The meeting will take place on three days from 12:45 UTC+1 to 19:00 UTC+1
Invited presentations will last 20 min followed by 5 min for talk-specific questions and slots for open discussion. A choice of contributed abstract will be selected for spotlight presentations, followed by a joint question time. Meeting will be recorded and the links to the videos will be added when available.
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 – Thursday October 8 2020
12:45 UTC+1
Welcome
13:00 UTC+1
Joe LIZIER (Sydney, Australia)
Universalities in intrinsic information processing properties around criticality in many systems?
Demian BATTAGLIA (Marseille & Strasbourg, France)
Complex switching between information processing states in the hippocampus and enthorinal cortex
Open discussion
14:00 UTC+1
Tiago LINS-RIBEIRO (Bethesda, MD)
Trial-by-trial variability in cortical responses exhibits scaling in spatial correlations predicted from critical dynamics
Matias PALVA (Helsinki, Finland)
Critical bistability in human brain dynamics
Open discussion
15:00 UTC+1
30 min break
15:30 UTC+1
Chris MEISEL (Dresden, Germany)
Testing the criticality hypothesis in humans: pharmacologically manipulating the distance to criticality?
Michelle GIRVAN (College Park, MD)
Phase Transitions and Criticality in Biological Networks: Implications for Genes and Neurons
Open discussion
16:30 UTC+1
60 min break (~Lunch for EDT time)
17:30 UTC+1
Selected SPOTLIGHT TALKS
Fabian Schubert (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) – Local homeostatic regulation of the spectral radius of echo-state networks
Shruti Naik (Saclay, France) – Richly Structured Event-Related Variability and its Development in Early Infancy
Arthur‐Ervin Avramiea (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Pre-stimulus phase and amplitude regulation of phase-locked responses are maximized in the critical state
18:00 UTC+1
CLOSING ROUND TABLE
Conclusions, perspectives, announcements and plans
19:00 UTC+1
End of day
quick Time zone conversion
| Sydney (+10h) | 23:00 | 1:30 | 3:30+1 | 4:00+1 | 5:00+1 |
| Jerusalem (+2h) | 15:00 | 17:30 | 19:30 | 20:00 | 21:00 |
| Rome (+1h) | 14:00 | 16:30 | 18:30 | 19:00 | 20:00 |
| London (UTC+1) | 13:00 | 15:30 | 17:30 | 18:00 | 19:00 |
| Buenos Aires (-4h) | 9:00 | 11:30 | 13:30 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| Washington, DC (-5h) | 8:00 | 10:30 | 12:30 | 13:00 | 14:00 |
| San Francisco (-8h) | 5:00 | 7:30 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 11:00 |