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3rd International Conference on Neural Field Theory (ICNFT)
- From Modelling to Data Assimilation
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Reading Summer School on Data Assimilation 2013: From Weather Forecasting to Neuroscience
June 16-18, 2014, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
In Combination with a Brain Products Tutorial June 19-20 (needs special registration).
Please register to help with the preparations! There will be a “one slide, 3 minutes” speed presentation session. Contributions welcome: ICNFT2014_Registration, we decided to leave registration open for the moment. Registered participants can be found at icnft2014_registrations.
Travel Planning and Accomodation Options see below!
Organizers: Ingo Bojak, Stephen Coombes, Peter beim Graben, Roland Potthast, Etienne Roesch, Douglas Saddy and Kelly Sloan.
Neural Mass Modelling and Neural Field Theory is a growing and very active area of research with important applications in medicine and technology. Activities range from the simulation of neural populations to the analysis of neural field equations, from neural modelling of cognitive and psychological processes to controlling artificial devices. The connection between these models and measurement data, including large-scale data assimilation tasks, is of growing interest to many researchers.
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The community includes researchers from medicine, psychology, physics, mathematics and engineering. The International Conferences on Neural Field Theory at the University of Reading contribute to the further development and shaping of this community by bringing together well-known and young researchers. Ideas from different fields meet here in a truly interdisciplinary and inspiring environment.
The 3rd International Conference on Neural Field Theory is following a highly successful series of conferences which took place in 2010 and 2012, see ICNFT 2012. Confirmed speaker for this conference so far include:
Invited Speakers
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Big Brain - from Model to Data and Back Again
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Applications in Cognition and Control
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Applications in Health and Disease
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| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |
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| 09.15-09.30 | Welcome | Announcements | Announcements |
| 09.30-10.15 | Stephen Coombes Standing and travelling waves in a spherical brain model: the Nunez model revisited | Wolfram Erlhagen Learning a musical sequence by observation: A robotics implementation of a dynamic neural field model | Ingo Bojak Neural population models, anaesthesia and the curse of dimensionality |
| 10.30-11.15 | Dimitris Pinotsis Electrophysiological Data and the Biophysical Modelling of Local Cortical Circuits | Marc de Kamps Population Density Techniques: beyond Fokker-Planck | Fabrice Wendling Micro-/meso-scopic models as a bridge between epileptic signals and (hyper)excitability mechanisms |
| 11.30-12.15 | Roland Potthast Data Assimilation for Neural Field Models | Nicolas Rougier Cortical Plasticity, A Computational Approach | Basabdatta Bhattacharya Building computational tools to understand brain diseases |
| 12.15-14.00 | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
| 14.00-14.45 | Thomas Knösche Neural Mass Models between Biological Realism and Mathematical Feasibility | Mohamed Oubbati Neurodynamics For Modelling Agent-Environment Interaction | Sid Visser Reflections on reductions of spiking neurons: role of fast dynamics |
| 15.00-15.45 | Martin Giese Neural field models for the perceptual organization in low-level and high-level motion vision | Mauro Ursino The role of multiple rhythms in cognition: simulations with the use of neural mass modeling | Axel Hutt Pattern storage and transient dynamics in heterogeneous neural fields in the context of cognition |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Closing of Conference |
| 16.15-17.00 | Andreas Spiegler Stimulating the virtual brain at rest: dissipation and criticality | Short talks (20 min each) 16.15 Davide Barbieri: Receptive Profiles, correlation length and uncertainty of angular measurements | |
| 17.00-18.00 | - discussion time - | 16.45 Zhivko Stoyanov: fMRI data and the dynamical communication in the brain 16.35 Zhivko Stoyanov: fMRI data and the dynamical communication in the brain 16.55 Yi Ming: Stochastic synchronization of neuronal populations with intrinsic and extrinsic noise 17.15 Timothée Dubuc: The retina is a piece of brain: Towards models of retinal function | |
| From 18.00 | Icebreaker & Poster Session in CINN |
Fee for Participants GBP 75,-. Lunches and Coffee will be provided. Please register at ICNFT2014_Registration. Poster contributions welcome! There will be
an icebreaker Monday, June 16 at 6pm in the CINN reception area, see image on the left.
Location and Travel Planning
The conference takes place in the Nike Theatre, Agriculture building, on Whiteknights Campus, close to Early Gate.
Reading Wikipedia is the main business centre west of Central London reachable by train in about 30 minutes from London Paddington.
From Heathrow International Airport, there are busses directly to Reading Station every 20min, travel time is 45 minutes.
The University of Reading is located south of Reading town centre, compare image on the right-hand side or Google Map. There are busses line 20 and 21 Map PDF going several times an hour, compare http://www.reading-buses.co.uk/.
In Reading, there are various hotels and guest houses. You might want to stay in the town centre, then look at the following possibilities Hotels Reading Town Centre. Cheaper hotels and gust houses close to the university can be found for example on Cheaper hotels close to campus.
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