The workshop that aims to bridge the edges of deep theoretical neuroscience and Neuro-AI
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Day 1: Methods for Dynamic Neural Systems
8:30 - 9:00 am | Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40 am | Jorge Jaramillo, PhD (The Grossman Center / UChicago)
"Neural Dynamics for Distributed Memory"
9:40 - 10:00 am | Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00 | Methods Tutorial with Jorge Jaramillo, PhD (The Grossman Center / UChicago)
Intro to Dynamical System Analysis
11:00 - 12:00 pm | Methods Tutorial with Michelle Miller, CNS (Doiron Lab)
Modeling EI networks: Comparing Rates to Spikes
12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch and socializing
1:00 - 1:45 pm | Panel: Building a collaboration from sitting faculty in Neurobiology
Anne Marie Oswald, Marlene Cohen, Jorge Jaramillo, and Cristina Savin
1:45 - 2:00 pm | Coffee Break
2:00 - 3:00 pm | Methods Tutorial with Christoph Miehl, PhD (Doiron Lab)
Modeling EI networks with multiple inhibitory populations
3:00 - 4:00 pm | Practical Tutorial with Gabriella Fox, CNS (MacLean Lab)
Handling neural data (Calcium imaging)
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Day 2: Plasticity & Learning Rules
8:30 - 9:00 am | Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40 am | Nicolas Masse, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
"Mapping Neurodegenerative Disease Trajectories Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics"
9:40 - 10:00 am | Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00 | Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm | Cristina Savin, PhD (NYU)
"Compositional curriculum learning effectively trains RNNs to mimic rat behaviors"
12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 pm | Methods Tutorial with Nicolas Masse, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
"A tutorial on modeling multi-task learning"
1:45 - 2:00 pm | Coffee Break
2:00 - 3:00 pm | Practical Tutorial with Pulkit Singh, CNS (Freedman Lab)
How to use GitHub and git
Friday, January 17, 2025
Day 3: Industry Applications
8:30 - 9:00 am | Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40 am | Danielle Rager, PhD (Intel Labs)
"Neuromorphic computing with Loihi 2: next-generation, energy-efficient machine and continual learning"
9:40 - 10:00 am | Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00 | Christina Roman, PhD (Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Chicago)
"The Importance of DEI in STEM"
11:00 - 11:45 am | Lightning talks
Satchel Postlewaite, Sylvia Durian, Draco Xu, Hank Grier, Michelle Miller, Ismael Robles-Razzaq, Mahmoud Alipour, PhD
12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch + Panel - FAQ: Internships and Jobs. How to go to Industry?
Danielle Rager, Nicolas Masse, Jai Yu, Sohrab Salimian (CNS), Huibo Li (PSYCH)
1:00 - 1:45 pm | Methods Tutorial with Danielle Rager, PhD (Intel Labs)
Programming models for Loihi 2
1:45 - 2:00 pm | Final remarks
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for the workshop
PRESENT YOUR WORK AT THE WORKSHOP: We are looking for volunteers for the lightning talks. Each talk will be 5 to 10 minutes long and should focus on some work that you have done or are actively working on. Nothing needs to be too polished. We would love to see what you're doing! If you're interested in presenting, please contact Michelle Miller at mcmiller1@uchicago.edu.
