CNS 2013 Paris: Workshops

The CNS Workshops will take place on 17 and 18 July at the Université Paris Descartes in the Latin quarter of Paris.

Registration:  Workshop registration will occur through the OCNS registration web site for CNS*2013.  All workshop participants, including speakers must register. 

Two-day workshops (17 July 9:00-17:30 and 18 July 9:00-17:30)

• Advances in Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (Organisers: Paul Munro and Claudia Clopath)
• Network neurosciences: structure and dynamics (Organisers: Michele Giugliano and Daniele Marinazzo)
• Computations in the cerebellar circuit: advances on the modeling front (Organisers: Egidio D’Angelo, John Porrill, Paul Dean and Sergio Solinas)
• Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience (Organiser: Alexander Dimitrov)
• Neural mechanisms of working memory limits (Organisers: Albert Compte and Zachary Kilpatrick)

Wednesday 17 July 9:00-17:30

• Methods of Systems Identification for Studying Information Processing in Sensory Systems (Organisers: Aurel A. Lazar and Mikko I. Juusola)     
  

• Early touch: from neural coding to haptic space geometry (Organisers: Jonathan Platkiewicz and Vincent Hayward)
• Dendrite function and wiring: experiments and theory (Organisers: Hermann Cuntz, Michiel Remme and Ben Torben-Nielsen)
• New developments in decoding the encoding of chemical senses (Organisers: Maxim Bazhenov and Mark Stopfer)
• New approaches to spike train analysis and neuronal coding (Organisers: Conor Houghton and Thomas Kreuz)
• Metastable Dynamics of Neural Ensembles (Organisers: Gustavo Deco and Emili Balaguer Ballester)
• Advances in neural mass modeling (Organisers: Ingo Bojak, Stephan van Gils and Sid Visser)

Thursday 18 July 9:00-17:30

• Spike‐based computation (Organisers: Romain Brette and Sophie Denève)
• Recent advances in experimental and computational characterization of neural assemblies (Organisers: Sami El Boustani and Adrien Peyrache)
  
• Computational properties of inhibitory synapses (Organiser: Fidel Santamaria)
• Modeling general anesthesia: from theory to experiments (Organiser: Axel Hutt)
• Functional role of correlations: theory and experiment (Organisers: Tatjana Tchumatchenko and Srdjan Ostojic)
• Relevance of Synaptic Plasticity for Multistable Behaviour in Neural Systems (Organisers: Alessandro Torcini and Christian Hauptmann)
• Validating Neuro-computational Models of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders (Organisers: Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya and Fahmida Chowdhury)
• Full Brain Network Dynamics (Organisers: Victor Jirsa and Gustavo Deco)

Thursday 18 July 18:00-20:00

• Postdoc and student career strategy workshop (Organiser: Jorge Mejias)     

Springer Computational Neuroscience Book Series:  Some of the workshops may be published by the Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience.  Workshop organizers interested in this mechanism should submit a book proposal to [email protected] and indicate in the workshop proposal their interest in publishing a book.

Logistics:   Rooms, AV equipment, snacks and beverages during breaks will be provided by OCNS to the workshop organizers.