<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Apologies for cross-posting.)</span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi,</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We're organizing a workshop titled "From synaptic plasticity to motor control" at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland on Sep 19-20, 2017.</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Theme:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How do networks of spiking neurons in the brain learn to predict, plan and control body movements? We explore recent developments at the intersection of control theory, reservoir computing, FORCE learning, function approximation, artificial neural networks, learning theory, and local plasticity rules, to build collaborative directions for modelling biological motor learning.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Speaker list (in order of talks): </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="margin:9px 35px 9px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,69,69)"><a href="http://lcn.epfl.ch/~gerstner/index.html" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x" target="_blank">Wulfram Gerstner</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/nsl/www/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x" target="_blank">Jean-Jacques Slotine</a>, <a href="http://lasa.epfl.ch/people/member.php?SCIPER=115671" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x" target="_blank">Aude Billard</a>, <a href="http://contrastiveconvergence.net/~timothylillicrap/index.php" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x" target="_blank">Timothy Lillicrap</a>, <a href="http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/c.clopath/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Claudia Clopath</a>, <a href="https://memmesheimer.net/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer</a>, <a href="http://www.adityagilra.net/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Aditya Gilra</a>, <a href="http://www.iec-lnc.ens.fr/members/faculty-186/deneve-sophie-phd/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Sophie Deneve</a> (tbc), <a href="https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/surya.html" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Su<wbr>rya Ganguli</a>, <a href="http://www.physio.unibe.ch/~senn/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Walter Senn</a>, <a href="http://minds.jacobs-university.de/herbert" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Herbert Jaeger</a>, <a href="http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;background:url("http://../img/underline.gif") 0px 14px repeat-x;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Wolfgang Maass</a>.</p></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Further information at:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://lcn1.epfl.ch/page-146446-en.html" target="_blank">http://lcn1.epfl.ch/page-14644<wbr>6-en.html</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best,<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Wulfram and Aditya.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">--</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Wulfram Gerstner and Aditya GIlra,</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div>