Day 1 |
Wednesday 18 November |
13.00 |
Meeting Welcome from Tom McLeish (University of York) |
13.10 |
Bill Bialek (Princeton) 'Statistical physics for networks of real neurons: Progress and problems' |
Session one |
Perception chaired by Tom McLeish (University of York) Questions: What non-invasive methodologies can reveal the stages of processing in perception? What challenges face the modelling of perception at different levels? |
14.00 |
Kenneth Harris (UCL) 'N neurons → ∞' |
14.20 |
Karl Friston (UCL) 'Deep inference' |
14.40 |
Daniel Baker (York) 'Algorithms underlying neural signal combination' |
15.00 |
Panel Discussion |
Session Two |
Neuroimaging, measurement and other techniques chaired by Antony Morland (University of York) Questions: What are new techniques of imaging telling us about cortical architecture and function? How do indirect spatio-temporal methods complement imaging? How can imaging contribute to a multi-scale model of neurological structure and function? |
15.30 |
Amanda Ellison (Durham) 'If the Physics of Life is a powerful beat, what does the rhythm of the brain tell us?' |
15.50 |
David Halliday (York) 'Neuromorphic computing systems - spiking neural networks, astrocyte-neuron networks' |
16.10 |
Hannah Smithson (Oxford) 'Looking into the Brain: high resolution imaging of the living human eye' |
16.30 |
Pareshkev Nachev (UCL) 'Mapping complex causal fields in the focally injured human brain' |
16.50 |
Alard Roebroeck (Maastricht) 'Multiscale investigation of human cortical architecture with light sheet microscopy and MRI' |
17.10 |
Panel Discussion |
17.40 |
Meeting close |
17.45 |
Virtual meeting social meet and greet - via Wonder (link provided within meeting) |
Day 2 |
Thursday 19 November |
13.00 |
Day Two welcome from Stephen Smye (University of Leeds) |
Session Three |
Neural nets and brains chaired by Stephen Smye (University of Leeds) Questions: To what extent can we say that neural nets model brains faithfully? What tools from nonlinear dynamics of complex systems and statistical mechanics illuminate neural nets? |
13.05 |
Fred Wolf (MPI Göttingen) 'Neural circuit dynamics' |
13.25 |
Thierry Mora (ENS Paris) 'Statistical mechanics of emergent properties in a neural population code' |
13.45 |
Viola Priesemann (MPI Göttingen) 'Phase transitions and information flow in neural systems' |
14.05 |
Francesca Mastrogiuseppe (UCL) ' Evolution of neural activity in circuits bridging sensory and abstract knowledge' |
14.25 |
Panel discussion |
Session Four |
Neural computations in visual and spatial cognition chaired by Mark Leake (University of York) |
14.50 |
Remi Monasson (ENS Paris) 'From pattern completion to pattern separation during hippocampal memory encoding' |
15.10 |
Alessandro Treves (SISSA Trieste) 'Grid cells embrace disorder, and turn into an ultrametric glass' |
15.30 |
Alex Wade (York) 'Altered visual processing in Drosophila and humans associated with genetic neurological disease' |
15.50 |
Panel discussion |
16.20 |
Open and emerging questions roundtables hosted via Wonder (link provided within meeting) |
17.00 |
Meeting social (via Wonder) |