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Monday, April 16, 2012

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Neurosciences Research Program: Neuroscience and Higher Brain Function: State of the Art

This Tuesday The Neurosciences Institute holds a workshop, titled "Neuroscience and Higher Brain Function: State of the Art". Here is the schedule: http://www.nsi.edu/nrp/index.html. See you tomorrow!

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Neurosciences Research Program

Neuroscience and Higher Brain Function: State of the Art
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121
8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Welcome and Introduction
8:30 amGerald Edelman
Cortex: A View from the Top
Chairman: Gerald Edelman
8:40 amRanulfo RomoPerceptual Decision Processes across Cortex

Jon KaasCortical Sensorimotor Networks

Thomas AlbrightOn the Perception of Probable Things

Memory and Cognitive Control
Chairman: Larry Squire
10:50 amGyörgy BuzsakiNeural Syntax

John O'KeefeMemory Systems of the Medial Temporal Lobes

Mark D'EspositoModularity, Networks, and Cognitive Control

12:45 pm Lunch
Value and Cognition
Chairman: Einar Gall
1:45 pmMichael Merzenich "Cultural Neuroscience": How the World Changes Your Brain and Our Brains Change the World

Joaquin FusterThe Prefrontal Cortex: Executive, Controller, or Enabler of the Perception/Action Cycle?

Yasushi MiyashitaCognitive Memory and its Cellular/Network Machinery: How Global Brain-wide Networks Interact with Local Micro-circuits

Diagnosis and Repair
Chairman: Gerald Edelman
3:55 pmEberhard FetzBidirectional Interactions between the Brain and Implantable Computers

Apostolos GeorgopoulosPrewhitening for Brain Discovery
Summary
5:20 pm Gerald Edelman

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Compressed Sensing Talks in ITA Workshop in San Diego- Part II (Thursday)

In my previous post I definitely missed some talks in this ITA.

Tomorrow (Thursday) there will be many interesting talks on compressed sensing:
8:50: On L0 search for low-rank matrix completion, by Wei Dai, Imperial College London, Ely Kerman, UIUC, Olgica Milenkovic, UIUC

9:10 Orthogonal matching pursuit with replacement, by Inderjit Dhillon, University Of Texas, Prateek Jain, Microsoft, Ambuj Tewari, University Of Texas

3:00 Sparse sampling: bounds and applications, by Martin Vetterli, EPFL

4:15: Bilinear generalized approximate message passing (BiG-AMP) for matrix recovery problems Phil Schniter, Ohio State, Volkan Cevher, EPFL

There is another talk at the same time:
Construction of low-coherence frames using group theory, by Babak Hassibi, Caltech, Matthew Thill, Caltech

4:35:  Sparse recovery with graph constraints, by Meng Wang, Cornell, Weiyu Xu, Cornell, Enrique Mallada, Cornell, Kevin Tang, Cornell

4:55: Asymptotic analysis of complex LASSO via complex approximate message passing, by Arian Maleki, Rice, Laura Anitori, TNO, Netherlands, Zai Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Richard Baraniuk, Rice

In addition to the compressed sensing talks, there are many interesting talks on Music Information Retrieval, Clustering, Learning Theory, Graphical Models and Inference, and Statistical Machine learning & Applications.

Thursday will be a wonderful day.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Compressed Sensing Talks in ITA Workshop in San Diego (Sunday 2/5 - Friday 2/10)

From this Sunday we will have a great annual academic even in San Diego: ITA Workshop. Each year, the workshop invites many well-established scholars in the field of compressed sensing to give talks.

Here is the workshop calendar: http://ita.ucsd.edu/workshop/12/talks

Particularly, I found the following talks on compressed sensing/sparse signal recovery (I probably missed some):

Monday:
11:20: Quick partial sparse support recovery by Vincent Poor, Princeton, Ali Tajer, Princeton
3:00:  Information-theoretically optimal compressed sensing via spatial coupling and approximate message passing by David Donoho, Stanford, Adel Javanmard, Stanford, Andrea Montanari, Stanford

Thursday (I missed some interesting talks in this day. More complete list can be seen here: http://marchonscience.blogspot.com/2012/02/compressed-sensing-talks-in-ita_09.html):
8:50: On L0 search for low-rank matrix completion, by Wei Dai, Imperial College London, Ely Kerman, UIUC, Olgica Milenkovic, UIUC
9:10: Orthogonal matching pursuit with replacement, by Inderjit Dhillon, University Of Texas, Prateek Jain, Microsoft, Ambuj Tewari, University Of Texas
3:00: Sparse sampling: bounds and applications by Martin Vetterli, EPFL
3:40: Compressive depth acquisition cameras: Principles and demonstrations by Vivek Goyal, MIT
4:15: Construction of low-coherence frames using group theory by Babak Hassibi, Caltech, Matthew Thill, Caltech
4:15: Bilinear generalized approximate message passing (BiG-AMP) for matrix recovery problems Phil Schniter, Ohio State, Volkan Cevher, EPFL
4:35: Sparse recovery with graph constraints by Meng Wang, Cornell, Weiyu Xu, Cornell, Enrique Mallada, Cornell, Kevin Tang, Cornell
4:55:  Asymptotic analysis of complex LASSO via complex approximate message passing by Arian Maleki, Rice, Laura Anitori, TNO, Netherlands, Zai Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Richard Baraniuk, Rice

Friday:
11:20: Faster algorithms for sparse fourier transform, by Haitham Hassanieh, MIT, Piotr Indyk, MIT, Dina Katabi, MIT, Eric Price, MIT
Compressive sensing meets group testing: LP decoding for non-linear (disjunctive) measurements, by Chun Lam Chan, CUHK, Sidharth Jaggi, CUHK, Venkatesh Saligrama, BU, Samar Agnihotri, CUHK
1:35: The Big Data bootstrap, by Ariel Kleiner, UC Berkeley, Ameet Talwalkar, UC Berkeley, Purna Sarkar, UC Berkeley, Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley

In addition to these talks, there are other interesting talks on high-dimensional data analysis, information theory, and neuroscience/AI.

Next week should be a wonderful week, except an unhappy thing: this year ITA will be hold in a hotel in San Diego, not in UCSD campus as previous years. It's so inconvenient :(

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Literature-CS: Sparse Signal Recovery/Compressed Sensing of ICASSP 2012

ICASSP 2012 has posted the technical program: http://www.icassp2012.com/RegularProgram.asp

Here are the sections on sparse signal recovery/compressed sensing:


SPTM-P6: Joint SPTM/SPCOM Session: Sampling Sparsity and Reconstruction II

SPCOM-P2: Sampling, Coding and Modulation

SPTM-L3: Compressed Sensing and Sparsity I

SPTM-L4: Compressed Sensing and Sparsity II

SPTM-L5: Compressed Sensing and Sparsity III

SPCOM-L4: Sparse Signal Processing for Communications and Networking

SPTM-P9: Sampling and Reconstruction

SAM-P5: Joint SAM/SPTM Session: Compressed Sensing and Sparse Signal Modeling


My paper will be presented at the section: SPTM-L4: Compressed Sensing and Sparsity II

The title is:
Z.Zhang, B.D.Rao, Recovery of Block Sparse Signals Using the Framework of Block Sparse Bayesian Learning

You can read it now from my website: http://sccn.ucsd.edu/%7Ezhang/Zhang_ICASSP2012.pdf
Codes can be downloaded at: http://sccn.ucsd.edu/%7Ezhang/BSBL_EM_Code.zip

The paper is the early work of the journal version:

Z.Zhang, B.D.Rao, Extension of SBL Algorithms for the Recovery of Block Sparse Signals with Intra-Block Correlation

The paper can be obtain from: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0862

Friday, November 4, 2011

Minisymposium on New Dimensions in Brain-Machine Interfaces at UCSD

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
1pm-6pm
Fung Auditorium
Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall
UC San Diego

The minisymposium highlights latest advances and emerging directions in
brain-machine and neuron-silicon interface technology and their
applications to neuroscience and neuroengineering.  Topics include
high-dimensional EEG and ECoG systems, wireless and unobtrusive
brain-machine interfaces, flexible bioelectronics, real-time decoding of
brain and motor activity, and signal processing methods for intelligent
human-system interfaces.


PROGRAM

1:00-1:10pm    Welcome

1:10-1:50pm    Engineering hope with biomimetic systems
              Wentai Liu, UC Santa Cruz

1:50-2:30pm    A low power system-on-chip design for real-time ICA based BCI applications
              Wai-Chi Fang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

2:30-3:10pm    Developing practical non-contact EEG electrodes
              Yu Mike Chi, Cognionics

3:10-3:50pm    A new platform for BCI: from iBrain to the Stephen Hawking project
              Philip Low, Neurovigil


3:50-4:20pm    Coffee break


4:20-5:00pm    Interdisciplinary approaches to design high performance brain-machine interfaces
              Todd P. Coleman, UC San Diego

5:00-5:40pm    Evolving data collection and signal processing methods for intelligent human-system interfaces
              Scott Makeig, UC San Diego

5:40-6:00pm    Panel discussion


Organized by:

Tzyy-Ping Jung <tpjung@ucsd.edu>
Center for Advanced Neurological Monitoring,
Institute of Engineering in Medicine <http://iem.ucsd.edu>, and
Institute for Neural Computation <http://inc.ucsd.edu>

With support from:

Qualcomm <http://www.qualcomm.com>, and
Brain Corporation <http://www.braincorporation.com>

Friday, October 28, 2011

Call for Paper: Special Issue on Dependent Component Analysis

There will be a special issue on Dependent Component Analysis in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.  Dependent component analysis (DCA) is a big extension of ICA, and is one of the main directions of the ICA field in recent years.  I think this issue should be a good window to see current progress on DCA.

The issue includes the following topics (but not limited to):
- Multidimensional component analysis
- (Independent) subspace analysis
- Vector component analysis
- Correlated component analysis
- Topographical component analysis
- Tree-dependent component analysis
- Blind dependent component analysis
- Informed (Bayesian) dependent component analysis
- and their applications

Manuscripts Submission Date:  Feb 1, 2012.
Publication date: Oct.1, 2012.


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