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We are pleased to announce the <B><A HREF="http://bit.ly/cns2016itw">Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience</A></B>, at <A HREF="http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2016-jeju">CNS*2016</A>, Jeju, South Korea.<BR>
The workshop will be held over the final two days of the main conference, July 6 and 7.<BR>
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Our <B>invited speakers</B> include the following, and our schedule is now available <A HREF="http://bit.ly/cns2016itw">here</A>:
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<LI>Demian Battaglia, Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Marseilles -- "<I>Dynamic information sharing and transfer by oscillatory neural activity</I>"
<LI>Braden Brinkman, University of Washington -- "<I>How do efficient encoding strategies depend on origins of noise in neural circuits?</I>"
<LI>Sakyasingha Dasgutpa, RIKEN Brain Science Insititute / IBM Research - Tokyo --"<I>How does the source of variability effect signal processing in random networks?</I>"
<LI>Anna Levina, Institute of Science and Technology Austria -- "<I>Increase in information processing capacity with approach to criticality in developing neural networks</I>"
<LI>Joseph T. Lizier, The University of Sydney -- "<I>Estimating information transfer between spike trains</I>"
<LI>Mark McDonnell, University of South Australia -- "<I>Quantifying information transmission in neuroprostheses: mutual information or trained neural network classifiers?</I>"
<LI>Masafumi Oizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute / Monash University -- "<I>A unified framework for quantifying information integration based on information geometry</I>"
<LI>Rama Ratnam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), and Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Illinois at Singapore (Singapore) -- "<I>Optimal energy-efficient coding in sensory neurons</I>"
<LI>Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- "<I>Sensory coding in the natural environment</I>"
<LI>Masanori Shimono, Osaka University -- "<I>Architectures in the informatic microconnectome</I>"
<LI>Shigeru Shinomoto, Kyoto University -- "<I>Difference in neuronal coding schemes in the brain</I>"
<LI>Eli Shlizerman, University of Washington -- "<I>Probabilistic graphical modeling for neuronal networks</I>"
<LI>Michael Wibral, Goethe University, Frankfurt -- "<I>Predictive coding without the storytelling - an information theoretic approach to test a popular theory</I>"
<LI>Si Wu, Beijing Normal University -- "<I>Dynamical information encoding in neural adaptation</I>"
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Also, we would like to <B>call for contributions of short talks</B> (15 min + 5 min Q&A). If you are interested in contributing such a talk, please send a title and abstract to Joseph Lizier (<A HREF="mailto:joseph.lizier@sydney.edu.au">joseph.lizier@sydney.edu.au</A>) by Wednesday June 15, 2016.<BR>
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Please see our website <A HREF="http://bit.ly/cns2016itw">http://bit.ly/cns2016itw</A> for more details.<BR>
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We hope you will join us there!<BR>
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<B>Organising Committee</B>:<BR>
Joseph Lizier<BR>
Justin Dauwels<BR>
Taro Toyoizumi<BR>
Alexander Dimitrov<BR>
Lubomir Kostal
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