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May 2012
Tuesday
29.05.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Christian Machens
Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Dynamics of an oculomotor integrator revealed by instantaneous optogenetic perturbations
June 2012
Thursday
07.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Dr. Gilles Laurent
MPI for Brain Research
n.A.
Tuesday
12.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Jaime de la Rocha
Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
n.A.
Tuesday
26.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lindner
Theory of Complex Systems and Neurophysics, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin
Spontaneous activity and signal transfer in neural systems

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August 2012
Thursday
30.08.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr Ed Boyden
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
Optogenetics, Robotic Electrophysiology, and Other Neural Circuit Tools
June 2012
Tuesday
26.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lindner
Theory of Complex Systems and Neurophysics, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin
Spontaneous activity and signal transfer in neural systems
Tuesday
12.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Jaime de la Rocha
Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
n.A.
Thursday
07.06.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Dr. Gilles Laurent
MPI for Brain Research
n.A.
May 2012
Tuesday
29.05.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Christian Machens
Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Dynamics of an oculomotor integrator revealed by instantaneous optogenetic perturbations
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Tuesday
08.05.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Marc Timme
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Yuri Maistrenko
Universität Potsdam
Emergent dynamics of coupled oscillators
April 2012
Wednesday
25.04.2012
15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Winfried Denk
Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie, Martinsried
Unwiring the brain, towards a complete circuit diagram of the central nervous system
Tuesday
24.04.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Gašper Tkačik
Information Processing in Biological Networks, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Statistical physics for a network of real neurons
Tuesday
17.04.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Andreas Neef
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Matthew Grubb
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, UK
Activity-dependent plasticity at the axon initial segment
Monday
16.04.2012
15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Dr. Andrei Lupas
Department of Protein Evolution MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
On the origin of folded proteins
March 2012
Thursday
22.03.2012
14 c.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BFNT/BCCN Sonderseminar
Fabian Bock
Universität Heidelberg
Numerical Simulation of a Wind-Driven Air-Water Interface focusing on Thermal Effects
Tuesday
13.03.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
BCCN Sonderseminar
Prof. Dr. Massimo Scanziani
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, USA
Addressing cortical processing by perturbing the activity of individual layers
February 2012
Tuesday
28.02.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Dominika Lyzwa
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Catherine Carr
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst
Binaural hearing: Lessons from evolution
Wednesday
22.02.2012
15:15 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
MPI Kolloquium
Dr. Stephan Grill
MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
Mechanochemical Pattern Generation
Tuesday
14.02.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Andreas Sorge
Arbeitsgruppen-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Dirk Semmann
Courant Research Centre "Evolution of Social Behaviour", Universität Göttingen
Social networks and cooperative behavior
Tuesday
07.02.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
When two is not enough: using triplets of spikes to model synaptic plasticity
Wednesday
01.02.2012
15:45 s.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Jonathon Howard
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
The Beat Generation: From Single Molecules to the Collective Motion of Cilia and Flagella
January 2012
Tuesday
31.01.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Andreas Neef
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimburg
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The physics of nerves, anesthesia and lipid membrane channels
Tuesday
31.01.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Andreas Neef
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimburg
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The physics of nerves, anesthesia and lipid membrane channels
Tuesday
17.01.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Annette Witt
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Sonja Grün
Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Medizin, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Detection and identification of cortical spatio-temporal interaction
Tuesday
10.01.2012
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey C. Magee
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, USA
Input comparison in hippocampal and neocortical pyramidal neurons
December 2011
Wednesday
14.12.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Antonio Politi
Institute of Complex Systems (CNR-ISC), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Collective motion and linear stability in networks of nonlinear oscillators
Wednesday
07.12.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Christian Bick
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Arkady Pikovsky
University Potsdam, Institute for Physics and Astronomy
Hierarchical populations of coupled oscillators: nonlinear coupling and partial integrability
Tuesday
06.12.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Tim Gollisch
University of Goettingen, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Göttingen
A Closer Look at Receptive Fields: How Neurons in the Retina Integrate Visual Signals
November 2011
Tuesday
29.11.2011
17 c.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Gregor Eichele
Dept. Genes and Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
The Molecular and Organismal Regulation of the Mammalian Circadian Clock
Wednesday
23.11.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Raymond E. Goldstein
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Science, University of Cambridge, UK
Evolution of Biological Complexity
Tuesday
15.11.2011
11 s.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BFNT/BCCN Sonderseminar
Henri Degueldre
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The Effect of Inflation on the Phenomenon of Vacuum Polarization
Wednesday
09.11.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl lecture hall
Contact:  Marc Timme
MPI Kolloquium
Dmitri Chklovskii
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, USA
Neural coding in sensory systems
October 2011
Tuesday
18.10.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Annette Witt
BCCN/BFNT Minisymposium
Dr. Caroline Geisler
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen
When a group of neurons oscillates slower than its members: a study of hippocampal place cells
Tuesday
18.10.2011
16 s.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Andreas Neef
BCCN/BFNT Minisymposium
Prof. Dr. John C. Middlebrooks
Department of Otolaryngology, University of California at Irvine, USA
Auditory Prosthesis With a Penetrating Nerve Array
Tuesday
18.10.2011
14 c.t.
MPI DS seminar room (0.77/0.79)
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BFNT/BCCN Sonderseminar
Markus Schoeler
Fraunhofer Institut für angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik in Jena und Universität Würzburg
Optical and functional properties of nanoporous Sol-Gel layers
September 2011
Tuesday
27.09.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Fred Wolf
Vortrag fällt aus
BCCN Sonderseminar
Dr. Dmitry Tsigankov
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen
Non-equilibrium molecular transport in spiny dendrites and its role in synaptic plasticity
Tuesday
27.09.2011
13:30 s.t.
Am Faßberg 17, Seminarraum 0.77/0.79
Contact:  Theo Geisel
BFNT/BCCN Sonderseminar
Maximilian Uhlig
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
Cosmic ray driven winds in galaxies
Wednesday
21.09.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Jerome Bibette
ESPCI ParisTech, Laboratoire de Colloides et Matériaux Division, Paris, France
Monitoring Single Cell Bioenergetics via the Coarsening of Emulsion Droplets
Monday
19.09.2011 09:00
Contact:  David Hofmann
Tuesday
06.09.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
Course on "Patterning neuronal cultures"
Prof. Dr. Elisha Moses
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Coupling software to hardware in biological computation
Monday
05.09.2011
10:30 s.t.
MPI für experimentelle Medizin
Contact:  Ahmed El Hady
Course on "Patterning neuronal cultures"
Prof. Dr. Christiane Thielemann
Hochschule Aschaffenburg
Triangular neuronal networks on microelectrode arrays
July 2011
Wednesday
20.07.2011
16 c.t.
Am Faßberg, Ludwig-Prandtl-Saal
Contact:  Marc Timme
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Leonid Bunimovich
Georgia Tech, USA
Finite Time Dynamics
Wednesday
13.07.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Armin Biess
MPI Kolloquium
Dr. Julian Barbour
Visiting Professor in Physics at the University of Oxford
Gravity as Machian shape dynamics
Wednesday
06.07.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Fred Wolf
MPI Kolloquium / BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Stephen Eglen
DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Development of neuronal architecture: retinal mosaic formation
Tuesday
05.07.2011
17 c.t.
Seminarraum 0.79, Am Faßberg 17, MPIDS
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Nathalie Rochefort
Institute of Neuroscience, Technische Universität München
Exploring the mouse visual cortex in vivo with two-photon calcium imaging
Tuesday
05.07.2011
10:15 s.t.
Seminarraum Haus 2, 4. Stock (Bunsenstr.)
Contact:  Marc Timme
June 2011
Wednesday
29.06.2011
16 c.t.
Ludwig-Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11, AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Jan Nagler
MPI Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Massimo Vergassola
Institut Pasteur Physics of Biological Systems, Paris, France
Bacterial strategies of chemotaxis
Tuesday
28.06.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Dominika Lyzwa
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Heather Read
Departments of Psychology & Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA
Parallel and Efficient Neural Pathway Encoding of the Acoustic Scene
Tuesday
21.06.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig-Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11, AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Christoph Kolodziejski
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
Dr. Stefan Kiebel
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Recognizing sequences of sequences using nonlinear dynamical systems
Monday
20.06.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig-Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11, AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Demian Battaglia
BCCN Sonderseminar
Prof. Dr. Jozsef Fiser
Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
A Sampling-based Framework for Probabilistic Representation and Computation in the Cortex
Wednesday
15.06.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig-Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11, AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Fred Wolf
BFNT/BCCN Sonderseminar
Prof. Dr. Valery Kalatsky
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, USA
Cortical maps of sensory world: Fourier approach to optical imaging
Tuesday
14.06.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11 AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Annette Witt
BFNT/BCCN AG-Seminar
Prof. Dr. Michael Rosenblum
Potsdam University, Nonlinear Dynamics Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Reconstructing phase dynamics of oscillator networks
Tuesday
07.06.2011
17 c.t.
Ludwig-Prandtl Hörsaal, Am Faßberg 11, AI-Gebäude
Contact:  Annette Witt
BCCN/BFNT AG-Seminar
PD Dr. Jan Kantelhardt
Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg
Phase Synchronization Transitions in Medical Data
May 2011
Friday
27.05.2011
14:15 s.t.
Seminarraum Haus 2, 4. Stock (Bunsenstr.)