Program / OCNC2018

• 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.

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

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

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)

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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