| Date | : | March 2nd to 5th, 2011 |
| Venue | : | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Seaside House |
| Organized by | : | Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Germany) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) |
| Supported by | : | RIKEN, Japan |
| Language | : | English |
| Organizers | : | Japanese side Tomoki Fukai Kenji Doya Masato Okada Mana Tanifuji (on behalf of Sonja Gruen) German side Klaus Obermayer Jochen Triesch Florentin Wörgötter |
Wednesday 2nd March
| 19:00 | Registration |
Thursday 3rd March
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-10:30 | Opening Remarks Robert Baughman, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Akira Nakanishi, JST Iris Wieczorek, DFG Jan Kunze, DFG |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:20 | Higher-order correlations in large neuronal populations Stefan Rotter, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Freiburg, University of Freiburg  Analysis and modeling of neuronal activity dynamics in cortical networks |
| 11:20-11:50 | Defining the firing rate for non-Poissonian spike trains Shigeru Shinomoto, Kyoto University, Dept of Physics Statistical analysis of neuronal signals |
| 11:50-12:20 | Complex synchronization phenomena in neuronal networks: from theory to data analysis. Michael Rosenblum, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University Synchronization, Times series analysis |
| 12:20-13:30 | LUNCH |
| 13:30-14:00 | Beyond the edge: Amplification and temporal integration by recurrent networks in the chaotic regime. Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN brain science institute Synaptic plasticity, Information Processing in the brain |
| 14:00-14:30 | Unsupervised Learning in Recurrent Networks Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt vision, recurrent networks, plasticity and learning |
| 14:30-15:00 | Estimation of the neural circuit for the command generation in the premotor center of an insect brain Ikuko Nishikawa, Ritsumeikan University, Dept.of information science and technology Insect Brain, Neuro dynamics, Machine Learning, Optimization, Nonlinear Oscillation |
| 15:00-16:00 | Discussion/Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Predicting the Activity of Neuronal Networks in vitro Ulrich Egert, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Freiburg, University of Freiburg mechanisms and functions of the spatial and temporal dynamics of activity in natural and artificial biological neuronal networks |
| 16:30-17:00 | Long-tailed EPSP distribution accounts for origin and role of noise in cortical networks Jun-nosuke Teramae, RIKEN brain science institute Computational neuroscience |
| 17:00-17:30 | Learning and Stability during Network Development Florentin Wörgötter, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1) Plasticity and Learning in behaving systems (animals and robots) and |
| 17:30-18:30 | Discussion |
| 18:30-20:00 | Poster session |
| End of the 1st day session | |
http://www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de/people/details/rotterFriday 4th March
| 9:00-9:30 | The German Neuroinformatics Node - Database tools for data management and collaboration in neurophysiology. Thomas Wachtler, German Neuroinformatics Node and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München neuroinformatics, method and tool development for data management and data sharing, neurophysiology and computational modeling of visual processing |
| 9:30-10:00 | Models and simulations of neural morphodynamics Shin Ishii, Kyoto University, Dept of Physics Models of neuronal morphogenesis, Decision making, Bayesian statistics |
| 10:00-10:30 | Detailed Three-Dimensional Modeling of Cellular Signaling Gillian Queisser, University of Frankfurt Detailed Modeling of Signal Processing in Neurons |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:20 | Multiprobe multiple single-unit recordings and visual information processing in the primate brain(tentative) Hiroshi Tamura, Osaka University, Dept of Frontier Biosciences Visual information processing, Cortical neural circuitry, Multiple single unite recording 
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| 11:20-11:50 | On the operating point of cortical computation Klaus Obermayer, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin computational neuroscience & machine learning: perception and visual processing, reward-based learning, learning on structured representations, analysis of neural data |
| 11:50-12:20 | Visual image reconstruction from human brain activity Yoichi Miyawaki, NICT/ATR, Dept of Neuroinformatics Computational neuroscience, Noninvasive neural activity measurement, Visual sys-tem, Sensory perception |
| 12:20-13:30 | LUNCH |
| Afternoon | Discussion |
| End of the 2nd day session | |
Saturday 5th March
| 9:00-9:30 | Hidden Markov processes can explain complex sequencing rules of birdsong: a statistical analysis and neural network modeling Kentaro Katahira, Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST), ERATO, Okanoya Emotional Information Project Statistical modeling of sequential behavior, decision making, and emotional information processing. |
| 9:30-10:00 | Augmenting computational neuroscience from robotics: - trying to grasp grasping Helge Ritter, Faculty of Technology, Universität Bielefeld cognitive robotics - manual intelligence - neural networks and self-organisation - computational learning - brain-computer interfaces |
| 10:00-10:30 | Upcoming action encoded in the striatum during a decision-making task Makoto Ito, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology（OIST） Role of the basal ganglia in decision making
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| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:20 | Transcranial stimulation by magnetic field and direct currents: Mechanisms of action, functional effects, and questions open for computational neuroscience Martin Sommer with Michael Nitsche, Georg-August-University neuroplasticity, neuropsychopharmacology, cognition, non-invasive brain stimulation in humans, TMS, tDCS, tACS, PAS |
| 11:20-11:50 | Cell assemblies in the neostriatal network Jeff Wickens, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology（OIST） Information processing in the neostriatum of the basal ganglia
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| 11:50- | Closing Remarks |
| End of the workshop | |
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