Redwood Center Inaugural Symposium

UC Berkeley, October 7, 2005

Note: All talks were videotaped and are available here.

Program

8:00-8:45	continental breakfast/registration
8:45-9:00|	Bruno Olshausen, Redwood Center, UC Berkeley Welcome and introduction
9:00-9:45	Horace Barlow, Cambridge University "The Roles of Theory, Commonsense, and Guesswork in Neuroscience"
9:45-10:30	Dan Kersten, University of Minnesota "Human Object Perception: "Theory, Psychophysics & Imaging"
10:30-11:00	break
11:00-11:45	Sue Becker, McMaster University "The role of the hippocampus in memory, contextual gating, stress and depression"
11:45-12:30	Florentin Worgotter, University of Goettingen "Learning in Neurons and Robots"
12:30-2:00	lunch
2:00-2:45	Panel Discussion "The Role and Future Prospects for Math/Computational Theories in Neuroscience"
2:45-3:30	David Heeger, New York University "What fMRI Can Tell Us about How Visual Cortex Works"
10:30-11:00	break
4:00-4:45	Kevan Martin, ETH/UNI Zurich "Canonical Circuits for Neocortex"
4:45-5:30	Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute "Dendritic Darwinism"
5:30-8:30	Reception & Banquet talk Jeff Hawkins, Numenta "Prospects and Problems of Cortical Theory"