NIPS 2000 Workshop

“Information and Statistical Structure in Spike Trains”

 

 

Friday, December 1, 2000

 

Morning Session

 

  7:30AM   - 7:45AM                   Introduction                                                                                               Jonathan Victor                                                                                                                 

  7:45AM   - 8:15AM                   Stimulus Coding Through Interspike Interval Statistics                   Peter Cariani

of Neural Populations                

 

  8:15AM   - 8:45AM                   Information Theoretic Analysis off Neural Coding and                     Don H. Johnson

Processing                               

 

  8:45AM   - 9:15AM                   Dynamic Analysis of Hippocampal Information Encoding               Emery  Brown               

 

  9:15AM  -  9:30AM                  Break/Discussion

 

  9:30AM  - 10:00AM                  To be announced                                                                       William Bialek

 

 10:00AM - 10:30AM                  Measurement of Information Transmission in Spike                       Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck

Trains: Direct Methods and Stimulus Reconstruction                                                        

 

 10:30AM - 11:00AM                  Information Encoding in Bursts and Spikes                                   Adam Kepecs

 

 

Afternoon Session

 

 4:30PM - 5:00PM                      A Series Expansion Approach to the Study Of                              Stefano Panzeri

                                                Temporal, Correlational, and Rate Coding

 

 5:00PM - 5:30PM                      Analyzing Neural Coding:Jointly Typical Sequences and                Alexander Dimitrov

Quantization

 

 5:30PM - 5:45PM                      Break/Discussion

 

 5:45PM - 6:15PM                      Experiences, Thoughts, and Conectures On Implementing a          William Levy

                                                Lempel-Ziv-Type Algorithm to Measure Information in a Spike

Train

 

 6:15PM - 6:45PM                      To Bin or not to Bin: Novel Approaches to Obtain and                    Jonathan Victor

Debias Estimates of Information and Entropy

 

 6:45PM – 7:00PM                     Break/Discussion

 

 

NIPS 2000 Workshop

“Information and Statistical Structure in Spike Trains”

 

 

Saturday, December 2, 2000

 

Morning Session

 

   7:30AM  - 8:00AM                   Kernel Regression for Neural Systems Identification                      Maneesh Sahani

 

   8:00AM  - 8:30AM                   Coincidence Detection With Dynamic Synapses                           Lovorka Pantic

 

   8:30AM  - 9:00AM                   Theory Relating Properties of Neuronal Firing to Statistics             Gytis Svirskis

 

   9:00AM  - 9:30AM                   Break/Discussion

 

 9:30AM - 10:00AM                  A Stochastic Model Using Easy Measurements Exactly               Barry Richmond

                                                Predicts Spike Trains and the Information They Contain for

Single Neurons and Populations

 

 10:00AM -10:30AM                   Information Transfer by Synchronized Inhibition                             Terry Sejnowski

 

10:30AM - 11:00AM                   Discussion/Break

 

                                   

 Afternoon Session

 

 4:30PM -   5:00PM                    Spike Patterns and Visual Coding in the LGN                               Pam Reinagel

 

 5:00PM  -  5:30PM                    Spike Precision and Information in the Cat LGN                            Robert Liu

 

 5:30PM  -  5:45PM                    Break/Discussion

 

 5:45PM  -  6:15PM                    Information Rates Conveyed by Groups of Individual                      Daniel Reich

                                                Neurons in Primary Visual Cortex

 

 6:15PM  -  6:45PM                    Series Expansion Analysis of Cortical Spike Train Information        Simon Schultz

 

 6:45PM  -  7:00PM                    Break/Discussion