Preliminary Workshop Program


Go to: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
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Tuesday, November 6  
   
16:30 - 20:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome banquet
   
   
Wednesday, November 7  
   
08:50 - 09:00 Opening
  Frank Jülicher (Director MPIPKS) and Scientific Coordinators
   
09:00 - 09:30 Luigi Ricciardi (Universita di Napoli)
  On diffusion and first passage time problems in biological modeling
   
09:30 - 10:00 Nicolas Brunel (CNRS - Université Paris 5)
  Dynamics of the instantaneous firing rate of single neurons and networks
   
10:00 - 10:30 Tatiana Engel (MPI für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung)
  Firing statistics in resonant and nonresonant neurons: The first passage time approach
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Amilcare Porporato (Duke University)
  Dynamical systems with state-dependent jumps
   
11:30 - 12:00 Martin Paul Nawrot (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Serial inter-spike interval correlations in spiking neurons: Phenomenology, stochastic modeling and statistic predictions
   
12:00 - 12:30 Eilif Müller (EPFL Lausanne)
  An adapting Markov process: Beyond renewal descriptions of neuronal firing
   
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:00 Henry Tuckwell (MPI für Mathematik in den Wissenschaften)
  Single neurons, coupled neurons and spreading depression
   
15:00 - 15:30 Peter Talkner (Universität Augsburg)
  Dynamics of metastable states in externally driven Fokker-Planck processes
   
15:30 - 16:00 Alessandro Torcini (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi Firenze)
  Double coherence resonance in neuronal models driven by correlated noise
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:00 Lars Wolff (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Exact mean, variance, and autocorrelation function of neural subthreshold voltage
   
17:00 - 17:30 Gerhard Schmid (Universität Augsburg)
  Gating charge effects: An intrinsic mechanism for channel noise reduction
   
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
   
19:30 - 20:00 Poster Presentations
   
20:00 Poster Session
   
   
Thursday, November 8  
   
09:00 - 09:30 Magnus Richardson (University of Warwick)
  Response properties of reduced neuron models to fluctuating synaptic drive
   
09:30 - 10:00 Jason Ritt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Transience in stimulus driven neural dynamics
   
10:00 - 10:30 Alexander Neiman (Ohio University)
  Stochastic oscillations and their role in information transfer in hair-cell - Afferent electrosensory system of paddlefish
   
10:30 - 10:35 Group Photo
   
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL Lausanne)
  Predicting neural activity spike by spike: The power (and limits) of simple neuron models
   
11:30 - 12:00 Jan Benda (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  Neural population codes in weakly-electric fish
   
12:00 - 12:30 Maurizio Mattia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
  Counting, timing, integrating by multi-modular networks of spiking neurons
   
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
   
14:30 - 15:00 Gordon Pipa (MPI für Hirnforschung)
  Neuronal self organization in theory and experiment: Behaviourally relevant cell assemblies and plasticity in the liquid state machine
   
15:00 - 15:30 Nigel Stocks (Warwick University)
  Noise enhance information processing in neural populations
   
15:30 - 16:00 Maria V. Sanchez-Vives (Universidad Miguel Hernandez)
  Spontaneous emergent activity from the cerebral cortex network
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
16:30 - 17:00 Nestor Parga (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
  Network model of low frequency oscillations exhibiting synchronous transitions between up and down states
   
17:00 - 17:30 Ruben Moreno-Bote (New York University)
  Noise-induced alternations in attractor models of perceptual bistability
   
19:30 Conference Dinner
   
   
Friday, November 9  
   
09:00 - 09:30 Martin Falcke (Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin)
  Waiting time distributions for clusters of complex molecules
   
09:30 - 10:00 Peter Jung (Ohio University)
  Optimal synaptic design, information transfer and noise
   
10:00 - 10:30 Olga Chibirova (Université Joseph Fourier)
  Emergence of precise firing sequences driven by temporally structured stimuli in large scale neuron networks
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Gaby Schneider (Universität Frankfurt)
  A simple model for near-zero phase delays
   
11:30 - 12:00 Arkady Pikovsky (Universität Potsdam)
  Synchronization by common noise: Application to neuron's reliability
   
12:00 - 12:30 Elias Manjarrez (Benemerita Universidad de Puebla)
  Neurodynamics of the center of mass for traveling electrical waves within the central nervous system of humans and cats
   
12:30 - 12:40 Closing
   
12:40 Lunch
   
   


Last updated: November 5, 2007