Phase-2 will take place on Feb. 23-25, 2022 in San Juan (PR) and remotely
This page is updated with the most current schedule
Wednesday, Feb. 23
8:00-9:00 Breakfast at Salon Pauli (Hotel El Convento) where we will also have the presentations
9:00 Welcome and opening remarks
Emerald
(Addressing challenges: presentations and discussions moderated by the speakers. * are remote)
9:30 Konrad Kording: Power and Causality
9:50 Horacio G. Rotstein: Theoretical neuroscience frameworks: integrating dynamics and statistics
10:10 Kenta Asahina: Why and how the nervous system generates variable, but not random, behavior?
10:30* Gert Cauwenberghs: A case for neural diversity from a neuromorphic systems perspective
10:50 break (coffee and quesitos)
Sapphire
11:05* Benjamin L de Bivort: What do you do with 80 million decisions?
11:25* Pavan Ramdya: Biological data and morphologically-realistic neuromechanical models: a match made in heaven
11:45 Demba Ba: Learning Representations across Species
12:05 C. Randy Gallistel: Do behavioral data constrain in any way neuroscientific theories of learning and memory?
12:25 Lunch (at hotel)
Ruby
2:00* Barbara Webb: Behaviour as a constraint for neural models
2:20 Ann Kennedy: Bringing theory into experimental study of complex behavior
2:40* Randall D. Beer: Milking a spherical cow: The role of toy models in neuroscience
3:00* Mitra Hartmann: Using mechanical models for neuroscience
Topaz
3:30 Andrew Leifer: The promise of direct measurements of functional connectivity
3:50* Sara A Solla: From neural modes to behavioral modes
4:10 Adam Douglass: Neuromodulation in space, time, and behavioral context
4:30 Mala Murthy: Linking connectomics, functional imaging, and behavioral dynamics: insights from Drosophila
5:00 Walking tour of Old San Juan
7:30 Dinner (at hotel) and free time
Thursday, Feb. 24
8:00-9:00 Breakfast at Salon Pauli (Hotel El Convento)
9:00 Second day remarks
Amethyst
9:30* Katherine Nagel: Using navigation to understand similarities and differences in neural circuits across evolution
9:50* Alex Gomez-Marin: When bigger is not better / Conflating metaphors, models and metaphysics
10:10 Florian Engert: How to leverage connectomes?
10:30 Aurel A. Lazar: Semantic and Syntactic Information in the Age of Connectomics
10:50 break (coffee and quesitos)
Diamond
11:05* Hillel Chiel: Variability is not noise, but the signal
11:25 Farzan Nadim: What does inter-animal variability mean for function?
11:45* Netta Cohen: Individual variability of wiring in C. elegans
12:05* Eve Marder: The role of theory in understanding the degenerate mechanisms controlling circuit dynamics
12:25 Lunch (at Salon Pauli)
1:30 Define challenges (plenary): six whiteboards, four with original wording of challenges. All move around the room, stop, and discuss at the board of interest and add to the boards.
Well defined challenges
2:30 Break
3:00 Discuss challenges (parallel): split into workgroups, each group prepares a presentation to clarify the challenge and outline solutions.
5:30 Break
6:00 Present challenges (plenary): each group presents, followed by general discussion.
Outline solutions for well-defined challenges
7:00 Fancy Dinner: Princesa Cocina Cultura
Friday, Feb. 25
8:00-9:00 Breakfast at Salon Pauli (Hotel El Convento)
9:00 Third day Remarks
9:30 Prepare recommendations (parallel): each group prepares a presentation on a solution with the best level of details.
10:30 break (coffee and quesitos)
11:00 Present recommendations (plenary): each group presents, followed by general discussion.
Tangible solutions for well-defined challenges
12:15 Lunch (at Salon Pauli)
Travel in the times of COVID-19:
Fortunately, Puerto Rico has strict regulations for travelling (https://www.travelsafe.pr.gov)
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico requires all visitors to fill out a travel declaration about vaccination status or testing (https://1link.travelsafe.pr.gov ; you will need the address of Hotel El Convento: ‘100 Cristo Street, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901’). You can fill the declaration as soon as you have a ticket and you will get a QR code to present at the airport.
It is useful to bring digital and hard copies of your vaccination or test records. In addition, you could register and use the Cesco app (https://www.prits.pr.gov/vacu-id ) that is accepted in many places.