9-9:30 AM: Intro: NeurIT: Information theory and the brain
MORNING SESSION I: Foundations: Information measures in neuroscience.
9:30-10:05: Keynote 1: "An Information-Geometric Approach to Brain Complexity". Nihat Ay, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.
10:05-10:20: Invited talk: "Quantifying information interaction between brain regions". Praveen Venkatesh, Allen Institute of Brain Science, USA.
10:20-10:35: Invited talk: "Disentangling communication across populations of neurons". Evren Gokcen, Carnegie Mellon, USA.
10:35-10:50: Invited talk: "O-information: A scalable measure of high-order interdependencies for complex systems". Michael Gastpar, EPFL, Switzerland.
Break + spill over: 10:50-11:05
MORNING SESSION II: Foundations
11:05-11:20: Invited talk: "Discovering changes in networks of neurons". Bobak Nazer, Boston University, USA.
11:20-11:35: Spotlight talk: "Synergy and Redundancy Dominated Effects in Time Series via Transfer Entropy Decompositions". Jan Ostergaard, Aalborg University, Denmark.
11:35-11:50: Spotlight talk: "A Minimal Intervention Definition of Reverse Engineering a Neural Circuit". Pulkit Grover, Carnegie Mellon, USA.
11:50-12:05: Spotlight talk: "Explicit Formula for Partial Information Decomposition". Aobo Lyu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
LUNCH AND PANEL: 12:05-1:30: Lunch + Open Discussion: Important foundational problems for NeurIT
AFTERNOON SESSION I: Applications: Information theory, neuroengineering, and inference
1:30-1:45: Spotlight talk: "Directed Information Flow in Computing Systems with Living Neurons", Lav Varshney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
1:45-2:00: Invited talk: "Neural population communication in latent channels". Amanda Merkley, Carnegie Mellon, USA.
2:00-2:15: Invited talk: "Brain2Sentence". Amin Karbasi, Yale, USA.
2:15-2:30: Invited talk: "Decoding Causal Mapping in Brain-Muscle Communication". Farwa Abbas, Imperial College, UK.
Break: 2:30-2:45
AFTERNOON SESSION II: Applications
2:45-3:00: Spotlight talk: "Optimal Activation Functions via Causal Wyner-Ziv Coding". Hui-An Shen, University of Bern, Switzerland.
3:00-3:15: Spotlight talk: "Modeling Clinical Symptoms of Cognitive Decline in Neurodegenerative Disease as Faulty Computing", Lav Varshney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
3:15-3:30: Invited talk: "Multiscale Wavelet Transfer Entropy with Application to Corticomuscular Coupling in Dystonia". Zhenghao Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China
Break + spill over: 3:30-3:45
3:45-4:30: Open discussion: Key takeaways from morning and afternoon sessions, and what's next?
4:30-4:35: Concluding remarks