| May 30 | ||
| Plenary session Chair: Romain Veltz |
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| 9:00-9:15 | Introductory Remarks, Romain Veltz (General Chair ICMNS2016) | |
| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote Lecture: The synapse, as a statistical nano-device: toward chemistry in cellulo Antoine Triller (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Invited Lecture: A model of spatial learning in rodent hippocampus Alex Roxin (Centre de Recerca Matematica, Spain) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Invited Lecture: Dynamic explaining away and causal inference by spiking networks Ruben Moreno-Bote (Foundation Sant Joan de Deu, Spain) |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Invited Lecture: Stochastic synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns and network dynamics Hiroya Nakao (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Featured Talk: Revisiting chaos in stimulus-driven spiking networks: signal encoding and discrimination Guillaume Lajoie (University of Washington, USA) |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and posters session (1) | |
| Sessions I Statistical approaches – Chair: Ruben Moreno-Bote | Session II Neural fields – Chair: Alex Roxin | |
| 14:00-14:30 | A strategy for non-linear estimation of synaptic conductances Catalina Vich Llompart (Universitat deles Illes Balears, Spain) |
Illusory motion of geometric hallucinations induced by visual flicker Stewart Heitmann (University of Pittsburgh, USA) |
| 14:30-15:00 | An analytically tractable model for studying beyond pairwise common input correlations Lisandro Montangie (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) |
Sensory feedback in a bump attractor model of path integration Daniel Poll (University of Houston, USA) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Filtering Spike Train Observations of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Sacha Sokoloski (Max Planck Institute, Germany) |
Cortical waves in monotone excitatory neural fields Grégory Faye (CNRS, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Correct and incorrect trials in V1 and V4 areas of behaving monkey are characterized by different power spectra Veronika Koren (Teschnische Universität Berlin, Germany) |
A time-discontinuous Galerkin method for neural field equations Monika Polner (Bolyai Institute, University of Szege, Hungary) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Integrate and Fire models with assigned Interspike Intervals distribution and unknown threshold or initial value Laura Sacerdote (University of Torino, Italy) |
Coherent structures in neural networks: from interface methods to multi-scale computations Daniele Avitabile (University of Nottingham, UK) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Transition to stationarity in a general class of neuron models Wilhelm Braun (University of Ottawa, Canada) |
Solvable model for a network of spiking neurons with fixed delays Federico Devalle (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) |
| 17:30-18:30 | Welcome Cocktail | |
| May 31 | ||
| Plenary session Chair: Zachary Kilpatrick |
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| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote Lecture: A neuromechanistic model for auditory streaming John Rinzel (New-York University, USA) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Invited lecture: Identifying timescales in respiratory bursting dynamics Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh, USA) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Invited lecture: Intrinsic excitability and the role of saddle slow manifolds Hinke Osinga (University of Auckland, New Zealand) |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Invited lecture: Continuous Attractor Neural Network: A Canonical Model for Neural Information Representation Si Wu (Beijing Normal University, China) |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Featured talk: Generic Torus Canards in Mathematical Neuroscience Theodore Vo (Boston University, USA) |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch & poster session (2) | |
| Sessions I Circuit architecture and dynamics – Chair: Eric Shea-Brown | Session II Neural oscillations – Chair: Hinke Osinga | |
| 14:00-14:30 | The relationship between network structure and network dynamics: Network balance conditions required for time-scale separation of a network of rate-based neurons Andre Peterson (University of Melbourne, Australia) |
Inhibition-based theta resonance in a hippocampal network: a modeling study Horacio G. Rotstein (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Different models of network connectivity can explain “non-random” features of cortical microcircuits Marina Vegué (Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Spain) |
Pattern bifurcations and control Repetitions and alternations of percept choices in a spiking neuron model with intermittent stimulation Hil Meijer (University of Twente, Netherlands) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Topological analysis of digital reconstructions of neural microcircuits Ran Levi (University of Aberdeen, UK) |
An cell-intrinsic synchronization switch for conductance-based neurons Janina Hesse (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | The Impact of complex network structures on seizure-activity induced by depolarization block Christopher Kim (Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany) |
Neural Excitability and Singular Bifurcations Martin Wechselberger (University of Sydney, Australia) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Inference of synaptic connectivity and input profiles from contrast invariant firing rates in a recurrent neural field Nataliya Kraynyukova (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany) |
Synchrony in neural networks: A piecewise linear dynamical systems perspective (synchrony PWL) Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham, UK) |
| 17.00-17:30 | Mechanisms of oscillatory self-sustained activity in a cortical model Rodrigo Felipe De Oliveira Pena (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
Mathematical and experimental studies of retinal waves
Theodora Karvouniari (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France) |
| 20:00-22:30 | Gala dinner | |
| June 1 | ||
| Plenary session Chair: Evelyn Buckwar |
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| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote Lecture: Modeling synaptic plasticity – from synapses to function Wulfram Gerstner (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Invited lecture: Emergent dynamics from network connectivity: a minimal model Carina Curto (Penn State University, USA) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Invited lecture: Assembling collective activity in neural circuits Eric Shea-Brown (University of Washington, USA) |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Invited lecture: Non-smooth and non-autonomous dynamics revisited in the context of stochastic facilitation Rachel Kuske (University British Columbia, Canada) |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Featured talk: Reliability of signal transmission in stochastic nerve axon equations Wilhelm Stannat (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and poster session (3) | |
| Sessions I Learning, behavior, and plasticity – Chair Jonathan Rubin | Session II Stochastic Models – Chair: Wilhelm Stannat | |
| 14:00-14:30 | The stationarity principle for statistical learning Claudius Gros (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany) |
Long-range dependence in Integrate-and-Fire models Alexandre Richard (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Suppression in a normative model of spike-timing dependent plasticity Peter Dziennik (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
Existence and Uniqueness of Mild Solutions to the Stochastic Neural Field Equation with Discontinuous Firing Rate Jennifer Krueger (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation James Whittington (University of Oxford, UK) |
Multi-class oscillating systems of interacting neurons (Hawkes) Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | A novel information theoretic measure of surprise Mohammadjavad Faraji (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) |
A Stochastic Field Equation for a Finite Size Spiking Neural Network Grégory Dumont (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Functional and Operational Hubs control Network Events in Neural Circuits Alessandro Torcini (Aix Marseille University, France) |
Basins of attraction in neural networks: A computational study Bernat Rovira (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica Bellaterra, Spain) |
| 17:00-17:30 | An action selection mechanism driven by partial synchronization in a computational model of the basal ganglia Andrea Ferrario (Plymouth University, UK) |
Attractor models of perceptual decision making exhibit a resonant performance for non-zero noise level Genis Prat-Ortega (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Spain) |
| 17:30-17:45 | Closing ceremony and Best Poster Awards | |
