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Information

• Date: September 6-7th 2010
• Place: Faculty of Letters Main Bldg., 2F, Lecture Room 7, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• Organizers:
                     Shigeru Shinomoto (Dept Physics, Kyoto University)
                     Sonja Gruen (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN)
                     Yoshio Sakurai (Dept Psychology, Kyoto University)
• Contact and registration: Satoshi Yamauchi (Dept Physics, Kyoto University)
• Participation fee: 1,000 JPY on your arrival.

This workshop is cosponsored by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Comprehensive Brain Science Network) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan.

Workshop program

Sept 6th (Mon)

09:00-11:30

• ♦Shigeru Shinomoto --- Opening remarks ---
• ♦Markus Diesmann (RIKEN) Instantaneous non-linear processing by pulse-coupled threshold units
• ♦Anthony Burkitt (Univ Melbourne) Learning a sparse neural code for temporal sequences
• ♦Yuji Ikegaya (Univ Tokyo) Spike flow in weak and sparse neuronal networks
• ♦Hideaki Shimazaki (MIT) Detection of dynamic cell assemblies by the Bayes Factor

11:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:30

• ♦Yoshio Sakurai --- Introduction ---
• ♦Moshe Abeles (Bar-Ilan Univ) Compositionality by synfire chains

14:30-15:00 break

15:00-17:30

• ♦Chris Trengove (RIKEN) Endogenous activity in large scale cortical networks of coupled synfire chains
• ♦Jun-nosuke Teramae (RIKEN) Long-tailed EPSP distribution accounts for low-rate asynchronous firings, the up-state, and precise firing sequences in cortical networks.
• ♦Matthieu Gilson (RIKEN) STDP can generate long-tail weight distributions.
• ♦Takuma Tanaka (Kyoto Univ) Infomax in recurrent networks: repeated firing sequences and critical behavior

Sept 7th (Tue)

09:00-12:00

• ♦Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto Univ) Settling the controversy between rate and temporal coding
• ♦Sonja Gruen (RIKEN) Reflections of assembly activity in the local field potential
• ♦Gaute Einevoll (NULS) Extraction of thalamocortical network models from multielectrode data
• ♦Junji Ito (RIKEN) Cross-frequency coupling in eye-movement related LFP activities in freely viewing monkeys
• ♦Hiroyuki Ito (Kyoto Sangyo Univ) Dynamics of Stimulus-Evoked Spike Timing Correlations in the Cat Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
• ♦Sonja Gruen --- Closing remarks ---