Provisional Program

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Time Event  
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome (registration + coffee + croissants)  
09:45 - 10:00 Welcome remarks - Yves Frégnac  
10:00 - 12:20 Concepts : Theoretical and Data constraints - Chairman: Yves Frégnac  
10:00 - 10:40 Possible neural circuits for inferential computations in V1 - Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)  
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break + croissants  
11:00 - 11:40 Functional organization of ON and OFF pathways in visual cortex - Jose-Manuel Alonso (SUNY)  
11:40 - 12:20 Data-driven models of the visual system and natural visual statistics, a stumbling block ? - Cyril Monier (CNRS)  
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break  
14:00 - 17:10 Data-driven approaches - Chairman: Frédéric Chavane  
14:00 - 14:40 Imaging activity in the freely moving rodent: from the eye to the cortex - Jason Kerr (Ceasar Research Center)  
14:40 - 15:20 Functionally heterogeneous synapses shape cell-wide plasticity of visual cortex neurons in vivo - Sami El-Boustani (EPFL)  
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break  
15:50 - 16:30 What's the signal in the noise? - Alexandre Ecker (Center for Integrative Neuroscience)  
16:30 - 17:10 Mesoscopic modeling ofthe suppressive effect of propagating waves in monkey visual cortex - Alain Destexhe (CNRS)  
17:10 - 17:50 Receptive fields and their discontents - Adrienne Fairhall (Univ. of Washington  
17:10 - 17:50 The receptive field concept: dead or alive - Frédéric Chavane  

Friday, May 20, 2016

Time Event  
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome coffee  
09:30 - 10:50 The receptive field concept: dead or alive - Chairman: Pierre Yger  
09:30 - 10:10 Origin and function of tuning diversity in Macaque visual cortex - Robbe Goris (NYU)  
10:10 - 10:50 Hidden cortical function manifesting as variability - Dan Butts (Univ. of Maryland)  
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee break + croissants  
11:10 - 12:30 Adaptation, Homeostasis and Learning - Chairman: Pierre Yger  
11:10 - 11:50 Functional Maps and signal integration in V1 - Valentin Dragoi (Univ. of Texas-Houston)  
11:50 - 12:30 Adaptation, homeostasis, synaptic plasticity, lateral interactions and feedback: Sufficient to explain V1? - James A. Bednar (School of Informatics)  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break  
14:00 - 17:30 Computational Neuroscience and Comprehensive modelling of V1 - Chairman: Olivier Faugeras  
14:00 - 14:40 A flexible code in the retina - Olivier Marre (IDV)  
14:40 - 15:20 Theory of orientation selectivity in rodent V1 - David Hansel (Paris V)  
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 16:40 Model constrained by visual hierarchy improves prediction of neural responses to natural scenes - Jan Antolik (CNRS)  
16:40 - 17:20 Canonical computations of the cerebral cortex - Ken Miller (Columbia)  
17:20 - 17:30 The End - Yves Frégnac  
  
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