Chicago, IL 60611 United States
Overview
Part of the NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience
This workshop will explore the intersection of probabilistic inference and neuroscience, highlighting approaches for extracting probabilistic models from ever-larger neural datasets and for understanding how the brain itself does inference. The workshop will explore themes including: Learning of internal models of the environment; Decision-making from inferred probabilities; Probabilistic model inference using neurons; Information bottleneck in neurons; Stochastic dynamics in neural computation; Unsupervised learning; and Fitting probabilistic models to large-scale neural recordings. The workshop program will include invited talks, focused discussions, and informal exchange seeking to develop unifying frameworks of probabilistic inference within neuroscience.
Participants
Organizers
Participants
- Athena Akrami – University College London
- Omri Barak – Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology
- Carlos Brody – Princeton University
- Jenna Cohen – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Christine Constantinople – New York University
- Tahra Eissa – University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
- Andrew J.P. Fink – Northwestern University
- James Fitzgerald – Northwestern University
- Loren Frank – University of California San Francisco
- Maria Geffen – University of Pennsylvania
- Dileep George – Astera Institute
- Shawn Khanna – Brown University
- Savik Kinger – Yale University
- Máté Lengyel – University of Cambridge
- Chris Lynn – Yale University
- Malcolm MacIver – Northwestern University
- Leenoy Meshulam – Brown University
- Zachary “Xaq” Pitkow – Carnegie Mellon University
- Luisa Ramirez Ochoa – Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz
- Bennet Sakelaris – Sorbonne University
- Carl Schoonover – Allen Brain Institute
- Abdul “AB” Sirajudeen – University of Houston
- Murugan Varadhan – Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
- Siwei Wang – Stony Brook University
- Bakhtiyar “Bahti” Zakirov – Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- Ling-Qi Zhang – HHMI Janelia Research Campus
- Wenhao Zhang – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Scholars-in-Residence
- Loris Amalberti – Israel Institute of Technology – Technion
- Ethan Baxter – Northwestern University
- Carlos “Joaquin” Castañeda Castro – Brown University
- Zimei Chen – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Kabir Dabholkar – Princeton University
- Julia Fadjukov – Northwestern University
- Pierre-Etienne Fiquet – Flatiron Institute
- Aditi Jha – Stanford University
- Saar Nehemia – Israel Institute of Technology – Technion
- Sonja Petrovic – Illinois Institute Technology
- Ngoc Anh Phan – Brandeis University
- Shuqi Wang – EPFL
- Peter Xu – University of Chicago
- Xiaoyu Yang – University of Chicago
- Jie Zang – Brown University