Workshop on the state-space analysis

• Date: April 8-9th 2010
• Place: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, room K206
            Yukawa Institute
  
  
• Organizer: Shigeru Shinomoto (Dept Physics, Kyoto Univ)
                    SHINOMOTO's office
  
  
• Contact and registration: Satoshi Yamauchi

April 8th

• ♦ Liam Paninski (Columbia Univ)
       - Introduction to state space analysis

• ♦ Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto Univ)
       - Alternative interpretations of a single spike train

• ♦ Liam Paninski (Columbia Univ)
       - Generalized linear models for neural encoding, decoding, and
          optimal stimulus design

• ♦ Izumi Ohzawa (Osaka Univ)
       - Approaches for simultaneous exploration of receptive fields of
          multiple visual neurons
• ♦ Ken Nakae, Yukito Iba (Soken-Dai and ISM)
       - Bayesian estimation of phase response curves using replica
          exchange Monte Carlo

April 9th

• ♦ Masaaki Sato (ATR)
       -  Noninvasive brain imaging and BMI
• ♦ Kazuho Watanabe (NAIST)
       -  Local Variational Approximation and Spike Rate Estimation
• ♦ Kensuke Arai, Emi Takakuta, Yoshikazu Isomura, Tomoki Fukai (RIKEN)
       - On the relationship between LFP and spikes: a generative, Hidden
          Markov model for the instantaneous spike rate of a neuron in the
          motor cortex

• ♦ Liam Paninski (Columbia Univ)
       - A new look at state space analysis for neural data