Prelim Program: 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

[Bartlett Mel]

                 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

     --- 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation --- 


                    to be held at the

            UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

                 Saturday, May 20, 2000

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       website:  http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/
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8:45  Opening Remarks - Mel 

Session I. Cells and Synapses - Bower 

9:00   Olivier Coenen, San Diego Children's Hospital Research Center
       "A Hypothesis for Parallel Fiber Coding in a 
        Cerebellar Model of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement" 

9:15   Roland Suri, The Salk Institute
       "Modeling Functions of Striatal Dopamine Modulation 
        in Learning and Planning" 

9:30   Ralf Wessel, UC San Diego
       "Biophysics of Visual Motion Analysis in Avian Tectum" 

9:45   Panayiota Poirazi, USC
       "Sublinear vs. Superlinear Synaptic Integration? 
        Tales of a Duplicitous Active Current" 

Session II. Sensory-Motor Learning - Schaal 

10:00  Auke Ijspeert, USC
       "Locomotion and Visually-Guided Behavior in Salamander: 
        An Artificial Evolution and Neuromechanical Study" 

10:15  Thomas DeMarse, Caltech
       "The Animat Project: Interfacing Neuronal Cultures 
        to a Computer Generated Virtual World" 

10:30  Richard Belew, UC San Diego
       "Evolving Behavior in Developing Robot Bodies Controlled
        by Quasi-Hebbian Neural Networks" 

10:45  Aude Billard, USC
       "A Biologically inspired Connectionist Model for
        Learning Motor Skills by Imitation" 

11:00  Coffee Break 

11:15  KEYNOTE SPEAKER 
       Gerald E. Loeb, USC
       "Dialogs with the Nervous System" 

12:00  Lunch and Posters 

Session IV. Vision - Hoffmann 

2:00   Martina Wicklein, The Salk Institute
       "Perception of Looming in the Humminbird Hawkmoth 
        Manduca Sexta (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera)" 

2:15   Erhan Oztop, USC
       "Mirror Neuron System in Monkey: 
        A Computational Modeling Approach" 

2:30   Eric Ortega, USC
       "Smart Center-Surround Receptive Fields: What Bayes 
        May Say About the Neural Substrate for Color Constancy" 

2:45   Junmei Zhu, USC
       "Fast Dynamic Link Matching by Communicating Synapese" 

3:00   David Eagleman, The Salk Insitute
       "The Timing of Perception: How Far in the Past do we Live, and
Why? 

3:15   Coffee Break 

Session III. Concepts and Memory - Mel 

3:30   Jonathan Nelson, UC San Diego
       "Concept Induction in the Presence of Uncertainty" 

3:45   Peter Latham, UCLA
       "Attractor Networks in Systems with Underlying 
        Random Connectivity" 

Session V. Faces - Sejnowski 

4:00   Tim Marks, UC San Diego 
       "Face Processing in Williams Syndrome: Using ICA to 
        Discriminate Functionally Distinct Independent
        Components of ERPs in Face Recognition" 

4:15   Ian Fasel, UC San Diego
       "Automatic Detection of Facial Landmarks: 
        An Exhaustive Comparision of Methods" 

4:30   Boris Shpungin, UC San Diego
       "A System for Robustly Tracking Faces in Real-Time" 

4:45   Closing Remarks - Sejnowski

5:00   Adjourn for Dinner 


POSTERS 
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Ildiko Aradi, UC Irvine
"Network Stability and Interneuronal Diversity"

Javier Bautista, USC
"Creating a World Representation of the Environment from Visual Images" 

Maxim Bazhenov, The Salk Institute
"Slow Wave Sleep Oscillations and Transition to an Awake State in a 
Thalamocortical Network Model" 

Hamid Beigy, Amirkabir Univ. of Technology
"Adaptation of Parameters of BP Algorithm Using Learning Automata"

Axel Blau, Caltech
"High-Speed Imaging of Neuronal Network Activity" 

Mihail Bota, USC
"The NeuroHomology Database" 

Theodore Bullock, UC San Diego
"When is a Rhythm" 

Spiros Courellis, USC
"Modeling Event-Driven Dynamics in Biological Neural Networks" 

Holger Quast, UC San Diego
"Absolute Perceived Loudness of Speech" 

Gary Holt, USC
"Unsupervised Learning of the Non-Classical Surround" 

Jeff McKinstry, Point Loma Nazarene University
"A Model of Primary Visual Cortex Applied to Edge Detection" 

Stefan Schaal, USC
"Functional brain activation in rhythmic and discrete movement"

Alexei Samsonovich, University of Arizona
"A Theory-of-Mind Connectionist Model of Episodic Memory Consolidation" 


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REGISTRATION CHECKS SHOULD BE RECEIVED BY MAY 15 TO GUARANTEE THAT 
A DELICIOUS HOT LUNCH WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU.

See conference web site to register, and for directions to the meeting:

      http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/

Fee: $40 students, $50 all others - both prices include hot lunch.

Mail checks to:  Linda Yokote
                 BME Department
                 USC, Mail Code 1451
                 Los Angeles, CA 90089



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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JAMES M. BOWER 
Division of Biology, Caltech 

GARRISON W. COTTRELL 
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD 

DONALD D. HOFFMAN 
Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, UCI 

GILLES LAURENT 
Division of Biology & Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech 

BARTLETT W. MEL (chair) 
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience Program, USC 

SHEILA NIRENBERG 
Dept. of Neurobiology, UCLA 

STEFAN SCHAAL 
Dept. of Computer Science and Neuroscience Program, USC 

TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSD/Salk Institute 


Local Arrangements 
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Linda Yokote, BME Department, USC, marubaya at rcf.usc.edu, (213)740-0840 
Gabriele Larmon, BME Dept, USC, larmon at bmsrs.usc.edu 

Proceedings 
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Marilee Bateman, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD, 
bateman at cogsci.ucsd.edu 

Web Site 
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Marionne Epalle, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, 
marionne at caltech.edu