Connectionists: Final Program of the Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation

[Aurel A. Lazar]

Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation

Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, 2016 | 501 NWC Building

Organizer and Program Chair: Aurel A. Lazar (Columbia University)

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in developing executable models of neural computa-
tion/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 encod-
ing/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 sensory and control circuits in higher brain centers.

Program Overview
Friday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Alexander Borst (MPI Neurobiology), Functional Characterization of the Input Elements to the Drosophila Motion Detector
09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Michael B. Reiser (HHMI Janelia), The Circuit Basis of Directional Selectivity in the Drosophila Visual System
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Thomas R. Clandinin (Stanford), How Does Contrast Selectivity Emerge in Motion Processing Pathways
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Chung-Chuan Lo (National Tsing Hua University), The Virtual Fly Brain { from Bench-Top to Cyberspace
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break (On your own, see a list of restaurants in the area on the back)
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM J. Douglas Armstrong (University of Edinburgh), VirtualFlyBrain.org <http://virtualflybrain.org/> - An Integration Hub for Drosophila Neuroscience
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science), Multiscale Gene Expression Signatures in the Mammalian Brain
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break
04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Gaby Maimon (Rockefeller University), Probing the Neurophysiological Basis of Cognitive Operations in Behaving Drosophila
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Stanley Heinze (Lund University), Merging Information about Direction and Distance - the Bee Central Complex as the Potential Neural Substrate for Path Integration
Saturday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Glenn C. Turner (HHMI Janelia), The Mushroom Body and Learning - Flexibly Assigning Valence to Odors
09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Vanessa Ruta (Rockefeller University), Circuit Mechanisms for Flexible Sensory Processing in Drosophila
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Marta Zlatic (HHMI Janelia), Circuits Principles of Memory-Based Behavioral Choice
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Friedrich T. Sommer (UC Berkeley), Interplay of Structural and Weight Plasticity: Eects on Memory Capacity and Connections to Cognitive Phenomena
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break (On your own, see a list of restaurants in the area on the back)
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Mala Murthy (Princeton University), Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Matthieu Louis (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona), Bayesian Maggots: Multisensory Integration in the Drosophila Larva
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break
04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Kwabena Boahen (Stanford University), Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Panel Discussion: The Logic of NeuroInformation Processing of the Fruit Fly Brain

Registration is free but all participants have to register at: https://bcmc16.eventbrite.com/ <https://bcmc16.eventbrite.com/>

Workshop Website: http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2016 <http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2016>
Aurel
http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu


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