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Workshop 4: Rhythms and Oscillations: Schedule

Tentative Schedule

Monday, March 18
Hippocampal Encoding Using Oscillations
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:00-10:00am Neil Burgess: The theta rhythm, spatial cognition and the hippocampus
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Michael Hasselmo: Oscillations and grid cells in entorhinal cortex
11:30-12:30pm Tad Blair: Mapping of Euclidian space onto patterns of neural synchrony by septohippocampal microcircuits
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Lisa Giocomo: Mechanisms underlying medial entorhinal cortex topography
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:30pm Laura Colgin : Slow and Fast Gamma Rhythms in the Hippocampal Network
4:30-6:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
6:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, March 19
Mechanisms of gamma oscillations and gamma coherence over distance
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Thomas Akam: Response dynamics of oscillating networks, oscillatory mechanisms for selective gain control
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Christoph Borgers: Suppression boundaries in E-I networks, and the type of the I-cells
11:30-12:30pm Jessica A Cardin: State-dependent cortical rhythms
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Nicolas Brunel: Collective oscillations in networks of spiking neurons: Mechanisms and input dependence
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:30pm Frances Skinner: Gaining insight from theoretically-inspired biologically-based models
4:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, March 20
Gamma frequency information chunking
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Rufin VanRullen: Perceptual and attentional rhythms
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Oded Ghitza: On the central role of theta in decoding speech
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Bill Lytton: Theta gamma coordination in setting of psychomimetics and other modulatory interventions
2:00-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:30pm Alexander Hyafil: Theta-gamma nested oscillations in speech perception
Role of Gamma and Beta in Attention: Top down versus bottom up and the role of shifting frequencies
3:30-4:30pm Steve Bressler: Large-Scale Synchronous Beta Rhythms
4:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, March 21
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Peter Lakatos: The role of oscillatory entrainment in auditory selective attention
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Tim Buschman: Neural Dynamics of Cognitive Control
11:30-12:30pm Paul H. Tiesinga: Oscillations and neural coding
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Nancy Kopell: Brain Rhythms Facilitate Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:30pm Pascal Fries: Distinct top-down and bottom-up attention networks revealed through high-resolution electrocorticograph
4:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:30-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, March 22
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-12:00pm Synthesis and wrap-up by organizers
12:15pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)