Dear all,

Please note that the final schedule and speaker abstracts are available for the following workshop at CNS*2017 in Antwerp this week:

Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
19 and 20 July 2017

Methods originally developed in Information Theory have found wide applicability in computational neuroscience. Beyond these original methods there is a need to develop novel tools and approaches that are driven by problems arising in neuroscience. A number of researchers in computational/systems neuroscience and in information/communication theory are investigating problems of information representation and processing. While the goals are often the same, these researchers bring different perspectives and points of view to a common set of neuroscience problems. Often they participate in different fora and their interaction is limited. The goal of the workshop is to bring some of these researchers together to discuss challenges posed by neuroscience and to exchange ideas and present their latest work. The workshop is targeted towards computational and systems neuroscientists with interest in methods of information theory as well as information/communication theorists with interest in neuroscience.

Program:
 
Wed 19 July (Room C.101):

• 09:00  Raul Vicente, University of Tartu -- "Estimating and applying partial information decomposition to complex systems"
• 09:45  Jil Meier, Delft University of Technology -- "The epidemic spreading model and the direction of information flow in brain networks"
• 11:00  Karl Friston, University College London -- "Active inference and artificial curiosity"
• 11:45  Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute -- "A Local Learning Rule for Independent Component Analysis"
• 14:00  Fleur Zeldenrust, Radboud Universiteit -- "Estimating the information extracted by a single spiking neuron from a continuous input time series"
• 14:30  Pedro Martinez Mediano, Imperial College London -- "Integrated Information Theory Without the Hot Air"
• 15:00  Mehrdad Salmasi, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich "Information rate of a synapse during short-term depression"
• 16:00  Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt -- "Information coding of mean and variance modulating signals in cortical neurons"
• 16:45  Renaud Jolivet, University of Geneva -- "Energy-efficient information transfer at synapses"
• 17:30  Rodrigo Cofre, University of Geneva and Universidad de Valparaíso -- "Information Entropy Production and Large deviations of Maximum Entropy Processes from Spike Trains"

Thu 20 July (Room C.101):

• 09:00  Lionel Barnett, University of Sussex -- "Information Transfer in Continuous and Discrete Time"
• 09:45  Joseph T. Lizier, The University of Sydney "An estimator for transfer entropy between spike trains"
• 11:00  Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization, Goettingen -- "Quantifying Information Storage and Modification in Neural Recordings"
• 11:45  Demain Battaglia, Aix-Marseille University -- "Discrete information processing states in anesthetized rat recordings"
• 14:00  Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University "Directed Information: Application to EEG during cognitive control"
• 14:45  Adrià Tauste, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -- "Directed information flow within the thalamo-cortical network"
• 16:00  Daniele Marinazzo, University of Ghent -- "Synergy and redundancy in dynamical systems: towards a practical and operative definition"
• 16:45  Lubomir Kostal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic -- "Reference frame independence as a constraint on the mutual information decomposition"
• 17:30  Robin Ince, University of Glasgow -- "Quantifying representational interactions in neuroimaging and electrophysiological data using information theory"

Organisers:
Joseph T. Lizier -- chair, The University of Sydney
Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organisation
Justin Dauwels, Nanyang Technological University
Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Alexander G. Dimitrov, Washington State University
Lubomir Kostal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Michael Wibral, Goethe University, Frankfurt