Thursday, January 9, 2025

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | David Clark (Litwin-Kumar Lab, Columbia University)
"Emergent continuous-attractor dynamics from disorderly neural data"

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | Shoshana Chipman (Doiron Lab, University of Chicago)
"Analytic Solutions to Nonlinear Recurrent Networks with Strong Noise"

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Alexander Reyes, PhD (Professor of Neural Science, NYU)
"Mathematical framework for computing excitatory-inhibitory interactions in neural networks"

Friday, January 10, 2025

9:00 am - 9:45 am | Nimrod Sherf, PhD (Josic Lab, University of Houston)
"From Chaos to Coherence: The Effects of High-Order Correlations on Neural Dynamics"

9:45 am - 10:30 am | Yichao Guan (Doiron Lab, University of Chicago)
"Controlling the Dimension of Neural Activities with Temporal Noise in Random Neural Networks"

10:30 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break

10:45 am - 11:30 am | Owen Marschall, PhD (Litwin-Kumar Lab, Columbia University)
"A theory of multi-task computation and task selection"

11:30 am - 12:15 pm | John Tian (Doiron Lab, University of Chicago)
"A nonlocal variational framework for optimal neural representations"

12:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch