09:00 - 09:10

Introduction

09:10 - 10:05

Wolfgang Maass  (Technische Universität Graz, Austria)
Models for Cortical Computation

10:05 - 11:00

Klaus Pawelzik  (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Signalling and Computation with Stochastic Action Potentials

11:00 - 11:20

Coffee break

11:20 - 12:15

Alessandro Treves  (SISSA Trieste, Italy, and Norwegian University of Science and Technolgy, Trondheim, Norway)
Latching dynamics as a model of recursion in language and beyond  (see abstract)

12:15 - 14:15

Lunch break

14:15 - 15:10

Wolf Singer  (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)
Oscillations, synchrony and temporal codes in cortical processing  (see abstract)

15:10 - 16:05

Moshe Abeles  (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Space and Time of Cortical Activity  (see abstract)

16:05 - 16:25

Coffee break

16:25 - 17:20

Florentin Wörgötter  (Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Predictive Mechanisms in Neuronal Processing for the Generation of simple Semantics in Artificial Agents  (see abstract)

17:20 - 17:50

André Grüning  (SISSA Trieste, Italy)
U-shape in learning faces reveals universal non-grammar  (see abstract)

17:50 - 18:20

Lubomir Kostal  (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic) (joint work with Petr Lansky)
Comparison of variability and randomness in stationary neuronal firing  (see PDF abstract)

19:30 

Conference dinner (on the basis of à la carte and individual payment)

09:00 - 09:55

Nicolas Brunel  (Université René Descartes - Paris 5, France)
Effects of spatial connectivity and delays on spatio-temporal dynamics of cortical networks models

09:55 - 10:50

David Wolpert  (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Probability Collectives and Supervised Learning  (see abstract)

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee break

11:10 - 12:05

Gustavo Deco  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Fluctuation-driven Neurodynamics: A model of Decision-Making  (see abstract)

12:05 - 14:05

Lunch break

14:05 - 15:00

Daniel Durstewitz  (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Neural Dynamics and Biophysics of Active Memory  (see abstract)

15:00 - 15:55

Sophie Deneve  (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Bayesian inference and learning with spiking neurons  (see abstract)

15:55 - 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 - 16:45

Boris Gutkin  (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
GABA Reversal Pontetials Control Synchronization of Neuronal Oscillators  (see abstract)

16:45 - 17:15

Nihat Ay  (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
Information Flows in Causal Networks  (see abstract)

17:15 - 17:45

Werner Backhaus  (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Psychophysiological Modeling of Spatial Color Vision in Man  (see abstract)

17:45 - 18:15

Fatihcan Atay  (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
Time delays and neural field dynamics  (see abstract)

09:00 - 09:55

Helge Ritter  (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
Probing Generic Integration Principles for Cognitive Functions   (see abstract)

09:55 - 10:50

J. Leo van Hemmen  (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Neuronal Map Formation & Time-Resolved Learning: Do Different Modalities "Observing" the Same Object Compete?  (see abstract)

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee break

11:10 - 12:05

Thomas Wennekers  (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Operational Cell Assemblies

12:05 - 12:35

Thimo Rohlf  (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
Topological self-organization and critical dynamics of input-driven neural threshold networks   (see abstract)

12:35 - 12:45

Closing