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CNS*2000

The Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting

July, 16-20, 2000, Brugge, Belgium

CNS*2000 Programme

Sunday, July 16, 2000

Monday, July 17, 2000

Tuesday, July 18, 2000

Wednesday, July 19, 2000

Thursday, July 20, 2000

SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2000

9:00 Welcoming Remarks and General Information

9:15 : Featured Contributed Talk: David Willshaw (University of Edinburgh)

10:05 : Rolf Kötter (C. http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS/cns2000/agenda.shtml O. Vogt Brain Research) Claus C. Hilgetag, and Klaas E. Stephan
The Connectional Organization of Primate Prefrontal Cortex

10:25 : Rafal Bogacz (University of Bristol) Malcolm W. Brown, and Christophe Giraud-Carrier
Model of Co-Operation Between Recency, Familiarity Novelty Neurons in the Perihinal Cortex

10:45 : Jan Reutimann (University of Bern) Stefano Fusi, Walter Senn, Volodya Yakovlev, and Ehud Zohary
A Model of Expectation Effects in Inferior Temporal Cortex

11:05 : Break

11:20 : Jenny Read (Oxford University)
A Bayesian Model of the Correspondence Problem

11:40 : Slawomir J. Nasuto (George Mason University) Jeffrey L. Krichmar, and Giorgio A. Ascoli
A Computational Study of the Relationship Between Neuronal Morphology and Electrophysiology in an Alzheimer's Disease Model

12:00 : Alexa Riehle (Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience)Franck Grammont, Markus Diesmann, and Sonja Gruen
Dynamical Changes of the Temporal Precision of Synchronized Spiking Activity in Motor Cortical Neurons as Revealed by Using the Multiple-Shift Method

12:20 : Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session A

2:20 : Featured Contributed Talk: Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences)
Temporal Pattern Decoding by Synaptic Signaling Pathways

3:10 : Hans E. Plesser (Max Planck Institut) Theo Geisel
Signal Processing by Means of Noise

3:30 : Rick Jenison (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Decoding First-Spike Latency: The Maximum Likelihood Referent

3:50 : Break

4:10 : Karim G. Oweiss (University of Michigan) David J. Anderson
Noise Reduction in Multichannel Neural Recording Using a New Array Wavelet Denoising Algorithm

4:30 : Featured Contributed Talk: Thierry Bal (Institut Alfred Fessard) Damien Debay, and Alain Destexhe
Corticothalamic Feedback Controls the Frequency and Synchrony of Thalamic Oscillations

5:20 : End of Day Announcements

8:00 : Poster Session A

MONDAY, JULY 17, 2000

9:00 : General Information

9:15 : Featured Contributed Talk: Michael J. Berry II (Princeton University) Markus Meister
Firing Events: Fundamental Symbols in the Neural Code of Retinal Ganglion Cells?

10:05 : Lyle Borg-Graham (Institut Federatif de Neurobiologie)
The Computation of Directional Selectivity in the Retina Occurs Prior to the Ganglion Cell

10:25 : Lars Schwabe (Technische Universität Berlin) Peter Adorjan, and Klaus Obermayer
Spike-Frequency Adaptation as a Mechanism for Dynamic Coding in V1

10:45 : Thomas Lauritzen (University of California at San Francisco) Anton Krukowski, and Ken Miller
A Model of Cross-Orientation Inhibition in Cat V1

11:05 : Break

11:20 : Rufin VanRullen (Centre de Recherche Cerveau and Cognition) Arnaud Delorme, and Simon Thorpe
Feed-Forward Contour Integration in Primary Visual Cortex Based on Asynchronous Spike Propagation

11:40 : Steven Bressler (Florida Atlantic University) Mingzhou Ding, Hualou Liang, and Maciej Kaminski
Separation of Feedforward and Feedback Casual Influences in the Primate Visual Cortex

12:00 : Bart Krekelberg (Ruhr University)Monica Paolini, Frank Bremmer, Markus Lappe, and Klaus-Peter Hoffmann
Deconstructing the Receptive Field: Information Coding in Macaque Area MST

12:20 : Christian Machens (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)Petra Prinz, Martin Stemmler, Bernhard Ronacher, and Andreas Herz
Discrimination of Behaviorally Relevant Signals by Auditory Receptor Neurons

12:40 : Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session B

2:00 Featured Contributed Talk: Bruce Graham (University of Edinburgh) Arjen van Ooyen
Compartmental Models of Growing Neurites

2:50 : Ronen Segev (Tel Aviv University) Eshel Ben-Jacob
Chemical Waves and Internal Energy during Cooperative Self-Wiring of Neural Nets

3:10 : Mark van Rossum (Brandeis University) Gina Turrigiano
The Distribution of Synaptic Weights

3:30 : Marcel Heldoorn (Leiden University Medical Center) Johan L. Van Leeuwen, and Jan Vanderschoot
Modelling the Control and Biomechanics of Sphincter Muscles

3:50 : Break

4:10 : Featured Contributed Talk: Charlotte Boettiger (University of California at San Francisco) Allison Doupe
Developmentally Restricted Synaptic Plasticity in a Songbird Nucleus Critical for Song Learning

5:00 : End of Day Announcements

8:00 : Poster Session B

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2000

9:00 : General Information

9:15 : Featured Contributed Talk: Simon Giszter(MCPHU Sch Med)William Kargo, and Gregory Lange
Modeling of Dynamic Controls in the Frog Wiping Reflex: Force-Field Level Controls

10:05 : Sarvani Grandhe (University of Kentucky) Ranu Jung
Presence of Brain-Spinal Cord Interactions Alters Lamprey Locomotor Response to Periodic Perturbation

10:25 : Valeria Del Prete (International School of Advanced Studies) Orna Steinberg, Alessandro Treves, and Eilon Vaadia
How Much Do They Tell Us to Move?

10:45 : Break

11:05 : Featured Contributed Talk: C. J. Wilson (University of Texas at San Antonio) J. C. Callaway
Evidence for the Coupled Oscillator Model of the Dopaminergic Neuron of the Substantia Nigra

11:55 : Andrew Gillies (University of Edinburgh) Jeremy Atherton, David Willshaw, and Gordon Arbuthnott
The Role of Subthalamic Nucleus Intranuclear Axon Collateralsin Basal Ganglia Processing: Evidence From Computational Models and in Vitro Experiment

12:15 : Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session C

2:00 : Featured Contributed Talk: Lokendra Shastri (International Computer Science Institute)
A Computational Model of Rapid Memory Formation in the Hippocampal System

2:50 : Tamas Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)Gergo Orban, Mate Lengyel, and Peter Érdi
Intrahippocampal Gamma and Theta Rhythm Generation in a Network Model of Inhibitory Interneurons

3:10 : Caroline Geisler (Brandeis University) Xiao-Jing Wang
A Network Model for Theta Oscillations in the Septohippocampal System

3:30 : Szabolcs Kali (University College London)Peter Dayan
A Familiarity-Based Learning Procedure for the Establishmentof Place Fields in Area CA3 of the Rat Hippocampus

3:50 : Break

4:10 : Riccardo Barbieri (Harvard Medical School) Loren M. Frank, Michael C. Quirk, Matthew A. Wilson, and Emery N.Brown
Diagnostic Methods for Statistical Models of Place Cell Spiking Activity

4:30 : Manuel A. Sanchez-Montanes (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Paul F. M. J. V. Verschure, and Peter Koenig
Learning in a Neural Network Model in Real Time Using Real World Stimuli

4:50 : Featured Contributed Talk: Alfonso Renart (Universidad Autónoma deMadrid) Ruben Moreno, Nestor Parga, and Edmund T. Rolls
The Neural Mechanisms of Working Memory Modelled byInteracting Associative Memory Networks

5:40 End of Day Announcements

8:00 : Poster Session C

WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2000

9:30 : General Information

9:45 : Featured Contributed Talk: Patrick Roberts (Neurological SciencesInstitute) Curtis Bell
Mutual Inhibition Increases Adaptation Rate in anElectrosensory System

10:35 : Klaus M. Stiefel (Max Planck Institute) Valerie Wespatat, Wolf Singer, and Frank Tennigkeit
Interaction of Membrane Potential Oscillations withInhibitory Synaptic Inputs in Cortical Cells

10:55 : Adam Kepecs (Brandeis University) John Lisman
Games Pyramidal Cells Play: The Somato-Dendritic Ping-Pong

11:15 : Invited Presentation: Larry Abbot (Brandeis University)

12:30 : Lunch Break

2:00 : Federal Funding Opportunities

2:40 : Workshops I - Organization

9:30 : Rock and Roll Jam Session

THURSDAY, July 20, 2000

9:30 : General Information

9:45 : Featured Contributed Talk: Tim C. Pearce (University of Leicester) Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Joel White, and John S. Kauer
Stimulus Encoding in the Early Stages of Olfactory Processing: A Modeling Study Using an Artificial Olfactory System

10:35 : Satoru Inoue (Univ. of Electro-Communications)Yoshiki Kashimori, and Takeshi Kambara
An Essential Role of Downward Sweep Rate of FM Pulse in Echolocation of Bat

10:55 : Featured Contributed Talk: David Terman (The Ohio State University) Jonathan Rubin, and Alice Yew
Synchronous Parkinsonian Rhythms in a Model for the Indirect Pathway of the Basal Ganglia

11:45 : Business Meeting

1:00 : Lunch Break

2:30 : Workshops II - Organization

6:30 : Banquet