The meeting will take place on three days in hybrid format. Presentations will be live, with substantial discussion time and recorded for offline (re-)viewing. A choice of contributed abstract will be selected for spotlight presentations.
Posters (online and in presence) are on show all time, questions for online posters can be posted as comments. Discussion time with poster presenters planned on Day 2.
All times in Bethesda, MD time (EST), see time conversion table below for other time zones.
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 – Wednesday November 9 2022
8:45
Announcements
9:00
Changsong ZHOU (Hong Kong, PRC)
Cost-Efficient Neural Dynamics from Sparse Irregular Spikes to Avalanches: Reconciling Multilevel Spontaneous and Evoked Activity in E-I Balanced Neural Networks at Criticality
Lucilla DE ARCANGELIS (Caserta, Italy)
Alpha Rhythm as a Pacemaker for Network Excitability
Mauro COPELLI (Recife, Brazil)
Criticality and Cortical States
10:45
30 min break
11:15
Arvind KUMAR (Stockholm, Sweden)
Role of Input Correlations in Shaping the Trial-By-Trial Variability in a Model of Neocortex
Anna LEVINA (Tübingen, Germany)
Maintenance and Selection of Neuronal States Powered by the Self-Organization
12:30
60 min break (~Lunch for EST time)
13:30
3 spotlight talks
Megan Boucher-Routhier (Ottawa, ON) – Deep Generative Adversarial Networks Capturing Complex Spiral Waves in Disinhibited Cortical Circuits
Marie-Constance Corsi (Paris, France) – Exploiting Brain Critical Dynamics to Inform Brain-Computer Interface Performance
Asem Wardak (Cambdridge, MA) – Extended Anderson Criticality in Heavy-Tailed Neural Networks
14:00
Michelle GIRVAN (College Park, MD)
Brain-Inspired Machine Learning and the Advantages of Robust Critical-Like Dynamics
Mac SHINE (Sydney, Australia)
Computational Models Link Cellular Mechanisms of Neuromodulation to Large-Scale Neural Dynamics
Pawel ROMANCZUK (Berlin, Germany)
Self-organization, Criticality and Collective Information Processing in Animal Groups
15:45
15 min break
16:00
Special lecture
Henrik JENSEN (London, UK)
What Happens in the Vicinity of the Critical Point and How Do You Get There?
17:00
Open forum and future plans
18:00
End of meeting
quick Time zone conversion
Valid on November 7th-9th 2022
| Honolulu, HI (-5h) | 3:45 | 6:00 | 9:00 | 11:00 | 13:00 |
| San Diego, CA (-3h) | 5:45 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 13:00 | 15:00 |
| Boulder, CO (-2h) | 6:45 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 14:00 | 16:00 |
| St Louis, MO (-1h) | 7:45 | 10:00 | 13:00 | 15:00 | 17:00 |
| Bethesda, MD | 8:45 | 11:00 | 14:00 | 16:00 | 18:00 |
| Buenos Aires (+2h) | 10:45 | 13:00 | 16:00 | 18:00 | 20:00 |
| London (+5h) | 13:45 | 16:00 | 19:00 | 21:00 | 23:00 |
| Rome (+6h) | 14:45 | 17:00 | 20:00 | 22:00 | 0:00+1 |
| Hong Kong (+13h) | 21:45 | 0:00+1 | 3:00+1 | 5:00+1 | 7:00+1 |
| Sydney (+16h) | 0:45+1 | 3:00+1 | 6:00+1 | 8:00+1 | 10:00+1 |