Program

The program of the online Bernstein Conference is scheduled in a timezone-friendly manner. By holding most of the sessions during the European afternoon we want to enable participation from allover the world.

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Please note: all starting and end times refer to Central European Summer Time (CEST).

All abstracts can be found here.

Tuesday, Sep 29

13:45	Welcome
14:00 - 22:00	Satellite Workshops	Please find detailled programs and individual schedules of the workshops here.

Wednesday, Sep 30

12:00	Invited Lecture	Michael Brecht \| HU Berlin, Germany Isomorphic mapping and computation in cortical circuits
12:45	Invited Lecture	Srdjan Ostojic \| L'École normale supérieure, Paris, France Complementary roles of dimensionality and population structure in neural computations
13:30	15 min break
13:45	Contributed Talk 1	Kristopher T. Jensen \| University of Cambridge, UK Manifold GPLVMs for discovering non-Euclidean latent structure in neural data
14:00	Contributed Talk 2	Felipe Yaroslav Kalle Kossio \| University of Bonn, Germany Drifting assemblies for persistent memory
14:15	Poster Session I	Poster number 1-79, 98
15:30	15 min break
15:45	Invited Lecture	Megan Carey \| Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal Understanding the complex behaviors of the 'simple' cerebellar circuit
16:30	Invited Lecture	Roozbeh Kiani \| New York University, USA The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty in the parietal cortex
17:15	15 min break
17:30	Contributed Talk 3	Eleonora Russo \| Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany Coordinated prefrontal state transition leads extinction of reward-seeking behaviors
17:45	Contributed Talk 4	Subhadra Mokashe \| Brandeis University & Duke University, USA Learning sequences of correlated patterns in recurrent networks
18:00	Poster Session II	Poster number 71-140 (w/o 98)
19:15	15 min break
19:30	Invited Lecture	David Sussillo \| Google AI, Mountain View, USA Universality and individuality in neural dynamics across large populations of recurrent networks
20:15	Postdoc Meeting	Please find detailed information here.

Thursday, Oct 1

12:00	Invited Lecture	Laura Busse \| LMU Munich, Germany Effects of cortico-thalamic feedback on responses in mouse dLGN
12:45	Invited Lecture	Fred Wolf \| MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany Evolutionary Transitions in Visual Cortex Design
13:30	15 min break
13:45	Contributed Talk 5	Dmitry Kobak \| University of Tübingen, Germany Phenotypic variation within and across transcriptomic cell types in mouse motor cortex
14:00	Contributed Talk 6	Balázs B. Ujfalussy \| Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary Sampling-like representations of prospective locations during hippocampal theta sequences
14:15	Poster Session III	Poster number 141-210
15:30	15 min break
15:45	Invited Lecture	Rosa Cossart \| Institut de neurobiologie de la méditerranée, Marseille, France Development and function of cortical hub neurons
16:30	Invited Lecture	Ann Hermundstad \| Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA Adaptive control of behavioral variability through the flexible use of an internal representation
17:15	15 min break
17:30	Contributed Talk 7	Oleg Vinogradov \| University of Tübingen, Germany Neuronal cultures self-organize towards excitation/inhibition balance
17:45	Contributed Talk 8	Sarah Starosta \| Washington University, St. Louis, USA Dopamine and the algorithmic basis of foraging decisions
18:00	Poster Session IV	Poster number 211-280
19:15	15 min break
19:30	Invited Lecture	Vanessa Ruta \| The Rockefeller University, New York City, USA Themes and variations: the circuitry of mate selection and pursuit in Drosophila
20:15	Invited Lecture	William Bialek \| Princeton University, USA Searching for simplicity
21:00	Closing remarks

Friday, Oct 2

10:00
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open end

PhD Symposium

Please find detailed program and schedule of the PhD Symposium here.