Program

 

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

8:30

Registration

8:45

Welcome

 

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE I

9:00

Migliore, Michele

(CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Palermo)

The EBRAINS-Italy Research Infrastructure for Neuroscience Research

9:30

Mattia, Maurizio

(ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ, Roma)

A geometric neural principle for serial ordering

10:00

Mazzoni, Alberto

(Scuola superiore S’Anna, Pisa)

Computational Neuroengineering for Parkinson's Disease

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Sacerdote, Laura

(Università di Torino, Torino)

From single neuron to networks mathematical models

11:30

Barra, Adriano

(Università la Sapienza, Roma)

Does Pavlov Classical Conditioning imply Hebb's learning rule?

12:00

Agliari, Elena

(Università la Sapienza, Roma)

Networks of neural networks: the more is different

12:30

Lunch break - Poster session

MATHEMATICAL NEUROSCIENCE

13:30

Fusi, Stefano (KEYNOTE SPEAKER)

(Columbia University, New York, USA)

The geometry of abstraction in human and non-human primates

NEUROENGINEERING I

14:30

Pedrocchi, Alessandra

(Politecnico di Milano, Milano)

In silico brain models for understanding pathologies

15:00  

Giugliano, Michele

(Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena)

'Broadband' cortical neuronal ensembles

15:30

Coffee break

NEUROENGINEERING II

16:00

Chiappalone, Michela

(Università di Genova, Genova)

Towards personalized neuroengineering solutions to treat brain lesions

16:30

Massobrio, Paolo

(Università di Genova, Genova)

When computational neuroscience meets computational neuroengineering (and vice versa)

17:00 

Poster session

17:30 

End of work


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

STATISTICAL PHYSICS I

9:00

Burioni, Raffaella

(Università di Parma, Parma)

Recurrent Neural Networks for Inference of Population Dynamics in Cortical Circuits

9:30

Marinari, Enzo

(Università la Sapienza, Roma)

Improving the Hopfield like approach

10:00

Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico

(Università la Sapienza, Roma)

Daydreaming Hopfield Networks and their surprising effectiveness on correlated data

10:30

Coffee break

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE II

11:00

Ferraina, Stefano

(Università la Sapienza, Roma)

Dynamic information handling includes neural activity modulation in the frontal areas

11:30

D'Angelo, Egidio

(Università di Pavia, Pavia)

Multiscale brain modelling: from neurons to networks and virtual brains

12:00

Fellin, Tommaso

(ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA, Genova)

Glial place cells: complementary encoding of spatial information in hippocampal astrocytes

12:30

Lunch break - Poster session

 

13:30

Panzeri, Stefano (KEYNOTE SPEAKER)

(UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF, Hamburg, Germany)

Characterizing how neural population codes transmit information downstream

14:30

Olmi, Simona

(CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Firenze)

Next generation neural mass models: short term synaptic plasticity vs spike frequency adaptation

15:00  

Paolucci, Pier S.

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE, Roma)

Brain state specific apical mechanisms for incremental learning and sleep and the cobrawap pipeline

15:30

Coffee break

SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE I

16:00

Pazienti Antonio

(Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma)

Brain and criticality. A contribution from modelling and monkey in vivo data

16:30

Goldt, Sebastian

(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)

Diverse perceptual biases emerge from Hebbian plasticity in a recurrent neural network model

17:00 

Round table: the Italian Network for Computational Neuroscience (INCN)

17:30 

End of work

20.30

Social dinner


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

9:00

Zoccolan, Davide

(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)

Modeling visual perception in rodents using deep convolutional neural networks

9:30

Zorzi, Marco

(Università di Padova, Padova)

Neurocognitive modeling with energy-based deep generative models

10:00

Pezzulo, Giovanni

(CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Roma)

Embodied decision-making and planning

10:30

Coffee break

STATISTICAL PHYSICS II

11:00

De Arcangelis, Lucilla

(Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Napoli)

Spontaneous vs. stimulated brain activity: A statistical physics approach

11:30

Suweis, Samir

(Università di Padova, Padova)

Simple models for neural activity at criticality

12:00

Zecchina, Riccardo

(Bocconi Università, Milano)

Hidden dynamical manifolds in asymmetric attractor networks

12:30

Lunch break - Poster session

13:30

Mante, Valerio (KEYNOTE SPEAKER)

POLITECNICO FEDERALE ZURIGO, Zurigo, Switzerland)

A dynamical systems view on multi-area neural computations

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE III

14:30

Russo, Eleonora

(Scuola superiore S’Anna, Pisa)

Integration of rate and phase codes by hippocampal cell-assemblies supports flexible encoding of spatiotemporal context

15:00  

Sanzeni, Alessandro

(Università la Bocconi, Milano)

Connectome-based models of feature selectivity in a cortical circuit

15:30

Coffee break

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IV

16:00

Scarpetta, Silvia

(Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno)

Memories reservoir and criticality in a spiking modular neural network

16:30

Brunel, Nicolas

(Duke University, USA & Università la Bocconi, Milano)

Behavioral state and stimulus strength regulate the role of somatostatin interneurons in stabilizing cortical network activity 

17:00 

Concluding remarks

17:30 

End of work