Statistical and Dynamical Physics of the Brain

Presentations

• How Flies Compute with Vectors

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 2:30 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Larry F Abbott

    Columbia University

  Authors

  • Larry F Abbott

    Columbia University

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• Geometric model manifold of space, time, and belief in hippocampal cognitive maps

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 3:06 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:18 PM

  Publication: Geometric model manifold of space, time, and belief in hippocampal cognitive maps (in prep.)

  Presenters

  • Jason Z Kim

    Cornell University

  Authors

  • Jason Z Kim

    Cornell University

  • James Patarasp Sethna

    Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    Cornell University

  • Weinan Sun

    Cornell University

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• Neural correlations and predictive coding

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 3:18 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Kyle Bojanek

    University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Kyle Bojanek

    University of Chicago

  • Olivier Marre

    Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Universite, Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Paris, France

  • Stephanie E Palmer

    University of Chicago

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• Spontaneous up-down transitions in stochastic leaky integrate-and-fire networks

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:42 PM

  Publication: Siddharth Paliwal, Gabriel Koch Ocker, Braden A. W. Brinkman, Metastability in networks of nonlinear stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons, arxiv: 2406.07445, https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07445

  Presenters

  • Siddharth Paliwal

    Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  Authors

  • Siddharth Paliwal

    Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  • Matthew Szuromi

    Boston University

  • Gabriel K Ocker

    Boston University

  • Braden Brinkman

    Stony Brook University

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• Response functions disambiguate intrinsic versus inherited criticality in spiking neural networks

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2025, 3:54 PM

  Publication: Manuscript in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Jacob T Crosser

    Stony Brook University

  Authors

  • Jacob T Crosser

    Stony Brook University

  • Braden Brinkman

    Stony Brook University

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• Brain dynamics in an Ising-like class of adaptive neural networks: from oscillations to scaling in collective behaviors

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Fabrizio Lombardi , Selver Pepić, Oren Shriki, Gašper Tkačik, Daniele De Martino. Statistical modeling of adaptive neural networks explains co-existence of avalanches and oscillations in resting human brain. Nat. Comp. Sci. 3, 254–263, 2023

  Presenters

  • Fabrizio Lombardi

    University of Padova

  Authors

  • Fabrizio Lombardi

    University of Padova

  • Oren Shriki

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  • Daniele De Martino

    Biofisika Institute, Bilbao

  • Gasper Tkacik

    Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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• Neural subspaces and the limits of mean-field theory

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Francesca Mignacco

    The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  Authors

  • Francesca Mignacco

    The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • Christopher W Lynn

    Yale University

  • William S Bialek

    Princeton University

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• Statistical physics of large-scale neural activity with loops

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • David Carcamo

    Yale University

  Authors

  • David Carcamo

    Yale University

  • Christopher W Lynn

    Yale University

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• Minimax entropy models for human whole-brain activity

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Nick Weaver

    Yale University

  Authors

  • Nick Weaver

    Yale University

  • Christopher W Lynn

    Yale University

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• Connecting the Connectome to Neural Activity

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2025, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Cheyne Weis

    University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Cheyne Weis

    University of Chicago

  • Stephan Ilhe

    University of Chicago

  • Xiaoyuan Huang

    University of Chicago

  • Peter B Littlewood

    University of Chicago

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• A Recurrent Neural Circuit Theory of Normalization and Inter-area Communication.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Asit Pal

    New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Asit Pal

    New York University (NYU)

  • Shivang Rawat

    New York University (NYU)

  • David J Heeger

    New York University

  • Stefano Martiniani

    New York University (NYU)

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• Geometry of activity in random networks under external inputs

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Zehui Zhao

    Emory University

  Authors

  • Zehui Zhao

    Emory University

  • Michael Jeremy Pasek

    Emory University

  • Ilya M Nemenman

    Emory University

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• Unconditional stability of a recurrent circuit implementing divisive normalization

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2025, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Shivang Rawat

    New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Shivang Rawat

    New York University (NYU)

  • David J Heeger

    New York University

  • Stefano Martiniani

    New York University (NYU)

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