BCCN/ICCN Berlin and GRK Alumni Workshop 2019
The BCCN/ICCN Berlin and the GRK "Sensory Computation in Neural Systems" cordially invite alumni, current students and members to join the first BCCN/ICCN Berlin Alumni Workshop in April 2019.
Preliminary Program:
| Thursday, April-04 | |
| 14:00 | Registration with refreshments |
| 15:00 | Official Opening, Welcome |
| Michael Brecht, Klaus Obermayer | |
| 15:15 | Keynote Lecture: Insights from human intracranial electrophysiology on neural computations in speech sound processing, Yulia Oganian, UC San Francisco |
| 16:15 | Coffee break |
| Session "Career inside outside university" | |
| 17:00 | Flashlight – Academia; 3 short talks (Katharina Glomb, Michael Schmuker, Katharina Wilmes) |
| 17:15 | Flashlight – Industry; 3 short talks (Florian Fruth, Jan Gosmann, David Higgins) |
| 17:30 | Panel discussion – Careers within and outside university, moderated by Vinzenz Schönfelder |
| 18:30 | Reception/Dinner |
| Friday, April-05 | |
| 09:00 | Current student's talk: Cellular mechanisms of short term memory, Paul Pfeiffer, ITB, HU Berlin |
| 09:30 | Keynote Lecture: Machine Learning for Automatic Measurement and Improvement of Data Quality (Talk + career overview), Felix Biessmann, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin |
| 10:15 | Alumni talk: Neural and cognitive bases of predictions in music, Vincent Cheung, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 11.15 | Workshop – What kind of Alumni Work would benefit me?, moderated by Martina Mikalikova |
| 13:00 | Poster Session and Lunch Buffet |
| 14:30 | Alumni talk: Effects of single neuron timescales on the dynamics of recurrent neural networks”, Manuel Beiran, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris |
| 15:00 | Current student's talk: Reading-out task variables from neural spike trains in single trials, Veronika Koren, TU Berlin |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 | Workshop Summary |
| 16:45 | Alumni talk: Entrepreneurship as a Career and AI at Mimica, Raphael Holca, Mimica |
| 17:15 | Alumni talk: Natural Language Representation in the Human Brain, Fatma Deniz, UC Berkley |
| 17:45 | Alumni talk: Continuous One-Shot Storage of Sequences in the Hippocampus, Laurenz Wiskott, Ruhr Universität Bochum - this talk has just been cancelled |
| 18:15 | Closing |
| 20:00 | Dinner and/or Night out for those who are interested |
This is an BCCN/ICCN Berlin event only for BCCN alumni and for BCCN/ICCN Berlin members. Registration is closed now, we cannot accept further participants.
Location: BCCN Berlin, lecture hall, Philippstr. 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin