2021 Swartz Foundation Meeting
About
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 |
9:20 am – 9:40 am | “Interneuron subtypes shape computations in the visual and auditory cortices” Gregory Handy, University of Chicago, Brent Doiron Lab |
9:40 am – 10:00 am | “Online neural modeling and stimulation for adaptive neuroscience experiments” Anne Draelos, Duke University, John Pearson Lab |
10:00 am – 10:20 am | “Newton’s third law in spiking networks” Fereshteh Lagzi, University of Washington, Fairhall Lab |
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 |
10:50 am – 11:10 am | “Latent circuits in recurrent neural network models” Christopher Langdon, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Tatiana Engel Lab |
11:10 am – 11:30 am | “‘Neural dynamics of predictive processing in humans and recurrent neural networks” Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Salk Institute, Terry Sejnowski Lab |
11:30 am – 11:50 am | “Neural principles underlying subjective value computation” Kiyohito Iigaya, Cal Tech |
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 |
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 |
2:10 pm – 2:45 pm | Panel discussion, with Dani Bassett, Terry Sejnowski and Tatiana Engel
moderated by Tatyana Sharpee |