Monday May 21.  3-7pm Executive Board Meeting. Maison Suger.

Main meeting. Institut des Etudes Avancées. Ile Saint Louis. Paris.

Institut des Etudes Avancées

17 quai d’Anjou

Ile Saint Louis, 75004 Paris

http://www.paris-iea.fr/en/

Tuesday May 22nd

Morning Chair: Ilana Witten

9:00 Michael Hausser - State of the Union Address.

9:30 Working group reports: Tony Zador, Anne Urai, Michael Schartner, Masa Murakami, Lauren Wool, Fanny Cazettes, Nicco Bonacchi - Behavior update.

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Working group reports: Ken Harris, Cyrille Rossant and Miles Wells - Data sharing platform.

12:15 Tim Harris - The future of Neuropixel probes.

12:30 Lunch break

Afternoon Chair: Surya Ganguli

14:00 INVITED Jeremy Freeman. CZI. Open and collaborative science: lessons from the human cell atlas.

14:45 Zach Mainen - Foraging task.

15:15 Anne Churchland - Movement-related activity dominates cortex during sensory-guided decision making

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 INVITED Nick Steinmetz (UCL) - Local and global neural correlates of decision making in the mouse brain.

17:00 Sonja Hofer - Complex visual behaviour in mice.

17:30 Break

18:00 Public lecture. Christof Koch - Consciousness in Humans and Animals But Not in Computers.

20:00 Group dinner at Le Polidor, 41 Rue Monsieur le Prince, 75006 Paris Directions (20 minute walk)

Wednesday May 23nd

8:30 Closed session. IBL PIs and postdocs only

10:30 break

Morning Chair: Matteo Carandini

11:00 Alexandre Pouget - Theories of optimal decision making.

11:30 Computational theories: Surya Ganguli - Theoretical and computational framework underlying IBL.

12:15 Lunch break (SAB/funders: Antechamber. Others: Courtyard)

Afternoon Chair: Dora Angelaki

13:45 Christof Koch: AI and IBL

14:30 Computational theories: Peter Latham - Interareal information transmission.

15:00 Experimental techniques: Ilana Witten - Specialized and spatially organized coding of sensory, motor, and cognitive variables in midbrain dopamine neurons.

15:30 break

16:00 INVITED Kristin Branson. Janelia - Analyzing animal behavior using machine vision.

16:45 Data analysis:

Jonathan Pillow - Tracking psychophysical curves over the course of learning.

Ila Fiete - Unsupervised technique for revealing coding manifold.

18:00 Closing remarks

18:15 Feedback from SAB to PIs

19:30 PI Dinner