Connectionists: MSBDy -- Workshop on Brain dynamics on multiple scales, Dresden 19-23 June 2017

[Thomas Wennekers]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop on Brain dynamics on multiple scales – paradigms, their relations, and integrated approaches

MSBDy 2017, 19-23 June, Dresden, Germany

WORKSHOP WEBSITE:

http://www.pks.mpg.de/msbdy17/

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 28 Feb 2017

Summary

Previous research paradigms in the brain sciences have often focused on one spatial or

temporal scale only, for instance defined by the experimental technique of choice or a

specific set of cognitive phenomena. This workshop aims at exploring paradigms and

concepts such as complexity, information, or dynamical systems that provide bridges, links,

relations, or connections between two, three or more "elements of brain science" and link

them to recent developments in mathematics, physics, and neurobiological experimental

techniques.

Workshop sessions

1. The Brain as a complex system ­

complex networks, dynamics and criticality,

­understanding the interplay between structure, dynamics, and function.

2. Information Processing and Coding ­:

what is the current state in using information­-theoretic principles like

infomax, complexity measures, evidence, or surprise ­as tools to understand the brain?

3. Brain Oscillations, Waves and Synchronisation ­:

what are their functional roles?

4. Multiple scales and levels:

­ what are proper "building blocks" of the brain or a brain theory?

5. Large­ scale cognitive brain systems: ­

what are the best approaches to an understanding of high­ level cognitive

and brain functions including consciousness?

DETAILS

The workshop takes place on the premises of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex systems in Dresden.

Thanks to a generous grant by the MPIPKS participation in the event is free, with the exception of a modest fee of Euro 120 for social dinners, excursions and coffee breaks. The grant otherwise covers food and subsistence in the guest house of the MPIPKS for accepted participants.

Posters can be hung for the duration of the meeting.

To apply, please follow: http://www.pks.mpg.de/msbdy17/

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Application Deadline: 28 Feb 2017

- Notification of acceptance: 31 Mar 2017

- Workshop Date: 19 Jun - 23 Jun 2017

SPEAKERS

Nicolas Brunel (Univ Chicago, USA)

Bruno Cessac (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)

Gustavo Deco (UPF Barcelona, Spain)

Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA, College de France)

Alain Destexhe (UNIC, CNRS, France)

Markus Diesmann (Jülich Research Centre, Germany)

Ole Jensen (Donders Institute, Nijmegen, NL)

Mark A Kramer (Boston University, USA)

Anders Lansner (Stockholm University and KTH, Sweden)

Christoph Michel (Université de Genéve, Switzerland)

Juergen Jost (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

Guenther Palm (University of Ulm, Germany)

Simon Schulz (Imperial College London, UK)

Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London, UK)

Elad Schneidman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

Marc Timme (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany)

Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, to be confirmed)

Vlad Vyazovskiy (University of Oxford, UK)

ORGANIZERS

Peter Achermann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Eckehard Olbrich (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

Thomas Wennekers (University of Plymouth, UK)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

This workshop is supported by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

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