The workshop is intended to promote deeper dialogs among the participating research groups. Ample time will be given to each presentation to expose on more details. Each presentation will be scheduled 50 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussions. Around three presentations will be scheduled each “working day”, leaving further time in the afternoons for interactions and discussions. There will be 9 “working days”, and recreational activities will be organized on Saturdays. Seminar Room (Room 4042, 4/F), Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST (near South Entrance)
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* The talks on 2 July (Tue) will be held at the Seminar Room on 1/F (Room 1038)

Date	Time	Topics
2 July (Tue)	9:00 – 10:00 am	A Statement of the Problem: How to Bring Quantitative Methods to the Messy Biology of Alzheimer's Disease (Karl Herrup) Abstract
	10:15 – 11:15 am	Oscillation Sources and Signal Propagation Paths in Excitable Complex Networks (Gang Hu) Abstract
3 July (Wed)	9:00 – 10:00 am	Connectivity and Synchronous Firing in Growing Cortical Neuronal Networks (Chi Keung Chan) Abstract
	10:15 – 11:15 am	Synthetic Patterns: Sequential Establishment of Stripe Patterns in an Expanding Cell Population (Jian-Dong Huang) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Shifted Encoding Strategy in Retinal Luminance Adaptation: From Firing Rate to Neural Correlation (Si Wu) Abstract
4 July (Thu)	9:00 – 10:00 am	Probabilistic Machine Learning and Small Data (Thomas Trappenberg) Abstract
	10:15 – 11:15 am	From Topological Gene Regulatory Networks to Functional Ones Through Interaction-Weight Analysis (Gang Hu) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Trade-off between Structural Cost and Functional Value in the Connectivity and Activity of Neural Networks (Changsong Zhou) Abstract
5 July (Fri)	10:15 – 11:15 am	Neurocognitive Robotics: A New Era for Neuroscience? (Thomas Trappenberg) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Extracting Connectivity of Networks from Dynamics (Emily S. C. Ching) Abstract
8 July (Mon)	9:00 – 10:00 am	Functional and Structural Diversity of Neuronal Synapses (Guoqiang Bi) Abstract
	10:15 – 11:15 am	Geometrical Effect on Dynamic Structures of a Plastic Spiking Network (Chun-Chung Chen) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Long-Period Rhythmic Synchronous Firing in a Scale-Free Network (Yuanyuan Mi) Abstract
9 July (Tue)	10:15 – 11:15 am	The Balanced State: The Standard Model and Beyond (David Hansel) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Cost-Efficient Dynamical States Self-Organized by Balanced Excitation/Inhibition in Local Neuronal Networks (Dong-Ping Yang) Abstract
	2:15 – 3:00 pm	Visit to the Biosciences Central Research Facility [Room 6127, 6/F via Lift 22]
10 July (Wed)	9:00 – 10:00 am	Activity Dependent Mechanisms of Sensory Map Development (Michael Crair) Abstract
	10:15 – 11:15 am	Precise Spatiotemporal Firing Patterns Underlying Persistent Activity in Cultured Neuronal Networks (Wei Wu) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	A Coevolutionary Model with Self-Organized Criticality for Neural Networks with Different Diversities (Chen-Ping Zhu) Abstract
11 July (Thu)	9:00 – 10:00 am	Live Imaging of Subcellular Ultrastructure and Activity by Optical Microscopy (Guoqiang Bi) Abstract
	10:15 – 11:15 am	The Reaction-Diffusion Model as Applied to Neuronal Synapse Formation (H. Benjamin Peng) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Continuous Attractor Neural Networks, Short-Term Synaptic Depression, and Delay Compensation (K. Y. Michael Wong) Abstract
12 July (Fri)	10:15 – 11:15 am	Emergence of Orientation Selectivity in Primary Visual Cortex without Functional Map (David Hansel) Abstract
	11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Synaptic Plasticity, Stability and Memory (Mark van Rossum) Abstract