February 4, 2022

9:00                  Welcome

Moderator:       Harel Shouval, UT Health Science Center Houston

9:10                Mechanisms Underlying Simple Sensory Judgements
Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme

10:00                The Influence of Reward, Punishment and Effort on the Sensorimotor Cortices (PMd, PMv, M1, and S1)
Joe Francis, University of Houston

10:40               Break

Moderator:       Kresimir Josic, University of Houston 

10:55               Modulation of Information Flow in Cortical Circuits
Chengcheng Huang, University of Pittsburgh

11:45               Principled Simplicial Neural Networks for Trajectory Prediction
Santiago Segarra, Rice University

12:30-1:15       Lunch Break & networking

Moderator:       Fabrizio Gabbiani,
Baylor College of Medicine

1:15                 How Brain Circuits Function in Health and Disease: Understanding Brain-Wide Current Flow
Kanaka Rajan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

1:55                 High Order Interactions in Neuronal Populations of Behaving Monke
Valentin Dragoi, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas

Moderator:       Agenor Limon, UT Medical Branch at Galveston

2:35 – 3:40       Trainee Short Talks

3:40 – 4:00       Networking Break / trainee acivities/ discussion

Moderator:       Xaq Pitkow, Rice University

4:00                 Generalization and Inductive Bias in Neural Network
Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard University

5:00                 Closing Remarks