<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Columbia University j Center for Neural Engineering and Computation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 43px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">Monday and Tuesday, March 13-14, 2017 | Davis Auditorium, CEPSR</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">Organizer and Program Chair: Aurel A. Lazar (Columbia University)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in developing executable models of neural computation/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">processing of the brain of model organisms. Of interest are models of computation that consist of elementary units of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">processing using brain circuits and memory elements. Elementary units of computation/processing include population encoding/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">decoding circuits with biophysically-grounded neuron models, non-linear dendritic processors for motion detection/direction</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">selectivity, spike processing and pattern recognition neural circuits, movement control and decision-making circuits, etc. Memory</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">units include models of spatio-temporal memory circuits, circuit models for memory access and storage, etc. A major aim of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">workshop is to explore the integration of various sensory and control circuits in higher brain centers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);" class="">Program Overview</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 25px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Monday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Gerald M. Rubin (HHMI Janelia), Circuits for Learning and Memory in the Adult Drosophila Mushroom Body</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Ann-Shyn Chiang (National Tsing Hua U.), Long-Term Memory Requires Sequential Protein Synthesis in Discrete Mushroom Body Output Neurons in Drosophila</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Albert Cardona (HHMI Janelia), Brain Circuit Maps of Larval Drosophila</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Andreas S. Thum (University of Konstanz), The Larval Standard Brain of Drosophila: The Mushroom Body Learning and Memory Network</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Silke Sachse (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology), Parallel Olfactory Coding Mechanisms in the Drosophila Brain</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Dinu Florin Albeanu (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Understanding the Function and Specicity of Feedforward and Feedback Signals in Olfaction</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania), Cracking the Olfactory Code</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Konrad P. Kording (Northwestern University), Deep Learning and the Unknown Unknowns of Neuroscience</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 25px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Tuesday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Barry J. Dickson (HHMI Janelia), Mating Circuits in the Drosophila Brain</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Adam H. Marblestone (MIT), How Improvements in Neuroanatomy Could Shed Light on Cognitive Architecture</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Jonathan B. Demb (Yale University), Synaptic Mechanisms for Visual Computation in the Retina</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Marion Silies (European Neuroscience Institute, Gottingen), Motion Vision: From Behavior to Cellular and Circuit Function</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Anmo J. Kim (Rockefeller University), Quantitative Predictions in a Drosophila Visuomotor Network</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">02:45 PM - 03:30 PM M. Eugenia Chiappe (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown), An Internal Representation of Walking Movements in a Visual Area of the Drosophila Brain</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Katherine I. Nagel (New York University), Neural Circuits Encoding Wind Direction in Drosophila</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Tim P. Vogels (University of Oxford), TBA</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);" class="">Registration is free but all participants have to register at: <a href="https://bcmc17.eventbrite.com/" class="">https://bcmc17.eventbrite.com/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);" class="">Workshop Website: <a href="http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2017" class="">http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2017</a></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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