Schedule for: 22w5047 - Dynamical Principles of Biological and Artificial Neural Networks (Online)
Beginning on Sunday, January 9 and ending Friday January 14, 2022
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Monday, January 10 | |
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| 08:45 - 08:50 | Introduction and Welcome (Online) |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Zachary Kilpatrick: Day 1 Intro and Overview (Online) |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Manuel Beiran: Parametric control of flexible timing through low-dimensional neural manifolds (Online) |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Nicholas Watters: Factorization: Connecting structured neural representations to behavioral generalization (Online) |
| 10:20 - 10:25 | Virtual Group Photo (Online) |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Break (Online) |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Sara A. Solla: Low dimensional manifolds for neural dynamics (Online) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Chengcheng Huang: Chaotic dynamics in spatially distributed networks (Online) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch (Online) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Tatiana Engel: Latent circuits in recurrent neural networks (Online) |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Ege Altan: Low-dimensional neural manifolds for the control of natural movements (Online) |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Kohitij Kar: Probing the dynamics of object identity representation across visuocortical areas in macaques (Online) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Break (Online) |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Hannah Choi: Information representation in multi-regional cortical networks (Online) |
| Tuesday, January 11 | |
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| 08:15 - 08:20 | Sue Ann Campbell: Day 2 Intro and Overview (Online) |
| 08:20 - 09:00 | Claudia Clopath: Modelling motor learning (Online) |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Francesca Mastrogiuseppe: (UCL) : Quality of internal representation shapes learning performance in feedback neural networks (Online) |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Q&A/Discussion (Online) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Break ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Leila Wehbe: (Carnegie Mellon) : Reverse engineering representations in real brains using artificial neural networks (Online) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Maximillian Puelma Touzel: (MILA) : Transients and non-stationarity: Not just 'not yet' and 'not for long' (Online) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Alex Cayco-Gajic: (ENS) : Capturing the evolution of low-dimensional dynamics in large scale neural recordings with sliceTCA (Online) |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Guillaume Lajoie: (Montreal) : Network-level computational advantages of single-neuron adaptation (Online) |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Break ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 14:40 - 15:40 | Carina Curto: (Penn State), Guillaume Lajoie (Montreal), ChengCheng Huang (Pittsburgh), Leila Wehbe (Carnegie Mellon): Mentorship Panel (Online) |
| Wednesday, January 12 | |
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| 08:15 - 08:20 | Joel Zylberberg: Day 3 Intro and Overview (Online) |
| 08:20 - 09:00 | Tatjana Tchumatchenko: (MPI Brain Research) : Mapping the diverse operational regimes in medium-sized spiking networks with biologically plausible connectivity (Online) |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Cristina Savin: (NYU) : Towards a functional perspective on learning dynamics in recurrent circuits (Online) |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Blake Richards: (McGill) : The functional specialization of visual cortex emerges from training parallel pathways with self-supervised predictive learning (Online) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Break ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Wulfram Gerstner: (EPFL) : Dynamics of memory retrieval in hippocampus (Online) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Q&A/Discussion (Online) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Antonio Galves: (Sao Paolo) : How does the brain encode statistical regularities? Rissanen meets von Helmholtz. (Online) |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Alex Huth: (UT Austin) : Mapping timescales of cortical language processing (Online) |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Jason Pina: (York) : Searching for observable signatures of predictive hierarchical learning in neocortex (Online) |
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
Break and Informal Discussion ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to. (Online) |
| Thursday, January 13 | |
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| 08:15 - 08:20 | Alona Fyshe: Day 4 Intro and Overview (Online) |
| 08:20 - 09:00 | Andrea E. Martin: (MPI Psycholinguistics) : Human language as a test-case for system properties of neural networks (Online) |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Carina Curto: (Penn State) : Graph rules and topological insights for inhibitory network dynamics (Online) |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Juliana Londono Alvarez: (Penn State) : Modeling central pattern generator circuits with combinatorial threshold linear networks (Online) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Break ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Q&A/Discussion (Online) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Wilten Nicola: (Calgary) : Perceptron-like Learning Rules Mediate a Plastic Response to Stressors in Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons of the Hypothalamus (Online) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Tahra Eissa: (CU Boulder) : Learning parametric distributions in attractor networks for working memory (Online) |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | SueYeon Chung: (Columbia) : Structure, Function, and Learning in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks (Online) |
| 14:20 - 15:20 |
Break and Informal Discussion ↓ Optional hangout in Gather for those that want to (Online) |
