Program / OCNC2018
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- All the lectures take place in the Seminar Room, OIST Seaside House unless otherwise indicated.
- Meetings with faculty take place in Meeting room 1
- Meetings with faculty on Thu. July 05 take place at Main Campus.
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Week 1 (Jun 25-30) : Methods
Monday, June 25
- 09:30-09:45 Greetings from the organizers
- 10:00-11:00 Opening Lecture
- Mitsuo Kawato: Computational Neuroscience contributing to Causal System Neuroscience
- 11:00-13:00 Parallel Sessions
- Biologists: Kenji Doya: Introduction to numerical methods for differential equations
- Theoreticians: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama: Neuronal basis for information processing / Meeting Room 1
- 14:00-18:00 Student poster presentations (14:00-16:00 Group1 / 16:00-18:00 Group2)
- 19:00-21:00 Reception & Dinner
Tuesday, June 26
- 09:30-12:30 Erik De Schutter: Modeling biochemical reactions, diffusion and reaction-diffusion systems
- 14:00-16:00 Meeting with Dr. Kawato
- 16:00-16:30 Introduction of the tutors
- 16:30-18:00 Tutorial: Python 1
Wednesday, June 27
- 09:30-12:30 Bernd Kuhn
- 1. Ion channel physiology and the Hodgkin-Huxley model of neuronal activity
- 2. Functional optical imaging
- 14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Python 2
- 16:00-18:00 Tutorial: Neuron
Thursday, June 28
- 09:30-12:30 Greg Stephens: An introduction to dynamical systems: from neural activity to natural behavior
- 14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Brian2
- 16:00-18:00 Tutorial: Nest
Friday, June 29
- 09:30-12:30 Erik De Schutter: Introduction to modeling neurons
- 14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Advanced MATLAB
- 16:00-18:00 Tutorial: STEPS/ NetPyNE/LFPy (Parallel sessions)
- 20:00- Tutorial: LFPy
Saturday, June 30
- 09:30-12:30 Kenji Doya :Introduction to ReinforcementLearning and Bayesian Inference
- 14:00-15:00 Tutorial: Git
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Week 2 (Jul 02-08) : Neurons, Networks and Behavior I
Monday, July 02
- 09:30-12:30 lecture canceled due to typhoon
- 13:00-15:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. De Schutter
- 15:00-18:00 Project work
Tuesday, July 03
- 09:30-12:30 Karl Friston: Active inference and the free energy principle
- 14:00-18:00 Project work
Wednesday, July 04
- 09:30-12:30 Michael Brecht:Sex, touch & tickle: The cortical neurobiology of physical contact
- 13:30-16:30 Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova:Modelling Calcium Dynamics
- 16:30-18:30 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Brecht or Meeting with Dr. Friston
Thursday, July 05
- 09:30-12:30 Olaf Sporns: Network Neuroscience: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Brain Networks
- 13:30-16:00 Visit to OIST Campus, Poster Presentation by OIST researchers
- 16:00-18:00 Meeting with Dr. Kuhn or Meeting with Dr.Doya or OIST Tea Time
Friday, July 06
- 09:30-12:30 Shaul Druckmann
- 14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr.Tsaneva-Atanasova
- 16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr.Sporns
Saturday, July 07
- 09:30-12:30 Kazuhisa Shibata: Mechanisms of visual perceptual learning
- 14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr.Druckmann
Sunday, July 08 (Day off or Excursion)
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Week 3 (Jul 10–13) : Neurons, Networks and Behavior II
Monday, July 9
- 09:30-12:30 Robert Gütig:Information processing and learning in spiking neural networks.
- 14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Shibata or Meeting with Dr. Gütig
- 16:00-18:00 Project work
Tuesday, July 10
- 09:30-12:30 Michele Giugliano: The dynamical response properties of cortical neurons
- 14:00-16:00 Project work
- 16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Giugliano
Wednesday, July 11
- 09:30-12:30 Tomoki Fukai:Different forms of synaptic plasticity orchestrate for cognitive function
- 14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Fukai
- 16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Bazhenov
Thursday, July 12
- 09:30-12:30 Maxim Bazhenov:New learning, sleep and memory consolidation
- 14:00-17:00 Student project presentations
- 19:00-21:00 Banquet & Dinner
Friday, July 13: Departure day
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