ACCN 2012 schedule

January 9: application start

April

April 15: application deadline
April 22: deadline for letters of recommendation

May: notification of results
May: deadline for acceptance of invitation
Late May: tutor review phase starts

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

July 28-29: arrival
July 29, 20:00 welcome party at the hotel
July 30, 9:00 course starts
August 24: final presentations
August 24, 20:00: farewell party

Program of the course

Week 1 (director: Dieter Jaeger)

• 9:15-9:30 Introduction to course

• 9.30-11.00 Dieter Jaeger

• 11.30-13.00 John Rinzel

• 15.00-16.00 Software previews and introduction of tutors:

• 16.00-18.00 Discussions between students and tutors

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements

• 9.30-11.00 John Rinzel.

• 11.30-13.00 Dieter Jaeger

• 15.00-16.30 - XPP tutorial, by John Rinzel
  

• 16.30-18.00 - Python tutorial, by Friedmann Zenke, Michael Hull
  

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements
• 9.30-11.00 Alain Destexhe

• 11.30-13.00 Erik de Schutter

• 15.00-16.30 - Neuron tutorial, Michael Hull, Daniele Linaro
  
• 16.30-18.00 - Matlab tutorial, Daniele Linaro, Cristina Savin

• Evening lecture: Eric de Schutter “Data sharing and data publishing”
  

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements
• 9.30-11.00  Alain Destexhe.

• 11.30-13.00 Magnus Richardson
  
      From Hodgkin-Huxley to integrate-and-fire models
     
  
  
• 15.00 - 16.30 - NEST tutorial, Brigit Kriener
  
• 16.30 - 18.30 - Brian tutorial, Laure Buhrer, Friedmann Zenke

• 9:15 - 9:30 Announcements
• 9.30 - 11.00    Magnus Richardson
  
     Using Fokker-Planck methods for populations/networks of neurons.
  
• 11:30 - 13:00    Erik De Schutter
  
      Parameter optimization in neural modeling.
  
  Afternoon
  -Short (2 minute) presentations of all projects by the students
• Evening
  - Party organized by students

Week 2 (Director: Carl van Vreeswijk)

• 9:15 - 9:30 Announcements
• 9.30-11.00 Carl van Vreeswijk
  From Neuron to Network

• 11.30-13.00 Daniel Wojcik
  From transmembrane currents to extracellular potentials and back

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements

• 9.30-11.00 German Mato
  Collective dynamics and synchrony in large networks.
  

• 11.30-13.00 Ad Aertsen
  Application of neural field potentials: brain-machine interfaces
  
• 15.00-16.30 - tutorial on Fokker-Planck equation - by Carl van Vreesvijk

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements

• 9.30-11.00 Carole Levenes
  Developement of the cerebellum
  
• 11.30-13.00 Daniel Wojcik
  From spike trains to mice behavior - an introduction to point processes.
  

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements

• 9.30 - 11.00 Carl van Vreeswijk
  Irregular activity: the balance hyphothesis
  
• 11.30-13.00 Carole Levenes
  The function of the cerebellum
  

• 9:15-9:30 Announcements:

• 9.30-11.00 German Mato
  Dynamics and coding in spiking and bursting neurons
  

• 11.30-13.00 Ad Aertsen
  Synchrony in spiking network models
• 16.00 - PARTY PREPARATIONS
  

• 10.00 to be announced
  

Week 3 (Director: Mate Lengyel, updated)

• 9.30-11.00 Rich Turner
  

• 11:30 - 13:00 Mate Lengyel

• 9.30-11.00 Rich Turner
  

• 11:30 - 13:00 Peggy Series
  

•  9.30-11.00 Peggy Series
  

•  11:30 - 13:00 Quentin Huys
  

•  9.30-11.00 Quentin Huys   
  

• 11:30 - 13:00 Gasper Tkacik
  

•  9.30-11.00 Gasper Tkacik
  

•  11:30 - 13:00 Mate Lengyel
  

Week 4 (Director: Yifat Prut, updated)

• 9.30-11.00 Yifat Prut
  

• 11:30 - 13:00 Ronen Segev

• 9.30-11.00 Eli Nelken
  

• 11:30 - 13:00 Yifat Prut

• 9.30-11.00 Ronen Segev

• 11:30 - 13:00 Eli Nelken