MLLS 2010      Second German-Korean Workshop on Machine Learning in Life Sciences
Computational Neuroscience

Program

Registration will open at 9:00 on both workshop days. Since we can accept only a limited number of participants, pre-registration via our website is mandatory.

Tuesday, Feb 2:

09:30 Welcome Address   Klaus Obermayer
Organizer
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Location:
BCCNB
09:40 Morning session
Chair:
Klaus Obermayer
09:40-10:20 Higher-Order Markov Models for Learning Sequential Recall Memory
Byoung-Tak Zhang
Seoul National University, Korea
10:20-11:00 The variable discharge of cortical neurons revisited
Martin Nawrot
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Morning session
Chair:
Klaus Obermayer
11:30-12:10 Emergent functional structures and neural correlates of consciousness in the brain
Seunghwan Kim
POSTECH, Korea
12:10-12:50 Approximate Inference for continuous time Markov processes
Manfred Opper
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
12:50 Lunch buffet
14:00 Afternoon session
Chair:
Byoung-Tak Zhang
14:00-14:40 Trial-to-trial variability of spike response of V1 and saccadic response time
Choongkil Lee
Seoul National University, Korea
14:40-15:20 How subthreshold membrane-potential resonances can shape spike-train patterns
Susanne Schreiber
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
15:20 Coffee break
15:50 Afternoon session
Chair:
Byoung-Tak Zhang
15:50-16:30 Zero-Crossing-Based Sound Source Localization and Segregation
Rhee Man Kil
KAIST, Korea
16:30-17:10 Machine Learning for Critical Feature Extraction
Felix Wichmann
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
19:00 Welcome Dinner for Speakers N.N.

Wednesday, Feb 3:

09:30 Morning
session

Chair:
Byoung-Tak Zhang
09:30-10:10 Modelling Cortical Representations
Klaus Obermayer
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Location:
BCCNB
10:10-10:50 Combining unsupervised learning and linear discriminant analysis for efficient feature extraction based on subtle differences
Soo-Young Lee
KAIST, Korea
10:50 Coffee break
11:20 Morning
session

Chair:
Byoung-Tak Zhang
11:20-12:00 Waiting times and correlated spiking of neurons
Lutz Schimansky-Geier
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
12:00-12:40 Hypernetwork Models for Sequential Context Learning: Application to Music Generation
Byoung-Hee Kim
Seoul National University, Korea
12:40 Lunch buffet
14:00 Afternoon
session

Chair:
Klaus Obermayer
14:00-14:40 An efficient feature selection wrapper with paired t-test for naive Bayes classifiers: an application to microarray data
Kyu-Baek Hwang
Soongsil University, Korea
14:40-15:20 Decoding conscious and unconscious mental states from brain activity: From basic science to applied neurotechnology
John-Dylan Haynes
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
15:20 Coffee break
15:50 Afternoon
session

Chair:
Klaus Obermayer
15:50-16:30 Machine learning techniques in functional neuroimaging of mental disorders
Phillip Sterzer
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
16:30 Closing of the Workshop   Klaus Obermayer

 

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