Information theory workshop at CNS*2017 -- call for contributed talks

[Joseph Lizier]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience, at CNS*2017, Antwerp, Belgium.
The workshop will be held over the final two days of the main conference, July 19 and 20.

Our confirmed invited speakers include the following (schedule available soon):

• Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University -- "Directed Information: Application to EEG during cognitive control"
• Lionel Barnett, University of Sussex -- "Information Transfer in Continuous and Discrete Time"
• Karl Friston, University College London -- "Active inference and artificial curiosity"
• Renaud Jolivet, University of Geneva -- "Energy-efficient information transfer at synapses"
• Lubomir Kostal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic -- "Reference frame independence as a constraint on the mutual information decomposition"
• Joseph T. Lizier, The University of Sydney -- "Estimating information transfer between spike trains"
• Daniele Marinazzo, University of Ghent -- "Synergetic and redundant information flow detected by unnormalized Granger causality: application to resting state fMRI"
• Jil Meier, Delft University of Technology -- "The epidemic spreading model and the direction of information flow in brain networks"
• Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization, Goettingen -- TBA
• Adrià Tauste, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -- TBA
• Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt -- TBA
• Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute -- "A Local Learning Rule for Independent Component Analysis"
• Raul Vicente, University of Tartu -- TBA

Also, we would like to call for contributions of talks (25 min + 5 min Q&A). If you are interested in contributing such a talk, please send a title and abstract to Joseph Lizier (joseph...@sydney.edu.au) by Friday June 2, 2017.

Please see our website http://bit.ly/cns2017itw for more details.

We hope you will join us there!

Organising Committee:
Joseph Lizier
Viola Priesemann
Justin Dauwels
Taro Toyoizumi
Alexander Dimitrov
Lubomir Kostal
Michael Wibral