This workshop will address approaches to computations underlying navigation from the perspectives of neuroscience and robotics.

The workshop will take place onĀ Saturday, April 11th 2015.

Venue:

Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh

Workshop program:

9.00 Welcome and coffee

9.30 Thomas Wolbers (Magdeburg): Head direction signals and positional computations in the human brain
10.00 Kate Jeffery (UCL): Sensory integration in the head direction system
10.30 Jack Mellor (Bristol): Synaptic plasticity induced by reactivation of place cell ensembles

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Margarita Chli (Edinburgh): Visual SLAM: from a hand-waved camera to vision-based perception for small aircraft
12.00 Ralph Moeller (Bielefeld): Holistic Models of Insect Visual Homing
12.30 Subramanian (Ram) Ramamoorthy (Edinburgh): Priors from learning over a lifetime and potential connections to place and grid cells

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Kevin Allen (Heidelburg): Inter-spike intervals reveal functionally distinct cell populations in the medial entorhinal cortex
14.30 Lukas Solanka (Edinburgh): Attractor network mechanisms for spatial computation
15.00 Michael Hasselmo (Boston): Potential sensory influences and functional roles of grid cells

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Neil Burgess (UCL): How environment and self-motion influence neural representation of space
16.30 Barbara Webb (Edinburgh): Neural mechanisms of navigation in ants
17.00 Michael Milford (Queensland): From rats to navigating robots and beyond

17.30 Close

Registration:

Please use the University of Edinburgh ePay service to register for this workshop.