From: Bartlett Mel (mel@lnc.usc.edu)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 18:11:59 MDT
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
--- 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation ---
to be held at the
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Saturday, May 20, 2000
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website: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/
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8:45 Opening Remarks - Mel
Session I. Cells and Synapses - Bower
9:00 Olivier Coenen, San Diego Children's Hospital Research Center
"A Hypothesis for Parallel Fiber Coding in a
Cerebellar Model of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement"
9:15 Roland Suri, The Salk Institute
"Modeling Functions of Striatal Dopamine Modulation
in Learning and Planning"
9:30 Ralf Wessel, UC San Diego
"Biophysics of Visual Motion Analysis in Avian Tectum"
9:45 Panayiota Poirazi, USC
"Sublinear vs. Superlinear Synaptic Integration?
Tales of a Duplicitous Active Current"
Session II. Sensory-Motor Learning - Schaal
10:00 Auke Ijspeert, USC
"Locomotion and Visually-Guided Behavior in Salamander:
An Artificial Evolution and Neuromechanical Study"
10:15 Thomas DeMarse, Caltech
"The Animat Project: Interfacing Neuronal Cultures
to a Computer Generated Virtual World"
10:30 Richard Belew, UC San Diego
"Evolving Behavior in Developing Robot Bodies Controlled
by Quasi-Hebbian Neural Networks"
10:45 Aude Billard, USC
"A Biologically inspired Connectionist Model for
Learning Motor Skills by Imitation"
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Gerald E. Loeb, USC
"Dialogs with the Nervous System"
12:00 Lunch and Posters
Session IV. Vision - Hoffmann
2:00 Martina Wicklein, The Salk Institute
"Perception of Looming in the Humminbird Hawkmoth
Manduca Sexta (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera)"
2:15 Erhan Oztop, USC
"Mirror Neuron System in Monkey:
A Computational Modeling Approach"
2:30 Eric Ortega, USC
"Smart Center-Surround Receptive Fields: What Bayes
May Say About the Neural Substrate for Color Constancy"
2:45 Junmei Zhu, USC
"Fast Dynamic Link Matching by Communicating Synapese"
3:00 David Eagleman, The Salk Insitute
"The Timing of Perception: How Far in the Past do we Live, and
Why?
3:15 Coffee Break
Session III. Concepts and Memory - Mel
3:30 Jonathan Nelson, UC San Diego
"Concept Induction in the Presence of Uncertainty"
3:45 Peter Latham, UCLA
"Attractor Networks in Systems with Underlying
Random Connectivity"
Session V. Faces - Sejnowski
4:00 Tim Marks, UC San Diego
"Face Processing in Williams Syndrome: Using ICA to
Discriminate Functionally Distinct Independent
Components of ERPs in Face Recognition"
4:15 Ian Fasel, UC San Diego
"Automatic Detection of Facial Landmarks:
An Exhaustive Comparision of Methods"
4:30 Boris Shpungin, UC San Diego
"A System for Robustly Tracking Faces in Real-Time"
4:45 Closing Remarks - Sejnowski
5:00 Adjourn for Dinner
POSTERS
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Ildiko Aradi, UC Irvine
"Network Stability and Interneuronal Diversity"
Javier Bautista, USC
"Creating a World Representation of the Environment from Visual Images"
Maxim Bazhenov, The Salk Institute
"Slow Wave Sleep Oscillations and Transition to an Awake State in a
Thalamocortical Network Model"
Hamid Beigy, Amirkabir Univ. of Technology
"Adaptation of Parameters of BP Algorithm Using Learning Automata"
Axel Blau, Caltech
"High-Speed Imaging of Neuronal Network Activity"
Mihail Bota, USC
"The NeuroHomology Database"
Theodore Bullock, UC San Diego
"When is a Rhythm"
Spiros Courellis, USC
"Modeling Event-Driven Dynamics in Biological Neural Networks"
Holger Quast, UC San Diego
"Absolute Perceived Loudness of Speech"
Gary Holt, USC
"Unsupervised Learning of the Non-Classical Surround"
Jeff McKinstry, Point Loma Nazarene University
"A Model of Primary Visual Cortex Applied to Edge Detection"
Stefan Schaal, USC
"Functional brain activation in rhythmic and discrete movement"
Alexei Samsonovich, University of Arizona
"A Theory-of-Mind Connectionist Model of Episodic Memory Consolidation"
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REGISTRATION CHECKS SHOULD BE RECEIVED BY MAY 15 TO GUARANTEE THAT
A DELICIOUS HOT LUNCH WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU.
See conference web site to register, and for directions to the meeting:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/
Fee: $40 students, $50 all others - both prices include hot lunch.
Mail checks to: Linda Yokote
BME Department
USC, Mail Code 1451
Los Angeles, CA 90089
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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JAMES M. BOWER
Division of Biology, Caltech
GARRISON W. COTTRELL
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
DONALD D. HOFFMAN
Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
GILLES LAURENT
Division of Biology & Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech
BARTLETT W. MEL (chair)
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience Program, USC
SHEILA NIRENBERG
Dept. of Neurobiology, UCLA
STEFAN SCHAAL
Dept. of Computer Science and Neuroscience Program, USC
TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSD/Salk Institute
Local Arrangements
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Linda Yokote, BME Department, USC, marubaya@rcf.usc.edu, (213)740-0840
Gabriele Larmon, BME Dept, USC, larmon@bmsrs.usc.edu
Proceedings
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Marilee Bateman, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD,
bateman@cogsci.ucsd.edu
Web Site
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Marionne Epalle, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
marionne@caltech.edu
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