2021 Swartz Foundation Meeting

Swartz Foundation

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The Swartz Meeting is moving to a virtual-only format.

The 2021 Swartz Foundation meeting will be hosted online by the University of Washington’s Computational Neuroscience Center on October 4 from 9 AM – 2:30 PM Pacific.

Register for the virtual meeting here.

If you previously registered for the in-person meeting, we have transferred your registration.

Schedule

October 4

9 am – 9:20 am Session 1
“Controlling multiplex brain networks: Principles and Applications”
Pragya Srivastava, University of Pennsylvania, Dani Bassett Lab

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9:20 am – 9:40 am “Interneuron subtypes shape computations in the visual and auditory cortices”
Gregory Handy, University of Chicago, Brent Doiron Lab

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9:40 am – 10:00 am “Online neural modeling and stimulation for adaptive neuroscience experiments”
Anne Draelos, Duke University, John Pearson Lab

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10:00 am – 10:20 am “Newton’s third law in spiking networks”
Fereshteh Lagzi, University of Washington, Fairhall Lab

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10:20 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 10:50 am Session 2
“Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions for Functional Connectivity in the Brain”
Francesco Randi, Princeton, Andrew Leifer Lab

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10:50 am – 11:10 am “Latent circuits in recurrent neural network models”
Christopher Langdon, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Tatiana Engel Lab

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11:10 am – 11:30 am “‘Neural dynamics of predictive processing in humans and recurrent neural networks”
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Salk Institute, Terry Sejnowski Lab

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11:30 am – 11:50 am “Neural principles underlying subjective value computation”
Kiyohito Iigaya, Cal Tech

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11:50 am – 12:10 pm “Reciprocally inhibitory circuits operating with distinct mechanisms are differentially robust to perturbation and modulation”
Ekaterina Morozova, Brandeis University, Eve Marder Lab
12:10 pm – 12:30 pm Lunch
12:30 pm – 12:50 pm Session 3
“Optimal quadratic binding for relational inference in neural architectures
Naoki Hiratani, Harvard University, Haim Sompolinsky Lab

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12:50 pm – 1:10 pm “Dynamics and Computation in the Cortico-Cerebellar Loop”
Jonathan Kadmon, Hebrew University
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm “Fractional paradoxical effects in mouse V1”
Agostina Palmigiano, Columbia University, Ken Miller Lab
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm “Macroscopic gradients of information encoding and complex dynamics in the macaque neocortex: a large-scale model endowed with ventral and dorsal pathways”
Ulises Pereira Obilinovic, NYU, Xiao-Jing Wang Lab
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm “Computational Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Thalamic Control of Attention”
Qinglong Gu, Yale, John Murray

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2:10 pm – 2:45 pm Panel discussion, with Dani Bassett, Terry Sejnowski and Tatiana Engel

moderated by Tatyana Sharpee