Workshop Program

SUNDAY (November 1)
MONDAY (November 2)
TUESDAY (November 3)
WEDNESDAY (November 4)
THURSDAY (November 5)
FRIDAY (November 6)



→ Please click on the title to the see the abstract (if available).

 

 
SUNDAY (November 1)

18:00 - 20:00 Registration
19:00 - Reception with food and beverages
 

 
MONDAY (November 2)

08:45 - 09:00 Opening by Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS) and the Organizers
09:00 - 09:45 Mario Chávez (CNRS, Paris)
  Functional modularity of healthy and diseased brain networks
09:45 - 10:30 Benjamin Lindner (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Effect of dynamic synapses on spectral input statistics and neural response properties
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Michael Breakspear (Queensland Institute of Medical Research)
  Multistable and heirarchical cortical dynamics
11:45 - 12:30 Cornelis Stam (VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam)
  Graph theoretical analysis of functional brain networks: Application to neurological disorders
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Alessandro Villa (University Joseph Fourier Grenoble)
  Nonlinear dynamics and transmission of temporal information in neural networks
15:15 - 16:00 Bertram Scheller (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
  General Anesthesia as a potential tool to study complex neuronal dynamics
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
  Chairman: Frank Jülicher
16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS Colloquium
  Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology)
  Bacteria are stressed out too: The physical basis of mechanosensation
17:50 - 18:10 Miguel Valencia (University of Navarra)
  Modulatity as a basis for functional integration and segregation in human brain
18:10 - 18:30 Albert Diaz-Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Synchronization in hierarchical networks
18:45 - 20:00 Supper
20:00 - 21:30 Poster session I
 

 
TUESDAY (November 3)

09:00 - 09:45 Klaus Obermeyer (Technische Universität Berlin)
  Modeling cortical representations
09:45 - 10:30 Víctor M. Eguíluz (IFISC CSIC-UIB)
  Functional networks: Theory and experiments
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 Kazutaka Takahashi (University of Chicago)
  Propagating waves of local field potentials in motor cortex and their relations to unit spiking activities and motor behavior
11:20 - 11:40 Antonio J. Pons Rivero (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
  Relating structural and functional aberrant connectivity in aging brains via neural mass modeling
11:40 - 12:00 Ernst Niebur (Johns Hopkins University)
  Synchrony and high frequency oscillations
12:00 - 12:20 Osvaldo A. Rosso (The University of Newcastle)
  Distinguishing childhood absence epilepsy patients from controls by the analysis
  of their background brain electrical activity
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Ingo Fischer (IFISC CSIC-UIB, Palma de Mallorca)
  Mechanisms and robustness of synchronization in the presence of long conduction delays
15:15 - 16:00 Hans Albert Braun (Philipps Universität Marburg)
  The impact of single neuron dynamics on neuronal network synchronization
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
  Chairman: Benjamin Lindner

16:30 - 17:30

BSYNC09 Colloquium
  Wolf Singer (Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main)
  Distributed Processing and Temporal Codes in Cortical Networks
17:50 - 18:10 Ekkehard Ullner (University of Aberdeen )
  Contour integration and synchronization in neuronal networks of the visual cortex
18:10 - 18:30 Alex Arenas (Univeritat Rovira i Virgili)
  On the neuronal connectivity of the nematode C.elegans
18:45 - 20:00 Supper
20:00 - 21:30 Poster session II
 

 
WEDNESDAY (November 4)

09:00 - 09:45 Germán Gómez-Herrero (Tampere University of Technology)
  Identifying Granger-causality from an ensemble of multivariate time-series
09:45 - 10:30 Arkady Pikovsky (Universität Potsdam)
  Synchronization by common noise and reliability of neurons
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Rainer Goebel (Maastricht University)
  Tightening the link: A new approach to predict neuroimaging data from large-scale
  neural network models
11:45 - 12:30 Ernesto Pereda (University of La Laguna)
  Estimating neurological signal complexity using singular value decomposition
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Fernando Maestú (Complutense University, Madrid)
  Functional connectivity in neurological conditions: insights into clinical applications
15:15 - 16:00 Dmitry Postnov (Saratov State University)
  Functional modeling of neural interactions in brain tissue: Potassium-driven ensembles and neuron-astrocyte networks
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30

Excursion and Conference Dinner
 

 
THURSDAY (November 5)

09:00 - 09:45 Maria V. Sánchez-Vives (Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona)
  Excitatory and inhibitory timing and cortical rhythmic activity
09:45 - 10:30 Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  Synchronization in systems with nonlocal interactions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 Raúl Vicente (Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main)
  Role of subthreshold oscillations in liquid computing
11:20 - 11:40 Frédérique Amor (Epileptology and EEG, Bern)
  Cortical local and long-range synchronization interplay in human absence seizure initiation
11:40 - 12:00 Jérémie Cabessa (University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
  An attempt to classify neural networks computational capabilities
12:00 - 12:20 Jordi Soriano-Fradera (Universitat de Barcelona)
  A new experimental approach to characterize connectivity in living neural networks
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Gordon Pipa (Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main)
  Our brain plays jazz: Coordinated neuronal activity in self-organized complex networks with delays
15:15 - 16:00 Woodrow Shew (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda)
  Stimulus processing and phase transitions in the brain
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30

Round table discussion:
  Integrating the brain
18:30 - 20:00 Supper
20:00 - 21:30 Poster session III
 

 
FRIDAY (November 6)
09:00 - 09:45 Fritz Sommer (University of California, Berkeley)
  Oscillatory activity in a single thalamic relay cell can multiplex different types of visual information
09:45 - 10:30 Stefano Boccaletti (CNR, Florence)
  Overlapping communities, coordination and synchronization in a modular complex network
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Thanos Siapas (Caltech, Pasadena)
  The organization of the hippocampal clock
11:45 - 12:30 Gilles Laurent (Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main)
  Dynamics in olfactory circuits
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch


Last updated: November 2009