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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are pleased to invite you to our virtual workshop entitled "<b>Are dendrites necessary for cortical computation?</b>” to be held on Tuesday, December 7, 10:00am - 1:00 pm EST.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This workshop is in the series of Emory University Initiative in Theory And Modeling of Living Systems (TMLS,
</span><a href="http://livingtheory.emory.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://livingtheory.emory.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">) virtual workshops, exploring provocative questions on the interface of biology
and physical sciences. See </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/EmoryTMLS"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.youtube.com/c/EmoryTMLS</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> for recordings of previous workshops in
the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstract: <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Many network models for modeling cortical function are built with single compartment units using a variety of more or less simple integrate and fire dynamics. On the other hand, many biologically
oriented research groups place great emphasis on the complex and detailed properties of active processing in pyramidal neuron dendrites. The question to be addressed in this workshop is whether essential computational properties of biological cortical networks
rely on dendritic processing, and if so, which? Finally, could such properties be formalized in simpler ways than using full biophysical detail and substantially add to the function of more abstract network modeling?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Six exciting speakers will present their thoughts on the matter, and the audience will be able to interact with them in real time, asking questions through the YouTube comments interface.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Free registration is requested at:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2F9HzNgrYbJPYBUfSw9&data=04%7C01%7Cdjaeger%40emory.edu%7C36ee659f4c3e43569fd308d9a30509db%7Ce004fb9cb0a4424fbcd0322606d5df38%7C0%7C0%7C637720064296609671%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=sKNcr3F6YsktoM9agNUAhwntP3L%2FP2mNclmA6ICFccs%3D&reserved=0">https://forms.gle/9HzNgrYbJPYBUfSw9</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We expect to stream the workshop live at the TMLS YouTube channel
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/EmoryTMLS"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.youtube.com/c/EmoryTMLS</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> and we will send information, updates/changes to all registered participants
before the workshop begins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Confirmed Speakers and Titles:
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<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dieter Jaeger, Emory University, Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Claudia Clopath</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, Imperial College London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brent Doiron</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, University of Chicago “Cell specific inhibitory plasticity in assembly formation”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bartlett Mel</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, University of Southern California "How to optimize a dendrite for binary subunit pooling”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yiota Poirazi</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, IMBB-FORTH Crete “Dendritic solutions to logical operations in models of human neurons”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Andreas Stöckel</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, University of Waterloo. “Passive Dendrites as a Computational Resource in the Neural Engineering Framework”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Xiao-Jing Wang</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, New York University “Dendritic gating in the whole neocortex”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone that you think might be interested. Hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Dieter Jaeger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (workshop organizer)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dieter Jaeger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor, Department of Biology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emory University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:djaeger@emory.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">djaeger@emory.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/jaegerlab/<o:p></o:p></p>
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