Program
The detailed program can be found in the attached file : BCL - 2018 Program
| Monday, 8 January 2018 | ||||
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| 08:00 - 08:45 | Registration | |||
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Inauguration and Welcome Address
P. S. Sastry Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| Session 1: Machine Learning I Chair: Sriram Ganapathy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | Learning and Using Priors
Maneesh Sahani University College London |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Learning to Detect an Oddball Target
Rajesh Sundaresan Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Special event : Announcement of Prof. Christos Papadimitriou as Pratiksha Trust Distinguished Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Anurag Kumar
Kris Gopalakrishnan |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | A Computer Scientist Thinks about the Brain
Christos Papadimitriou Columbia University, New York |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| Session 2: Neural Circuits I Chair: Sriram Ganapathy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 14:30 – 15:30 | GABA: Oscillator, Decorrelator, Regulator
Joby Joseph University of Hyderabad |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Gamma Rhythm as a Tool to Investigate Neural Processing
Supratim Ray Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 17:00 – 17:30 | Wrap up discussions for the day | |||
| Tuesday, 9 January 2018 | ||||
| Session 3: Language and Audition Chair: Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | Language and the Brain: Learning about Each from the Other
Mark Liberman University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | Unsupervised Auditory Representation Learning in Machines and Humans
Sriram Ganapathy Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Seeing Speech
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| Wednesday 10, January 2018 | ||||
| Session 4: Neuromorphic computation and Biomechanics Chair: Chetan Singh Thakur, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | DeepSouth: A Neuromorphic Ecosystem
Andre van Schaik Western Sydney University, Sydney |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | Spiking, Bursting, Noise-shaping and Population Dynamics in a Network of Growth Transform Neurons
Shantanu Chakrabartty Washington University St Louis |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Learning Movement Without Neural Coding
Patrick van der Smagt Volkswagen group AI research, Munich |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| Session 5: Brain Networks: Beyond Neurons Chair: Chetan Singh Thakur, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 14:00–15:00 | Modeling Neuro-Glio-Vasular Interactions: Do Cerebral Vessels Compute?
Srinivasa Chakravarthy Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 – 18:30 | Demos and Posters | |||
| 19:00 - :: | BANQUET | |||
| Thursday, 11 January 2018 | ||||
| Session 6: Space-Time Perception Chair: Sridharan Devarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 09:00 – 11:00 | Neural Mechanisms Of Abstract Space-Time Perception
Mayank Mehta University of California, Los Angeles |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Neural Mechanisms Of Abstract Space-Time Perception
Mayank Mehta University of California, Los Angeles |
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| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| Session 7: Neural Circuits II Chair: Sridharan Devarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Parallel Distributed Processing in the Stressed Brain
Sumantra Chattarji National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
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| 15:00 – 16:00 | The Planning And Control Of Sequential Movements
Aditya Murthy Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Exploring the Functional Organization and Computational Properties of Human Auditory Cortex
Samuel Norman-Haignere École Normal Supérieure, Paris |
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| Friday, 12 January 2018 | ||||
| Session 8: Machine Learning II Chair: Ambedkar Dukkipati, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | Discovering Hidden Structure in Data: Sample Complexity in Unsupervised Learning
Ravindran Kannan Microsoft Research Lab, Bangalore |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | An Incremental Fast Policy Search using a Single Sample Path
Shalabh Bhatnagar Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | An Excursion into Network Neuroscience
Vasant Honavar The Pennsylvania State University, University Park |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| Session 9: Audition and Attention Chair: Ambedkar Dukkipati, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Transformation from Sound to Meaning at Five Levels in the Ferret Auditory System
Jonathan Fritz The University of Maryland, College Park |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Cortical Mechanisms for Auditory Selective Attention and Decision Making
Shihab Shamma The University of Maryland, College Park |
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| 16:30–17:30 | Wrap up discussion for the workshop | |||