Connectionists: Final Program of the Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation, March 13-14, 2017

[Aurel A. Lazar]

Columbia University j Center for Neural Engineering and Computation
Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation
Monday and Tuesday, March 13-14, 2017 | Davis Auditorium, CEPSR

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 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 sensory and control circuits in higher brain centers.

Program Overview
Monday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Gerald M. Rubin (HHMI Janelia), Circuits for Learning and Memory in the Adult Drosophila Mushroom Body
09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Ann-Shyn Chiang (National Tsing Hua U.), Long-Term Memory Requires Sequential Protein Synthesis in Discrete Mushroom Body Output Neurons in Drosophila
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Albert Cardona (HHMI Janelia), Brain Circuit Maps of Larval Drosophila
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Andreas S. Thum (University of Konstanz), The Larval Standard Brain of Drosophila: The Mushroom Body Learning and Memory Network
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Silke Sachse (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology), Parallel Olfactory Coding Mechanisms in the Drosophila Brain
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Dinu Florin Albeanu (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Understanding the Function and Specicity of Feedforward and Feedback Signals in Olfaction
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break
04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania), Cracking the Olfactory Code
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Konrad P. Kording (Northwestern University), Deep Learning and the Unknown Unknowns of Neuroscience
Tuesday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Barry J. Dickson (HHMI Janelia), Mating Circuits in the Drosophila Brain
09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Adam H. Marblestone (MIT), How Improvements in Neuroanatomy Could Shed Light on Cognitive Architecture
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Jonathan B. Demb (Yale University), Synaptic Mechanisms for Visual Computation in the Retina
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Marion Silies (European Neuroscience Institute, Gottingen), Motion Vision: From Behavior to Cellular and Circuit Function
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Anmo J. Kim (Rockefeller University), Quantitative Predictions in a Drosophila Visuomotor Network
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM M. Eugenia Chiappe (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown), An Internal Representation of Walking Movements in a Visual Area of the Drosophila Brain
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break
04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Katherine I. Nagel (New York University), Neural Circuits Encoding Wind Direction in Drosophila
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Tim P. Vogels (University of Oxford), TBA

Registration is free but all participants have to register at: https://bcmc17.eventbrite.com/
Workshop Website: http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2017

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






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