Swiss Computational Neuroscience Retreat 2022

Crans Montana, 2-4 March 2022

Day 1Wednesday 2 MarchPresentation Title
14:00 – 14:30Alberto Chiappa, EPFLAdaptive reinforcement learning
Discussion 10 min
14:40 – 15:10Alexander Meulemanns, ETHZStrong deep feedback control: minimizing control for credit assignment with strong feedback
Discussion 10 min
15:20 – 15:50Anja Zai, ETHZLatent reinforcement learning
Discussion 10 min
16:00 – 16:30BREAK
16:30 – 17:00Friedemann Zenke, FMISelf-calibrating analog neuromorphic hardware through surrogate gradients
Discussion 10 min
17:10 – 17:40Christian Horvat, UZHDensity estimation on low-dimensional manifolds
Discussion 10 min
17:50 – 18:20Everton Agnes, University of BaselRegimes and mechanisms of transient amplification in abstract and biological neural networks
Discussion 10 min
End of Day 1 – Dinner
Day 2Thursday 3 MarchPresentation Title
09:00 – 09:30Jakob Jordan, University of BernCortical representation learning & Bayes-optimal cue integration
Discussion 10 min
09:40 – 10:10Johanni Brea, EPFLCan Food Caching Birds Mentally Travel in Time
Discussion 10 min
10:20 – 10:30BREAK
10:30 – 11:00Mathias Bethge, EPFL Visiting ProfessorPredicting where people look
Discussion 10 min
11:10 – 11:40Victoria Shavina, UZHDivisive normalization shapes evidence accumulation in a novel decision-making task
Discussion 10 min
11:50 – 12:20Nicolas Zucchet, ETHZOn biologically-plausible meta-learning
Discussion 10 min
LUNCH – ski afternoon!
Day 3Friday 4 MarchPresentation Title
09:00 – 09:30Steffen Schneider, EPFLLearnable latent embeddings for dissecting neural representations in somatosensory cortex
Discussion 10 min
09:40 – 10:10Pablo Tano, University of GenevaFast and expressive learning in a diverse temporal difference system
10:20 – 10:50BREAK
10:50 – 11:20Paul Haider, University of BernLatent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons
Discussion 10 min
11:30 – 12:00Simone Blanco Malerba, IOBRandom compressed coding with Neurons
Discussion 10 min
12:10 – 12:40Yassir Akram, ETHZTBC
LUNCH – End of retreat

Grand Hôtel du Parc

Route du Parc 5,

3963 CRANS-MONTANA, Valais

https://parc-hotel.ch/

(If you intend to travel by car, parking is available at the hotel)

www.sbb.ch

From Geneva/Lausanne

  • Take the train IR90 from Geneva/Lausanne to Sierre/Siders (direction Brig)
  • Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare

From Bern

  • Take the train IC8 or EC to Visp (direction Brig)
  • From Visp to Sierre/Siders take train IR90 (direction Geneve-aeroport)
  • Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare

From Basel

  • There are various possible routes to Sierre/Siders, please see sbb.ch
  • Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare

From Zurich

  • Take the train IC8 Visp (direction Brig)
  • From Visp to Sierre/Siders take train IR90 (direction Geneve-aeroport)
  • Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare

See here for directions from Sierre train station to the funicular, and from Montana Gare to the hotel