Bernstein Conference 2019

Location

Berlin

Date

Sep 17 – 20

Abstracts

Invited Lectures

Dora Angelaki| Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain

Matthias Bethge| University of Tübingen, Germany
Neural decision making from pixels to percepts

Matthew Botvinick| DeepMind and University College London, UK
A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning

Nicolas Brunel| Duke University, Durham, USA
How strongly coupled are cortical circuits?

Claudia Clopath| Imperial College London, UK
Modelling hippocampal learning

Hopi Hoekstra| Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
From mice to molecules: the genetics of behavioral evolution

Gilles Laurent| Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
A reptilian model for sleep control and evolution

Eve Marder | Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
Multiple Cellular Mechanisms Allow the Nervous System to Tile Time

Haim Sompolinsky| The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Neural representations: geometry and computation

Gašper Tkačik| Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Planning the arc between optimality theories and data

Nachum Ulanovsky| Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Neural codes for natural navigation in the hippocampal formation of bats

Contributed Talks

Guillaume Bellec| Graz University of Technology, Austria
Biologically inspired alternatives to backpropagation through time for learning in recurrent neural nets

Sarah Goethals| Sorbonne University, INSERM, Paris, France
The electrical impact of axon initial segment plasticity

Naoki Hiratani| University College London, UK
Developmental and evolutionary principles of olfactory circuit designs

Ho Ling Li| University of Nottingham, UK
Energy efficient synaptic plasticity

Malcolm MacIver| Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
The shift from life in water to life on land advantaged planning in visually-guided behaviour

Tuan Pham| University of Chicago, USA
Electrical synapses and transient signals in feedforward canonical circuits

Vivek Sridhar| Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Radolfzell, and University of Konstanz, Germany
The geometry of decision-making

Katharina Wilmes| Imperial College London, UK
Gating synaptic plasticity in cortical networks

Public Lecture

Florian Röhrbein| „Intelligent Systems”, Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG, Winnenden, Germany
Künstliche Intelligenz – Kopie oder Karikatur?

Satellite Workshops

Speakers:

  • Gilles Laurent
  • Gianluigi Mongillo
  • Jorge Kurchan
  • Merav Stern
  • Caleb Kemere
  • Luca Mazzucato
  • Nicolas Brunel
  • Paul Miller
  • Gabriel Ocker
  • Laureline Logiaco
  • Erin Rich

Speakers:

  • Bruno Averbeck
  • Florent Meyniel
  • Ilya Monosov
  • Etienne Koechlin
  • Armin Lak
  • Megan Peters
  • Kerstin Preuschoff
  • Frederic Stoll
  • Christopher Summerfield

Speakers:

  • Stephen Lisberger
  • Frank Bremmer
  • Kristine Krug
  • Gunnar Blohm
  • Dora Angelaki
  • Leslie Osborne

Speakers:

  • Marina Mikhaylova
  • Nicolangelo Iannella
  • Naoya Takahashi
  • Florencia Iacaruso
  • Jan Kirchner
  • Kristin Michaelsen-Preusse
  • Balázs Ujfalussy
  • Volker Scheuss
  • Jean-Pascal Pfister
  • Christian Lohmann
  • Claudia Clopath

Speakers:

  • Srikanth Ramaswamy
  • Steve Prescott
  • Henning Sprekeler
  • Jens Hjerling-Leffler
  • Andreas Savas Tolias
  • Arvind Kumar

Speakers:

  • Ann Hallemans
  • Jaap van Dieën
  • Charlotte Le Mouel
  • Anne Koelewijn
  • Marcus Gruber
  • Friedl de Groote
  • Heiko Wagner
  • Susanne Lipfert
  • Emanuel Andrada

Speakers:

  • Gily Ginosar
  • Christopher Cueva
  • Emily Mackevicius
  • Laura Driscoll
  • Jonathan Kadmon
  • Guillaume Bellec
  • Matthew Chalk
  • Fabian Sinz
  • SueYeon Chung
  • Aran Nayebi
  • Yosef Singer

Speakers:

  • Gaute Einevoll
  • Felix Schürmann
  • Susanne Kunkel
  • Petra Ritter
  • Marc de Kamps
  • Torbjørn Ness
  • Michele Migliore
  • Michael Reimann
  • Markus Diesmann
  • Sacha van Albada
  • Alain Destexhe
  • Sonja Grün
  • Wulfram Gerstner

Speakers:

  • Katja Seeliger
  • Marie Bellet
  • Edgar Walker
  • Jan Antolik
  • Thomas Naselaris
  • Tim Kietzmann
  • Matthias Kümmerer

Speakers:

  • Umberto Olcese
  • Antonio Pazienti
  • Viola Priesemann
  • Tatiana Engel
  • Aniruddh Galgali
  • Leonardo Gollo

Speakers:

  • Chethan Pandarinath
  • Juan Gallego
  • SueYeon Chung
  • David Sussillo
  • Francesca Mastrogiuseppe
  • Kanaka Rajan
  • Devika Narain

Speakers:

  • Daniel Durstewitz
  • Adrien Peyrache
  • Martin Vinck
  • Lukas Grossberger
  • Simona Cocco
  • Joao Semedo
  • Benjamin Dann

Speakers:

  • Ines Ribeiro
  • Marta Moita
  • Johannes Larsch
  • Benjamin Judkewitz
  • Daniela Vallentin
  • Roian Egnor
  • Ryan Remedios
  • Michael Brecht

Speakers:

  • Michael Kahana
  • Joshua Jacobs
  • Nora Herweg
  • Melina Tsitsiklis
  • Lukas Kunz
  • Eric Reifenstein
  • Richard Kempter
  • Natalie Schieferstein
  • Andreas Schulze-Bonhage