Friday, April 20, 2018

Videos: Computational Theories of the Brain, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing



Monday, April 16th, 20188:30 am – 8:50 am
Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am – 9:00 am
Opening Remarks
9:00 am – 9:45 am
The Prefrontal Cortex as a Meta-Reinforcement Learning SystemMatthew Botvinick, DeepMind Technologies Limited, London and University College London9:45 am – 10:30 am
Working Memory Influences Reinforcement Learning Computations in Brain and BehaviorAnne Collins, UC Berkeley10:30 am – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Predictive Coding Models of PerceptionDavid Cox, Harvard University11:45 am – 12:30 pm
TBASophie Denève, Ecole Normale Supérieure12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning: Early Inference in Energy-Based Models Approximates Back-PropagationAsja Fischer, University of Bonn
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Neural Circuitry Underling Working Memory in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal CortexVeronica Galvin, Yale University
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Reception

Tuesday, April 17th, 20188:30 am – 9:00 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am – 9:45 am
TBASurya Ganguli, Stanford University9:45 am – 10:30 am
Does the Neocortex Use Grid Cell-Like Mechanisms to Learn the Structure of Objects?Jeff Hawkins, Numenta
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Dynamic Neural Network Structures Through Stochastic RewiringRobert Legenstein, Graz University of Technology11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Backpropagation and Deep Learning in the BrainTimothy Lillicrap, DeepMind Technologies Limited, London12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
An Algorithmic Theory of Brain NetworksNancy Lynch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Networks of Spiking Neurons Learn to Learn and RememberWolfgang Maass, Graz University of Technology4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Plenary Discussion: What Is Missing in Current Theories of Brain Computation?

Wednesday, April 18th, 20188:30 am – 9:00 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Functional Triplet Motifs Underlie Accurate Predictions of Single-Trial Responses in Populations of Tuned and Untuned v1 NeuronsJason MacLean, University of Chicago9:45 am – 10:30 am
The Sparse Manifold TransformBruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley10:30 am – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Playing Newton: Automatic Construction of Phenomenological, Data-Driven Theories and ModelsIlya Nemenman, Emory University11:45 am – 12:30 pm
A Functional Classification of Glutamatergic Circuits in Cortex and ThalamusS. Murray Sherman, University of Chicago12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
On the Link Between Energy & Information for the Design of Neuromorphic SystemsNarayan Srinivasa, Eta Compute3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Neural Circuit Representation of Multiple Cognitive Tasks: Clustering and CompositionalityXJ Wang, New York University4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Plenary Discussion: How Can One Test/Falsify Current Theories of Brain Computation?

Thursday, April 19th, 20188:30 am – 9:00 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am – 9:45 pm
Control of Synaptic Plasticity in Deep Cortical NetworksPieter Roelfsema, University of Amsterdam9:45 am – 10:30 am
Computation with AssembliesChristos Papadimitriou, Columbia University10:30 am – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Capacity of Neural Networks for Lifelong Learning of Composable TasksLes Valiant, Harvard University11:45 am – 12:30 pm
An Integrated Cognitive ArchitectureGreg Wayne, Columbia University

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