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<h1 id="parent-fieldname-title" class="documentFirstHeading"><small>
<a
href="http://www.nncn.de/en/news/events/9th-bernstein-sparks-workshop">9th
Bernstein Sparks Workshop -- Recent advances in recurrent
network theory: fluctuating correlated dynamics across scales</a><br>
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May 25 - 27, 2016, Göttingen (Tutorials: May 24, 2016) </div>
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<p style="text-align: left; "> </p>
<p style="text-align: left; ">The theory of recurrent networks has a
long history in physics and its ramifications are highly relevant
for our understanding of dynamics and learning in neural networks.
Despite impressive progress in computational neuroscience, we are
still far from a canonical theory of biologically realistic
recurrent networks. Bridging from the microscopic single cell
dynamics to observable macroscopic population phenomena remains
a challenge. A consistent theory of the fluctuating and
correlated dynamics on multiple spatio-temporal scales, which is
ubiquitously reported experimentally, is still lacking.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><br>
</p>
<p>The workshop will bring together key researchers to survey and
discuss recent advances of recurrent network theory of fluctuating
and correlated dynamics on multiple temporal and spatial scales to
pinpoint limitations of the existing theoretical tools and
methods. The organizers seek active discussions among participants
and speakers, the exchange of new approaches and methods, and
presentations that will spark new ideas for future developments.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><br>
</p>
<p>The meeting aims to serve as a forum for key researchers working
with mean-field approaches and/or their emerging alternatives to
exchange their tools and views. These exchanges will be
complemented by poster presentations from students and postdocs.</p>
<p class="c0"><span> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Confirmed speakers:</span></b></p>
<ul class="c8 lst-kix_a1y7opfkve9z-0 start" style="text-align: left;
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<li class="c1">Andrea Crisanti (Università di Roma, La Sapienza,
Italy)</li>
<li class="c1">Brent Doiron (Dept. of Mathematics, University of
Pittsburgh, USA)</li>
<li class="c1"><span>Bard Ermentrout (Dept. of Mathematics,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Olivier Faugeras (Neuromathcomp Team, Inria
Sophia Antipolis, France)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Zachary P Kilpatrick (Dept. of Mathematics,
University of Houston, USA)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span><span>Sukbin Lim (Institute of Brain and
Cognitive Science, NYU Shanghai, China)</span></span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>André Longtin (Dept. of Physics, University
of Ottawa, Canada)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Viola Priesemann (MPI for Dynamics and
Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Michelle Rudolph-Lilith (Unité de
Neurosciences, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Tatjana Tchumatchenko (MPI for Brain
Research, Frankfurt, Germany)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Michèle Thieullen (Université Pierre et
Marie, Paris, France)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Jean-Philippe Thivierge (</span><span>School
of Psychology, Ottawa University, Canada)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Alessandro Torcini (Aix-Marseille Universitè,
Marseille, France)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span><span>Taro Toyoizumi (RIKEN Brain Science
Institute, Japan)</span></span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Fred Wolf (MPI for Dynamics and
Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><span>Additionally, some of
the speakers in the </span><a
href="http://www.nncn.de/en/news/events/bernstein-sparks-workshop-mean-field-theory"
class="internal-link"><span class="c7 c5"><span class="c4">2015
workshop</span></span></a><span> have confirmed their
attendance:</span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<ul class="c8 lst-kix_29e68pw2wode-0 start" style="text-align: left;
">
<li class="c1">Benjamin Lindner (HU Berlin and BCCN Berlin)<br>
<span> </span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Gianluigi Mongillo (<span>Paris Descartes
University and CNRS</span>, Paris, France)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Wilhelm Stannat (Institut für Mathematik, TU
Berlin and BCCN Berlin)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Carl van Vreeswijk (Neurophysics, Paris
Descartes University and CNRS, Paris, France)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Tutorials:</span></b></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><span>The tutorials will be
held prior to the main meeting on </span><span class="c6">May
24, 2016 </span><span>run from 9am till 5pm to introduce
students and postdocs into the mathematical techniques employed
in computational neuroscience. Topics will include: mean-field
approaches for firing rate and integrate and fire networks,
evaluation of different dynamical regimes using Lyapunov
exponents-like techniques, Markov processes and more. Each
tutorial will be held by an experienced researcher in the field.
<a class="external-link"
href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1N494N5SDLpMy1xUEwmT4LifSn4IsLZIFKMkrAjLNfbw/viewform&sa=D&ust=1454665429094000&usg=AFQjCNHfvGH_PC8-YCy5qL35vadmTPleoQ"
target="_blank">Registration for the tutorials</a> is required
due to limited numbers of seats</span><span> </span><span
class="c5 c7"><span class="c4"> </span></span><span>. </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><span>The Tutorials are
organized by Merav Stern, Hebrew University, Israel.</span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Poster submission:</span></b></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><span>Poster submissions
are </span><span>highly encouraged</span><span>. Please submit
your abstracts before April 15, 2016 </span><span class="c7 c5"><a
class="c4"
href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1N494N5SDLpMy1xUEwmT4LifSn4IsLZIFKMkrAjLNfbw/viewform&sa=D&ust=1454665429096000&usg=AFQjCNH7ymYDbbQzhtHJHrPBLJ5ctW-aOg"
target="_blank">here</a></span><span>. You will be informed
about your registration at the end of April 2016.</span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span></span><span>Due to
the limited time and a schedule that promotes exchanges of
advanced research ideas, talks are by invitation only. However,
the organizers will try to allocate one or two shorter talk
slots for selected submitted abstracts.</span>
</p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Registration:</span></b></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><span>Attendance of the
workshop is free but limited. Seats will be allocated on </span><span
class="c11">first-come-first-served</span><span class="c5"> </span><span>basis.
Please note that members of the Bernstein Network and the
Bernstein Association will be given preference. Please register</span><span><a
class="c4"
href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1N494N5SDLpMy1xUEwmT4LifSn4IsLZIFKMkrAjLNfbw/viewform&sa=D&ust=1454665429099000&usg=AFQjCNGI3MJ8sxXEZh3YD9GJOnaEpDh60A"
target="_blank"> </a></span><span class="c7 c5"><a class="c4"
href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1N494N5SDLpMy1xUEwmT4LifSn4IsLZIFKMkrAjLNfbw/viewform&sa=D&ust=1454665429099000&usg=AFQjCNGI3MJ8sxXEZh3YD9GJOnaEpDh60A"
target="_blank">here</a></span><span>.</span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Venue:</span></b></p>
<p class="c2"><br>
</p>
<span>Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization,
Göttingen, Germany. You may look </span><a class="external-link"
href="http://www.ds.mpg.de/2340/contact" target="_blank"><span
class="c7 c5"><span class="c4">here</span></span></a><span> for
a complete address and a travel guid</span>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "> </p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Organizers</span><span>:</span></b></p>
<ul class="c8 lst-kix_o9wuglqkqdgb-0 start" style="text-align: left;
">
<li class="c1"><span>Farzad Farkhooi (Institute of Mathematics,
Technische Universität Berlin and BCCN Berlin, Germany)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Moritz Helias, Forschungszentrum Jülich and
RWTH Aachen <span>University</span>, Germany</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Guillaume Lajoie (University of Washington
Institute for Neuroengineering, Seattle, USA and MPI-DS &
BCCN Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Merav Stern (Hebrew University, Israel)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="c0" style="text-align: left; "><span class="c6"> </span></p>
<p class="c2" style="text-align: left; "><b><span class="c6"><br>
Organization</span><span>:</span></b></p>
<ul class="c8 lst-kix_gn664ggqjzkg-0 start" style="text-align: left;
">
<li class="c1"><span>Andrea Huber Brösamle (Bernstein Coordination
Site)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Viktoria Novak (MPI for Dynamics and
Self-Organization)</span></li>
<li class="c1"><span>Regina Wunderlich (MPI for Dynamics and
Self-Organization)</span></li>
<li class="c1" style="text-align: left; "><span>Kerstin
Schwarzwälder (Bernstein Coordination Site)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Contact:</b><br>
<span>Farzad Farkhooi (e-mail: <a class="mail-link"
href="mailto:farzad@bccn-berlin.de">farzad@bccn-berlin.de</a>)</span></p>
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