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General info

Venue

The conference venue is in the North Campus of the University of Copenhagen.

Scientific programme

The scientific programme will be held at the Biocenter.

Address: BiocenterOle Maaløes Vej 52200 Copenhagen N

Plenary talks will take place in the Lundbeck Auditorium, parallel talks will take placein the Lundbeck Auditorium and in Room 4-0-24. The poster session will be hostedright next to the Lundbeck Auditorium.

Lunches

Lunch will be served in the cafeteria in the Biocenter.

Welcome reception

The Welcome reception on Monday at 17:00 will be hosted at the H. C. ØrstedInstitute in the south end of the main hall on the ground floor.

Address: H. C. Ørsted InstituteUniversitetsparken 52100 Copenhagen Ø

The H. C. Ørsted Institute is located in the North Campus of the University ofCopenhagen and is within a 5 minutes walk from the Biocenter.

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will be held at Nørrebro Bryghus, approximately 1.5 km awayfrom the conference venue in the direction towards the city centre.

Address: Nørrebro BryghusRyesgade 32200 Copenhagen N

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Susanne Ditlevsen: +45 41 12 77 89Jacob Østergaard: +45 20 69 95 08

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For more information and abstracts visit the conference website:

http://web.math.ku.dk/~susanne/ICMNS2019/

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Programme overview

MondayJune 24

TuesdayJune 25

WednesdayJune 26

08:45-09:00 Welcome

09:00-10:30 Plenary talks Plenary talks Plenary talks

10:30-11:00 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break

11:00-12:35 Parallel talks Parallel talks Parallel talks

12:35-14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch

14:00-15:35 Parallel talks Poster session Poster prize &parallel talks

15:35-16:00 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Plenary talks Plenary talks Plenary talks

17:00-19:00 Welcome Closing remarks

reception

18:00-22:00 Conferencedinner

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Monday, June 24

08:45-10:30

Plenary session(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Andre Longtin

08:45-09:00 Opening remarks

09:00-10:00

Keynote lectureNicolas BrunelFixed point attractors, chaos and sequences in networks with unsu-pervised Hebbian plasticity rules

10:00-10:30

Carina CurtoDynamically relevant motifs in inhibition-dominated networks

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:35

Parallel session I(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Erik Martens

Parallel session II(Room 4-0-24)Chair: Massimiliano Tamborrino

11:00-11:20

Emilie SoretAsymptotic behaviour of a net-work of neurons with randomlinear interactions

Alexandre MelansonData-driven estimation of drift-diffusion-jump neural processes

11:25-11:45

Romain VeltzDynamics of a mean field limitof interacting 2D nonlinearstochastic spiking neurons

Antoni GuillamonA computational strategy to es-timate synaptic conductances inspiking regimes

11:50-12:10

Samuel MuscinelliShaping chaotic dynamics andsignal transmission by singleneuron properties in randomneural networks

Ryota KobayashiA method for estimating synap-tic connections from parallelspike trains

12:15-12:35

Tilo SchwalgerHazard rate approach to spik-ing neural networks with back-ground noise

Laura SacerdoteCopulas and shuffles as statis-tical tools to recognize hiddendependences between neuronsstimulated by periodic signals

12:35-14:00 Lunch

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Monday, June 24

14:00-15:35

Parallel session I(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Antoni Guillamon

Parallel session II(Room 4-0-24)Chair: Jacob Østergaard

14:00-14:20

James MacLaurinWandering bumps in a stochas-tic neural field: a variational ap-proach

Lubomir KostalCoordinate invariance as a con-straint on the mutual informa-tion decomposition

14:25-14:45

Daniele AvitabileThis is not a bump

Zachary KilpatrickOptimal evidence accumulationon social networks

14:50-15:10

Priscilla GreenwoodStochastic neural field withsmoothed noise

Roberto BarrioInsect movement gaits: neuronmodel, CPG and pattern bifur-cations

15:15-15:35

Stephen CoombesPattern formation in biologicalneural networks with reboundcurrents

Antonio E TeruelAnnihilation phenomenon in aPWL version of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system

15:35-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Plenary session(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Susanne Ditlevsen

16:00-16:30

Anton M. UnakafovStrategies used by humans and monkeys in transparent coordina-tion games

16:30-17:00

Guillaume LajoieLearning to control muscles with a brain-computer interface: a hier-archical and adaptive algorithm to optimally explore neural maps

17:00-19:00

Welcome reception(H. C. Ørsted Institute)

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Tuesday, June 25

09:00-10:30

Plenary session(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Susanne Ditlevsen

09:00-10:00

Keynote lectureStefan TreueTBA

10:00-10:30

Rachel NicksClusters in nonsmooth oscillator networks

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:35

Parallel session I(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Eva Löcherbach

Parallel session II(Room 4-0-24)Chair: Laura Sacerdote

11:00-11:20

Yoram BaramCircuit Polarity Effect of CorticalConnectivity, Activity and Mem-ory

Skirmantas JanusonisQuantitative Analysis ofStochastic Axon Systems

11:25-11:45

Rodica CurtuUsing dynamic neural fields toexamine loci of plasticity in su-pervised and unsupervised audi-tory category learning

Victor MatveevAccuracy of Mass-Actionvs Stochastic Modeling ofCalcium-Dependent VesicleRelease

11:50-12:10

Henrik EkströmPercolation on dynamical ran-dom graphs provides a modelfor defining synaptic connec-tions

Nataliya KraynyukovaThe impact of mRNA localiza-tion on dendritic protein distri-bution and its dynamics

12:15-12:35

Leonid RubchinskySpike-timing-dependent plas-ticity effect on the patterns ofneural synchrony

Massimiliano TamborrinoShot Noise, diffusion limits andsuitable approximations

12:35-13:45 Lunch

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Tuesday, June 25

13:45-14:00 Group photo

14:00-15:35 Poster session

15:35-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Plenary session(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Wilhelm Stannat

16:00-16:30

Katie MorrisonEmergent sequences from recurrent network motifs

16:30-17:00

Peter ThomasDissecting Molecular Contributions to Interspike Interval Variabilityin Conductance-Based Neural Models via Stochastic Shielding

18:00-22:00 Conference dinner at Nørrebro Bryghus

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Wednesday, June 26

09:00-10:30

Plenary session(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Wilhelm Stannat

09:00-10:00

Keynote lectureEva LöcherbachShort term plasticity and short term memory in systems of spikingneurons

10:00-10:30

Diego VidaurreCharacterising the temporal dynamics of stimulus processingthrough unconstrained decoding

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:35

Parallel session I(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Patricia Reynaud-Bouret

Parallel session II(Room 4-0-24)Chair: Marie Levakova

11:00-11:20

Angelo Di GarboFiring properties of a resonate-and-fire neural model with peri-odic forcing and noise

Mustafa ZekiCommunication Between TimeCells Leads to the Linear In-crease of Noise

11:25-11:45

Bastian PietrasNeuronal firing rate modelswith electrical and chemicalsynapses

Gemma HuguetMathematical tools for phasecontrol and their role in neuralcommunication

11:50-12:10

Anca RadulescuPredicting dynamics fromhardwiring in canonical low-dimensional coupled networks

Zachary KilpatrickAnalyzing dynamic decisionmodels using differentialChapman-Kolmogorov equa-tions

12:15-12:35

Aine ByrneA neural circuit model for learn-ing a beat

Rune BergSparse network connectivity re-vealed from physiology: Whatpairwise intracellular recordingscan tell us about motor circuits

12:35-14:00 Lunch

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Wednesday, June 26

14:00-14:20 Poster prize

14:25-15:35

Parallel session I(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Rodica Curtu

Parallel session II(Room 4-0-24)Chair: Erik Martens

14:25-14:45

Fabian PallasdiesSynfire Chain-Like Activity Un-derlies Swimming and Turning ofthe Scyphozoan Jellyfish Aureliaaurita

Bulcsu SandorThe mathematics of self-organized neurobots

14:50-15:10

Matias CalderiniSlow coordinated fluctuations inneural activity in a balancedcortical network

Manu KaliaA biophysical model forthe tripartite synapse undermetabolic stress

15:15-15:35

Selma SouihelAnticipation in the retina andthe primary visual cortex:towards an integrated retino-cortical model for motionprocessing

15:35-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Plenary session(Lundbeck auditorium)Chair: Andre Longtin

16:00-16:30

Kenneth HarrisHigh-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cor-tex

16:30-17:00

James RankinPeriodic forcing of auditory bistability: modelling and experiments

17:00 Closing remarks

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Posters

1. S. Goedeke, F. Y. K. Kossio, R.-M. MemmesheimerThe cluster duration distribution of Hawkes processes

2. R. Naud, A. LongtinStochastic spike-diffuse-spike model of propagation in randomly demyelinatednerves

3. P. Helson, E. Tanré, R. VeltzA mathematical analysis of memory lifetime in a simple network model of mem-ory

4. F. Darki, J. RankinMixed-mode oscillations and chaotic dynamics in a model of rivalry

5. Q. Cormier, E. Tanré, R. VeltzLong time behavior of a mean-field model of interacting neurons

6. E. Camacho, A. Radulescu, Stephen WirkusBifurcation analysis of a photoreceptor interaction model for Retinitis Pigmen-tosa

7. G. D’Onofrio, P. Lansky, M. TamborrinoOn diffusion neuronal models with multiplicative noise

8. M. Forrester, R. O’Dea, S. Coombes, J. CroftsTMS-induced synchronisation in human brain networks

9. P. Lima, D. Avitabile, S. CoombesNumerical investigation of a neural field model including dendritic processing

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10. L. Pérez, R. Barrio, S. IbáñezHomoclinic organization in fold/hom bursters: the Hindmarsh-Rose model

11. A. MeddahMathematical modelling of low grade glioma diffusion

12. E. Baspinar, G. Citti, A. SartiA sub-Riemannian model of the visual cortex based on frequency-phase andits applications

13. A. Radulescu, C. Williams, A. ScimemiGeometry-based estimates of glutamate transporter density in astrocytes

14. B. JüttnerChimera states in two-population network of theta-neurons

15. D. Todorov, Wilson TruccoloRunaway excitation-like behavior in networks of PPGLM-type spiking neurons

16. S. Petros, D. Avitabile, S. Coombes, S. Sotiropoulos, P. HoustonThe Numerical solution of neural field models posed on realistic cortical do-mains

17. V. Schmutz, W. Gerstner, T. SchwalgerMesoscopic population equations for spiking neural networks with synaptic short-term plasticity

18. G. Ascione, E. Pirozzi, B. ToaldoExit time of semi-Markov processes and neuronal models

19. A. Cocks, S. Coombes, A. Johnston, D. AvitabileUnderstanding sensory induced hallucinations: From neural fields to amplitudeequations

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20. E. Boschin, J. M. Galeazzi, M. Ainsworth, M. O’Neill, M. J. BuckleyPredictive coding and behavioural flexibility during probabilistic decision-making:multi-neuronal, multi-area, electrophysiological investigations of the macaqueprefrontal cortex

21. K. Sawada, Y. Shimada, T. IkeguchiEstimation of connections between neurons only from inter-spike-interval

22. I. Tubikanec, M. Tamborrino, E. BuckwarSpectral density-based and structure-preserving Approximate Bayesian Com-putation for partially observed SDEs with an invariant measure: A demonstra-tion on the Jansen and Rit neural mass model and the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model

23. E. Buckwar, M. OuafoudiStochastic approach to the modeling of sweet taste signaling

24. N. Schieferstein, R. KempterTowards a reduced model of ripple oscillations in recurrent inhibitory networks

25. C. Langdon, K. Morrison, C. CurtoThreshold-linear networks and mutations of oriented matroids

26. N. Miya, Y. Shimada, K. Fujiwara, T. IkeguchiEffects of excitatory/inhibitory neuron ratio on neural activities and networkstructures

27. Y. E. Rodrigues, H. Marie, C. O’Donnell, Romain VeltzA stochastic model of postsynaptic plasticity based on dendritic spine Ca2+

downstream proteins

28. S. A. Campbell, M. ChugunovaApplication of the mathematical model for autocrine regulation with diffusivesignalling agent to GnRH neurons synchronization

29. W. Wojtak, E. Bicho, W. ErlhagenNeural field model of matching law behavior

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30. C. Zucca, A. Civallero, L. SacerdoteThe two compartment leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal model related to a onecompartment integrate-and-fire model and the Gamma renewal process

31. L. Lemaire, M. Desroches, O. Faugeras, M. Krupa, M. MantegazzaModeling the initiation of cortical spreading depression triggered by the hyper-activity of GABAergic neurons

32. J. Kobbersmed, A. Grasskamp, A. Walter, S. Ditlevsen, J. B. SørensenStochastic simulation of synaptic facilitation in Drosophila neuromuscular junc-tion

33. Y. Wang, J. Gill, H. Chiel, P. ThomasShape versus timing: linear responses of a limit cycle with hard boundaries un-der instantaneous and static perturbation

34. M. Schünemann, U. Ernst, M. KeßeböhmerExact avalanche distributions for inhomogeneous networks of non-leaky inte-grate and fire neurons

35. M. B. Raad, S. Ditlevsen, E. LöcherbachAge Dependent Hawkes Process

36. O. Brandibur, E. KaslikFractional-order versions of neuronal models

37. E.-A. Kokovics, E. Kaslik, A. RadulescuWilson-Cowan neuronal interaction models with distributed delays

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List of participants

Naomi Auer Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinDaniele Avitabile University of NottinghamYoram Baram Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyRoberto Barrio University of ZaragozaEmre Baspinar INRIA Sophia AntipolisSophia Becker Goethe-University Frankfurt,

MPI Brain ResearchRune Berg University of CopenhagenErica Boschin University of OxfordOana Brandibur West University of TimisoaraWilhelm Braun University of BonnNicolas Brunel Duke UniversityEvelyn Buckwar Johannes Kepler University LinzAine Byrne New Yok UniversityMatias Calderini University of OttawaBruno Cessac InriaMarina Chugunova University of WaterlooAbigail Cocks University of NottinghamBlake Cook University of ExeterStephen Coombes University of NottinghamQuentin Cormier InriaCarina Curto The Pennsylvania State UniversityRodica Curtu The University of IowaGiuseppe D’Onofrio University of TurinFarzaneh Darki University of ExeterNils Detering University of California Santa BarbaraAngelo Di Garbo CNR - Institute of BiophysicsSusanne Ditlevsen University of CopenhagenMichael Forrester University of NottinghamSven Goedeke University of BonnVasilii Goriachkin Lund UniversityPriscilla Greenwood University of British ColumbiaClaudius Gros Goethe University FrankfurtAntoni Guillamon Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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Linnéa Gyllingberg Uppsala UniversityKenneth Harris University College LondonPascal Helson INRIAGemma Huguet Universitat Politecnica de CatalunyaTohru Ikeguchi Tokyo University of ScienceSkirmantas Janusonis University of California, Santa BarbaraKresimir Josic University of HoustonBenjamin Jüttner Technical University of DenmarkManu Kalia University of TwenteZachary Kilpatrick University of Colorado BoulderRyota Kobayashi National Institute of InformaticsJanus Rønn Lind Kobbersmed University of CopenhagenLubomir Kostal Institute of Physiology CASNataliya Kraynyukova Max Planck Institute for Brain ResearchEmanuel-Attila Kokovics West University of TimisoaraGuillaume Lajoie Université de MontréalChristopher Langdon Pennsylvania State UniversityLouisiane Lemaire Inria Sophia AntipolisMarie Levakova University of CopenhagenPedro Lima University of LisbonHenrik Lindén University of CopenhagenAndre Longtin University of OttawaEva Löcherbach Université Paris 1 Panthéon SorbonneJames MacLaurin New Jersey Institute of TechnologyErik Andreas Martens Technical University of DenmarkVictor Matveev New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAmira Meddah Johannes Kepler University LinzNanfu Miya Tokyo University of ScienceSunil Modhara University of NottinghamKatie Morrison University of Northern ColoradoSamuel Muscinelli EPFL SV & IC LCNRachel Nicks University of NottinghamAndrew Oster Eastern Washington UniversityMaryeme Ouafoudi Johannes Kepler University LinzFabian Pallasdies University of BonnMorten Gram Pedersen University of PadovaLucía Pérez University of OviedoSammy Petros University of NottinghamTien Cuong Phi University of NiceBastian Pietras BCCN Berlin & TU Berlin

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Federico Polito University of TorinoMads Raad University of CopenhagenAnca Radulescu SUNY New PaltzJames Rankin University of ExeterPatricia Reynaud-Bouret Université Côte d’AzurYuri Elias Rodrigues UCA/INRIA/IPMCJames Ross University of NottinghamAlex Roxin Centre de Recerca MatemàticaLeonid Rubchinsky University Purdue University Indianapolis,

Indiana University School of MedicineLaura Sacerdote University of TorinoKazuya Sawada Tokyo University of ScienceNatalie Schieferstein Humboldt University BerlinValentin Schmutz EPFL SV & IC LCNSusanne Schreiber Humboldt University BerlinTilo Schwalger Technical University BerlinMaik Schünemann University of BremenShigeru Shinomoto Kyoto UniversityÉmilie Soret Inria Sophia AntipolisSelma Souihel INRIA Sophia Antipolis - UCAWilhelm Stannat Institut für Mathematik, TU BerlinJacob Stærk-Østergaard University of CopenhagenMassimiliano Tamborrino Johannes Kepler University LinzEtienne Tanré InriaAntonio E. Teruel Balearic Islands UniversityPeter Thomas Case Western Reserve UniversityBruno Toaldo Università degli Studi di TorinoDmitrii Todorov Centre de Recerca MatematicaStefan Treue German Primate Center,

University of GoettingenIrene Tubikanec Johannes Kepler University LinzTatyana Turova Schmeling Lund UniversityAnton Unakafov Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH

Leibniz-Institut für PrimatenforschungRomain Veltz INRIA Sophia AntipolisDiego Vidaurre University of OxfordWeronika Wojtak University of MinhoMustafa Zeki American University of the Middle EastCristina Zucca University of Torino

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Committees

Conference Chairs• André Longtin (University of Ottawa, Canada)• Wilhelm Stannat (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)• Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - general chair

Scientific Committee• Daniele Avitabile (University of Nottingham, UK)• Toni Guillamon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)• Kresimir Josic (University of Houston, USA)• Carlo Laing (Massey University, New Zealand)• Guillaume Lajoie (University of Washington, USA)• Cheng Ly (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)• Horacio Rotstein (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)• Martin Wechselberger (University of Sydney, Australia)• Rodica Curtu (University of Iowa, USA)• Lubomir Kostal (Institute of Physiology, Czech Republic)• Patricia Reynaud Bouret (Université Nice, France)• Alex Roxin (CRM Barcelona, Spain)• Laura Sacerdote (University of Torino, Italy)• Delphine Salort (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)• Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto University, Japan)• Massimiliano Tamborrino (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)• Uri Eden (Boston University, USA)• Susanne Schreiber (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)• Tony Burkitt (The University of Melbourne, Australia)• Roberto Carlos Sotero-Diaz (University of Calgary, Canada)• Tatyana Turova (Lund University, Sweden)• Peter J. Thomas (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Advisory Board• Evelyn Buckwar (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)• Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham, UK)• Olivier Faugeras (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France)• Julijana Gjiorgjieva (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)• Zachary Kilpatrick (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)• Robert Rosenbaum (Université of Notre Dame, USA)• Romain Veltz (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France)• Etienne Tanré (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France)• Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Organizing CommitteeJacob Østergaard, Erik Andreas Martens, Marie Levakova, Susanne Ditlevsen

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