
McGovern Institute Spring 2016 Symposium Computations: from Synapses to Systems
Description
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PROGRAM
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast Served in Atrium
9:00 am – 9:15 am
ROBERT DESIMONE & MARK HARNETT, McGovern Institute
Welcoming Remarks
Session I (Chair: TBD)
9:15 am - 10:00 am
ANGUS SILVER, University College London
Information processing in the input layer of the cerebellar cortex
10:00 am - 10:45 am
GAUTAM AWATRAMANI, University of Victoria
The fine balancing act of GABAergic/cholinergic retinal starburst amacrine cells
10:45 am – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am
STEFAN REMY, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Synaptic integration of locomotion-speed by entorhinal cortex and hippocampus
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
JENNIFER RAYMOND, Stanford University
Neural learning rules in the cerebellum
12:30 pm - 01:30 pm
Lunch in Atrium
Session II (Chair: TBD)
01:30 pm – 02:15 pm
CARL PETERSEN, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Neural circuits for goal-directed sensorimotor transformation
02:15 pm - 03:00 pm
SURYA GANGULI, Stanford University
A theory of neural dimensionality, dynamics and measurement
03:00 pm - 03:15 pm
Break
03:15 pm - 04:00 pm
LINDSEY GLICKFELD, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
Functional specialization in the mouse visual cortex
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm
STEVEN SIEGELBAUM, Columbia University
Storing memories through cortico-hippocampal circuits
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Reception