Name: 2021 Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Annual Meeting
Start: 2021-01-29T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-01-31T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtual

2021 Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Annual Meeting

from Friday, January 29, 2021 (4:00 PM) to Sunday, January 31, 2021 (4:00 PM)

Monday, January 25, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Opening Remarks - David Tank (Director, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain) Gerry Fischbach (Distinguished Scientist and Fellow, Simons Foundation) Jim Simons (Chairman, Simons Foundation)

5:30 PM Keynote Session - Alyssa Picchini Schaffer (Simons Foundation) Yael Niv (Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University)
Saturday, January 30, 2021

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 8:55 AM
8:55 AM
8:55 AM - 11:15 AM
Contributions

8:55 AM Session Introduction

9:00 AM Communication between Neural Populations: Circuits, Coding, and Behavior - Byron Yu

9:35 AM Neural Substrates of Behavior and Action Selection in Model Organisms - Adrienne Fairhall

9:45 AM Neural Mechanisms of Context Dependent Cognitive Behavior - Stefano Fusi

10:20 AM Leveraging Dynamical Smoothness to Predict Motor Cortex Population Activity - Mark Churchland
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 2:50 PM
Contributions

11:15 AM Session Introduction

11:20 AM Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Sequence and Variability - Michale Fee

11:55 AM The Representation of Internal State in the Fly Brain - Larry Abbott

12:05 PM Neural Computations for Visual Form Processing and Form-based Cognition - Jim DiCarlo Nicole Rust

12:40 PM Dissecting Navigation and the General Logic of Episodic State Computation - Lisa Giocomo
2:50 PM
2:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:50 PM Session Introduction

2:55 PM Plasticity of Global Brain Dynamics: Tunable Neural Integration - Mark Goldman

3:30 PM Integrative Approaches to Understanding Whole-Brain Computation - Misha Ahrens

3:40 PM Dynamical Computation in Populations -- Analysis and Theory - Maneesh Sahani
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Session Introduction

5:05 PM Neuronal Circuit Dynamics Underlying Multi-Time Scale Orchestration of Motor Behaviors - Liam Paninski Manuel Zimmer

5:40 PM Multi-Regional Neuronal Dynamics of Memory-Guided Flexible Behavior - Karel Svoboda Shaul Druckmann

5:50 PM Computation-through-dynamics as a Framework to Link Brain and Behavior - David Sussillo Valerio Mante

6:25 PM Theory of Distributed Persistent Activity in Large-Scale Brain Circuits - Xiao-Jing Wang
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday, January 31, 2021

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:45 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Session Introduction

9:05 AM Discovering Repeating Neural Motifs Representing Sequenced Behavior - Bernardo Sabatini

9:40 AM Population Analysis of Cognitive Variables - David Tank

10:00 AM Breakout Sessions
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Session Introduction

1:50 PM SpikeForest: A Spike Sorting Validation Platform, Website, and Analysis Framework - Jeremy Magland

2:05 PM International Brain Laboratory - Alex Pouget Anne Churchland

2:40 PM Outer Brain and Inner Brain: Computational Principles and Interactions - Doris Tsao Ralph Adolphs

3:15 PM Remapping Across Time, Space and Region - Loren Frank
3:50 PM

3:50 PM - 4:00 PM