<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br><br>The deadline for registration to Neurocomp'08 (Second french conference on Computational<br>Neurosciences) is now approaching!<br><br> * Registration deadline : Septembre 15, 2008<br>
* Conference dates: October 8-11, 2008<br> * Conference Web Site : <a href="http://2008.neurocomp.fr">http://2008.neurocomp.fr</a><br> * Registration Site : <a href="http://colloquedr12.dr20.cnrs.fr">http://colloquedr12.dr20.cnrs.fr</a><br>
<br>This international conference, whose aim is to gather the (not only) french Computational<br>Neurosciences community, will this year take place in Marseille.<br>The main conference will be held from wednesday 8th to friday 10th of October, on the<br>
campus of "La Timone" (end of metro line 1)<br><br>The invited speakers are this year :<br> - Ad Aertsen (Freiburg, Germany)<br> - Gustavo Deco (Barcelona, Spain)<br> - Gregor schöner (Bochum, Germany)<br>
- Andrew Schwartz (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br><br>Two satellite workshops are organized on Saturday, October 11th :<br> * « Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) » 9h00-13h00<br> * « Computational Vision » 9h00-13h00<br>
<br>The registration to the workshops has to be done by selecting th "workshop" option on the<br>registration site of the main conference.<br><br>Conference preliminary program :<br><br><br>Mercredi 8 octobre 2008<br>
***********************<br><br>La Timone - Amphi H1<br><br> *** A partir de 17h : Inscription + Apero bienvenue (18h00) ***<br><br> *** 19h00 - 20h30 : Session inaugurale ***<br><br>19:00 - 19:10 : Introduction Frédéric Alexandre<br>
<br>19:10 - 19:30 : Présentation Neurocomp Thierry Viéville<br><br>19:30 - 20:30 : Titre à confirmer Ad Aertsen (Freiburg, Allemagne) (Invited Talk)<br><br><br><br>Jeudi 9 octobre 2008<br>********************<br><br>La Timone - Amphi H1<br>
<br> *** 8h00 - 9h00 : Inscription + installation posters 1 ***<br><br> *** 9h00 - 10h40 : Session 1 ***<br><br>9:00 - 10:00 : The Intrinsic Properties of the Brain: The Role of Fluctuations During<br>Rest Gustavo Deco (Barcelone, Espagne) (Invited Talk)<br>
<br>10:00 - 10:20 : Interactions of motion and form in the visual cortex ? a neural model<br>Cornelia Beck, Heiko Neumann (Talk 56)<br><br>10:20 - 10:40 : Functional properties of feed-forward inhibition Jens Kremkow, Laurent<br>
Perrinet, Ad Aertsen, Guillaume Masson (Talk 16)<br><br> *** 10h40 - 11h00 : Café ***<br><br> *** 11h00 - 12h15 : Session 2 - Neuron models ***<br><br>11:00 - 11:20 : Methods for comparing and constraining models of dendritic spines Skene<br>
Nathan, Nasuto Slawomir (Talk 67)<br><br>11:20 - 11:40 : Modélisation des rythmes rapides bêta et gamma du bulbe olfactif Nicolas<br>Fourcaud-Trocmé (Talk 39)<br><br>11:40 - 11:45 : A formalization of the computational impact of intrinsic plasticity<br>
Jérémie Naudé, Stéphane Genet, Hugues Berry, Séverine Mahon, Jeanne Paz, Bruno Delord<br>(Spotlight 15)<br><br>11:45 - 11:50 : Noise induced tuned decrease in firing in neural models: inverse<br>stochastic resonance Boris Gutkin, Henry Tuckwell, Juergen Jost (Spotlight 27)<br>
<br>11:50 - 11:55 : Estimation des paramètres du modèle d'Hodgkin-Huxley par des<br>métaheuristiques Laure Buhry, Sylvain Saighi, Audrey Giremus, Eric Grivel, Sylvie Renaud<br>(Spotlight 47)<br><br>11:55 - 12:00 : Nicotine control of dopamine signaling in the Ventral Tegmental Area<br>
Michael Graupner, Boris Gutkin (Spotlight 64)<br><br>12:00 - 12:05 : Stimulus-dependency in the power-law scaling of the subthreshold activity<br>of V1 cells Olivier Marre, Sami El Boustani, Sébastien Béhuret, Cyril Monier, Thierry<br>
Bal, Alain Destexhe, Yves Frégnac (Spotlight 32)<br><br>12:05 - 12:10 : Impact of cortical input on subthalamic activity during deep brain<br>stimulation Julien Modolo, Anne Beuter (Spotlight 35)<br><br>12:10 - 12:15 : A unified and quantitative network model to describe spatial attention in<br>
area V4 Etienne Hugues, Jorge Jose (Spotlight 61)<br><br> *** 12h15 - 13h15 : Déjeuner ***<br><br> *** 13h15 - 14h30 : Poster Session ***<br><br> *** 14h30 - 16h10 : Session 3 ***<br><br>14:30 - 15:30 : Titre à confirmer Gregor Schöner (Invited Talk)<br>
<br>15:30 - 15:35 : On practical neural field parameters adjustment Frédéric Alexandre,<br>Jérémy Fix, Axel Hutt, Nicolas Rougier, Thierry Viéville (Spotlight 31)<br><br>15:35 - 15:40 : Detection de contours visuels par un modele de champ neuronal Mathieu<br>
Galtier, Olivier Faugeras (Spotlight 43)<br><br>15:40 - 15:45 : Implémentation d'un mécanisme de "covert attention" avec un réseau de<br>neurones impulsionnels Sylvain Chevallier, Philippe Tarroux (Spotlight 19)<br>
<br>15:45 - 15:50 : A model of neural mechanisms in monocular transparent motion perception<br>Florian Raudies, Pierre Bayerl, Heiko Neumann (Spotlight 13)<br><br>15:50 - 15:55 : A simple mechanism to reproduce the neural solution of the aperture<br>
problem in monkey area MT Maria-Jose Escobar, Guillaume Masson, Pierre Kornprobst<br>(Spotlight 41)<br><br>15:55 - 16:00 : A Model of Optimal Oculomotor Strategies in Reading for Normal and<br>Damaged Visual Fields Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin, Anna<br>
Montagnini, Eric Castet (Spotlight 11)<br><br>16:00 - 16:05 : Explicit uncertainty for eye movement selection Francis Colas, Fabien<br>Flacher, Pierre Bessière, Benoît Girard (Spotlight 12)<br><br>16:05 - 16:10 : Bayesian modelling of sensorimotor systems: Application to handwriting<br>
Estelle Gilet, Julien Diard, Pierre Bessière (Spotlight 45)<br><br> *** 16h10 - 17h10 : Poster Session (continued) ***<br><br> *** 17h10 - 18h30 : Session 4 - Functional and behavioral models ***<br><br>17:10 - 17:30 : A computational approach to the covert and overt deployment of spatial<br>
attention Jérémy Fix, Nicolas Rougier, Frédéric Alexandre (Talk 40)<br><br>17:30 - 17:50 : Biophysical cortical column model for optical signal analysis Sandrine<br>Chemla, Thierry Viéville, Frederic Chavane (Talk 46)<br>
<br>17:50 - 18:10 : Modélisation macroscopique du complexe Hippocampe-Cortex Entorhinal<br>Fabrice Wendling, Etienne Labyt, Fabrice Bartolomei (Talk 9)<br><br>18:10 - 18:30 : 3D navigation with an insect-inspired autopilot Geoffrey Portelli, Julien<br>
Serres, Franck Ruffier, Nicolas Franceschini (Talk 22)<br><br><br><br>Vendredi 10 octobre 2008<br>************************<br><br>La Timone - Amphi H1<br><br> *** 8h00 - 9h00 : Installation posters 2 ***<br><br> *** 9h00 - 10h00 : Session 5 ***<br>
<br>9:00 - 10:00 : Titre à confirmer Andrew Schwartz (Invited Talk)<br><br>10:00 - 10:20 : Spike based inference in a network with divisive inhibition Sophie<br>Denève, Timm Lochmann (Talk 20)<br><br>10:20 - 10:40 : Un modèle computationnel de l?automatisation motrice Lionel Rigoux,<br>
Olivier Sigaud (Talk 74)<br><br> *** 10h40 - 11h00 : Café ***<br><br> *** 11h00 - 12h20 Session 6 - BCI and signal processing ***<br><br>11:00 - 11:20 : Maximum decoding abilities of temporal patterns and synchronized firings<br>
Boris Gourévitch, Jos Eggermont (Talk 42)<br><br>11:20 - 11:40 : Reconstructing the cortical functional network during imagery tasks for<br>boosting asynchronous BCI Michel Besserve, Jacques Martinerie, Line Garnero (Talk 70)<br>
<br>11:40 - 11:45 : Non-identity Learning Vector Quantization applied to evoked potential<br>detection Nanying Liang, Laurent Bougrain (Spotlight 49)<br><br>11:45 - 11:50 : Adaptive classification of mental states for asynchronous brain computer<br>
interfaces Jean Le Pavec, Maureen Clerc (Spotlight 60)<br><br>11:50 - 11:55 : Independent component analysis reveals the unity of cognitive control<br>Clémence Roger, Christian, G. Bénar, Franck Vidal, Thierry Hasbroucq, Boris Burle<br>
(Spotlight 63)<br><br>11:55 - 12:00 : Estimation of individual evoked potential by wavelet transform Moncef<br>Benkherrat, Franck Vidal, Thierry Hasbroucq, Boris Burle (Spotlight 66)<br><br>12:00 - 12:05 : Letter perception: from item-level erps to computational models Arnaud<br>
Rey, Stéphane Dufau, Stéphanie Massol, Jonathan Grainger (Spotlight 38)<br><br>12:05 - 12:10 : Implementation of a bayesian Filter in a Photoreceptor Cell Audrey<br>Houillon, Jacques Droulez (Spotlight 48)<br><br>12:10 - 12:15 : Quantifying Neural Correlations Using Lempel-Ziv Complexity Jean-Luc<br>
Blanc, Nicolas Schmidt, Loic Bonnier, Laurent Pezard, Annick Lesne (Spotlight 58)<br><br>12:15 - 12:20 : Motion integration modulated by form information Émilien Tlapale,<br>Guillaume Masson, Pierre Kornprobst (Spotlight 68)<br>
<br> *** 12h20 - 13h20 : Déjeuner ***<br><br> *** 13h00 - 14h30 : Poster session ***<br><br> *** 14h30 - 16h15 : Session 7 - Population coding and functional specialization ***<br><br>14:30 - 14:50 : Les groupes polychrones pour capturer l'aspect spatio-temporel de la<br>
mémorisation Regis Martinez, Helene Paugam-Moisy (Talk 69)<br><br>14:50 - 15:10 : Effects of intrinsic oscillations on weight dynamics under Spike<br>timing-dependent plasticity Fabiano Baroni, Pablo Varona (Talk 62)<br><br>
15:10 - 15:30 : Statistics of spikes trains, synaptic plasticity and Gibbs distributions.<br>Bruno Cessac, Horacio Rostro, Juan-Carlos Vasquez, Thierry Viéville (Talk 29)<br><br>15:30 - 15:50 : Specialisation in recurrent neural networks with spike-timing-dependent<br>
plasticity Matthieu Gilson, David B. Grayden, Doreen A. Thomas, J. Leo van Hemmen,<br>Anthony N. Burkitt (Talk 5)<br><br>15:50 - 15:55 : Mécanisme d'auto-organisation corticale : un modèle basé sur la règle de<br>plasticité synaptique BCM Thomas Girod, Frédéric Alexandre (Spotlight 34)<br>
<br>15:55 - 16:00 : Reliable recall of spontaneous activity patterns in chaotic cortical<br>networks Pierre Yger, Olivier Marre, Andrew Davison, Yves Frégnac (Spotlight 28)<br><br>16:00 - 16:05 : Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Regime Transitions in Random<br>
Recurrent Neural Networks Frédéric Henry, Emmanuel Daucé (Spotlight 24)<br><br>16:05 - 16:10 : Analyzing cortical network dynamics with respect to different<br>connectivity assumptions Nicole Voges, Laurent Perrinet (Spotlight 25)<br>
<br>16:10 - 16:15 : To which extend is the ``neural code'' a metric ? Bruno Cessac, Horacio<br>Rostro, Juan-Carlos Vasquez, Thierry Viéville (Spotlight 23)<br><br> *** 16h15 - 17h00 : Poster session (continued) ***<br>
<br> *** 17h00 - 18h30 Session 8 - Neural Interfaces ***<br><br>17:00 - 17:20 : Présentation INCF (Invited Talk)<br><br>17:20 - 17:40 : Implementing entorhinal grid fields in biophysical neuronal models Michiel<br>Remme, Mate Lengyel, Boris Gutkin (Talk 55)<br>
<br>17:40 - 18:00 : Tools for electrophysiology labs: a C coded dynamic-clamp on DSP board<br>(aC/DC). Sofiane Boussa, Pasquier Jennifer, Leboulenger François, Frank Le Foll, Alain<br>Faure (Talk 71)<br><br>18:00 - 18:30 : Tour de table / Présentation NeuroComp 09<br>
<br> *** 20h00 : Banquet ***<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--<br>Emmanuel Daucé<br>Centrale Marseille/UMR 6233<br>+33 491 05 47 30 / +33 491 17 22 88<br><a href="http://emmanuel.dauce.free.fr">http://emmanuel.dauce.free.fr</a><br>
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