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:14:15-15:00 [http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/principe/principe.html Jose Principe], U of Florida: [[Brain Machine Interfaces as a Testbed For Computational Modeling]]
:14:15-15:00 [http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/principe/principe.html Jose Principe], U of Florida: [[Brain Machine Interfaces as a Testbed For Computational Modeling]]
:15:00-15:15 Break
:15:00-15:15 Break
:15:15-16:00 [http://worms.physics.harvard.edu/peeps.htm Aravi Samuel], Harvard
:15:15-16:00 [http://worms.physics.harvard.edu/peeps.htm Aravi Samuel], Harvard: [[How simple animals navigate complex environments]]
:16:00-16:45 [http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall/ James Marshall], Bristol: [[TBD]]
:16:00-16:45 [http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall/ James Marshall], Bristol: [[TBD]]
:16:45-17:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks
:16:45-17:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks

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Workshop Navigation

Sunday May 18

18:30-20:30 Welcome Buffet Reception
At Hotel Santa Fe

Monday May 19

08:00-09:00 Continental Breakfast
Noyce Conference Room, SFI
09:00-12:15 Session I -- Garrett Kenyon (Chair)
09:00-09:15 Chris Wood, SFI Vice President: Welcome, SFI overview
09:15-09:45 Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University: Biological Computation: A View from Computer Science
09:45-10:30 Peter Balsam, Columbia: TBD
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 James DiCarlo, MIT: TBD
11:30-12:15 Stephanie Forrest, UNM: TBD
12:15-13:30 Lunch
At the Santa Fe Institute
13:30-17:30 Session II -- Chris Wood (Chair)
13:30-14:15 Atsushi Iriki, RIKEN: Neurobiology of primate intellectual evolution through intentional niche construction
14:15-15:00 Eugene Izhikevich, Neuroscience Institute: Neural Darwinism
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:00 Adam Kepecs, CSHL: Computational algorithms and neural mechanisms for estimating decision confidence
16:00-16:45 TBD
16:45-17:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks
19:00-21:00 Workshop Banquet
(Location to be announced)

Tuesday May 20

08:00-09:00 Continental Breakfast
Noyce Conference Room, SFI
09:00-12:15 Session III - Melanie Mitchell (Chair)
09:00-09:45 Harel Shouval, TMC: Learning Reward Timing in cortex using reinforced expression of synaptic plasticity
09:45-10:30 David Lubensky, University of Michigan: Molecular synchronization and the Kai system
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Bruno Olshausen, Berkeley: TBD
11:30-12:15 Liam Paninski, Columbia: TBD
12:15-13:30 Lunch
Noyce Conference Room, SFI
13:30-14:15 Session IV - Ilya Nemenman (Chair)
13:30-14:15 Ila Fiete, Caltech: What grid cells convey about rat location
14:15-15:00 Jose Principe, U of Florida: Brain Machine Interfaces as a Testbed For Computational Modeling
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:00 Aravi Samuel, Harvard: How simple animals navigate complex environments
16:00-16:45 James Marshall, Bristol: TBD
16:45-17:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks

(Participants on their own for dinner & remainder of evening)

Wednesday May 21

08:00-09:00Continental Breakfast
Noyce Conference Room, SFI
09:00-12:30 Session V - Chris Wood (Chair)
09:00-09:45 Barak Pearlmutter, National University of Ireland, Maynooth: TBD
09:45-10:30 Michael Wall, LANL: TBD
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Garrett Kenyon, LANL: TBD
11:15-11:45 Ilya Nemenman, LANL: wrap-up: TBD
11:45-12:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Noyce Conference Room, SFI
14:00 Workshop adjourned
Participants depart

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