Connectionists: workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation

[Aurel A. Lazar]

Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation



BCMC 2015 <http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2015>
Monday and Tuesday, March 16-17, 2015
Center for Neural Engineering and Computation <http://www.cnec.columbia.edu/>
Columbia University, New York, NY 10027



Overview
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in developing executable models of neural computation/processing of the brain of model organisms. Of interest are models of computation that consist of elementary units of processing using brain circuits and memory elements. Elementary units of computation/processing include population encoding/decoding circuits with biophysically-grounded neuron models, non-linear dendritic processors for motion detection/direction selectivity, spike processing and pattern recognition neural circuits, movement control and decision-making circuits, etc. Memory units include models of spatio-temporal memory circuits, circuit models for memory access and storage, etc. A major aim of the workshop is to explore the integration of various computational sensory and control models.


Confirmed Invited Speakers
Yoshi Aso <http://www.janelia.org/people/scientist/yoshi-aso>, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.
Dmitri "Mitya" B. Chklovskii <http://www.simonsfoundation.org/about-us/staff/staff-bios/>, Simons Center for Data Analysis, Simons Foundation.
Damon A. Clark <http://clarklab.commons.yale.edu/>, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University.
Daniel Coca <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse/staff/dc>, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield.
Fabrizio Gabbiani <http://glab.bcm.tmc.edu/>, Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, and Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University.
Charles Randy Gallistel <http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~galliste/>, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University.
Charles D. Gilbert <http://lab.rockefeller.edu/gilbert/>, Laboratory of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University.
Vivek Jayaraman <http://www.janelia.org/lab/jayaraman-lab>, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.
Mikko I. Juusola <http://www.shef.ac.uk/bms/research/juusola>, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.
Anthony Leonardo <http://janelia.org/people/scientist/anthony-leonardo>, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.
Wolfgang Maas <http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/>, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
Gary F. Marcus <http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/>, Department of Psychology, New York University.
Stefan Mihalas <http://www.alleninstitute.org/our-institute/our-team/profiles/stefan-mihalas/>, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA.
Barbara Webb <http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bwebb/>, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Further details are available at BCMC 2015 <http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2015>.

Aurel
http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu


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