C e n t r e d e r e c h e r c h e s m a t h é m a t i q u e s
17:00 - 20:00 Registration
(room 5345, 5th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
19:00 - 21:00 Reception
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
08:15 - 08:30 Registration
(room 5345, 5th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome and Opening remarks
SESSION I: DYNAMICAL MEMORY
08:45 - 09:25 GAIL CARPENTER, Boston University, USA
"Redistribution of synaptic efficacy and stable pattern
learning in neural networks"
09:25 - 10:05 SUZANNA BECKER, McMaster University, Canada
"A neural model of hippocampal-parietal interactions in spatial
memory"
10:05 - 10:25 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:25 - 10:45 MICHAEL MENZINGER, University of Toronto, Canada
"Bistable Gradient Neural-like Networks"
10:45 - 11:05 TORU AONISHI, RIKEN, Japan
"Complex cooperative behavior of frustrated coupled oscillator
system"
SESSION II: NEURAL COMPUTING
11:05 - 11:45 WOLFGANG MAASS, Technische Universitat Graz, Austria
"Towards a Computational Theory for Wetware"
11:45 - 12:25 RICHARD HAHNLOSER, MIT, USA
"Designing multistable hybrid analog-digital circuits that
draw inspiration from cortical feedback"
12:25 - 15:30 Lunch and Free Discussion
SESSION III: DELAYED DYNAMICS
15:30 - 15:50 FERNANDO BUARQUE DE LIMA NETO, Imperial College, London, UK
"Modelling axonal delays caused by Multiple Sclerosis Plaques"
15:50 - 16:30 SUE ANN CAMPBELL, University of Waterloo
"Bifurcation interactions as a source of multistability in
systems with delays"
16:30 - 16:50 JACQUES BELAIR, Universite de Montreal, Canada
"Delayed neural networks"
16:50 - 17:10 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
17:10 - 17:50 JIANHONG WU, York University, Canada
"Stable phase-locking induced by synaptic delays in networks
of neurons"
17:50 - 18:30 UDO ERNST, Universitat Bremen, Germany
"Multistability and Clustering in Networks of Pulse-Coupled
Integrate-and-fire Neurons with Delays"
SESSION IV: RECURRENT DYNAMICS, PHASE RESETTING AND MULTISTABILITY
08:30 - 09:10 LEON GLASS, McGill University, Canada
"Stimulation of Biological Oscillators at a Fixed Delay Leads
to Complex Rhythms"
09:10 - 09:50 CARMEN CANAVIER, University of New Orleans, USA
"A Phase Resetting Analysis Shows How Delayed Feedback Gives
Rise to Multistability"
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:20 - 11:00 JOHN MILTON, University of Chicago, USA
"Delayed recurrent neural loops: multistability and neural
coding"
11:00 - 11:40 KHASHAYAR PAKDAMAN, INSERM, Paris, France
"Delay induced sustained and transient oscillations in neuron
models"
11:40 - 12:00 ANDRE LONGTIN, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Divisive and subtractive gain control with feedforward and
feedback"
12:00 - 15:00 Lunch and Free Discussion
15:00 - 16:00 POSTER SESSION
SESSION V: BURSTING DYNAMICS
16:00 - 16:40 EUGENE IZHIKEVICH, The Neurosciences Inst., La Jolla, USA
"Classification of Bursters: Why Bother?"
16:40 - 17:20 SEUNG KEE HAN, Chungbuk National University, Korea
"Anti-phasing, In-phasing, and Bursting in Coupled Neural
Oscillators"
17:20 - 17:40 JAESEUNG JEONG, Yale University, USA
"Burst as a source of nonlinear determinism in interspike
interval firing patterns of dopamine neurons"
17:40 - 18:00 BRENT DOIRON, University of Ottawa, Canada
""Ghostbursters": A novel bursting mechanism in pyramidal
cells"
SESSION VI: NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING
08:30 - 09:10 KAZUYUKI AIHARA, University of Tokyo, Japan
"Nonlinear Dynamics with Spatio-Temporal Spikes and Possible
Information Coding"
09:10 - 09:50 ANDREAS HERZ, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin
"Neural Coding: On Time (Without Derailing Spiketrains)"
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
10:20 - 11:00 ALAIN DESTEXHE, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
"Dendritic integration in neocortical pyramidal neurons in
vivo"
11:00 - 11:20 JOHN LEWIS, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Dynamics of population coding"
11:20 - 12:00 WULFRAM GERSTNER, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, Lausanne
"Information transmission by populations of spiking neurons"
12:00 - 12:20 MAURICE CHACRON, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Correlation enhanced information transfer in electroreceptors"
12:20 - 15:30 Lunch and Free Discussion
SESSION VII: SENSORIMOTOR DYNAMICS
15:30 - 16:10 MINGZHOU DING, Florida Atlantic University, USA
"Sensorimotor Coordination: Behavior and Brain Analysis"
16:10 - 16:50 RALF ENGBERT, Potsdam Universitat, Germany
"Mathematical models of eye movement control in reading"
16:50 - 17:10 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
17:10 - 17:30 MICHELE TITCOMBE, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
"Control of parkinsonian tremor by deep brain stimulation: data
& dynamics"
17:30 - 17:50 ALEXEI POTAPOV, University of Lethbridge, Canada
"Chaotic neural control"
17:50 - 18:10 JUAN-LUIS CABRERA, University of Chicago, USA
"Delayed dynamics of stick balancing"
SESSION VIII: STOCHASTIC NEURAL DYNAMICS
08:30 - 08:50 JAN FREUND, Humboldt Universitat, Germany
"Noise-Induced Phase Synchronization: An Analytic Approach"
08:50 - 09:10 RACHEL KUSKE, University of Minnesota, USA
"Asymptotic measures of noise sensitivity in systems with
delays"
09:10 - 09:30 STEVE GUILLOUZIC, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Approximate probability densities and transition rates for
stochastic delay differential equations"
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee and tea break
(room 6245, 6th floor, Andre-Aisenstadt building)
SESSION IX: VISION AND ATTENTIVE DYNAMICS
10:00 - 10:40 CARLO LAING, University of Pittsburg, USA
"A spiking neuron model of binocular rivalry"
10:40 - 11:00 GUSTAVO DECO, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
"Biased Competition Mechanisms for Visual Attention in a
Multimodular Neurodynamical System"
11:00 - 11:20 RENATE WACKERBAUER, West Virginia University, USA
"Topographic Organization of Hebbian Neural Connections by
Synchronous Wave Activity"
11:20 - 12:00 HUGH WILSON, U. of Chicago, USA, and York University, Canada
"Dynamics in Vision: Cortical Networks, Perceptual
Oscillations & Migraine Auras"
CLOSING REMARKS
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