Program
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 13-18) : Methods
Opening sessions: Monday 13
- Greetings from the organizers, Parallel Session by Kenji Doya(OIST) and Izumi Fukunaga(OIST)
- Student poster presentations (14:00-15:30 Group1 / 15:30-17:00 Group2)
Lectures (9:30-12:30)
- Tuesday 14: "Modeling biochemical reactions, diffusion and reaction-diffusion systems", Erik De Schutter (OIST)
- Wednesday 15: "1. Ion channel physiology and the Hodgkin-Huxley model of neuronal activity, 2. Functional optical imaging", Bernd Kuhn (OIST)
- Thursday 16: "Neural network modeling of cognitive functions", Tomoki Fukai (OIST)
- Friday 17: "Introduction to modeling neurons", Erik De Schutter (OIST)
- Saturday 18: "Introduction to reinforcement learning and Bayesian inference", Kenji Doya (OIST)
Tutorials
Tuesday 14
• 14:00-15:00 Introduction of the tutors
• 15:00-17:00 Tutorial: Basic Python (Sergio Verduzco Flores)
• 17:00-18:00 Tutorial: Git (Sebastian Schmitt)
Wednesday 15
• 14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Brian (Sebastian Schmitt)
Thursday 16
• 14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Nest (Razvan Gamanut)
Friday 17
• 14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Neuron (Gabriela Capo Rangel)
• 16:00-18:00 Tutorial: STEPS (Iain Hepburn, Weiliang Chen and Jules Lallouette)
Saturday 18
• 14:00-16:00 Behavioral modeling by PyStan (Kenji Doya, Yuma Kajihara and Masakazu Taira)
Week 2 (June 20-25): Neurons, Networks and Behavior 1
Lectures (9:30-12:30)
- Monday 20:"Features of synaptic strength regulation", Yukiko Goda, RIKEN/OIST
- Wednesday 22: "Neural activity to behavior through dynamics", Devika Narain, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Thursday 23:"Brain oscillations from mathematical mechanistic models to function", Boris Gutkin, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- Saturday 25:"Neural Coding", Michael Berry II, Princeton University, USA
Online lectures(16:00-18:00)
- Monday 20: "Spreading dynamics, homeostasis and learning in neural networks", Viola Priesemann, MPG Göttingen, Germany
- Friday 24: "Modelling electric brain signals", Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Talks by Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program(TSVP) 10:00-11:00am
- Tuesday 21: "Collaboration of data science and astronomy: Imaging black hole shadow with the Event Horizon Telescope", Shiro Ikeda, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
- Friday 24:"Theoretical approaches to modeling the activity of (very) large neuronal populations", Leenoy Meshulam, University of Washigton
Campus tours
- Group1: Tuesday 21, 14:20-17:00pm
- Group2: Wedesday 22, 14:20-17:00pm
Week 3 (June 27-29): Neurons, Networks and Behavior 2
Lectures(9:30-12:30)
- Monday 27: "Brain–DNN representational homology and its applications to brain decoding", Yukiyasu Kamitani, Kyoto University, Japan (online)
- Tuesday 28: "Decisions, movements and diverse cell types", Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Labs, USA)
- Wednesday 29: "Understanding human behavior through the neural model of decision and learning", Saori C. Tanaka, ATR, Japan