| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | SENSORY CODING AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Comments by Discussion Leaders: The Organizers
Welcome / Introductory Comments |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | William Bialek (Princeton University)
"Looking ahead: what do neurons tell us about the future?" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF NATURAL SOUNDS |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 9:20 am - 10:05 am | Robert Liu (Emory University)
"Computational neuroethology of natural call coding in mice" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Dan Margoliash (University of Chicago)
"Neural mechanisms of avian vocal processing" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Cory Miller (Johns Hopkins University)
"Vocal signal processing during natural communication in non-human primates" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF NATURAL OLFACTORY SIGNALS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Christiane Linster (Cornell University) |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Mark Stopfer (NIH)
"Central neural coding of odor plumes" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Neil Vickers (University of Utah)
"From scents to sense: odor plumes, brains and behavior" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | STATISTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING OF NATURAL SIGNALS |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: James Elder (York University) |
| 9:20 am - 10:05 am | Michael Black (Brown University)
"On receptive fields, Markov random fields and probabilistic models of natural images" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Pietro Perona (California Institute of Technology)
"A statistical perspective on the perception of natural scenes" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Antonio Torralba (MIT)
"Hierarchical models of scenes, objects, parts and features" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NATURAL SIGNAL PERCEPTION IN HUMANS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: David Tolhurst (Cambridge University) |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Laurent Itti (University of Southern California)
"Bottom-up and top-down influences on visual attention during understanding of dynamic natural scenes" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Hugh Wilson (York University)
"Neural encoding of shapes and faces: psychophysical and fMRI evidence" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NON-STATIONARITY, ADAPTATION AND LEARNING |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington) |
| 9:20 am - 10:05 am | David Kleinfeld (UC San Diego)
"How rats compute vibrissa touch in face-centered coordinates" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Shiva Sinha (Indiana University)
"Non-stationarity and computation: how to estimate motion from a natural visual data stream" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Garrett Stanley (Harvard University)
"Detection and transmission of non-stationary sensory features in the natural environment" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GENERATION AND SENSATION OF ACTIVE SIGNALS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Mitra Hartmann (Northwestern University) |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Maurice Chacron (University of Oklahoma)
"Correlated neural activity: implications for natural stimuli" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Mimi Koehl (UC Berkeley)
"The fluid mechanics of sniffing: how crustacean antennules sample the physical structure of a turbulent odor plume" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF NATURAL IMAGES IN EARLY VISION |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Matteo Carandini (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute) |
| 9:20 am - 10:05 am | Stephen Baccus (Stanford University)
"Object motion sensitivity and adaptation in retinal circuitry" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Vijay Balasubramanian (Princeton University)
"Natural scene statistics and the organization of the retina" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Vincent Bonin (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute)
"Responses to natural scenes in the early visual system" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF NATURAL IMAGES IN LATE VISION |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: James Mazer (Yale University) |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Benjamin Willmore (UC Berkeley)
"Shape representation in V2 and V4 revealed by system identification with natural scenes" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | James DiCarlo (MIT)
"The high-level representation of object identity and position in cluttered scenes" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
