dcdeno@robotics.berkeley.edu (D. Curtis Deno) (07/14/90)
* * * Summer 1990 Workshop/Conference Final Program (Revised 7/13/90) * * *
Title: Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems
Location: Clark Kerr Campus, 2601 Warring St., Berkeley CA 94720
Dates: July 25-27, 1990 (Wed-Fri, 3 full days)
Sponsors: Institute for Scientific Computing Research, LLNL;
NASA Ames Research Center;
University of California at Berkeley
This workshop will focus on recent neurophysiologic investigations
into the structure and operation of nerve cells and systems. Twenty
two invited speakers will provide reviews of their respective fields
and summaries of their own recent research. There will be no parallel
sessions and the workshop will be structured to stimulate and
facilitate the active involvement of all attendees. Although oral
presentations will be limited to the invited speakers, contributions
are solicited for poster sessions. Presentations are welcome in areas
including subcellular systems, cellular systems, multi-cellular
systems, and tools and techniques. Discussion and demonstation of
experimental data/modeling techniques is planned for the poster
sessions. A variety of computer workstations will be available to
attendees including Sun 3, SPARC, IBM/6000, IBM/AT, and Macintosh.
Registration by mail or FAX is encouraged by July 18, 1990 but
registration is possible (space available) at the door Tuesday
evening, July 24, 1990. Rooms are available on site at relatively low
cost, but payment is required by July 18, 1990. Lunch is provided on
site for each of the 3 days. Thursday evening, a banquet is scheduled
at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Meeting Coordinator:
Terry Contreras
Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab.
P.O. Box 808, Mailstop L-426
Livermore, CA 94550 USA
(415) 422-7132 FAX (415) 423-4980
Electronic Mail:
Curt Deno
neural@robotics.berkeley.edu, ucbvax!robotics!neural, or
neural%robotics@ucbvax.bitnet
Invited Speakers (in order of appearance):
George Gerstein, Univ. Penn.
Martin Wilson, UC Davis
Markus Meister, Stanford
Wilfrid Rall, NIH
John Rinzel, NIH
Ed Kairiss, Yale
Paul Adams, SUNY
Avis Cohen, Cornell
Thelma Williams, SGHMS
Frederic Nagy, CNRS, France
Gideon Inbar, Technion, Israel
Simon Giszter, MIT
James Houk, Northwestern Univ.
Charles Gray, Salk Institute
Stuart Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
David Van Essen, Caltech
Peter Sterling, Univ. Penn.
Harry Orbach, Caltech
Shihab Shamma, Univ. Maryland
Catherine Carr, Univ. Rochester
Christian Wehrhahn, Max Plank Inst., FRG
Nicolas Franceschini, CNRS, France
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Final Program (revised 7/13/90)
Tuesday, July 24th, 1990
5:00 - 7:00 PM Registration center open
6:00 - 7:30 PM Opening Reception, Clark Kerr Campus
Wednesday, July 25th, 1990
7:30 - 3:00 PM Registration center open
8:00 - 8:15 PM Opening remarks and announcements
8:15 - 10:00 AM NEURAL CODING SESSION
8:15 AM G. Gerstein
Dynamics of neuronal assembly organization:
Experiments, interpretations.
9:00 AM M. Wilson
Lateral spread of signals in the outer retina:
Use of "in principle" modeling to rule out
plausible hypotheses.
9:30 AM M. Meister
Multi-neuronal signaling in the retina
10:00 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 PM CELLULAR AND DENDRITIC MODELING SESSION
10:30 AM W. Rall
Functional insights about synaptic inputs to dendrites
11:10 AM J. Rinzel
Channels, coupling, and synchronized rhythmic bursting
activity
11:50 AM E. Kairiss
Hebbian synapses on hippocampal dendrites
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 PM SUBCELLULAR SYSTEMS SESSION
2:00 PM P. Adams
Electrical activity of vertebrate nerve cells
3:00 - 5:00 PM POSTER SESSIONS (all topics)
Thursday, July 26th, 1990
7:30 - 3:30 PM Registration center open
8:00 - 10:00 PM CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR SESSION
8:00 AM A. Cohen
Unraveling the lamprey CPG for locomotion: Lessions in
Dynamical systems modeling
8:50 AM T. Williams
Experimental and mathematical investigations of the
lamprey spinal cord as a chain of coupled nonlinear
oscillators
9:25 AM F. Nagy
Dynamic rewiring of CPG circuits
10:00 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 AM MOTOR SYSTEMS SESSION
10:30 AM G. Inbar
Linearization and dynamic range enhancement by spatial
summation of multi-neuronal channels
11:10 AM S. Giszter
Organization of motor space in the spinal cord
11:50 AM J. Houk
Neural mechanisms for representing motor programs in
the cerebellum
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 PM OSCILLATIONS IN CORTICAL SYSTEMS
2:00 PM C. Gray
Stimulus specific neuronal oscillations in cat visual
cortex: Functional implications.
3:00 - 5:00 PM POSTER SESSIONS (all topics)
4:00 - 5:00 PM Refreshments
5:00 - 5:45 PM PRE-DINNER FEATURED TALK
5:00 PM S. Dreyfus
Does artificial intelligence require neural systems?
5:45 PM break
6:00 PM Buses depart to the San Francisco Exploratorium
7:00 PM BANQUET
Dinner at the Exploratorium, access to exhibits
9:15 PM 1st group of buses depart from Exploratorium
10:00 PM 2nd group of buses depart from Exploratorium
Friday, July 27th, 1990
7:30 - 12:00 PM Registration center open
8:00 - 10:00 AM SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE SESSION
8:00 AM D. Van Essen
Dynamic aspects of information processing in the primate
visual system
9:00 AM P. Sterling
Retinal circuits match the statistics of natural images
(or, why ballplayers don't wear shades)
9:30 AM H. Orbach
Optical recording techniques
10:00 - 10:30 AM Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30 PM NEURAL IMAGING SESSION
10:30 AM S. Shamma
Hearing as seeing: the role of space and time in auditory
processing
11:30 AM C. Carr
Delay lines for detection of interaural time differences
in the barn owl
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 PM PSYCHOPHYSICS SESSION
2:00 PM C. Wehrhahn
Psychophysical experiments in spatial vision and their
possible relation to central nervous function
3:00 PM N. Franceschini
Analysis of a sequence-discriminating neural network
in the eye of the fly
4:00 - 6:00 PM POSTER SESSIONS (all topics)
6:00 PM End of workshop
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REGISTRATION FORM
Mail or fax copy to Meeting Coordinator. Your Name and Affiliation
will appear on your badge, so please print clearly.
Name:
Title:
Organization:
Address:
City, State, Zip:
Country:
Telephone:
e-mail address:
fax number:
Are you submitting a poster?
Poster Title and Section (Neural Coding, etc.):
Fees: Regular $175
Full Time Student* $125
Extra Banquet Tickets $50
Optional Parking Permit, Clark Kerr Campus $10
Make payable to U.C. Regents (check or money order in U.S. $ only)
Total payment enclosed:
Please Return to:
Terry Contreras, Meeting Coordinator
P.O. Box 808, L-426
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550 USA
(415) 422-7132
or fax to (415) 423-4980
*Note: Students who submit a poster will be considered for a partial
reimbursement of fees. The extent of reimbursement will be determined
at the workshop. Excess funds will be distributed uniformly to
students giving posters.
All attendees are encouraged to submit a poster. The focus of this
workshop is on biological neural systems and network models. Topics
include: subcellular systems, cellular systems, multi-cellular
systems, and tools and techniques. Poster size is approximately 4' by
8'. Sun 3, SPARC, IBM/6000, IBM-PC, and Macintosh computers will be
available for attendees.
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Registration Fees Include:
admission to meeting workshops and poster sessions
evening reception on Tuesday night
coffee and donuts during the breaks
three group lunches at the meeting facilities
banquet at the San Francisco Exploratorium
round trip travel from the meeting facilities to the Exploratorium
Cancellation Policy:
The registration fees will be refunded upon receipt of a written
request postmarked before July 1, 1990. After this date NO refund
will be made. Registrants who do not attend and who do not cancel in
writing before July 1st, 1990, are liable for the full amount of the
registration fee. You must obtain a cancellation number from our
meeting coordinator to make the cancellation valid.
Registration:
Registration is limited to 300 attendees. Complete the registration
form and mail or fax to the Meeting Coordinator. Send payment by
mail. You are registered upon receipt of payment. To register on
site (on space available basis) please register at the Kerr Center on
Tuesday, July 24th 1990 from 5-7 PM.
Housing and Hotels:
A list of nearby hotels is available from our meeting coordinator.
Single and double rooms on the Kerr Campus site are available for $34
(single) and $42 (double) per night. Reservations and payment for
these rooms must be received by July 18, 1990.
Location:
The Clark Kerr Campus is located near the south-east corner of the
U.C. Berkeley main campus. It is within walking distance (5-10
minutes) from the center of the UCB campus.
Transportation:
Berkeley can be reached via the Oakland International Airport (OAK,
about 25-35 minutes by car) and the San Francisco International
Airport (SFO, about 40-50 minutes by car). There is a mini-van
shuttle from SFO to the Berkeley Durant Hotel (about $15; the Durant
Hotel is within 5 minutes walking distance from the Clark Kerr
Campus). There is a BART subway connection (AIR-BART) from OAK to
downtown Berkeley (stop: BERKELEY). The BART stop is within 20
minutes walking distance from the Clark Kerr Campus. Several limo and
door-to-door van services are available at both airports. Both
airports have extensive car rental facilities.
Weather:
Bay area weather in July is expected to be very pleasant. Day time
temperatures of 70-85 F (20-30 C). No rain is expected. It often is
chilly at night and in the early morning hours. San Francisco tends to
be more windy and cooler than Berkeley.
Organizing and Program Committee:
D. Curtis Deno U.C. Berkeley and Smith Kettlewell Eye Res. Inst.
Frank H. Eeckman Lawrence Livermore Natl. Laboratory
Edwin R. Lewis U.C. Berkeley
John P. Miller U.C. Berkeley
Muriel D. Ross NASA Ames Res. Center
Nora G. Smiriga Lawrence Livermore Natl. Laboratory