Program2023

Updated on 4 July 2023

Link for OIST Seaside House Floor Map / Facility

All the lectures take place in the Seminar Room, OIST Seaside House unless otherwise indicated.
Meetings with faculty take place in Meeting room 2
Student Lounge on 2F: Please feel free to use the space if there is no one(OIST group) inside.

Week 1 (June 19-24) : Methods

Greetings from the organizer(Tomoki Fukai), Parallel Session by Sungho Hong(OIST) and Izumi Fukunaga(OIST)
Student poster presentations (14:00-15:30 Group1 / 15:30-17:00 Group2)
- Please prepare a poster of your current/recent work.
- Size : A0-A1, Dimension: W841mm x H1,189mm, Orientation : portrait
- Posters will be hung at the Lobby hall of the seaside house through the course period.

Tuesday 20(9:30-12:30): "Neural network modeling of cognitive functions", Tomoki Fukai (OIST)
Wednesday 21(14:00-17:00): "Functional optical imaging method", Bernd Kuhn (OIST)
Thursday 22(15:00-18:00) by zoom: "Introduction to reinforcement learning and Bayesian inference", Kenji Doya (OIST)
Friday 23(14:00-17:00): "Modeling Neurons: from points to 1D to 3D", Erik De Schutter (OIST)
Saturday 24(14:00-17:00): "Modeling biochemical reactions, diffusion and reaction-diffusion systems", Erik De Schutter (OIST)

Monday 19 (17:00-18:00/after the poster session) Docker image trouble shooting session
Tuesday 20(14:00-14:30) Introduction of the tutors
Tuesday 20 (14:30-17:00) Python by Jules Lallouette
Wednesday 21 (9:30-12:30) NEST by Carlos Enrique Gutierrez
Thursday 22 (10:00-12:30) NEURON by Gabriela Cirtala
Thursday 22 (14:00-15:00) OptiNiSt by Yuzhe Li and Yukako Yamane
Friday 23 (10:00-12:30) STEPS by Iain Hepburn and Jules Lallouette
Saturday 24 (10:00-12:30) Brian by Inês C. Guerreiro

Monday 26: "Manifolds of brain activity dynamics and dimensionality estimation", Prof. Gerald Pao (OIST)
Tuesday 27: "The Neuron as a Network: Dendritic and Synaptic Computation through Molecules and Ions", Prof. Upinder Bhalla (NCBS, India)
Thursday 29: "Introduction to hippocampal memory and its representation", Prof. Kazumasa Tanaka (OIST)
Friday 30: "Why do we sleep?", Prof. Samuel Reiter (OIST)
Saturday 01: "Features of synaptic strength regulation", Prof. Yukiko Goda (OIST)

Wednesday 28(16:00-18:00), "Modeling synaptic plasticity", Prof. Claudia Clopath (Imperial College London, UK)
For OISTers: the zoom link will not be published. If you are interested in attending the lecture, please come to Seaside House.

Thursday 29 (14:00-17:00), organized by Bernd Kuhn, OIST.
- Synapse Biology Unit (Goda Unit)
- Computational Neuroethology Unit (Reiter Unit)
- Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit)
- Optical Neuroimaging Unit (Kuhn Unit)
- Memory Research Unit (Kazu Tanaka Unit)
- Biological nonlinear dynamics data science unit (Pao Unit)
  - We will leave for OIST Main campus by the shuttle bus at 13:45pm.
  - For the return, please take the shuttle leaving at 17:30pm(OIST Auditorium[Map]=>Seaside House).

Monday 03, "Title Dynamical analysis of neuronal excitability", Steve Prescott (University of Toronto, Canada)
Tuesday 04, "Dendritic computation ", Mike Häusser (International Brain Laboratory)
Wednesday 05, "The Free Energy Principle: A Neurobiological Generative AI?", Rosalyn Moran (King's College London, UK)[zoom link]
Thursday 06, "Introduction to neural connectivity mapping", Jinny Kim (KIST, South Korea)