2013-iCoNeT PhD Conference
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01.10.2013 um 10:00 bis 02.10.2013 um 18:00 |
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| Wo | Bernstein Center Freiburg, Hansastr. 9a, 79104 Freiburg |
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iCoNeT PhD Conference:
“Experimental and Theoretical Perspectives on Neural Networks”
What?
Annually, the PhD students of iCoNeT, the in-house PhD programme of the Bernstein Center Freiburg (BCF), organize a debate-centred scientific event where selected experts in neuroscience present their work and get acquainted with the research performed at the BCF, in an environment favourable to the exchange of ideas. The invited scientists are selected not only on the basis of the relevance of their work to the field of neuroscience in general, and to students’ own research in particular, but also having in mind a balanced selection of experimentalists and theoreticians.
Why?
Owing to the high level of complexity of the phenomena studied in neuroscience, scientists currently take two different approaches corresponding to two opposed levels of abstraction: experimental, biological-process-driven research, and theoretical, mathematical-model-driven research. Bridging these two distinct viewpoints of neural phenomena represents a challenge that both experimental and theoretical neuroscientists have necessarily to deal with in order to fully elucidate the workings of their common object of study, the human brain.
How?
The conference is organized in five sessions across two days, spanning the following topics: neural processing of visual information; function and functioning of the basal ganglia; neural dynamics under pathological conditions; learning and memory; cortical dynamics. Each session will combine insights from experimental and theoretical research and, throughout the conference, constructive criticism and discussions are promoted by extended regular breaks in between lectures and during a poster session.
Timetable
October 1, 2013 |
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Basal Ganglia |
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10:30 |
Kevin Gurney - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK |
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11:15 |
Arthur Leblois - Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology - CNRS, Paris, France |
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-- 12:00 |
Lunch -- |
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Vision |
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14:00 |
Sonja Hofer - Biozentrum University Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
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14:45 |
Philipp Berens - Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany |
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-- 15:30 |
Coffee Break -- |
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Cortical Dynamics |
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16:00 |
Johannes Letzkus - Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany |
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16:45 |
Jonathan Touboul - Mathematical Neuroscience Lab, CIRB - Collège de France and INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Paris, France |
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18:00 |
Poster session |
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-- 20:00 |
Conference dinner -- |
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October 2, 2013 |
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Pathology |
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10:30 |
Valérie Crepel - Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée - INMED, Marseille, France |
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11:15 |
Christian Moll - Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Clinics Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany |
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-- 12:00 |
Lunch -- |
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Learning & Memory |
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14:00 |
Christoph Schmidt-Hieber - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research University College London, London, UK |
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14:45 |
Henning Sprekeler - Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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-- 15:30 |
Coffee Break -- |
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Cortical Dynamics |
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16:00 |
Tiago Branco - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
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16:45 |
Jianfeng Feng - Centre for Scientific Computing - University of Warwick, Coventry, UK |
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17:30 |
End of the Conference |
Organizers:
 Tiago M. Rocha Félix |
 Antje Kilias |
 Marko Filipović |
Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)