Satellite Workshops
Satellite Workshops of the Bernstein Conference 2021 provide a stage to discuss topical research questions, novel scientific approaches and challenges in Computational Neuroscience and related fields.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
14:00 – 22:00 CEST
starting time for all workshops: 14:00 CEST
flexible duration: min 4 hrs, max 8 hrs
All selected workshops will be held in parallel online sessions and be moderated by the workshop organizers.
Selected Workshops
Brain Criticality: The Past, the Present and the Future
Organizers: Dante Chialvo, Claudius Gros
Confirmed speakers:
- Dietmar Plenz
- Claudius Gros
- Stefanie Miller
- Anna Levina
- Joern Davidsen
- Christian Meisel
- Serena di Santo
- Miguel Munoz
Control mechanisms for contextual computations and behavior
Organizers: Lorenzo Fontolan, Carlos Stein Brito
Confirmed speakers:
- Joe Patoe
- Klaus Wimmer
- Ann Kennedy
- Robert Froemke
- Kiyohito Iigaya
- Lea Duncker
Distributed Representation in RL: from AI to Dopamine
Organizers: Paul Masset, Pablo Tano
Confirmed speakers:
- Peter Dayan
- Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida
- Marc Bellemare
- Rachel Lee
- Jan Drugowitsch
- Martha White
- Arif Hamid
- Jakob Foerster
Frequency-preference responses to external perturbations: from neurons to networks
Organizers: Rodrigo F.O. Pena, Horacio G. Rotstein
Confirmed speakers:
- Pascal Fries
- Arvind Kumar
- Jorge Mejias
- Farzan Nadim
- Carmen Canavier
- Rodrigo Pena
- Michelle McCarthy
- Eran Stark
- Horacio G. Rotstein
- Warren M. Grill
- Zeinab Esmaeilpour
- John White
Heterogeneous distribution of synaptic weights: experiments and theory
Organizers: Francesco Fumarola, Lukasz Kusmierz
Confirmed speakers:
- Florencia Iacaruso
- Pulin Gong
- Simon Rumpel
- Julijana Gjorgjieva
- Sven Dorkenwald
- Ramin Khajeh
- Merav Stern
- Carl Petersen
- Lukasz Kusmierz
Machine Learning meets Neuroscience: from Spikes to Stimulation
Organizers: Fabian Sinz, Alexander Ecker
Confirmed speakers:
- Janne Lappalainen
- Stefano Panzeri
- Bernd Illing
- Viola Priesemann
- Roxana Zeraati | Oleg Vinogradov
- Kate Storrs
- Andrew Saxe
Maintaining function in the presence of ongoing change
Organizers: Sven Goedeke, Felipe Yaroslav Kalle Kossio
Confirmed speakers:
- Taro Toyoizumi
- Cian O’Donnell
- Júlia Gallinaro
- Paul Manz
- Bastian Eppler
- Lee Susman
- Michael Rule
- Andrew Fink | Carl Edward Schoonover
- Noa Sadeh | Meytar Zemer
- Federico Devalle
- Sara Solla
- Ji Xia
- William Mau
Recent Developments for Biologically Realistic Neural Mass Models
Organizers: Alessandro Torcini, Simona Olmi
Confirmed speakers:
- Simona Olmi
- David Dahmen
- Tilo Schwalger
- Gianluigi Mongillo
- Matteo di Volo
- Halgurd Taher
- Alain Destexhe
- Áine Byrne
- Maurizio Mattia
The geometry of neural activity: low-dimensional dynamics and high-dimensional representations
Organizers: Joao Barbosa, Adrian Valente, Yuxiu Shao, Ljubica Cimesa
Confirmed speakers:
- Carsen Stringer
- Mattia Rigotti
- Jonathan Pillow
- Friedrich Schuessler
- SueYeon Chung
- Sara Solla
- Alex Cayco-Gajic
- Abigail Russo
The inner life of dendrites - mechanisms behind synaptic input integration
Organizers: Fabio Sartori, Surbhit Wagle, Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Confirmed speakers:
- Hye Yoon Park
- Daniel Choquet
- Timothy O’Leary
- Mark van Rossum
- Paul Bressloff
- Marina Mikhaylova
- Anne-Sophie Hafner
- Ashley Bourke
- Noam Ziv
