2015-16: CCNS: Opening Workshop: August 17-21, 2015
Workshop Information
Schedule
Participant List
Speakers Titles Abstracts
Posters
This workshop took place at the Hamner Conference Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC
The Opening Workshop for this program was held on Monday- Friday, August 17 - 21, 2015. The Workshop provided an overview of the core topics relevant to the CCNS program, which is devoted to the development of methodological, theoretical, and computational treatments of high-dimensional mathematical and statistical models with applications in computational neuroscience. For a more detailed description of the topics to be covered, see the CCNS homepage at http://www.samsi.info/CCNS.
On Monday, August 17 there were five overview lectures by leading researchers in computational neuroscience. From Tuesday to Thursday, invited speakers addressed additional issues associated with spike train data analysis, Big data and research directions in the NIH BRAIN initiative, imaging genetics, and neuroimaging data analysis. A poster session and reception took place on Tuesday, August 18.
On Thursday August 20, Working Groups were introduced, centering on problems and research directions identified in the Workshop. These groups will meet weekly over the course of the program, with the initial meetings held on Friday August 21.
The CCNS Working Groups follow. Additional information on each group can be found at Working Groups.
Clinical Brain Imaging
Working Group Leader: Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
Computational Approaches to Large-scale Inverse Problems with Applications to Neuroscience
Working Group Leader: Arvind Saibaba, North Carolina State University
Understanding Neuromechanical Processes in Locomotion with Physical Modeling and Network Analysis
Working Group Leaders: Laura Miller, UNC and Katie Newhall, UNC
Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to Modeling Brain Networks: circuits and systems
Working Group Leaders: Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University; Uri Eden, Boston U.; Mark Kramer, Boston U.
Theory of neural networks: structure and dynamics
Working Group Leaders: Carina Curto, PSU; Brent Doiron, U. of Pittsburgh, Chris Hillar, MSRI
Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Processing of MRI Data
Working Group Leader: Daniel Rowe, Marquette University
Imaging Genetics
Working Group Leader: Hongtu Zhu, UNC
Structural Connectivity
Working Group Leaders: David Dunson, Duke University; Hongtu Zhu, UNC
Functional Imaging Methods and Functional Connectivity
Working Group Leaders: Hernando Ombao, UCI; John Aston, University of Cambridge
Big Data Integration in Neuroimaging
Working Group Leaders: Martin Lindquist and Timothy Johnson
Analysis of Optical Imaging Data
Working Group Leader: Mark Reimers
For further information please send an email to [email protected]
Schedule
Monday, August 17, 2015
Hamner Conference Center Auditorium
| 8:00-8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30-8:45 | Introduction and Welcome - Richard Smith, SAMSI |
| 8:45-10:00 | Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University A Statistical Perspective on Spike Train Analysis, and Possible Connections with Modeling |
| 10:00-10:10 | Break |
| 10:10-11:25 | Martin Lindquist, Johns Hopkins University Principles of Functional Neuroimaging |
| 11:25-12:40 | Emery Brown, Harvard/MIT General Anesthesia: A Case Study in Combining Neuroscience, Statistics and Modeling |
| 12:40-1:40 | Lunch (Galleria) |
| 1:40-2:00 | Thomas Witelski, SAMSI Working Groups at SAMSI |
| 2:00-3:15 | Kenneth Miller, Columbia University Modeling Neural Circuits |
| 3:15-3:25 | Break |
| 3:25-4:40 | Maxime Descoteaux, Universite de Sherbrooke Diffusion MRI Tractography and Connectomics: problems and challenges |
| 4:40-5:00 | Discussion |
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Hamner Conference Center Auditorium
| 8:00-8:30 a.m. | Registration and Announcements |
| 8:30 | Edward Boyden, MIT Tools for Mapping Brain Computations |
| 9:30 | Markus Diesmann, Juelich Research Centre Brain-Scale Simulations at Cellular and Synaptic Resolution: Necessity and Feasibility |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Uri Eden, Boston University Estimating Neural Dynamics using Point Process Models |
| 12:00 | Lunch (Galleria) |
| 1:00 |
Brent Doiron, University of Pittsburgh
The neural mechanics of attention-mediated suppression of noise correlations |
| 2:00 | Introduction to the Theoretical Neural Networks Working Group |
| 2:20 | Friedrich Sommer, University of California-Berkeley Understanding the Functions of Oscillatory LFP |
| 3:20 | Break |
| 3:40 |
Panel Discussion: Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University (moderator)
Sonja Gruen, Juelich Research Centre |
| 5:00-7:00 | Poster Session and Reception SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches. |
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Hamner Conference Center Auditorium
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Hamner Conference Center Auditorium
| 8:15-8:30 a.m. | Announcements |
| 8:30 | Polina Golland, MIT From Pixels to Brain Networks: Modeling Brain Connectivity and Its Changes in Disease |
| 9:30 | Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins University Neuroinformatics and the Complexity of the Brain at the 1mm Morphome Scale |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Peter Bandettini, NIMH New fMRI Observations at an Individual Level Using Novel Acquisition, Paradigm, and Processing Approaches |
| 12:00 | Lunch (Galleria) |
| 1:00 | James Haxby, Dartmouth A Common Model of Representational Spaces in Human Cortex |
| 2:00 | Break |
| 2:30 | Discussion: Working Groups |
Friday, August 21, 2015
Hamner Conference Center Auditorium
| 8:45-9:00 a.m. | Announcements |
| 9:00 | Thomas Nichols, Warwick University Two Wildly Different Approaches to Brain Connectivity in fMRI |
| 10:00 | Initial Working Group Meetings |
| 12:00 | Adjourn and Lunch (Galleria) |