Principles of Biological Computation - Agenda

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Sunday May 18

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)

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: What grid cells convey about rat location; 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: TBD; 14:15-15:00 Jose Principe, U of Florida: TBD; 15:00-15:15 Break; 15:15-16:00 Aravi Samuel, Harvard; 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)

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