Symposium on Neural Networks and Cellular Automata: from superconducting junctions to biology

Department of Physics, Loughborough University, 4-5 February 2008

Programme

All talks are in W0.01. Coffee breaks are in W2.19

PRESENTATIONS NOW AVAILABLE

4th Feb 2008 (Mon)

13:30: Welcome – Feo Kusmartsev (head of Physics Department).
13:40: John W Clark (USA), "Modeling Motion Contrast Detection in Vertebrate Visual Systems".
14:30: Steve Coombes (UK), “From Phase-locking to Bursting in Networks of Gap Junction Coupled Neurons”.
15:20: coffee break
15:50: John W Clark (USA), "Overview of the history of neural networks".
16:10: Alain Nogaret (UK), “Active Semiconductor Neuron for Spike Timing Neural Computation” (PowerPoint: 12.9 MB).
17:00: Alexander Balanov (UK), "Stochastic dynamics and its control in coupled neuron models".
17:50: Discussion in W2.19

5th Feb 2008 (Tue)

13:30: Kazuto Hirata (Japan), "Dynamical behavior of Josephson vortices in BSCCO: possibility of using for neural network" (PowerPoint: 6.8 MB).
14:00: Klaus Gernoth (Austria), "Architecturally optimized higher-order perceptrons for predicting probability distributions".
14:50: Natalia Janson (UK), “Noise-induced motion in neural network and its control” (PowerPoint: 2.6 MB).
15:40: coffee break
16:10: Jim Hague (UK), "The Physics of Embolic Stroke: Interaction between blockages and the cerebral blood-flow network".
16:40: Ludovic Krundel (UK), “Neural Networks with Cellular Automata” (PowerPoint: 6.4 MB).
17:30: Karl Kuerten (Austria), “Dynamical Phase Transitions in Social and Biological Binary Network Models”.
18:00: Round table: “Superconducting junctions meet Neural Networks” (John W. Clark, Feo Kusmartsev and Kazuto Hirata).
18:20: Close. Discussion in W2.19

Organized by Department of Physics, Loughborough University and ESF network-programme Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions (AQDJJ).

For further information and registration contact

Dmitry Gulevich,  D.R.Gulevich@lboro.ac.uk

Conference chairman

Feodor V Kusmartsev, F.Kusmartsev@lboro.ac.uk, Director of AQDJJ network