Stochastic Network Models of Neocortex (a Festschrift for Jack Cowan)
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Michael Arbib, University of Southern California
Monday Jul 14, 2014 09:03 - 09:41
Jack Cowan, the Early Years: MIT, Imperial College and the move to Chicago
Marcelo Bertalmío, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Monday Jul 14, 2014 09:46 - 10:30
From image processing to computational neuroscience: a neural model based on histogram equalization
Leon Glass, McGill University
Monday Jul 14, 2014 11:03 - 11:52
Challenges for computational vision: From random dots to the wagon wheel illusion
Jack Feldman, UCLA
Monday Jul 14, 2014 11:53 - 12:35
Breathing: Not as easy as you think
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday Jul 15, 2014 09:07 - 09:46
Pattern formation in neural networks – looking back over the last 35 years
Fred Wolf, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Tuesday Jul 15, 2014 09:47 - 10:33
Putting the twist into the shift – symmetries in the architecture of the visual cortex
Hugh Wilson, York University
Tuesday Jul 15, 2014 11:03 - 11:49
Stereopsis, Rivalry, and Binocular Contrast Summation: A Model Based on the Wilson-Cowan Equations
Martin Golubitsky, The Ohio State University
Tuesday Jul 15, 2014 11:50 - 12:32
Symmetry and Synchrony
Stefan Rotter, University of Freiburg
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 09:09 - 09:58
Spike Train Correlations Induced by Anatomical Microstructure
Wilhelm Stannat, Technical University Berlin
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 09:58 - 10:45
Stochastic stability of wave fronts in neural field equations
Olivier Faugeras, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée research centre. France
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 11:00 - 11:50
Asymptotic sparse descriptions of large networks of spiking and firing rate neurons
Carson Chow, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 11:53 - 12:40
Beyond mean field theory for spiking neural networks
Bill Troy, University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 13:47 - 14:28
Mathematical Predictions of Large Scale Neuronal Phenomena in the Brain: from Slices to Animal Brain to Humans
Steve Schiff, Pennsylvania State University
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 15:02 - 15:48
Unification of Neuronal Spikes, Seizures, and Spreading Depression
Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood, University of British Colombia
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 15:54 - 16:37
Synchronization in a stochastic Wilson-Cowan oscillator network
Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 16:43 - 17:28
Spike rate dynamics of coupled adaptive model neurons
Jack Cowan, University of Chicago
Wednesday Jul 16, 2014 19:36 - 20:37
After dinner remarks
Stuart Kauffmann, University of Vermont
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 09:13 - 10:10
Criticality: Why?
Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 10:13 - 11:05
Self-organized criticality and spiking activity in vivo
Wim van Drongelen, The University of Chicago
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 11:34 - 12:18
Validation of Network Models
Alexander Dimitrov, Washington State University
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 13:36 - 14:24
Emergence of perceptual invariances in auditory processes
Kresimir Josic, University of Houston
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 14:24 - 15:14
Encoding Certainty in Bump Attractors
Peter Thomas, Case Western Reserve University
Thursday Jul 17, 2014 15:36 - 16:33
On the Asymptotic Phase of Stochastic Oscillators
