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Neuro Thursday at NIPS 2007

Conference December 3-6, 2007, Vancouver
Workshop December 7-8, 2007, Whistler
NEURO-THURSDAY at NIPS: Thursday, December 6 – 8:30 AM – Noon – Vancouver

Thursday, December 6 (the final day of the Conference), will be devoted to Neuroscience,and will consist of a fascinating invited talk by Professor Manabu Tanifuji (Riken) on the monkey visual cortex, plus six outstanding plenary talks.
In addition, all of the Neuroscience posters will take place on Wednesday night, allowing early arrivals to interact with researchers. The Wednesday night poster program will also contain many posters on Machine Learning and Computer Vision, focused on topics that are also relevant to Neuroscience.
All of the morning events (including the Wednesday night Poster Session and the Spotlights that precede it) will be available for the special “Neuro-Thursday” registration rate of $50. For those attending the entire Conference, “Neuro-Thursday” is included in the registration price.
8:30 – 8:50am Misha Ahrens, Maneesh Sahani
Inferring Elapsed Time from Stochastic Neural Processes
8:50 – 9:10am Omer Bobrowski, Ron Meir, Shy Shoham, Yonina Eldar
A neural network implementing optimal state estimation
based on dynamic spike train decoding
9:10 – 9:30am Sebastian Gerwinn, Jakob Macke, Matthias Seeger, Matthias Bethge Bayesian Inference for Spiking Neuron Models with a Sparsity Prior
9:30 – 9:50am Jonathan Pillow, Peter Latham
Neural characterization in partially observed populations of spiking neurons
9:50 – 10:10am Srinjoy Mitra, Giacomo Indiveri, Stefano Fusi
Learning to classify complex patterns using a VLSI network of spiking neurons
10:10 – 10:40am Break
10:40 – 11:00am Mate Lengyel, Peter Dayan
Hippocampal Contributions to Control: The Third Way
11:00am – 12:00pm Invited Speaker: Manabu Tanifuji
Population coding of object images based on visual features and its relevance to view invariant representation