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Dear all,<BR>
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We are pleased to announce that the <B><A HREF="http://bit.ly/cns2018itw">Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience</A></B> will be held once again at <A HREF="http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2018">CNS*2018</A>, Seattle, USA.<BR>
The workshop will be held over the final two days of the main conference, July 17 and 18.<BR>
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Our confirmed <B>invited speakers</B> include the following (schedule available soon):
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<LI>Braden Brinkman, Stony Brook University -- "<I>Signal-to-noise ratio competes with neural bandwidth to shape efficient coding strategies</I>"
<LI>Mireille Conrad, University of Geneva -- "<I>Mutual information vs. transfer entropy in spike-based neuroscience</I>"
<LI>Benjamin Cramer, University of Heidelberg -- "<I>Information theory reveals a diverse range of states induced by spike timing based learning in neural networks</I>"
<LI>Alex Dimitrov, Washington State University Vancouver -- "<I>Modeling of perceptual invariances in biological sensory processing</I>"
<LI>Eva Dyer, Georgia Tech -- "<I>Finding low-dimensional structure in large-scale neural recordings</I>"
<LI>Justin Gardner, Stanford University -- "<I>Optimality and heuristics for human perceptual inference</I>"
<LI>Jim Kay, University of Glasgow -- "<I>Partial Information Decompositions based on Dependency Constraints</I>"
<LI>Joseph T. Lizier, The University of Sydney -- "<I>Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity Lattices</I>"
<LI>Leonardo Novelli, The University of Sydney -- "<I>Validation and performance of effective network inference using multivariate transfer entropy with IDTxl</I>"
<LI>Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- TBA
<LI>Nicholas M. Timme, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis -- "<I>From neural cultures to rodent models of disease: examples of information theory analyses of effective connectivity, computation, and encoding</I>"
<LI>Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute -- "<I>Emergence of Levy Walks from Second-Order Stochastic Optimization</I>"
<LI>Siwei Wang, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- "<I>Closing the gap from structure to function with information theoretic design principles</I>"
<LI>Patricia Wollstadt, Goethe University, Frankfurt / Honda Research Institute Europe "<I>Validation and performance of effective network inference using multivariate transfer entropy with IDTxl</I>"
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Also, we would like to <B>call for contributions</B> of talks (25 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 Friday June 8, 2018.<BR>
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Please see our website <A HREF="http://bit.ly/cns2018itw">http://bit.ly/cns2018itw</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>
Viola Priesemann<BR>
Justin Dauwels<BR>
Taro Toyoizumi<BR>
Alexander Dimitrov<BR>
Lubomir Kostal <BR>
Michael Wibral
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