Speakers

Romain Brette Romain Brette

Vision Institute, Paris, France

Will talk about:
Brian for neuromorphic computing

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Vladimir Brezina Vladimir Brezina

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, United States

Will talk about:
Making the connectome work: Lessons from simple systems

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Ann-Shyn Chiang Ann-Shyn Chiang

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Will talk about:
Neuroinformatics of the Fly Brain

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Richard Frackowiak Richard Frackowiak

EPFL , Lausanne, Switzerland

Will talk about:
What can modern informatics bring to an understanding of diseases of the brain?

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Teiichi Furuichi Teiichi Furuichi

Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Will talk about:
The molecular mechanisms of brain development and disorders

Session:
Keynote lecture

Giacomo Indiveri Giacomo Indiveri

University of Zurich/ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Will talk about:
Learning and plasticity in neuromorphic systems

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Paul S. Katz Paul S. Katz

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States

Will talk about:
Comparative neural circuitry in sea slugs; a multiplicity of mechanisms to produce species-specific behaviors

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Walter Koroshetz Walter Koroshetz

NIH, NINDS , Bethesda, MD, United States

Will talk about:
The NIH Brain Iniative: computing from action potentials to behavior

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Thomas Lippert Thomas Lippert

Forschungzentrum Jülich/University of Wuppertal , Jülich, Germany

Will talk about:
Creating the HPC and Data Analytics Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project

Session:
Keynote lecture

Arthur Lowery Arthur Lowery

Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Will talk about:
Monash Vision Group’s Cortical Bionic Eye System: a wireless cortical stimulator

Session:
Keynote lecture

John Reynolds John Reynolds

University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand

Will talk about:
Dopamine and learning mechanisms in the basal ganglia

Session:
Keynote lecture

Tadashi Yamazaki Tadashi Yamazaki

The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Will talk about:
Building a 1 mm^3 cerebellar module on a computer

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Runchun Mark Wang Runchun Mark Wang

University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Will talk about:
Neuromorphic Engineering: New computational paradigms inspired by the brain

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Yoko Yamaguchi Yoko Yamaguchi

RIKEN Brain Science Institute, , Japan

Will talk about:
The role of the J-Node in Brain/MINDS

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2