PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Monday, April 8
Morning-Afternoon: Arrival at Pucón
On-site in Pucón registration opens.
Welcome messages: Presentation of the upcoming scientific and social program.
Opening PLENAry Lecture: Events Room -1 floor
Nelson Spruston. Chief of Janelia Scientific Operations and Programs. Title: “Insights gained from watching the construction of a cognitive map“
Welcome cocktail
Tuesday, April 9
Morning talks 1: Llaima Room
Jean-Claude Béïque. University of Ottawa, Canada. “Nature of synaptic eligibility traces in cortex.”
Aparna Suvrathan. McGill University, Canada. “Synaptic heterogeneity diversifies cerebellar output.” (ZOOM)
Diana Mitchel & Roberto Araya. University of Montreal, Canada. “Deficits in learning linked to altered input/output properties of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome.”
Coffee break
Morning talks 2: Llaima Room
Marja-Leena Linne. Tampere University, Finland. “Neuron-Glia Crosstalk: Exploring the Cellular Mechanisms of Learning Across Timescales in Brain Information Processing.”
Robert Legenstein. Graz University of Technology, Austria. “Porting few-shot learning principles to memristive hardware.”
Jesper Sjostrom. McGill University, Canada. “2-photon optogenetic mapping of visual cortex microcircuits.” (ZOOM)
Lunch (Open options)
Outdoor Activities
Student Workshop 1: Tolhuaca Room
Course 1: “Investigating neuronal interactions in the brain.” Presented by Sonja Grün and Jonas Oberste-Frielinghaus (Jülich Research Center, Germany).
Course 2: “Simulated dynamics of spiking full-scale network models (Part I).” Presented by Johanna Senk (Jülich Research Center, Germany).
Coffee break
Afternoon talks: Llaima Room
Richard Naud. University of Ottawa, Canada. “Burst coding and deep learning.”
Carlos Ponce. Harvard University, USA. “Single-neuron insights in the age of generative networks.”
Panel Discussion Axis 1: Cellular neuroscience. Dos salas escuela.
Dinner at the Hotel (included with inscription)
Evening: Poster session 1. Hall
Wednesday, April 10
Morning talks 1: Llaima Room
Kurt Haas. University of British Columbia, Canada. “Full-neuron activity imaging for investigating experience-driven brain circuit development.”
Alison Barth. Carnegie Mellon University. “Synaptic modifications in the cortical microcircuit during learning.”
Chris Pack. McGill University, Canada. “Learning in visual cortex: heuristics and biases.”
Coffee break
Morning talks 2: Llaima Room
Eilif Muller. University of Montreal, Canada.
Elizabeth Buffalo. University of Washington, USA, “Neural Dynamics for Memory Formation in the Primate Hippocampus.”
Simon Chen. University of Ottawa, Canada. “The spatiotemporal pattern of noradrenaline release at cellular level during motor learning.”
Lunch (Open options)
Outdoor Activities
Student Workshop 1: Tolhuaca Room
Course 2: “Simulated dynamics of spiking full-scale network models (Part II).” Presented by Johanna Senk (Jülich Research Center, Germany).
Course 3: “Learning in Artificial Neuronal Networks.” Presented by Eilif Muller, Tugce Gurbuz & Shahab Bakhtiari (University of Montreal).
Coffee break
Afternoon talks: Llaima Room
David Freedman. University of Chicago, USA. “Mechanisms of Cognition in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks.”
Adrien Peyrache. McGill University, Canada. “Learning a cognitive map.”
Panel Discussion Axis 2: Systems neuroscience. Dos salas escuela.
Dinner at the Hotel (included with inscription)
Evening: Poster session 2. Hall
Thursday, April 11
Morning talks 1: Llaima Room
Maria-Jose Escobar. Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile. “Towards an artificial retina.”
Mihai Petrovici. University of Bern, Switzerland. “Local learning in physical neuronal networks.”
Bartlett Mel. University of Shouthern California, USA. “Untangling the architectural biases of visual cortex may be the secret to more robust machine vision.”
Coffee break
Morning talks 2: Llaima Room
Markus Diesmann. Juelich Research Centre, Germany. “Large-scale network models as digital twins advance theory and neuromorphic computing.”
Shahab Bakhtiari. University of Montreal, Canada. “A deep learning approach for explaining (and improving) generalization in human perceptual learning.”
Ruben Moreno-Bote. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. “Maximum occupancy principle: a reward-free generative model of behavior.”
Lunch (Open options)
Outdoor Activities
Afternoon talks: Llaima Room
Eva Dyer. Georgia Insitute of Technology, USA. “Large-scale pretraining on neural data allows for transfer across individuals, tasks and species.”
Fred Hamker. Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. “Transfer of learning from cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical pathways to cortico-cortical projections.”
Bénédicte Amilhon. University of Montreal, Canada. “Subcortical modulation of learning-related hippocampus rhythms.”
Panel Discussion Axis 2: Computational neuroscience. Tolhuaca and Lanin Room.
Dinner at the Hotel (included with inscription)
Closing PLENAry Lecture: Llaima Room
Sara A. Solla. Northwestern University, USA. “Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Population Dynamics”
Closing remarks
Closing Party. Events Room -1 floor
Friday, April 12
Front Lake Group discussions
Departure