AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems, I
Room B329, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN amari@brain.riken.go.jp
Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin-Madison assadi@math.wisc.edu
Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology tp@ai.mit.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the computing power of a single neuron with dendritic structure.
  Gerhard X. Ritter*, University of Florida
  Gonzalo Urcid, INAOE
  (980-68-110)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dynamical systems analysis of turtle visual cortex.
  Philip Ulinski*, University of Chicago
  (980-92-285)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Neural engineering: Computation, representation, and dynamics in neurobiological systems.
  Charles H. Anderson*, Washington University
  (980-20-320)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Likelihood approaches to neural coding in auditory cortex.
  Rick L Jenison*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (980-92-286)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems, II
Room B329, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN amari@brain.riken.go.jp
Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin-Madison assadi@math.wisc.edu
Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology tp@ai.mit.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  DNA Packing in Viral Capsids.
  De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
  (980-92-276)
- 3:00 p.m.
  CAD/CAM Biology.
  David C Schwartz*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (980-92-274)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Information Gometry of Protein Fold Space.
  Hamid Eghbalnia*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (980-92-287)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Computational elements of robot learning by imitation.
  Aude G Billard*, University of Southern California
  Stefan K Schaal, University of Southern California
  (980-93-206)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Computational Mechanisms of Object Recognition in Cortex.
  Maximilian Riesenhuber*, MIT
  (980-92-50)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems, III
Room B329, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN amari@brain.riken.go.jp
Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin-Madison assadi@math.wisc.edu
Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology tp@ai.mit.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Singularities in the geometry of statistical inference.
  Kenji Fukumizu*, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
  (980-62-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic Geometry of Neural Network Learning.
  Sumio Watanabe*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  (980-68-99)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Physiological evidence of 1st order phase transitions by mesoscopic populations in neocortex.
  Walter J Freeman*, University of California at Berkeley
  (980-92-185)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Analysis and modeling of sensory systems with Rate Distortion Theory.
  Alexander G Dimitrov*, Montana State University
  (980-92-288)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems, IV
Room B329, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN amari@brain.riken.go.jp
Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin-Madison assadi@math.wisc.edu
Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology tp@ai.mit.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Synchrony, spike-timing-dependent plasticity and olfactory learning.
  Christiane Linster*, Cornell University
  Thomas A. Cleland, Cornell University
  (980-92-275)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Riemannian Geometry in Psychological Models of Representation: An Infinite-Dimensional Riemannian Face Space.
  James T. Townsend, Indiana University
  Bruce Solomon, Indiana University
  Jesse Spencer-Smith*, Beckman Institute
  (980-53-229)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:30 p.m.
  Neuronal Dynamics and Sparse Coding In The Cortex.
  Amir H Assadi*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (980-92-186)

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