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Week 1 (7-11 January)

Wednesday 9, 12.00: Edmund Rolls Computational neuroscience of object vision

Thursday 10, 16.15-18.15: Alex Pouget (Lecture 1) Neural encoding

Week 2 (14-18 January): Imaging

Monday 14 - Wednesday 16: Workshop `From synaptic to brain imaging'
(program)

Thursday 17, 16.15-18.15: Alex Pouget (Lecture 2) Neural decoding

Friday 18, 14.00-16.00: Xiao-Jing Wang (Lecture 1) Single neuron dynamics and computation

Week 3 (21-25 January)

Thursday 24, 16.15-18.15: Alex Pouget (Lecture 3) Low level visual processing

Friday 25, 14.00-16.00: Xiao-Jing Wang (Lecture 2) Single neuron dynamics and computation II

Week 4 (28 January - 1 February)

Tuesday 29, 16.15-18.15: Zhaoping Li/P. Dayan (Lecture 1) Introduction to network models 1

Wednesday 30, 16.35-17.30: Misha Tsodyks: Information processing in cortical neuron networks (talk for physicists at the "Réunion des théoriciens" organised by the SFP [French Physical Society] and IHP)

Thursday 31, 16.15-18.15: Alex Pouget (Lecture 4) Bayesian models of perception

February, Friday 1,
14.00-16.00: Xiao-Jing Wang (Lecture 3) Network rhythms I
16.15-18.15: Misha Tsodyks (Lecture 1) Transmission via neocortical synapses - short term plasticity

Week 5 (4-8 February)

Wednesday 6, 11:00-12:00, amphiteatre Darboux, seminar: Yadin Dudai (Weizmann Institute - this month at Collège de France with Pr. Changeux) Behavioural and molecular mechanisms of memory extinction: The case of taste memory in the rat

Thursday 7,
9.00-13.00: Yves Frégnac / David McCormick (Lecture 1)
16.15-18.15: Alex Pouget (Lecture 5) Sensory motor transformations, motor control

Friday 8,
10.00-12.00: Misha Tsodyks (Lecture 2) Transmission via neocortical synapses - long term plasticity
14.00-16.00: Xiao-Jing Wang (Lecture 4) Network rhythms 2
16.30-17.30, seminar room 201: Alla Borisyuk (Courant Institute, NYU) Adaptation and post-inhibitory rebound shape responses in the model of dynamic conditioning in the auditory midbrain (collaboration with Malcolm N Semple and John Rinzel).

Week 6 (11-15 February): Information theory

Wednesday 13, 9.30-18.00, seminars room 314:
9:30-10.30: J-P Nadal. Information theoretic approach to neural coding and parameter estimation
11.00-12.00: C. van Vreeswijk, Information theoretic measurements for renewal processes
15.00-16.00: X-J Wang, Adaptation and temporal decorrelation by single neurons in the primary visual cortex
16.30-17.30: N. Parga, Information processing by depressing synapses

Thursday 14,
9.00-13.00: Yves Frégnac / David McCormick (Lecture 2)
14.30-15.30, seminar: P. Dayan, Information and Attention
16.15-18.15: Nestor Parga (Lecture) Sensory coding and natural image statistics

Friday 15,
10.00-12.00: Z. Li/Peter Dayan (Lecture 2) Reinforcement learning
14.00-16.00: Z. Li/Peter Dayan (Lecture 3) Unsupervised learning

Week 7 (18-22 February): The neuron in the network

Monday 18,
14.00-16.00: Idan Segev (Lecture) The Neuron Doctrine: From Cajal to Rall
16.30-17.30, seminar: Idan Segev What do the dendritic synapses inform the axon about?

Tuesday 19, 9.30-18.00, seminars:
9.30-10.30 Boris Lamotte d'Incamps Taking into account the microstructure of dendrites
11.00-12.00 Alain Destexhe Models of dendritic integration in neocortical pyramidal neurons in vivo
15.00-16.00 Lyle Graham Canonical (and Not) Models for Directional Selectivity in Retina and Cortex
16.30-17.30 Carole Levenes Purkinje cells control their inputs through retrograde signalling

Wednesday 20, seminars:
11.00-12.00 seminar: Henry Markram Neuronal Diversity in the Neocortex
14.30-15.30: K. Pawelzik Signaling by Variance

Thursday 21,
9.00-13.00: Yves Frégnac / David McCormick (Lecture 3)
16.15-18.15: Alex Pouget (Lecture 6) Object recognition

Friday 22,
10.00-12.00: Zhaoping Li (Lecture 4) Introduction to network models
14.00-16.00: Zhaoping Li (Lecture 5) Olfaction

Week 8 (25 February - 1 March)

Wednesday 27
16.00-18.00: Michel Talagrand (Lecture 1)

Thursday 28,
9.00-13.00: Yves Frégnac / David McCormick (Lecture 4)

March, Friday 1,
14.00-16.00: Misha Tsodyks (Lecture 3) Attractor networks. Discrete and continuous attractors

Week 9 (4-8 March): Plasticity and learning

Monday 4 - Wednesday 6: Workshop `Homeostasis, plasticity and learning: from experiments to algorithms' -- program here.

Wednesday 6, 16.00-18.00: Michel Talagrand (Lecture 2)

Friday 8,
10.00-12.00: Misha Tsodyks (Lecture 4) Population activity and orientation selectivity in the visual cortex
14.00-16.00: Xiao-Jing Wang (Lecture 5) Working memory I

Week 10 (11-15 March): Representation of space

Monday 11, 9.00-18.00, seminars Amphi. Darboux : Sensori-motor coherence in artificial and natural systems
See the program here.

Monday 11, 14.00-16.00: Misha Tsodyks (Lecture 5) Population activity, perception and perceptual learning in the visual system

Tuesday 12, 16.30, seminar (not at IHP) at Collège de France (11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, Paris 5e - salle 5) with Professor Alain Berthoz :
Eb. Fetz: Control of forelimb muscle activity by cortical and spinal premotor neurons in behaving primates

Wednesday 13:
9.30-10.30, seminar: Henry Markram Dynamic synaptic transmission
11.00-12.00, seminar: Henry Markram Liquid Computing in the Neocortex
16.00-18.00: Michel Talagrand (Lecture 3)

Friday 15,
10.00-12.00: Xiao-Jing Wang (Lecture 6) Working memory II
14.00-16.00: Misha Tsodyks (Lecture 6) Neural synchrony and feature processing in recurrent networks

Week 11 (18-22 March)

Monday 18, 16.30-17.30, seminar: Klaus Pawelzik Building representations spike by spike

Tuesday 19, seminars: Satistical physics of disordered systems: spin glasses, neural networks and other applications - a day in honor of Gérard Toulouse
Speakers : D. Amit, B. Derrida, M. Mézard, R. Monasson, M. Talagrand, G. Toulouse, M. Virasoro see the program here.

Wednesday 20,
-- 10.00-12.00, Lecture: Angel CAPUTI Electrosensation
-- 15.00-16.00, seminar: Daniel CATTAERT Antidromic spikes in primary afferents : origin and significance
-- 16.00-18.00: Michel Talagrand (Lecture 4)

Thursday 21, 16.30-18.00, seminar: Boris GUTKIN Stability of synaptically generated persistent activity : role of patchy connectivity and noise
seminar cancelled

Week 12 (25-29 March)

Tuesday 26th
-- 14.00, seminar: David McCormick Recurrent local network activity
-- 16.30, seminar (not at IHP) at Collège de France (11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, Paris 5e - salle 5) with Pr. A. Berthoz:
Eb. Fetz : Role of spinal interneurons in preparation and execution of voluntary movements

Week 13 (1-5 April)

Tuesday 2, seminars:
-- 14.30-15.30: Ole Paulsen Frequency preferences of hippocampal neurons
-- 16.30-17.30: Magnus Richardson From subthreshold to firing rate resonance

Wednesday 3, amphi. Hermite
-- 9.30-10.30, seminar: David Horn The dynamic neural filter: a binary model of spatiotemporal coding
-- 11.00-12.00, seminar: Zhaoping Li A model of odor recognization of segmentation by the olfactory bulb and cortex.
-- 14.00-16.00 conférence de vulgarisation grand public, en français :
Gilles Laurent (Caltech) Olfaction: l'encodage des odeurs par le cerveau
-- 16.30-18.00: Eb Fetz Mechanisms and function of synchrony and gamma oscillations in primate motor cortex (references)

Week 14 (8-12 April): Dynamics

Monday 8 - Wednesday 10: Workshop `Functional representations and dynamics of neuronal assemblies' -- see here for the preliminary program and registration.

Friday, April 12: end of the trimester "Neuroscience and Computation".