Program

Thursday, 14 Jan 2010

9:00 - 09:30	Registration / coffee
9:30 - 10:00	Opening
10:00 - 11:00	Rodney Douglas Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universität Zürich Can we build a brain?
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break / refreshments
11:30 - 12:10	Andreas Herz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich Simplicity in a complex world: Subthreshold membrane-potential resonances that shape spike-train statistics presentation
12:10 - 12:50	Daniel Durstewitz Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim Bottom-up (biophysical) and top-down (statistical) perspectives on neural modeling
12:50 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:10	Daniel Wójcik Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences Point process models in neuroscience: from spike trains to behavior presentation
15:10 - 15:50	Shaul Druckmann Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem From manual parameter tuning to automated parameter constraining of biophysical models abstract
15:50 - 16:20	Coffee break / refreshments
16:20 - 17:00	Jan Karbowski Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences From genes to neurons to behavior: Modeling locomotion of C. elegans worms
17:00 - 17:40	Wulfram Gerstner Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The power (and limits) of simple neuron models
17:40 -	Discussion
20:00	Workshop dinner

Friday, 15 Jan 2010

9:00 - 09:40	Anders Lansner Department of Computational Biology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Modularization dramatically increases stability of oscillating attractor networks abstract
9:40 - 10:20	Giorgio Ascoli Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University Neuronal types, statistical connectivity, and network computation
10:20 - 11:00	Jaap van Pelt Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), VU University Amsterdam Stochasticity and constraints in modeling neuronal morphological development
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break / refreshments
11:30 - 12:10	Rembrandt Bakker Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour The New CoCoMac: A brief history of tracer studies in macaque brains and the use of graphical interactions with connectivity databases abstract
12:10 - 12:50	Ingo Bojak Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Building blocks for realistic mean field modeling abstract
12:50 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:10	Stephen Coombes School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Nottingham Neural field models abstract, presentation
15:10 - 15:50	Gaute Einevoll Computational Neuroscience Group, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) Multilevel and multimodal modeling of barrel cortex
15:50 - 16:20	Coffee break / refreshments
16:20 -	Discussion