Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience , July 24-25, 2009

Location: Tsinghua University, Science Building, room 104

Day 1:

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Opening remarks

9:15-9:55 Ning Qian (Columbia University, USA): Physiologically based models of binocular depth perception

9:55-10:10 Yongjie Li, Chi Zeng, and Chaoyi Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)  Contour detection via an integration field model with adaptive facilitatory-inihibitory interactions.

10:10-10:25 Michel Vidal-Naquet & Sergei Gepshtein (RIKEN, Japan): Adaptive template matching for stereoscopic vision.

10:25 - 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55-11:35 Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel), Synaptic theory of working memory.

11:35-11:50 Ziqiang Wei and Dahui Wang (Beijing Normal University): A cortical network for sustainning multiple items during working memory task

11:50-12:05 Jian K Liu and Dean V. Buonomano (UCLA, USA): Embedding multiple trajectories in recurrent neural networks in a self- organizing manner.

12:05-14:00: On site lunch and poster viewing (Posters from all oral presenters are also available in all poster sessions).

14:00-14:40 Jean Pierre Nadal (Ecole Normale Superieure, France): Population coding: an information theoretic approach

14:40-15:10 Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot (Ecole Normale Superieure, France) : Behavioral and neural consequences of category learning: an information theoretic approach

15:10-15:40 Coffee and poster

15:40-16:20 Tomoki Fukai (RIKEN, Japan): Decision-making computations with coincident spikes in recurrent neuronal networks

16:20-16:35 Xiangying Meng, Qishao Lu, & John Rinzel (Beihang University, Beijing): Pauses and delayed firing of auditory neurons, a minimal model.

16:35-16:50 Wei Wei and Fred Wolf ( Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamic and Self-Organization, Germany): Influence of action potential onset rapidness to dynamic response of cortical neurons.

16:50 - 18:30 Poster viewing.

19:00 Banquet

Day 2:

9:00-9:40 Peter Dayan (University College London, UK): Reinforcement Learning and Computational Psychiatry

9:40-9:55 Danting Liu and George Sperling (UC Irvine, USA): Perceived Motion Direction of high-temporal frequency plaids

9:55-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:10 Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai): Routing information in neural circuitry.

11:10 - 11: 25: Yoonsuck Choe, Yoon H. Bai, Heeyoul Choi, and Choongseog Park (Texas A&M University, USA): Nature of texture: Visual or tactile.

11:25-11:40 Yong Liu and Tianzi Jiang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences): Altered functional connectivities in early blind.

11:40- 14:00: On site lunch and poster viewing.

14:00-14:30 Yuan Liu (Salk Institute, USA): Models and Dynamical Analyses of Neural Systems for a Decision Making Task

14:30-15:00 Juan Gao (Stanford University, USA): Can humans dynamically adjust decision strategies when faced with unbalanced rewards and uncertain stimuli?

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:10 Li Zhaoping (University College London/Tsinghua University): Relative contributions by V1 and V2 to visual attentional guidance.

16:10-16:25 Yicong Meng, Eric K.C. Tsing, Stanley Y.M. Lam, and Bertram E. Shi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Cortically inspired visual processing for robotics with the HKUST multimap system.

From 16:25 Symposium Ending Activities (such as round table, socializing, TBA), etc.

Enquiries:

Symposium organizer: Li Zhaoping, email: z.li@ucl.ac.uk, symposium secretary: Ms. Li Zhou, email: lizhou@itp.ac.cn