<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 30px;">Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation 2017</h2><h4 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">BCMC 2017 <br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">March 13-14, 2017 <br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Center for Neural Engineering and Computation <br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Columbia University, New York, NY, USA</h4><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><h4 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Overview</h4><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in developing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">executable models of neural computation/processing of the brain of model organisms.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Of interest are models of computation that consist of elementary units of processing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">using brain circuits and memory elements. Elementary units of computation/processing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">include population encoding/decoding circuits with biophysically-grounded neuron models,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">non-linear dendritic processors for motion detection/direction selectivity, spike processing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and pattern recognition neural circuits, movement control and decision-making circuits, etc.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Memory units include models of spatio-temporal memory circuits, circuit models for memory</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">access and storage, etc. A major aim of the workshop is to explore the integration of various</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">sensory and control circuits in higher brain centers.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A <a href="http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/hackathons/ffbh/2017" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);">Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon</span></a> is being conducted in conjunction with the workshop.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Workshop participants are welcome to attend the hackathon.</span></div><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><h4 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Organizer and Program Chair</h4><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~aurel" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Aurel A. Lazar</a>, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University.</p><h4 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><br class=""></h4><h4 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Program Overview (Confirmed Speakers)</h4><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://albeanulab.labsites.cshl.edu/people/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Dinu Florin Albeanu</a>, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbalasub/public-html/Home.html" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Vijay Balasubramanian</a>, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.janelia.org/people/albert-cardona" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Albert Cardona</a>, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://brc.life.nthu.edu.tw/FlyLab/html/leader.html" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Ann-Shyn Chiang</a>, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://eyes.yale.edu/people/jonathan_demb.profile" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Jonathan B. Demb</a>, Yale School of Medicine.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.janelia.org/people/barry-dickson" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Barry J. Dickson</a>, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labmembers/GabyMaimon/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Anmo J. Kim</a>, Rockefeller University, New York.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://klab.smpp.northwestern.edu/wiki/index.php5/People" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Konrad P. Kording</a>, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.adammarblestone.org/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Adam H. Marblestone</a>, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.nagellab.com/people/" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Katherine I. Nagel</a>, NYU Medical School.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.hhmi.org/scientists/gerald-m-rubin" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Gerald M. Rubin</a>, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.ice.mpg.de/ext/index.php?id=hopa&pers=sisa3622" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Silke Sachse</a>, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.eni-net.org/members/dr-marion-silies" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Marion Silies</a>, European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://cms.uni-konstanz.de/neuro/member/?tx_mhkleineidam_pi1%5BpId%5D=5029" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Andreas S. Thum</a>, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz.</p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/vogels-group" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">Tim P. Vogels</a>, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">More information about BCMC 2017 can be found </span><a class="external reference" href="http://fruitflybrain.org/workshops.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">here</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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