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Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology Annual Meeting 2009

Center for Brain Science

Harvard University Cambridge

Northwest Building

52 Oxford St.

Cambridge, MA 02138

July 25-28, 2009

• Sloan-Swartz Centers Main Page

• Event Home Page: http://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/Swartz_meeting.php

• Meeting Abstract Booklet: 2009_Sloan-Swartz_Meeting_Abstract_Booklet.pdf

We look forward to an exciting meeting, which is a timely opportunity for us to appreciate as a community the vitality, the growth, and the impact on neuroscience of our research and training activities. We are grateful for the continued support of the Sloan and Swartz Foundations in difficult times, and are pleased to be hosting their representatives at the meeting.

We have an exciting list of invited speakers and a delegation of 10 researchers from the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience in Germany. In our planning, we have incorporated recommendations discussed in the last Directors' Lunch as well as additional ones from the sponsoring foundations. On this site you will find a number of organizational details we would like to share with you.

Haim Sompolinsky

Markus Meister

Kenny Blum

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Saturday, July 25

7:30 pm	Reception and registration

Sunday, July 26

8:00 am	Breakfast and registration

8:45 am	Welcome and Introduction

	Circuits
	Carlos Brody (Princeton), Chair

9:00 am	David McCormick (Yale)
	"Functional properties of local cortical networks"

9:30 am	Daniel Martí (NYU)
	"A model of two interacting accumulators for reach and saccade reaction times"
	• Presentation: DMartí-Sloan-Swartz-Annual-2009.pdf

10:00 am	Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Bernstein)
	"Correlations and synchrony in threshold neuron models" • Presentation: T-Tchumatchenko-Sloan-Swartz-2009.pdf

10:30 am	Paul Miller (Brandeis)
	"Recall of word sequences via short-term plasticity in a temporal context model"
	• Presentation: PMiller-Sloan-Swartz-Annual-2009.pdf

11:00 am	Break and poster setup

11:30 am	Mitya Chklovskii (Janelia, Guest Speaker)
	"From neuronal circuit reconstructions to principles of brain design"

12:30 pm	Lunch and posters

	Coding
	Larry Abbott (Columbia), Chair

2:15 pm	Tatyana Sharpee (Salk)
	"Information maximization across a synapse"

2:45 pm	Markus Meister (Caltech, Special Lecture)
	"Neural computations in the retina"

3:45 pm	Scott Makeig (UCSD)
	"Linking brain, mind, and cognition"

4:15 pm	Break

4:45 pm	Andreas Herz (Munich, Guest Speaker)
	"Simplicity in a complex world: subthreshold membrane-potential resonances shape spike-train statistics"
	• Presentation: AHerz-Sloan-Swartz-Annual-2009.pdf

5:45 pm	Dinner on your own

8:00 pm	Posters and drinks