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. All program abstracts are available here.
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 – Wednesday November 6 2024 | Day 2 | Day 3
8:45
Welcome
9:00
Computation
Pedro MEDIANO (London, UK)
Beyond correlation: High-order structure in critical neural systems
Miguel MUÑOZ (Granada, Spain)
Scaling of brain activity and optimal functionality: from real neurons to artificial intelligence
10:15
30 min break
10:45
Experiments
Jason MacLEAN (Chicago, IL)
Dynamic functional networks: A graph-theory approach to understanding flexible computation in neocortex
Demian BATTAGLIA (Strasbourg, France)
Dynamic functional networks: “how” and “why”
12:00
90 min break (~Lunch for EST time)
13:30
SELECTED SPOTLIGHT TALKS (4 x 5 mins + 10 min discussion)
Xiaowen CHEN (Paris, France) – Searching for long timescales without fine tuning
Chaitanya CHINTALURI (Klosterneuburg, Austria) – What is the snow in a neural avalanche?
Cédric STEFENS (London, UK) – Mesoscopic multiphoton calcium imaging reveals a confluence of overlapping avalanches with varying distance to criticality and distinct roles
Hardik RAJPAL (London, UK) – Differences in the scaling of spatial Information-processing signatures in mouse cortex
14:00
Neuronal Dynamics & Criticality
Audrey SEDERBERG (Atlanta, GA)
Understanding diverse signatures of neural criticality using the dynamic latent variable model
Tiago RIBEIRO (Bethesda, MD)
Critical scaling of novel spikes in cortical networks in vivo
15:15
15 min break
15:30
Collective Decision Making
Special lecture
Carmen MIGUEL (Barcelona, Spain)
Signatures of criticality in animal collective decision-making
16:30
Closing discussion
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 |