Guest house from 20 June 2009 (arrival day) to 26 June 2009 (departure day) Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Noethnitzer Str. 38 D-01187 Dresden guest house no. 1, room 1.05 (tel.: +49-351-871-1605). It will be guaranteed that your key is in the safe after 15:00 You will find it in the safe at the entrance of guest house no. 1, just dial 2073 to open the safe. Please take the key, which has got your name on the tag. Now touch the little grey box, which you find near the entrance door, with the blue part of your key. After the beep you can open the door. Your room's door opens as usual. Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden Neustadt. Please get off at Dresden Hauptbahnhof. To the Max Planck Institute: From Dresden Hauptbahnhof please (continue to) take tram no. 3 direction "Coschuetz" and get off at the stop "Noethnitzer Strasse". The institute is to the left of the stop in bright orange. To the Max Planck Institute: From Dresden Hauptbahnhof please (continue to) take tram no. 3 direction "Coschuetz" and get off at the stop "Noethnitzer Strasse". The institute is to the left of the stop in bright orange. Please register in room 2 A 7 on the second floor: Opening hours: Saturday (June 20) 18:00 - 20:00 (welcome reception 19:00 - 21:00) Sunday (June 21) closed Monday to Thursday (June 22 - 25) 08:00 - 16:30. Claudia Poenisch mail: poenisch@pks.mpg.de Social event Tuesday, June 23. After the lunch, around 2:15 p.m. we will go to t Saturday, June 20 18:00 - 20:00 Registration 19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, June 20 18:00 - 20:00 Registration 19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, June 21 09:30 - 09:45 Opening Sleep and consciousness 09:45 - 10:30 Pierre Maquet (University of Liege, Belgium) The interaction between sleep and waking activity 10:30 - 11:15 Lutz Jancke (University of Zurich, Switzerland) How experiences modulates brain anatomy and function 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 - 12:30 Mario Rosanova (University of Milan, Italy) A perturbational approach to evaluate the brain's capacity for consciousness 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Slow oscillations 14:00 - 14:45 Vincenzo Crunelli (Cardiff University, UK) The slow (<1 Hz) sleep rhythm: An overlooked dialogue of three independent oscillators 14:45 - 15:30 Istvan Ulbert (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Laminar analysis of slow sleep oscillations in humans 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 16:45 Marcus Wilson (University of Waikato, New Zealand) A theoretical and experimental analysis of the transition between the low- and high-firing states of the cortical slow oscillation of slow-wave sleep 16:45 - 17:30 Jens-Christian Claussen (University of Lubeck, Germany) Modeling slow waves and their function for sleep and learning 18:00 Dinner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 22 Networks and synchronization 09:30 - 10:15 Peter Robinson (University of Sydney, Australia) Quantitative physiologically-based models of sleep dynamics 10:15 - 11:00 Maxim Bazhenov (University of California, USA) Effect of synaptic connectivity on long-range synchronization of thalamocortical oscillations 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:15 Jurgen Jost (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Mechanisms of synchronization of brain activity 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Pasticity, learning and memory 14:00 - 14:45 Jurgen Fell (University of Bonn, Germany) Why are dreams rarely remembered? 14:45 - 15:15 Szabolcs Kali (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Contributions of active dendritic processing, network interactions, and neuromodulation to the dynamics of the hippocampal network 15:15 - 16:00 Felix Tretter (Klinikum Munchen Ost, Germany) Modeling of working memory dysfunctions in schizophrenia - Towards computational neuropsychiatry 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 17:30 CODYBS09 Colloquium Karl Friston (University College London, UK) Free-energy, perception and learning 18:00 Dinner 20:00 - open end Poster Session -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 23 09:30 - 09:45 Jan-Michael Rost (Managing Director of MPIPKS) Presentation of MPIPKS Pasticity, learning and memory 09:45 - 10:30 Reto Huber (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Sleep slow waves, synaptic plasticity and the default network: Insights from transcranial magnetic stimulation and high-density EEG experiments Modeling 10:30 - 11:15 Sean Hill (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) A large-scale computer model of sleep and waking in the thalamocortical system 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 - 12:30 Alain Destexhe (CNRS-UNIC, France) Seemingly random but structured network activity in wake and sleep states 12:30 - 13:00 Svetlana Postnova (University of Marburg, Germany) A mathematical model of homeostatic regulation of sleep-wake cycles: Modulation of hypocretin/orexin effects 13:00 Lunch afternoon Excursion (more information soon!) evening Dinner (more information soon!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, June 24 EEG/fMRI 09:30 - 10:15 Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba) Model driven EEG/fMRI fusion of brain oscillations 10:15 - 10:45 Ingo Bojak (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Towards a model-based integration of co-registered EEG/fMRI data: Realistic mean field forward predictions 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 - 11:45 Victor Spoormaker (MPI of Psychiatry, Germany ) The development of resting networks into light and deep sleep 11:45 - 12:30 Roberto D. Pascual Marqui (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Non-invasive methods for discovery of oscillatory brain transactions using exact low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (eLORETA) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Time series analysis 14:00 - 14:30 Andreas Galka (University of Kiel, Germany) State space modelling approach to extracting independent components 14:30 - 15:00 Jiri Wackermann (Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Germany) Global approach to analysis of brain's electrical activity in sleep 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 - 16:00 Diego Liberati (University of Milan, Italy) Identification and modeling of brain dynamics of sleep, pain and intention 16:00 - 18:00 Discussion session 18:00 Dinner 20:00 Offentlicher Abendvortrag (Public Evening Lecture) Peter Achermann (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Warum schlafen wir? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, June 25 Complex systems 09:30 - 10:15 Steven Bressler (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Control of visual spatial attention 10:15 - 10:45 Claudius Gros (University Frankfurt, Germany) Cognitive computation with autonomously active neural networks: An emerging field 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 - 11:45 Jan Kantelhardt (University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Cross-modulated amplitudes and frequencies characterize interacting components in complex systems 11:45 - 12:15 Daniel Forger (University of Michigan, USA) Co-ordinating biological timekeeping in mammals: Noise and silence prevail 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Complex networks 14:00 - 14:45 Jurgen Kurths (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) Complex network approach to brain dynamics 14:45 - 15:15 Martin Pablo Gleiser (CONICET Bariloche, Argentina) Emergent brain functional networks 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break 15:45 - 16:15 Changsong Zhou (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Complexity vs. modularity in oscillatory brain networks 16:15 - 16:30 Closing