neuroinformatics 2012 see also http://neuroinformatics2012.org/program
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Opening and Presentation of the Bernstein and Braitenberg Awards 2012
14:00 Opening (Local Organizers)
14:05 Welcome LMU and TUM
14:15 Welcome BMBF and Presentation of the Bernstein Award 2012
14:25 Lecture by the Bernstein Award Winner
15:05 Presentation of the Braitenberg Award 2012
15:10 Lecture by the Braitenberg Award Winner
15:50 Coffee
16:20 Neural Circuits: Structure and Signals
16:20 Moritz Helmstaedter (MPI Neurobiology Munich): Structural Neurobiology: Tools for the dense reconstruction of neuronal circuits
17:00 Gaute Einevoll (Aas): How local is the local field potential?
19:00 Joint INCF/BCCN Conference Dinner (Münchner Künstlerhaus)
Thursday, September 13
09:00 Coding
09:00 Alexandre Pouget (Geneva): Probabilistic approaches to coding and computation
09:40 Greg DeAngelis (Rochester): Neural computations underlying optimal multisensory cue integration
10:20 Coffee
10:50 Vision
10:50 Matteo Carandini (UCL London): Wakefulness, locomotion, and navigation: A look from visual cortex
11:30 Gabriel Kreiman (Harvard): Temporal constraints for visual object recognition: neurophysiological, behavioural and computational approaches
12:10 Tomaso Poggio (MIT): A sketch of a theory of visual cortex
12:50 Lunch
14:00 Network Dynamics and Representations
14:00 Kwabena Boahen (Stanford): Neurogrid: Simulating a million neurons and a billion synapses in real-time with sixteen neuromorphic chips
14:40 Shaul Druckmann (Janelia Farm): Overcomplete representations and neuronal circuit dynamics
15:20 Coffee
15:50 Learning
15:50 Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tübingen): Statistical and causal learning
16:30 Máté Lengyel (Cambridge): Internal models: of ferret and men
17:10 Jochen Triesch (FIAS Frankfurt): Self-organization and unsupervised learning in recurrent networks
18:00 Poster Session I
20:00 Öffentlicher Vortrag
Onur Güntürkün (Bochum): Intelligenz ohne Hirnrinde? Wie Vögel einen eigenen Weg zu kognitiven Höchstleistungen gefunden haben
Friday, September 14
09:00 Decision
09:00 Ranulfo Romo (UNAM Mexico City): Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions
09:40 Zach Mainen (Lisbon): Origins and use of uncertainty in decision-making
10:20 Coffee
10:50 Disease and Cure
10:50 Quentin Huys (UCL London): Explaining away emotions. How simple decision dysfunctions might perturb complex cognitions
11:30 Stefan Leutgeb (UCSD): Spatial processing and map learning in the entorhino-hippocampal circuit
12:10 Bernhard Seeber (Nottingham / TU Munich): Improving hearing with cochlear implants in reverberant spaces
12:50 Lunch
14:00 Cognition
14:00 Onur Güntürkün (Bochum): The Left and the Right Side of Visual Discriminations
14:40 Andreas Nieder (Tübingen): Biological precursors of the number sense
15:20 Coffee
15:50 Prizes and Global Perspectives
15:50 Bernstein Movie Award 2012
16:05 Brains-for-Brains Award 2012
16:20 Maryann Martone (UCSD): Big data from small data: A deep survey of neuroscience data via the Neuroscience Information Framework
17:00 Christof Koch (Allen Institute, Seattle): Project MindScope
17:40 Outlook (Organizers of Bernstein Conferences 2012 and 2013)
18:00 Poster Session II
