An IBRO Neuroscience School.
Part of the EU Neuro-IT Network of Excellence
July 30 - August 24, 2001
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Portugal
Week 1 (Alain Destexhe)
Monday, 30/7/01
09:00 - 09:30 : "Welcome and introduction"
09:45 - 11:15 : Experimentalists: "Hodgkin-Huxley Theory" (R. Calabrese)
09:45 - 11:15 : Theoreticians: "Introduction to neuronal morphology and synapses" (A. Thomson)
11:30 - 13:00 : Experimentalists: "How to model ion currents" (R. Calabrese)
11:30 - 13:00 : Theoreticians: "The microcircuits of neocortex" (K. Martin)
15:00 - 16:30 : "Compartmental modelling" Tutorial (E. De Schutter)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Tuesday, 31/7/01
09:30 - 11:00 : "Excitability in the phase plane" (J. Rinzel)
11:15 - 12:45 : "Dynamic clamp and hybrid systems: how models can talk directly to real neurons" (G. Le Masson)
15:00 - 16:30 : "NEURON" Tutorial(M. Hines)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Wednesday, 01/8/01
09:30 - 11:00 : "Network rhythmogenesis and synaptic depression" (J. Rinzel)
11:15 - 12:45 : "How can we compute with cortical neurons?" (K. Martin)
15:00 - 16:30 : "GENESIS I" Tutorial (D. Beeman)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Thursday, 02/8/01
09:30 - 11:00 : "The dynamics of synaptic interactions in neocortex" (A. Thomson)
11:15 - 12:45 : "Cable theory and dendritic computations" (I. Segev)
15:00 - 16:30 : "XPP" Tutorial (J. Rinzel)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 21:30 : Evening lecture (I. Segev)
Friday, 03/8/01
09:30 - 11:00 : "Conductance-based cellular and network models" (A. Destexhe)
11:15 - 12:45 : "Simplified neural network models" (H. Sompolinsky)
15:00 - 16:30 : "MATLAB" Tutorial (O. Shriki)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
21:00 - 25:00 : Disco/Midnight swim
Week 2 (Klaus Obermayer)
Monday, 06/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Cortical Anatomy" (J. Lund)
11:15-12:45 : "Auditory System" (C. Schreiner)
14:00-15:30 : "Mean Field Model" (H. Sompolinsky)
16:00-17:30 : "Advanced Statistics I" Tutorial (M. Stetter)
18:00-19:00 : -- student project work --
Tuesday, 07/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Auditory System" (C. Schreiner)
11:15-12:45 : "Visual System/Coding" (B. Olshausen)
15:00-16:30 : "Advanced Statistics II" Tutorial (M. Stetter)
16:00-19:00 : -- student project work --
Wednesday, 08/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Coupled Oscillators" (P. Bressloff)
11:15-12:45 : "Visual system/natural image statistics" (B. Olshausen)
15:00-16:30 : "Integrate-and-fire networks" Tutorial (P. Bressloff)
16:30-19:00 : -- student project work --
Thursday, 09/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks" (Z. Ghahramani)
11:15-12:45 : "Olfaction" (C. Linster)
15:00-19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00-21:30 : Evening lecture: "Computational Auditory System" (D. Ellis)
Friday, 10/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Neuromodulation" (C. Linster)
11:15-12:45 : "Hallucinations/Long-Range Connections" (P. Bressloff)
15:00-19:00 : -- student project work --
21:00-25:00 : Disco/Midnight Swim
Saturday, 11/8/01: Organised trip to Sella
Nevea : to reach new intellectual heights after having touched the depths of the abyss
Week 3 (Alessandro Treves)
Monday, 13/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Imaging Neuroscience I: Functional specialization" (K. Friston)
11:15-12:45 : "The relation between hippocampal place cells and spatial learning" (E. Moser)
15:00-16:30 : Tutorial
16:30-19:00 : -- student project work --
Tuesday, 14/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Multiplicity of states and scaling rates in neural systems" (S. Marom)
11:15-12:45 : "Cognitive designs for neuroimaging" (S. Dehaene)
15:00-16:30 : "Detecting Reactivation" Tutorial (F. Battaglia)
16:30-19:00 : -- tutors and students project discussion --
Wednesday, 15/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Imaging Neuroscience II: Functional integration" (K. Friston)
11:15-12:45 : "Synaptic plasticity and its role in hippocampus-dependent memory formation" (M.-B. Moser)
15:00-16:30 : Lecture or Tutorial
20:00-21:30 : -- tutors and students project discussion --
Thursday, 16/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "What has evolution done to the hippocampus?" (A. Treves)
11:15-12:45 : "How does cortical information reach the hippocampus and what does the hippocampus do to it?" (E. Moser/M.-B. Moser)
15:00-16:30 : -- student project work --
20:00-21:30 : Evening lecture: "The Number Sense" (S. Dehaene)
Friday, 17/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "What has evolution done to the neocortex?" (A. Treves)
11:15-12:45 : "Formation of neural activity groups in cortical networks" (S. Marom)
15:00-19:00 : -- student project work --
23:00-25:00 : Disco/Midnight swim
Saturday, 18/8/01: Organised trip to Postumia
caves: humidity cements student-speaker interactions
Week 4 (Eilon Vaadia)
Monday, 20/8/01
09:30-10:00 : Introduction (E. Vaadia)
10:00-11:00 : "Models of subthalamo-pallidal oscillations and their suppression"(C. Wilson)
11:15-12:45 : "Modelling cerebellar dynamics and plasticity" (E. De Schutter)
15:00-19:00 : --student project work --
Tuesday, 21/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Is the striatum a competitive network?" (C. Wilson)
11:15-12:45 : "Beyond maps: Dynamic and distributed sensorimotor processing in the mammalian brain"(M. Nicolelis)
15:00-19:00 : --student project work --
Wednesday, 22/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Movement in motor cortex/parameter extraction from populations of neurons" (A. Schwartz)
11:15-12:15 : "What can muscle properties tell us about population coding in motor cortex?" (E. Todorov)
12:15-13:15 : "Behavior related neuronal interactions in frontal sensorimotor cortices" (E. Vaadia)
15:00-18:00 : -- student project work --
20:00-21:00 : Surprise Evening Lecture
Thursday, 23/8/01
09:30-11:00 : "Optimal feedback control as a theory of motor co-ordination (E. Todorov)"
11:15-12:45 : "Motor learning and robot control: New adventures in Neural Population Coding" (M. Nicolelis)
15:00-16:30 : Closing remarks by Students and Directors
Student Project Presentation 1 (those who are leaving earlier)
Friday, 24/8/01
09:30-11:00 : Student Project Presentation 2
11:15-12:45 : Student Project Presentation 3
14:00-15:30 : Student Project Presentation 4
15:45-17:15 : Student Project Presentation 5
19:00-25:00 : Goodbye Party
Saturday, 25/8/01 - Sunday, 26/8/01: ESF Symposium on "Neuromorphic engineering"