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This is a 2.5 days single-track meeting featuring 6 keynote lectures, 1 special session, 4 workshops and 2 poster+live demo sessions. Have a look at the detailed program!

All speaker, poster and demo abstracts are available on-line at Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 

 


 

 

Sunday, September 7
 
12.30-13.00
Opening statement
Shun-ichi Amari
Rodney Douglas
 
13.00-13.50
Keynote: David Van Essen (St Louis, USA)
Title: A neuroinformatics perspective on cerebral cortical structure and function
 
13.50-14.40
Keynote: Mary B. Kennedy (Pasadena, USA)
Title: Synaptic Nanomachines
 
14:40-15:10
Coffee break
 
15.10-17.30  
Workshop 1
Chair: Erik De Schutter
Future hardware challenges to scientific computing
15.10-15.35
   Gabriel Wittum
15.35-16.00
   Marc-Oliver Gewaltig
16.00-16.25
   John Shalf
 
 
16.25-16.45
   Poster and demo abstract presentations
16.45-17.30
   Panel discussion
 
19.00-21.00

Monday, September 8
08.30-09.20
Keynote: Mitsuo Kawato (Kyoto, Japan)
Title: Towards Manipulative Neuroscience based on Brain-Network-Interface
 
09.20-12.00
Workshop 2
Chair: Robert Williams
Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics
09.20-09.45
   Ed Lein
09.45-10.10
   Seth Grant
10.10-10.35
   Kristen Harris
 
10.35-11.00
   Coffee break
11:00-11:20
   Poster and demo abstract presentations
11.20-12.00
   Panel discussion
 
12.00-13.30
Poster and demo session with standing lunch
 
13.30-15.10
Special session
Chair: Rodney Douglas
Perspectives in funding research in neuroinformatics
13:30-14.20
   Kathie Olsen
 Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
14:20-15:10
   Wolfgang Boch
 European Commission, Head of Unit, Future and Emerging Technologies
 
15.10-15.40
Coffee break
 
15.40-16.30
Keynote: Henry Markram (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Title: The Blue Brain Project
 
19.00-23.00
 
Tuesday, September 9
 
08.30-11.10 
Workshop 3
Chair: Ulla Ruotsalainen
Extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
08.30-08.55
   Katrin Amunts
08.55-09.20
   Alan Evans
09.20-09.45
   Thomas Mrsic-Flögel
 
 
09.45-10.10
   Coffee break
10.10-10.30
   Poster and demo abstract presentations
10.30-11.10
   Panel discussion
 
11.10-12.00
Keynote: Idan Segev (Jerusalem, Israel)
Title: Towards an Objective Analysis of the Firing Variability of Cortical Neurons

12.00-13.30
Poster and demo session with standing lunch

 

13:30-16-10
Workshop 4
Chair: Andrzej Wrobel
Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology
13.30-13.55
   György Buzsáki
13.55-14.20
   Miguel Nicolelis
14.20-14.45
   Xiaoqin Wang
 
 
14.45-15.10
   Coffee break
15.10-15.30
   Poster and demo abstract presentations
15.30-16.10
   Panel discussion
 
16.10-17.00
Keynote: Mark Ellisman (San Diego, USA)
Title. Brain Research in the Digital Age
 
17.00-17.20
Concluding remarks
Jan Bjaalie
 
19.00-23.00
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