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ACCN 2011 schedule


January

January 3: application start

April

April 3: application deadline
April 10: deadline for letters of recommendation

May

May 2: notification of results
May 20: deadline for acceptance of invitation
May 13: tutor review phase starts

June

early June: tutor review phase ends; start of work with tutors
June 13: course fee due
June 24: accommodation forms due

July/August (Course: August 1-26)

July 30 - July 31: arrival
July 31, 20:00 welcome party at the hotel
August 01, 9:00 course starts
August 26: final presentations
August 26, 20:00: farewell party



Program of the course



Week 1 (director: Dieter Jaeger)


Monday:
  • 9:15-9:30 Introduction to course
  • 9.30-11.00 Dieter Jaeger
      Introduction to biological neural circuitry

  • 11.30-13.00 John Rinzel
      Hodgkin-Huxley and the nonlinear dynamics of neuronal excitability

  • 15.00-16.00 Software previews and introduction of tutors:
  • 16.00-18.00 Discussions between students and tutors
  • After Dinner: Discussions between tutors and directors
Tuesday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 John Rinzel.
     Cable theory

  • 11.30-13.00 Dieter Jaeger
      Building biophysical models of neuronal excitability and synaptic integration

  • 15.00-16.30 - Python tutorial - by Farzad Farkhooi
  • 17.00-18.30 - Neuron tutorial. – by Armin Bahl
Wednesday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements9.30-11.00 Boris Gutkin
     Neuronal excitability and phase response curves.
  • 11.30-13.00 Erik de Schutter
      Modeling biochemical reactions and diffusion: from simple to detailed

  • 15.00-16.30 - NEST tutorial. Moritz Deger
      17.00-18.30 - XPP tutorial Margarita Zachariou

  • Evening lecture: John Rinzel: Some remarks on the history of Computational
      Neuroscience

Thursday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 Boris Gutkin
      Dendritic dynamics in space and time

  • 11.30-13.00 Lars Schwabe
      Cortical dynamics and networks

  • 15.00-16.30 - MATLAB tutorial by Joshua Goldwyn
  • 17.00-18.30 - High performance computing tutorial
Friday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 Magnus Richardson
      From Hodgkin-Huxley to integrate-and-fire models

  • 11:30-13:00 Lars Schwabe
      Synaptic plasticity in biology and beyond


Week 2 (Director: Carl van Vreeswijk)


Monday
  • 9:15-9:30 Chris – announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 Carl van Vreeswijk
      From synapse to neural field models

  • 11.30-13.00 Ad Aertsen
      Application of neural fields, brain-machine interfaces
 
Tuesday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 Gianluigi Mongillo
      Balanced networks

  • 11.30-13.00 Carl van Vreeswijk
      Synchrony

  • 15.00-16.30 - tutorial on Fokker-Planck equation - by Carl van Vreesvijk
Wednesday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 Ad Aertsen

    Synchrony in spiking network models
  • 11.30-13.00 Arnd Roth

    Physiology and modeling of the cerebellum
Thursday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements
  • 9.30-11.00 Gianluigi Mongillo

    Bistability in balanced networks
  • 11.30-13.00 Carl van Vreeswijk

    Models of primary visual cortex
  • 15.00-16.30 – tutorial on stochastic point processes by Farzad Farkhooi
Friday
  • 9:15-9:30 Announcements:
  • 9.30-11.00 Arnd Roth
      Novel experimental methods in neurophysiology

  • 16:00- PARTY PREPARATIONS
Saturday
  • 10.00 Trip to Rogalin


Week 3 (Director: Peter Latham)


Monday:
  • 9.30-11.00 Peter Latham 
     Introduction to computational neuroscience
 
  • 11:30 - 13:00 Maneesh Sahani  
      Spike train models I

Tuesday:
  • 9.30-11.00  Maneesh Sahani
      Spike train models II

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Peter Dayan     
      Reinforcement learning I

Wednesday:
  •  9.30-11.00 Peter Dayan    
       Reinforcement learning II
  •  11:30 - 13:00 Li Zhaoping     
       Efficient coding to explain the visual receptive fields of the retina and V1

Thursday:
  •  9.30-11.00 Li Zhaoping      
       Bottom-up saliency map as a role for the primary visual cortex 
  • 11:30 - 13:00 Mate Lengyel
      Population Coding I
 
Friday:
  •  9.30-11.00 Mate Lengyel    
       Population Coding II
  •  11:30 - 13:00 Peter Latham    
       Requiem for the spike


Week 4 (Director: Yifat Prut)

Monday:
  • 9.30-11.00 Yifat Prut
      Computations approaches for motor control
  • 11:30 - 13:00 Eli Neken 
      The computational auditory system

Tuesday:
  • 9.30-11.00 Ronen Segev   
      From retinal output to behavior
  • 11:30 - 13:00 Eli Nelken
      Coding of surprise in auditory cortex

Wednesday:
  • 9.30-11.00 Martin Nawrot 
      Sinks and Sources of Cortical Variability
  • 11:30 - 13:00 Ronen Segev
      From natural scene to retinal output

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