Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization -- Department for Nonlinear Dynamics and Network Dynamics Group
Personal tools
Log in
  All Events      
Go to:  May 2013   Archive

Upcoming events:

May 2013
Tuesday
21.05.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Tobias Moser
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
PD Dr. Dr. Andreas Bahmer
Department of Audiological Acoustics, ENT Department, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Neuroimplantate: Theorie, Experiment und klinische Anwendung
Tuesday
28.05.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Demian Battaglia
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Robert Shapley
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, USA
Things look black for the receptive field hypothesis in the primary visual cortex (V1)
Wednesday
29.05.2013
15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
MPI Kolloquium
Javier Buceta Fernández, Ph.D.
Barcelona Sience Park (PCB) CoSMo Lab (Computer Simulation and Modeling), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Chinese whispers: noise in Quorum Sensing
June 2013
Tuesday
04.06.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  André Fiala (Schwann-Schleiden Forschungszentrum)
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Georg Nagel
Julius-von-Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Botanik I, Würzburg
Characterization and engineering of photoreceptors for optogenetic applications

List in chronological order:

July 2013
Tuesday
09.07.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Kerstin Schmidt
Brain Institute - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
The callosal connection: a connection like any other?
Wednesday
03.07.2013
15:15 s.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
MPI Kolloquium
Ph.D. Margaret C. Crofoot
University of Konstanz, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell
Movement Ecology in a data-rich world
Tuesday
02.07.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Dominika Lyzwa
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Tatyana Sharpee
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Information theoretic principles in learning and decision making
June 2013
Wednesday
26.06.2013
15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/utc/
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Albert Goldbeter
Faculté des Sciences Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
The cell cycle and the circadian clock: Dynamics of two coupled cellular rhythms
Monday
24.06.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Demian Battaglia
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Charles Gray
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Dynamics of Cortico-cortical Interactions Underlying Visual Working Memory
Tuesday
18.06.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dipl. Phys. Viola Priesemann
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Self- organized criticality as a universal brain state from wakefulness to deep sleep? Results from intracranial depth recordings in humans
Wednesday
05.06.2013
15:15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Dominika Lyzwa
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Dominique Langevin
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Université Pris Sud., Orsay, France
Physical chemistry of Foams
Tuesday
04.06.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  André Fiala (Schwann-Schleiden Forschungszentrum)
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Georg Nagel
Julius-von-Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Botanik I, Würzburg
Characterization and engineering of photoreceptors for optogenetic applications
May 2013
Wednesday
29.05.2013
15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
MPI Kolloquium
Javier Buceta Fernández, Ph.D.
Barcelona Sience Park (PCB) CoSMo Lab (Computer Simulation and Modeling), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Chinese whispers: noise in Quorum Sensing
Tuesday
28.05.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Demian Battaglia
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Robert Shapley
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, USA
Things look black for the receptive field hypothesis in the primary visual cortex (V1)
Tuesday
21.05.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Tobias Moser
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
PD Dr. Dr. Andreas Bahmer
Department of Audiological Acoustics, ENT Department, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Neuroimplantate: Theorie, Experiment und klinische Anwendung
Today No event
Wednesday
15.05.2013
17 c.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Yashar Ahmadian
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, NY, USA
Interplay of random and structured connectivity in the dynamics of neural networks
April 2013
Tuesday
30.04.2013
17 c.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Dominika Lyzwa
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Jennifer Linden
The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL Ear Institute, London, UK
A specific deficit in auditory adaptation in a mouse model of human neurodevelopmental disorders
Tuesday
23.04.2013
17 c.t.
big lecture hall (L01), Von-Siebold-Str. 6, side entrance, 37075 Göttingen
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Brent Doiron
Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, USA
The idling brain: the formation and maintenance of spontaneous cortical dynamics
Monday
15.04.2013
11 s.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Fred Wolf
Sonderseminar
Alireza Chenani
Universität Uppsala , Schweden
Stringy Description of the Universe
February 2013
Tuesday
05.02.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Yonatan Loewenstein
Department of Neurobiology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Is there "value" in reinforcement learning?
January 2013
Thursday
31.01.2013
11 s.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN Sonderseminar
Prof. Dr. Fidel Santamaria
University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA circle, USA
Fractional neuro-dynamics: from biochemical reactions to spiking activity
Wednesday
30.01.2013
14:15 s.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Hans Jürgen Herrmann
ETH Zürich, Institut für Baustoffe (IfB)
Watershed Percolation
Tuesday
29.01.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Menahem Segal
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Emergence of synchronized activity in small networks of cultured central neurons
Tuesday
22.01.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Bi
School of Life Sciences University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Reverberatory activity in a prototypic Hebbian cell assembly
Wednesday
16.01.2013
15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Didier Sornette
ETH Zurich, Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zurich Switzerland
Discrete scale invariance and log-periodicity in material rupture, growth processes, turbulence, finance and other systems
Tuesday
15.01.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Andreas Neef
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Romain Brette
Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Computing with neural synchrony: an ecological approach to neural computation
Tuesday
08.01.2013
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Guillaume Lajoie
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Chaos and reliability in fluctuation-driven, balanced spiking networks
December 2012
Wednesday
19.12.2012
10 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Gabriel B. Mindlin
Laboratorio de sistemas dinámicos, Departamento de Fisica, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Complex rhythms in birdsong
Tuesday
18.12.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Gabriel B. 'Mindlin
Laboratorio de sistemas dinámicos, Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Elemental motor gesture dynamics are encoded by song premotor cortical neurons in songbirds
Tuesday
11.12.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Claudia Clopath
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, USA
Cerebellar learning - A model of vestibulo-ocular reflex adaptation
November 2012
Tuesday
20.11.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Rainer Engelken
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Jonas Peters
Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Causal Inference on Time Series using Structural Equation Models
Thursday
15.11.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Michael Thaut
Colorado State University, USA
Entrainment and the Motor System – Basic Science and Applications to Neurorehabilitation
October 2012
Wednesday
24.10.2012
15:15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Naama Brenner
Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Universal Protein Distributions in Microorganism Populations
Monday
15.10.2012
11 s.t.
Raum F2.125, Gebäude der Dritten Physik, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1
Contact:  Florentin Wörgötter
BFNT/BCCN Sonderseminar
Prof. Dr. Fumitoshi Matsuno
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Kyoto University, Japan
Rescue Robot Systems - From Snake Robot to Human Interface
Tuesday
02.10.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Demian Battaglia
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Iris Grothe
Center for Cognitive Science, Brain Research Institute, Bremen; Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt
Selective signal routing during attention – the role of interareal synchronization
September 2012
Monday
17.09.2012
14 c.t.
Hörsaal Haus 8 (Bunsenstr.)
Contact:  Marc Timme
MPI Advance
Prof. Yuri Maistrenko
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Chimera states for repulsively coupled phase oscillators
Monday
03.09.2012
Contact:  David Hofmann
August 2012
Thursday
30.08.2012
17 c.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Ed Boyden
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
Optogenetics, Robotic Electrophysiology, and Other Neural Circuit Tools
Tuesday
21.08.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
Arbeitsgruppen-Seminar
Dr. Eduardo G. Altmann
Dynamical system and Social Dynamics Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
Burstiness and long-range correlation in natural language
June 2012
Tuesday
26.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lindner
Theory of Complex Systems and Neurophysics, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin
Spontaneous activity and signal transfer in neural systems
Tuesday
12.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Jaime de la Rocha
Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
Neuronal variability and its relation to perceptual decision making
Thursday
07.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Gilles Laurent, Ph.D.
MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main
Building sparse memories for odor signals
May 2012
Tuesday
29.05.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Christian Machens
Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Dynamics of an oculomotor integrator revealed by instantaneous optogenetic perturbations