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CCBR Winter course on Machine Intelligence and Brain Research 2019

Day 1: 2nd Jan 2019 (Wednesday)
09:00 am	Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras	Opening Remarks
09:15 am	Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Axilor Ventures, Co-Founder, Infosys Distinguished Alumnus IIT Madras	Workshop Introduction
09:30 am	Prof. Partha Mitra, Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, H N Mahabala Chair Professor, CCBR at IIT Madras	H N Mahabala Chair Professorial Lecture
11:00 am	Coffee break
11:30am	Prof. Paul Martin, University of Sydney, Australia	Neurobiology of vision: Retina and the LGN
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Prof. Mriganka Sur, Newton Professor of Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA NR Narayana Murthy Chair Professor, CCBR at IIT Madras	N R Narayanamurthy Chair Professorial Lecture
03:30 pm	Coffee break
04:00 pm	Prof. Jonathan Victor, Cornell University, USA	Visual System Computations: Initial Cortical Stages

Day 2: Jan 3rd (Thursday)
09:30 am	Prof.Trichur Vidyasagar, University of Melbourne, Australia	Neurobiology of vision: V1 and Beyond
10:30 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am	Prof. Sukhendu Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	Classical Machine Vision
12:00 pm	Prof. Kaushik Mitra, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras	Modern Machine Vision
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Prof. Xiaoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins University, USA	Neural Coding of Complex Sounds in Central Auditory Systems
03:30 pm	Coffee Break
04:00pm	Prof. Yi Zhou, Arizona State University, USA	The Role of Spatial Hearing in Auditory Scene Analysis.

Day 3: Jan 4 (Friday)
09:00am	Prof. Anna Maria di Sciullo, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada	Natural Language and the Computational Brain
10:30 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am	Prof Hema Murthy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	Machine Learning in Audition
12:00 pm	Prof Mayank Mehta, University of California, Los Angeles,USA	Neural mechanisms of encoding space-time
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00pm	Prof. Sutanu Chakrabarty, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	Language/NLP
03:30 pm	Coffee Break
04:00 pm	Prof. Saikat Chatterjee, Department of Information Science and Engineering, KTH EE School, Sweden	Machine Learning Introduction
06:00 pm	Talk by Prof. VS Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego

Day 4: Jan 5 (Saturday)
10:00 am		Fundamentals of Neurobiology Laboratory (Dr Jaikishan Jayakumar)
12 :30 pm		Lunch
01:30 pm		Computer Laboratory Fundamentals of Machine Learning (Mr Keerthi Ram)
4:30 pm		Coffee Break
5:00 pm		Art Event
7:00 pm		Banquet dinner, Westin

Day 5: Jan 7 (Monday)
9:00 am	Prof Balaraman Ravindran, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	Reinforcement Learning
10:00 am	Prof. Anand Raghunathan, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Chair of VLSI area at Purdue University, USA CR Muthukrishnan chair at CCBR IIT Madras	Hardware for Machine Learning: An overview and roadmap
11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am	Dr. Viji Srinivasan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA	ML accelerators
012:30 pm	Lunch
01:30 pm	Dr. Mike Davies, Neuromorphic Computing Lab Intel Labs	The Loihi Neuromorphic Research Chip: Applying Principles of Neural Computation in Pursuit of Breakthroughs in Computing
02:30 pm	Prof V. Kamakoti, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	Enabling edge intelligence with an open-source hardware ecosystem
03:30 pm	Coffee break
04:00 pm	Prof. Kaushik Roy, Purdue University, USA	From Neuromorphic algorithms to Neuromorphic Hardware
05:00 pm	Prof. Suman Datta, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA	Post-CMOS devices for Neuromorphic Computing

Day 6: Jan 8 (Tuesday)

09:00am

Prof Blake Richards, University of Toronto, Canada (Remote Talk)

Biological Learning

10:30am

Coffee Break

11:30 am

Prof. Tadashi Isa, Kyoto University, Japan (Remote Talk)

Active Vision

01:00 pm

Lunch

02:00pm

Prof. L A Prashanth, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras

Multi-armed Bandits/ Reinforcement Learning

03:30 PM

Coffee break

Day 7: Jan 9 (Wednesday)
09:30 am	Prof Hema Murthy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	EEG signals in Audition
11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am	Prof Harish Guru Prasad,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	Basics of Machine Leaning
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Additional talk/tutorial from IITM speakers
3:30 pm	Coffee break
4:00 pm	Additional talk/tutorial from IITM speakers
5:00 pm	Closing remarks and feedback

Winter Course on Machine Intelligence and Brain Research - 2018

Tuesday, Jan 2
10:00am	Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras	“Opening Remarks”
10:15am	Prof. Partha Mitra Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA H N Mahabala Chair at CCBR, IIT Madras	“Workshop Introduction; Brain Circuits and Machine Intelligence”
11:30am	Coffee break
12:00pm	Prof. Mriganka Sur Professor of Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA NR Narayana Murthy Chair at CCBR, IIT Madras	“The neural architecture of cognition”
01:00pm	Lunch
02:00pm	Prof Paul R Martin, University of Sydney, Australia	“The first steps in visual processing: retina and subcortical vision, and an introduction to color vision”
03:30pm	Coffee break
06:00pm	Prof. VS Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego.	" Embodied brains and disembodied minds " What neurology can tell us about human nature

Wednesday, Jan 3
09:30 am	Prof. Jonathan Victor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA	“ Visual System Computations: Initial Cortical Stages”
10:30 am	Prof. Trichur Vidyasagar, Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia	“ Visual brain's bottom-up and top-down processes underlying feature maps and focal attention ”
11:30 am	Coffee Break
12:00 pm	Prof. Sukhendu Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	“ Classical Machine vision”
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Prof. Kaushik Mitra, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras	“Modern Machine Vision”
03:30 pm	Coffee Break
04:00 pm	Prof. Peter Strick, University of Pittsburgh, USA	“Neuroanatomy of the Peripheral Nervous system”

Thursday, Jan 4
09:30 am	Prof. Anand Raghunathan, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Chair of VLSI area at Purdue University, USA CR Muthukrishnan chair at CCBR IIT Madras	“Hardware in Machine Learning “
10:30 am	Dr. Narayan Srinivasa Eta Compute, USA	“Energy Efficient Learning for Edge Devices “
11:30 am	Coffee Break
12:00 pm	Prof Jonathan Fritz University of Maryland, USA	“Neurobiology of Auditory system”
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Prof. Hema Murthy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras / Prof. Umesh, Department of Electrical Engg, IIT Madras	“Machine Learning in Audition”
03:30 pm	Coffee Break
04:00 pm	Brain Anatomy and Physiology Lab Dr. Jaikishan Jayakumar, CCBR-IIT Madras

Friday, Jan 5
09:30 am	Prof. Balaraman Ravindran, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	“Reinforcement Learning”
10:30 am	Prof. Adam Kepecs, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA	“Neurobiology of Learning”
11:30 am	Coffee Break
12:00 pm	Prof Atsushi Iruki, Head of Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan	“Evolution of social vocal communication in primate brain”
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Prof. Mikhail Belkin, University of Ohio, USA	“Shallow networks”
03:00 pm	Coffee break
03:30 pm	A/Prof. Sutanu Chakraborti, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	“Natural Language Processing”
07:30 pm	Banquet Dinner, Westin (Velachery)

Saturday, Jan 6
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Prof. Saikat Chatterjee, Department of Information Science and Engineering, KTH EE School, Sweden	“Challenges in designing large neural networks”
03:30 pm	Coffee break
04:00 pm	A/Prof. Mitesh Khapra, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	“Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing”

Sunday, Jan 7
10:00 am	Computer Lab/ Project +Assignment
01:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm	Poster Session
05:00 pm	Workshop wrap up

Center for Computational Neuroscience Workshop 2017

Dates :

Jan 3 Tuesday - Jan 7 Saturday, 2017

Venue :

IC & SR Conference Hall II, ICSR building, IIT Madras, Chennai - 600036

Schedule for the CCBR Workshop 2017

Tuesday , Jan 3:

09:30am	Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras	"Opening Remarks"
09:45am	Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Axilor Ventures, Co Founder, Infosys	"Workshop Introduction"
Session Chair : Prof. Krishna Sivalingam, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
10:15am	Prof. ParthaMitra (CSHL,CCBR), Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, H N Mahabala Chair at IIT Madras	"The study of intelligent machines"
11:15am	Prof. Peter Littlewood , Director, Argonne National Laboratories, Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago.	"Fostering the interface between neuroscience, physics and computation at Bell Laboratories and Argonne."
11:30am	Coffee break
12:00pm	Prof. Mriganka Sur (MIT,CCBR) ,Newton Professor of Neuroscience , NR Narayana Murthy Chair at IIT Madras	Brain circuits and neural dynamics underlying cognition"
01:00pm	Lunch
Session Chair: Prof. Sukhendu Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
02:00pm	Prof. Yoshua Bengio, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal	Towards biologically plausible deep learning"
03:00pm	Prof. Peter Dayan, Director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London	"Neural Reinforcement Learning"
04:00pm	Coffee break
04:30pm	Prof. Balaraman Ravindran, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	"Introduction to Reinforcement Learning"

Wednesday, Jan 4:

Session Chair: Prof Anand Raghunathan, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University.
09:30am	Prof. Dmitry Chklovskii , Group Leader for Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation	"Towards an algorithmic theory of neural computation"
10:30am	Prof. Trichur Vidyasagar ,Professor, Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, University of Melbourne	"How does the visual system's neural architecture rise to some engineering challenges?"
11:30am	Coffee
12:00pm	Prof. Anand Raghunathan (CCBR),Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Chair of VLSI area at Purdue University ,CR Muthukrishnan chair at IIT Madras	"Computational Challenges of Ubiquitous Analytics and Machine Learning"
01:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Machine learning tutorial Session.
03:30pm	High Tea; Short presentation by Phillip.A.Min, US Consulate General, Chennai
04:30pm	Prof. Pavel Osten ,Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	"Tools for automated mapping of cell type-based anatomy in the mouse brain"

Thursday, Jan 5:

Session Chair: Prof. Kaushik Mitra, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
09:30am	Prof. Stephane Mallat, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique	Understanding (or not) Deep Neural Networks"
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Prof. Stephane Mallat, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique	Tutorial
01:00pm	Lunch
Session Chair: Prof. Suresh Govindarajan, Department of Physics , IIT Madras
2:00pm	Prof. Pierre Hohenberg, Professor,Department of Physics, New York University	Stat mech tutorial -1
03:30pm	Coffee Break
Session Chair: Prof. Hema Murthy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
CCBR RESEARCH TALKS
04:00pm	Prof. Srinivasa Chakravarty , Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras	Modeling Neuron-Astrocyte-Vessel interactions: Do cerebral vessels compute?
04:20pm	Prof. Hema Murthy , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	"Signal Processing and Machine as Applied to Mouse Brain Data"
04:40pm	Prof. Sukhendu Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras	"Machine Learning approaches for Video and object categorization - recent research activities of VPLAB"
05:00pm	Poster introductions(1 minute each)
05:30pm	Poster sessions

Friday, Jan 6:

Session Chair: Prof. Balaraman Ravindran, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
09:30am	Prof. Mikhail Belkin, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Ohio State University	"Machine Learning: Shallow Architectures"
10:30am	Prof. Shihab Shamma, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland	"Why rapid adaptive processes are essential for listening in realistic auditory environments"
11:30am	Coffee Break
12:00pm	Prof. Michael Miller, Director, Center for Imaging Science, Co- Director, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins	"Computational Neuroanatomy"
01:00pm	Lunch
02:00pm	Prof. Pierre Hohenberg, Professor, Department of Physics, New York University Prof. Anirvan Sengupta, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University	Stat Mech Tutorial -2 Random Matrices
03:30pm	Coffee break
04:00pm	Dr J Jayakumar, Senior Project Advisor, IIT Madras, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne; Prof. Atsushi Iriki, Head of Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan; Prof. Ramesh Rajan, Associate Professor, Physiology, Monash University, Australia	Neuro Lab (to be held in Biology teaching lab , Department of Biotech, IIT Madras)
07:00pm	Banquet Dinner, Westin (Velachery)

Saturday, Jan7

Session Chair: Prof R Nagarajan, Dean I&AR , IIT Madras
09:30 am	Prof Mohansankar Sivaprakasan, Associate Professor, IIT Madras Mr.Keerthi Ram, Senior Project Engineer, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre Mr. Jayaraj Joseph, Chief Technologist at Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre Research Park, IIT Madras.	"Impacting Healthcare through Collaborative Technology Innovations"
11:00am	Coffee break
11:30am	Mr. Vivek De, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation	"Challenges and Opportunities for Efficient & Scalable Neuromorphic Systems"
12:30pm	Lunch
Session Chair: Prof Partha Mitra, Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2:00pm	Prof. Y Narahari, Department of Computer science and automation ,IISc Bangalore	"Neurocomputing and Data Science Research at IISc, Bangalore"
2:30pm	Prof. Vasant Honavar , Director, Center for Big Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics,Pennsylvania State University	TBD
3:00pm	Prof. Atsushi Iriki, Head of Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan	Re-unification of Western and Eastern Medicine through the aid of Computational Neuroscience
03:30pm	coffee break
04:00pm	Short talks - National and International Collaborations
05:00pm	Workshop wrap up

Center for Computational Brain Research Workshop 2016

Dates :: Jan 4 Monday - Jan 8 Friday, 2016
Venue :: IC & SR Conference Hall II (70 participants), IIT Madras
Goal :: The goal of the workshop is twofold: pedagogy ("neuroscience for engineers"), and outreach/community building.

| Schedule

Day 1 Monday, January 4
Nervous System Architecture; The Visual System
- 9:30-9:45 am: Opening Remarks: Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director, IITM
- 9:45-10:15 am: Workshop Introduction: Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Session Chair: P S Kumar, CSE
- 10:15-11:00 am: Computational Brain Research: A Two Way Street: Partha Mitra (CSHL, CCBR)
- 11:00-11:30 am: coffee break
- 11:30-12:30 pm: Nervous System Architecture: An Overview Mriganka Sur (MIT, CCBR)
- 12:30-2:00pm: Lunch
- Session Chair: Sukhendu Das, CSE
- 2:00-3:00 pm: Visual System: Anatomy, Physiology and Behavior: Lecture 1: Trichur Vidyasagar (University of Melbourne)
- 3:00-3:30 pm: Discussion
- 3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break
- 4:00-5:00 pm: Visual System: Anatomy, Physiology and Behavior: Lecture 2: Trichur Vidyasagar (University of Melbourne)
- 5:00-5:30 pm: Discussion
IIT Madras - I& AR, 1st CCBR workshop Jan 2016- Inauguration

IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Shri. Kris Gopalakrishnan

IIT Madras - I& AR, 1st CCBR workshop- Prof.Partha P Mithra

IIT Madras - I& AR, 1st CCBR workshop - Prof.Mriganka Sur

Trichur Vidyasagar Part 01
Day 2 Tuesday, January 5
Machine Learning
- Session Chair: Balaraman Ravindran, CSE
- 10:00-11:00 am: Machine Learning: Shallow Architectures Mikhail Belkin (Ohio State University)
- 11:00-11:30 am: Coffee break
- 11:30-12:30 pm: Machine Learning: Deep (Multilayer) Architectures Ruslan Salakhudnikov (U Toronto) (Remote Presentation)
- 12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch
- Session Chair: Rajsekar Manokaran, CSE
- 2:00-3:00 pm: Online and Reinforcement Learning: Balaraman Ravindran, IITM
- 3:00-3:30 pm: Discussion on Machine Learning
- 3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break
- 4:00-5:00 pm: Electron Microscopic Reconstruction of Neural Circuitry. Toufiq Parag (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia)
- 5:00-6:00 pm: Neural computation: Theory Dmitry Chklovskii, Simons Center for Data Analysis
IIT Madras- CCBR workshop- Prof.Mikhail Belkin

IIT Madras- CCBR- Prof.Dmitry Chklovskii

IIT Madras-CCBR workshop - Prof.Balaraman Ravindran
Day 3 Wednesday, January 6
Hardware Architecture (Morning)
- Session Chair: V Kamakoti, CSE
- 10:00-11:00 am: Computer Hardware Architecture: How does Neuroscience fit in? Anand Raghunathan (Purdue, CCBR)
- 11:00-11:30 pm: Coffee Break
- 11:30-12:30 pm: Neuromorphic Computing with Nano-devices: Kaushik Roy (Purdue)
- 12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch
- Session Chair: Sutanu Chakraborty, CSE
- 2:00-3:00 pm: Evolution of human intelligence through the triadic interaction of neural, cognitive and ecological niches: Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN, BSI Japan)
Lab
- 3:00-6:00 pm: Introduction to neuroanatomy and electrophysiology. Ramesh Rajan (Monash), Jitendra Sharma (MIT), Amal Bera (IITM)
Day 4 Thursday, January 7
Neuro Theory; EM Circuit Reconstruction; Curriculum Development
- Session Chair: Nitin Chandrachoodan, EE
- 10:00-11:00 am: Channel Biophysics (Fred Sigworth, Yale)
- 11:00-11:30 am: Coffee Break
- 11:30am-12:30 pm: Single Neuron Biophysics, Hodgkin-Huxley (David Kleinfeld, UCSD)
- 12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch
- Session Chair: Hema Murthy, CSE
- 2:00-3:00 pm: CCBR Research Talks: Hema Murthy, Sukhendu Das, Sutanu Chakraborty
- 3:00-4:00 pm: Coffee break and Poster Session
- 4:00-5:00 pm: Neuroscience Curriculum Development for IITs (Ramesh Rajan, Sukhendu Das, Srinivasa Chakravarthy)
- Evening 6:30 pm: Workshop Reception and Dinner: Westin (Velachery)
IITM-IAR- CCBR workshop 2016 - Prof.David Kleinfled

IITM-IAR- CCBR workshop 2016 - Prof.David Kleinfled

IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Poster Session

IITM-IAR- CCBR workshop 2016 -Prof. Fred Sigworth
Day 5 Friday, January 8
Challenges and Opportunities: Industry, Medicine, Research Collaborations
- Session Chair: R Nagarajan
- 9:00-9:30 am: Why Computational Brain Research: Future Challenges to Software Development. Kris Gopalakrishnan
- 9:30-10:30 am: Al Aho, Columbia University
- 10:30-11:00 am: Gopi Katragadda, CTO Tata Sons
- 11:00-11:30 am: Coffee Break
- Session Chair: Krishnan Balasubramanian, ME
- 11:30-12:30 am: Neuroscience and Engineering: Opportunities and Needs in Medicine:
- 12:30pm-2:00 pm: Lunch
IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Gopi Katragadda

IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Prof. Alfred Aho

IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Prof. Pulkit Grover
Afternoon Session: Neuroscience in India; Collaboration Opportunities; Future Directions
- Session Chair: Partha Mitra
- Collaboration opportunities
- 2:00-2:30 pm: Peter Littlewood, Director, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- 2:30-3:00 pm: Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Center for Neuroscience, IISc Bangalore
- 3:00-3:30 pm: Upinder Bhalla, NCBS, Bangalore
- 3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break
- 4:00-5:00 pm: Future Directions; Workshop wrap-up
- 5:00-5:30 pm: workshop wrap-up
IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 Prof. Peter Littlewood

IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Prof.Upinder Bhalla

IITM-IAR CCBR workshop 2016 - Prof.Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Winter Course on Machine Intelligence and Brain Research - 2018

Center for Computational Neuroscience Workshop 2017

Center for Computational Brain Research Workshop 2016

| Schedule

Nervous System Architecture; The Visual System

Machine Learning

Hardware Architecture (Morning)

Lab

Neuro Theory; EM Circuit Reconstruction; Curriculum Development

Challenges and Opportunities: Industry, Medicine, Research Collaborations

Afternoon Session: Neuroscience in India; Collaboration Opportunities; Future Directions

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