Nancyfest Conference Program


THURSDAY,  APRIL 10
FRIDAY,  APRIL 11
SATURDAY,  APRIL 12

8:30 - 8:55am     Registration
8:30 - 9:00am     Registration
9:00 - 9:45am
Wolf Singer (MPIH Frankfurt)
Putative functions of oscillations and
synchrony in cortical processing

9:00-9:45am
Charlie Gray (Montana)
Synchronous activity in the visual system: history, scientific sociology
and current status

9:45 - 10:30am
Charlie Wilson (UTSA)
Biophysics of pacemaking by
striatal cholinergic interneurons

9:45 - 10:30am
Dave Terman (OSU)
Activity patterns in the basal ganglia
10:30 - 11:00am       BREAK
10: 30 - 11:00am       BREAK
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Registration
Poster Setup
(SMG 424)
11:00 - 11:45am
Miles Whittington  (Leeds)
Interneuron heterogeneity: functional
correlates in hippocampal gamma and theta oscillations

11:00 - 11:45am
Chris Jones (UNC)
Do invariant manifolds hold water?
Some insights about the ocean from dynamical systems

1:00 - 5:00 pm




  SHMOOZE, NOSH &
POSTER SESSION

11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Roger Traub (SUNY DHSC)
Axonal and dendritic electrical
coupling differentially shape network
oscillations

12:00 - 2:00pm


LUNCHEON
(Photonics Center, 9th floor)
12:30 - 2:15pm    LUNCH BREAK
2:15 - 3:00 pm
Dave McLaughlin  (Courant)
Simple and complex cells in the
primary visual cortex

2:15 - 3:00pm
Barry Connors (Brown)
Diverse roles for electrical synapses
in the mammalian brain

5:00 - 7:00 pm

RECEPTION
3:00 - 3:45 pm
Bard Ermentrout (Pittsburgh)
Coupled oscillator arrays 1, 2, 3
3:00 - 3:45pm
John Rinzel (Courant)
Some exciting consequences of inhibition
3:45 - 4:15 pm        BREAK
3:45 - 4:15 pm        BREAK
7:00 - 7:45 pm  (Room 412)
Lou Howard (MIT)
Opening Remarks:
Fancy Nancy and Plain Jane

4:15 - 5:00 pm
Karen Sigvardt (UC Davis)
Dynamic Features of Motor Networks
and Behavior in Parkinson's Disease

4:15 - 5:00 pm
Jack Cowan (Chicago)
Integrate-and-fire neural networks
and forest fires

7:45 - 9:00

RECEPTION



5:00 - 6:00 pm        BREAK

6:00 - 7:00 pm        COCKTAILS
7:00 - 9:00 pm        BANQUET



All scheduled events except the Saturday luncheon and Saturday afternoon talks will take place on the fourth floor of the Boston University School of Management Building, 595 Commonwealth Avenue. The Saturday luncheon will be served in the 9th floor Colloquium Room of the Photonics Center and the Saturday afternoon talks will be given in Room 208, on the second floor of the School of Management Building.  (View campus maps here.)

Read abstracts of the invited talks here.