Thursday, March 12, 2015

Time Event  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee and croissants  
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome  
10:15 - 11:00 Neural avalanches - "Neuronal avalanches and quasi-criticality" - Keynote: John Beggs (Indiana University)  
11:00 - 11:30 Neural Avalanches - "Neuronal avalanche analysis of different cortical states in vivo" - Gerald Hahn (UPF, Barcelona)  
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break  
12:00 - 12:30 Power laws from network models (part 1) - "Power law and dynamical criticality in the visual system" - Olivier Marre (Vision Institute, Paris)  
12:30 - 13:00 Power laws from network models (part 1) - "Absence of power-law scaling in spike avalanches in vivo" - Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute, Goettingen)  
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:00 Power laws from network models (part 2) - "Power-law statistics and universal scalings in the absence of criticality" - Jonathan Touboul (College de France, Paris)  
15:00 - 15:30 Power laws from neurons and neural tissue - "A scaling law derived from optimal dendritic wiring" - Hermann Cuntz (ESI, Frankfurt)  
15:30 - 16:00 Power laws from neurons and neural tissue - "Power-law scaling and the electromagnetism of inhomogeneous media" - Claude Bedard (CNRS, Gif sur Yvette)  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 17:00 Power laws from neurons and neural tissue - "Power laws from linear neuronal cable equation" - Gaute Einevoll (NMBU, Oslo)  
17:00 - 17:30 Power laws from neurons and neural tissue - "Scale-invariant population dynamics in cerebral cortex" - Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif and EITN)  
19:30 - 22:00 Dinner with the speakers  

Friday, March 13, 2015

Time Event  
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome coffee  
10:00 - 10:45 Power laws at systems level (MEG/EEG/fMRI) part 1 - "Scale-free brain dynamics: temporal structures, functions and mechanisms" - Keynote: Biyu He  
10:45 - 11:15 Power laws at systems level (MEG/EEG/fMRI) part 1 - "A multiscale framework of cortical dynamics: from organization of avalanches to balance of excitation/inhibition" - Nima Dehghani (Harvard University)  
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break  
11:45 - 12:15 Power laws at systems level (MEG/EEG/fMRI) part 1 - Virginie Van Wassenhove (Neurospin, Saclay)  
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:00 Power laws at systems level (MEG/EEG/fMRI) part 2 - "Convergence of neural activity to local multifractal attractors predicts learning" - Philippe Ciuciu (Neurospin, Saclay)  
14:00 - 14:30 Power laws at systems level (MEG/EEG/fMRI) part 2 - "Resting-state temporal synchronization networks emerge from connectivity topology and heterogeneity" - Adrian Ponce (UPF, Barcelona)  
14:30 - 16:30 General discussion - Structured discussion on, e.g., * What does it take to identify a power law in experimental data? * Same origin of (putative) microscopic and macroscopic power laws? * Power laws in neural avalanches vs. power laws in PSDs * ...