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 – Tuesday October 6 2020 | Day 2 | Day 3
12:45 UTC+1
Welcome
13:00 UTC+1
Tomas GRIGERA (La Plata, Argentina)
Static and dynamic criticality in midge swarms
Anna LEVINA (Tübingen, Germany)
Branching network approximation and optimal dynamic range
Open discussion
14:00 UTC+1
Paolo MASSOBRIO (Genova, Italy)
Searching for elements that make a cortical assembly Self-Organized Critical
Miguel MUÑOZ (Granada, Spain)
Hybrid collective excitability: where marginal synchronization, scale-free avalanches, and dynamical complexity live together
Open discussion
15:00 UTC+1
30 min break
15:30 UTC+1
Viktor JIRSA (Marseille, France)
Invariance and symmetry in brain network dynamics
Katharina GLOMB (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Harmonic modes as an organizational principle of the human cortex
Open discussion
16:30 UTC+1
60 min break (~Lunch for EDT time)
17:30 UTC+1
Selected SPOTLIGHT TALKS
Kanika Bansal (New York, NY) – Cognitive connotations of neural avalanches in human brain dynamics
Daniel Korchinski (Calgary, Canada) – Criticality without time-scale separation between avalanche initiation and spreading
Joel Hochstetter (Sydney, Australia) – Avalanches and the edge-of-chaos in neuromorphic nanowire networks
18:00 UTC+1
Surya GANGULI (Stanford, CA)
Dynamic criticality in brains and machines: from perception in visual cortex to training deep networks.
Dietmar PLENZ (Bethesda, MD)
Critical branching processes, neuronal avalanche scaling and oscillations
Closing discussion
19:00 UTC+1
End of day
| 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) | 9:00 | 10:30 | 12:30 | 13:00 | 14:00 |
| San Francisco (-8h) | 5:00 | 7:30 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 11:00 |