A PENS Neuroscience School.
August 7 - September 1, 2006
Arcachon, France
Schedule 2006 (pdf)
Schedule Week 1 (Nicolas Brunel)
Monday, August 7
09:15 - 09:30 : Welcome and introduction
09:30 - 11:00 : Michael Hausser Synaptic integration in single neurons
11:15 - 12:45 : Larry Abbott Theoretical Neuroscience from Neurons to Networks
15:00 - 17:00 : discussions between students and tutors
17:00 - 18:00 : discussions between tutors and director
Tuesday, August 8
09:30 - 11:00 : Alex Thomson Introduction to synaptic mechanisms and synaptic circuitry
11:15 - 12:45 : Larry Abbott Synaptic Plasticity, Learning and Memory
15:00 - 16:15 : NEURON tutorial by Michelle Rudolph
16:30 - 17:45 : XPP tutorial by Rodica CurtuWednesday, August 9
09:30 - 11:00 : Alain Destexhe Biophysical models of neuronal excitability and synaptic interactions
11:15 - 12:45 : Erik de Schutter Complex Purkinje cell model: parameters and calcium dynamics
15:00 - 16:15 : MATLAB tutorial by Oren Shriki/Tim Vogels
16:30 - 17:45 : NEST tutorial by Marc-Oliver Gewaltig
19:00 - 20:30 : dinner
21:00 - 22:00 : evening lecture Larry Abbott Dealing with Ignorance
22:15 - : dessert and coffee
Thursday, August 10
09:30 - 11:00 : Alex Thomson Diversity and specificity in cortical circuits
11:15 - 12:45 : Alain Destexhe Synaptic noise: back and forth between experiments and models
16:15 - 17:30 : From Hodgkin-Huxley to integrate-and-fire models tutorial by Nicolas Brunel
Friday, August 11
09:30 - 11:00 : John Rinzel Cable theory: passive, active, branching, etc
11:15 - 12:45 : Arnd Roth Dendrites: bug or feature?
15:00 - 17:00 : Short (1 minute) presentations of all projects by the students
19:00 - 20:00 : Football game on the beach
20:00 - : Party organized by students
Saturday, August 12
11:15 - 12:45 : John Rinzel The nonlinear dynamics of neuronal excitability
Schedule Week 2 (Ad Aertsen)
Monday, August 14
09:15 - 09:30 : Welcome and Introduction
09:30 - 11:00 : Amos Arieli - Visualization of cortical dynamics: The coupling between activity of single neurons and population activity
11:30 - 13:00 : Stefan Rotter - A random graph approach to cortical networks
15:00 - 16:15 : Tutorial: John Rinzel - Phase plane & dynamical systems concepts
16:30 - 17:45 : Tutorial: Michael Hines - NEURON
18:00 - 20:00 : -- students project work --
Tuesday, August 15
09:30 - 11:00 : Amos Arieli - Spontaneous cortical states: From sensory perception and motor action to decision making
11:30 - 13:00 : Markus Diesmann - Spike synchronisation in cortical neural networks
15:00 - 16:15 : Tutorial: Michael Hines - Parallel network simulations with NEURON
16:30 - 17:45 : Tutorial: Carl van Vreeswijk - The Fokker-Planck equation
18:00 - 20:00 : -- students project work --
Wednesday, August 16
09:30 - 11:00 : Ad Aertsen - Mind over matter - from neural coding to brain-machine-interfacing
11:30 - 13:00 : Carl van Vreeswijk - Heterogeneity and contrast invariance in a model of V1
15:00 - 16:15 : Tutorial: Tutorial: Stefan Rotter - Stochastic point processes and simple neuron models
16:30 - 20:00 : -- students project work --
Thursday, August 17
09:30 - 11:00 : Erik de Schutter - Cerebellar Purkinje cells: modeling and spike train analysis
11:30 - 13:00 : Carl van Vreeswijk - Is irregular activity bad for you?
15:00 - 17:45 : Tutorial: Markus Diesmann - Integration methods for large spiking neural networks
16:30 - 17:45 : Tutorial: Oren Shriki - Information Theory: an Introduction
18:00 - 20:00 : -- students project work --
Friday, August 18
09:30 - 11:00 : Stefan Rotter - The high-conductance state of cortical networks
11:30 - 13:00 : Markus Diesmann - Interaction of synchronous spiking and background activity
15:00 - 16:15 : Tutorial: Yann Le Franc - From firing patterns to ionic channels : basic insights on electrophysiology and conductance-based modeling
16:30 - 18:30 : Project discussions between students and tutors
19:00 - 20:00 : Football game on the beach
20:00 - : Party organized by students
Schedule Week 3 (Israel Nelken)
Monday, August 21
09:15 - 9:30 : Welcome and introduction
Peter Latham: Neuronal interactions and coding
Eilon Vaadia: Motor system
15:00 - 16:15 : Tutorial: Oren Shriki - Mean-field theory of Hodgkin-Huxley
16:30 - 17:45 : Tutorial: Oren Shriki - Infomax learning algorithms
Tuesday, August 22
Eilon Vaadia: Motor system
Yves Fregnac: Visual system
Wednesday, August 23
Yves Fregnac: visual system
Eli Nelken: Auditory system (functional anatomy)
19:00 - 20:30 : dinner
21:00 - 22:00 : evening lecture by Rafael Malach
22:15 - : dessert and coffee
Thursday, August 24
Eli Nelken: Auditory system (Computations and coding)
Rafi Malach: High-level sensory processing
Friday, August 25
Eli Nelken: Auditory system (Auditory cortex and beyond)
Peter Latham: Why do we need neural interactions?
20:00 - : Party organized by students
Schedule Week 4 (Director: Peter Dayan)
Monday, August 28
09:15 - 9:30 : Welcome and introduction
09:30 - 11:00 : Peter Dayan: Computational neuromodulation -- dopamine and serotonin
11:30 - 13:00 : Neil Burgess: Spatial representations in and around the hippocampus
Tuesday, August 29
09:30 - 11:00 : Zhaoping Li: Efficient visual coding for early visual processes
11:30 - 13:00 : Neil Burgess: The hippocampus and spatial memory systems
Wednesday, August 30
09:30 - 11:00 : Zhaoping Li: Preattentive visual selection
11:30 - 13:00 : Peter Dayan: Computational neuromodulation -- acetylcholine and norepinephrine
Thursday, August 31
afternoon : presentations from those who have to go early
Friday, September 1
presentations
20:00 - : Party organized by students