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About Cosyne Program Summary All times are EST (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5) Tuesday, 23 February 11:00a Cosyne Tutorial: Recurrent Neural Networks for Neuroscience 03:00p Paths for leadership in promoting the careers of scientists Wednesday, 24 February 08:00a Poster Session 1a 10:00a Session 1: 3 accepted talks 11:40a Session 2: 4 accepted talks 01:00p Simons Foundation Bridge to Independence Awards: Facilitating the transition from postdoc to junior faculty 02:00p Session 3: 3 accepted talks 03:00p Poster Session 1b 05:00p Mini-symposium on the history of race and racism in science 07:00p Poster Session 1c Thursday, 25 February 08:00a Poster Session 2a 10:00a Session 4: 3 accepted talks 11:40a Session 5: 4 accepted talks 02:00p Session 6: 3 accepted talks 03:00p Poster Session 2b 05:00p Expanding horizons: Diverse perspectives in computational neuroscience 07:00p Poster Session 2c Friday, 26 February 08:00a Poster Session 3a 10:00a Session 7: 3 accepted talks 11:40a Session 8: 4 accepted talks 02:00p Session 9: 3 accepted talks 03:00p Poster Session 3b 07:00p Poster Session 3c COSYNE 2021 i ii COSYNE 2021 About Cosyne About Cosyne The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. To encourage interdisciplinary interactions, the main meeting is arranged in a single track. A set of invited talks are selected by the Executive Committee and Organizing Commit- tee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. Cosyne topics include (but are not limited to): neural basis of behavior, sensory and motor systems, circuitry, learning, neural coding, natural scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, machine learning for neuroscience, and com- putation with spiking networks. Participants include pure experimentalists, pure theorists, and everything in between. Cosyne 2021 Leadership Organizing Committee General and Program Chairs Anne-Marie Oswald (University of Pittsburgh) and Srdjan Ostojic (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris) Publicity Chair Adam Calhoun (Princeton University) Diversity Chairs Eva Dyer (Georgia Tech, Emory University) and Eric Shea-Brown (University of Washington) Tutorial Chair Il Memming Park (Stony Brook University) Development Chair Michael Long (New York University) Media Chair Carlos Stein Brito (EPFL) Executive Committee Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago) Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud) Alexandre Pouget (University of Geneva) Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) COSYNE 2021 iii About Cosyne Program Committee Anne-Marie Oswald (University of Pittsburgh), co-chair Srdjan Ostojic (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris), co-chair Athena Akrami (University College London) Demba Ba (Harvard University) Omri Barak (Technion) Brice Bathellier (Paris) Yoram Burak (Hebrew University) Christine Constantinople (New York University) Saskia De Vries (Allen Institute for Brain Science) Victor de Lafuente (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University) Tatiana Engel (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Annegret Falkner (Princeton University) Kevin Franks (Duke University) Tim Hanks (University of California, Davis) Ann Hermundstad (Janelia Farm Research Campus) Andrew Leifer (Princeton University) Sukbin Lim (New York University Shanghai) Scott Linderman (Stanford University) Mackenzie Mathis (Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne) Ida Momennejad (Microsoft) Cris Niell (University of Oregon) Il Memming Park (Stony Brook) Adrien Peyrache (McGill University) Kanaka Rajan (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Robert Rosenbaum (University of Notre Dame) Christina Savin (New York University) Marshall Shuler (Johns Hopkins University) Daniela Vallentin (Max Planck Institute, Munich) iv COSYNE 2021 About Cosyne Cosyne 2021 reviewers Alireza Alemi, Cristiano Alessandro, Andy Alexander, Mikio Aoi, Diego Armando Pacheco Pinedo, Florencia Assaneo, Edoardo Balzani, Joao Barbosa, Tania Barkat, Jérémie Barral, Andrea Barreiro, Helen Barron, Eleanor Batty, Jeff Beck, Mor Ben-Tov, Kevin Berlemont, Gordon Berman, Johannes Bill, Kevin Bolding, Kathryn Bonnen, Flora Bouchacourt, Braden Brinkman, Iva Brunec, Denise Cai, Adam Calhoun, Dario Campagner, Ioana Carcea, Luis Carrillo-Reid, Sourish Chakravarty, Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, Adam Charles, Rishidev Chaudhuri, Xiaomo Chen, SueYeon Chung, Ruben Coen-Cagli, Julia Cox, Matt Creamer, Ran Darshan, Ian Davison, Daniel Denman, Emily Dennis, Erin Diel, Long Ding, Mario Dipoppa, May Dobosiewicz, Chunyu A Duan, Lea Duncker, Rodrigo Echeveste, Seth Egger, Valerie Ego-Stengel, Tahra Eissa, Ahmed El Hady, Sami El-Boustani, Ben Engelhard, Rainer Engelken, Jeffrey Erlich, Katie Ferguson, Andrew Fink, Walter Fis- chler, Alexander Fleischmann, Francisco Flores, Thomas Frank, Tomoki Fukai, Izumi Fuku- naga, Gabrielle Girardeau, Joshua Glaser, Yi Gu, Grigori Guitchounts, Gabrielle Gutierrez, Ranier Gutierrez, Hannah Haberkern, Ralf Haefner, Steffen Hage, Arif Hamid, Gregory Handy, Guillaume Hennequin, Yu Hu, Chengcheng Huang, Ramakrishnan Iyer, Simon Jacob, Elina Jacobs, Xiaoxuan Jia, Kresimir Josic, Jonathan Kadmon, Gary Kane, Niko- laos Karalis, Matthias Kaschube, Loukia Katsouri, Alfred Kaye, Alex Kell, Ann Kennedy, Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Zachary Kilpatrick, Christopher Kim, Sung Soo Kim, Sue Ann Koay, Mihaly Kollo, Charles Kopec, Kishore Kuchibhotla, Guillaume Lajoie, Kaushik Lakshmi- narasimhan, Angela Langdon, Kenneth Latimer, Yaara Lefler, Luis Lemus, Anna Levina, Songting Li, Laureline Logiaco, Matthew Lovett-Barron, Emilie Mace, Noa Malem-Shinitski, Christian Marton, Paul Masset, Francesca Mastrogiuseppe, Luca Mazzucato, Samuel Mc- Dougle, Matthew McGinley, Jenna McHenry, Jorge Mejias, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Hugo Merchant, Leenoy Meshulam, Florent Meyniel, Daniel Millman, Aaron Milstein, Wiktor Mlynarski, Joseph Monaco, Ruben Moreno Bote, Malavika Murugan, Samuel Muscinelli, Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, Devika Narain, Marcella Noorman, Cian O’Donnell, Michael Okun, Freyja Olafsdottir, Azahara Oliva, Amy Orsborn, Hysell Oviedo, David Owald, Nancy Padilla Coreano, Marino Pagan, Agostina Palmigiano, Cengiz Pehlevan, Matthew Perich, Catherine Perrodin, Megan Peters, Warren Pettine, Alex Piet, Lucas Pinto, Joshua Plotkin, Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Angela Radulescu, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Erin Rich, Marion Rouault, Lisa Roux, Alon Rubin, Mikail Rubinov, Peter Rudebeck, Pavel Rueda Orozco, Caroline Runyan, Shreya Saxena, Steffen Schneider, Carl Schoonover, Tilo Schwalger, Won Mok Shim, Hideaki Shimazaki, Joshua Siegle, Spencer Smith, Andrew Song, Kim- berly Stachenfeld, Merav Stern, Weinan Sun, Vladislav Susoy, David Sussillo, Emily Syl- westrak, Sina Tafazoli, Dougal Tervo, Kay Thurley, Balazs Ujfalussy, Julia Veit, Vivek Venkat- achalam, Siwei Wang, Michael Wehr, Xue-Xin Wei, Matthew Whiteway, Alex Williams, Ma- rina Wosniack, Qiaojie Xiong, Guangyu Robert Yang, Manyi Yim, Fleur Zeldenrust, Yuan Zhao, Petr Znamenskiy Special thanks to Titipat Achakulvisut, Daniel Acuna, and Konrad Kording for writing and managing the automated software for reviewer abstract assignment. COSYNE 2021 v About Cosyne Conference Support Administrative Support, Registration, Hotels Leslie Weekes, Cosyne Social media policy Cosyne encourages the use of social media before, during, and after the conference, so long as it falls within the following rules: • Do not capture or share details of any unpublished data presented at the meeting. • If you are unsure whether data is unpublished, check with the presenter before sharing the information. • Respect presenters’ wishes if they indicate the information presented is not to be shared. Stay up to date with Cosyne 2021 #cosyne21 Cosyne Code of Conduct Purpose At Cosyne, we strive for open and honest intellectual debate as part of a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere. This requires a community and an environment that recognizes and respects the inherent worth of every person. Sources This code of conduct is based on standards and language set at other meetings, whose organizing boards convened special working groups of scientific and legal experts to set their policies. We follow, in particular, those guidelines established for the Gordon Research Conferences, the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, and NeurIPS. The following code of conduct has been adapted from: https://www.grc.org/about/grc-policies-and-legal-disclaimers https://www.sfn.org/Membership/Professional-Conduct/Code-of-Conduct-at-SfN-Events https://nips.cc/public/CodeOfConduct Other online resources: http://changingourcampus.org https://www.sfn.org/Membership/Professional-Conduct/SfN-Ethics-Policy vi COSYNE 2021 About Cosyne Responsibilities All participants, volunteers, organizers, reviewers, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers (re- ferred to as “Participants” collectively throughout this document) at our Conference, work- shops, and Conference-sponsored social events—are required to agree with this Code of Conduct both during an event and on official communication channels, including social media. Sponsors are equally subject to this Code of Conduct. In particular, sponsors should not use images, activities, or other materials that are of a sexual, racial, or otherwise offensive nature. This code applies
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