Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Event | Speaker/Performer | Title/Subject | Time |
Registration | Executive committee | Registration | 8:00 – 10:00 |
Openning | Dr. Reza Lashgari | Introduction | 9:00 – 9:15 |
Openning | Dr. Mohammd-Javad Larijani | Opening remarks | 9:15 – 9:30 |
Lecture | Prof. Kenneth Miller | The stabilized supralinear network, or the importance of being loosely balanced | 9:30 – 11:15 |
Break | 11:15 – 12:00 | ||
Lecture | Prof. Alexander Thiele | Effects of attention on different cell types and information transfer across cortical laminae in areas V1 and V4 of the macaque monkey | 12:00 – 12:45 |
Lunch time | 12:45 – 14:00 | ||
Short Course | Prof. Kenneth Miller & Dr. Yashar Ahmadian | The Operating Regime of Cortex and The Loosely Balanced State | 14:00 – 16:00 |
Break & Poster Presentation Workshop on Attention by Prof. Alexander Thiele |
16:00 – 16:30 | ||
Lecture | Prof. Alexandre Pouget | The Agony of Choice: Optimal Policies for Value-based Decision Making (by Video conference) | 16:30 – 17:30 |
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Event | Speaker/Performer | Title/Subject | Time |
Lecture | Prof. Pieter R. Roelfsema | Interactions between the visual and frontal cortex during visual perception and the emergence of awareness | 9:00 – 10:00 |
Lecture | Prof. Winrich Freiwald | The dual face: vision’s inroad into the social brain | 10:00 – 11:00 |
Break | 11:00 – 11:30 | ||
Lecture | To be announced | To be announced | 11:30 – 12:30 |
Lunch time | 12:30 – 14:00 | ||
Short Course | Prof. Winrich Freiwald | To be announced | 14:00 – 15:00 |
Lecture | Prof. Mohsen Farvardin | The End of Blindness (First Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Implantation in IRAN) | 15:00 – 16:00 |
Break & Poster Presentation | 16:00 – 17:00 | ||
Lecture | To be announced | To be announced | 17:00 – 18:00 |
Friday, February 2, 2018
Event | Speaker/Performer | Title/Subject | Time |
Workshop | Prof. Alexander Thiele | Modulating Human Brain Function with Neurofeedback | 9:00 – 10:30 |
Break | 10:30 – 10:50 | ||
Lecture | Dr. Reza Razlighi | Hierarchical structure of the brain’s large-scale networks | 10:50 – 11:40 |
Lecture | Prof. Qasim Zaidi | Functions of excitatory intra-cortical interactions | 11:40 – 12:30 |
Lunch time | 12:30 – 14:00 | ||
Short Course | Prof. Kenneth Miller and Dr. Yashar Ahmadian | Noise-limited Inference Predicts Facilitatory Normalization in the Visual Cortex | 14:00 – 16:00 |
Break & Poster Presentation | 16:00 – 16:30 | ||
Lecture | Prof. Reza Shadmehr | Encoding of action by the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum (by Video conference) | 16:30 – 17:30 |
Closing | Dr. Ali Ghazizadeh | Closing Talk | 17:30 – 18:00 |