EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience.
August 23 - September 17, 1999
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Week 1: Inspiration
Monday, 23/8/99
09:00 - 09:30 : "Welcome and introduction"
09:30 - 11:20 : "Cortical anatomy: Cells, synapses and connectional strategies" (J. Lund)
11:40 - 13:30 : "Function and modulation of small oscillatory networks" (E. Marder)
15:00 - 16:30 : "A brief history of neuron modeling" (I. Segev)
17:00 - 18:00 : "Compartmental modeling" Tutorial (M. Hines)
Tuesday, 24/8/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Recognition and classification in the visual cortex" (S. Ulmann)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Synaptic efficacy" (J. Jack)
15:00 - 16:30 : NEURON I Tutorial (M. Hines)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 22:00 : Project discussions (Tutors and students)
Wednesday, 25/8/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "An introduction to quantal analysis" (J. Jack)
11:10 - 13:00 : "From biology to language: The unfolding of a unique human endowment" (J. Mehler)
15:00 - 16:30 : "The Hodgkin & Huxley model" Tutorial (G. LeMasson)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work -
Thursday, 26/8/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Dissecting neuronal nonlinear dynamics" (J. Rinzel)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Mathematical modelling of cortical dynamics" (S. Amari)
15:00 - 16:30 : XPP Tutorial (J. Rinzel)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 22:00 : "The visual cortex: from A to B" (J. Cowan)
Friday, 27/8/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Rhythms, waves and states of the thalamus" (J. Rinzel)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Activity-dependent tuning of intrinsic and synaptic properties in developing and adult rhythmic networks" (E. Marder)
15:00 - 16:30 : GENESIS I Tutorial (E. De Schutter)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
22:00 - 25:00 : Disco/Midnight swim
Week 2: Sensation
Monday, 30/8/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Anatomy of the visual cortex" (J. Lund)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Independent Component Analysis" (S. Amari)
15:00 - 16:30 : Statistics Tutorial I (M. Stetter)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Tuesday, 31/8/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Physiology of the visual cortex I" (D. Heeger)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Temporal coding I" (M. Abeles)
15:00 - 16:30 : NEURON II Tutorial (M. Hines)
15:00 - 16:30 : GENESIS II Tutorial (R. Kotter)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 22:00 : Project discussions (Tutors and students)
Wednesday, 1/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Physiology of the visual cortex II" (D. Heeger)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Temporal coding II" (M. Abeles)
14:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Thursday, 2/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Models of spiking neural networks" (W. Gerstner)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Models of neural development I" (K. Obermayer)
15:00 - 16:30 : Statistics Tutorial II (M. Stetter)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 21:00 : "A physicist's quest for a theory of the brain" (H. Sompolinsky)
Friday, 3/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Visual attention" (M. Corbetta)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Models of neural development II" (K. Obermayer)
14:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
22:00 - 25:00 : Disco/Midnight swim
Saturday, 4/9/99 - Monday, 6/9/99 : ESF Symposium on Neural Coding
Week 3: Memory
Monday, 6/9/99 : Telital Round Table on Scientific Communication
Tuesday, 7/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Population coding in visual cortex" (H. Sompolinsky)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Organization and function of extrastriate cortex in primates" (C. Colby)
15:00 - 16:00 : "Neural simulation using VSLI techniques" (G. LeMasson)
16.30 - 17.30 : Analysis of multi-unit activity Tutorial (F. Battaglia)
17:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Wednesday, 8/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Adaptation, meta--adaptation, and learning" (N. Tishby)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Neural bases of spatial learning" (B. McNaughton)
15:00 - 16:30 : Neural networks Tutorial (D. Hansel)
20:00 - 22:00 : Project discussions (Tutors and students)
Thursday, 9/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Synaptic dynamics" (H. Markram)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Parietal cortex function" (C. Colby)
15:00 - 16:30 : Top-down learning Tutorial (V. de Sa)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 21:00 : "Some observations on how rats use their whiskers" (M. Diamond)
Friday, 10/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Design, plasticity and chance in the shaping of neural responses" (A. Treves)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Sleep reactivation dynamics" (B. McNaughton)
15:00 - 16:30 : Attractor analysis Tutorial (F. Battaglia)
16:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
22:00 - 25:00 : Disco/Midnight swim
Saturday 11/9/99 : Organized trip to Postumia caves
Week 4: Action
Monday, 13/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "From oscillatory circuits to mechanical movement" (O. Ekeberg)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Somatosensory pathways in the rat" (M. Nicolelis)
14:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Tuesday, 14/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Ion channels in dendrites that don't fire spikes" (C. Wilson)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Network and single cell dynamics in the cerebellar cortex" (De Schutter)
14:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 22:00 : Project discussions (Tutors and students)
Wednesday, 15/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Development of neuronal morphology" (J. van Pelt)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Oscillations and waves of cytosolic calcium" (G. Dupont)
14:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
20:00 - 21:00 : "Bimanual coordination" (E. Vaadia)
Thursday, 16/9/99
09:00 - 10:50 : "Ensemble coding in monkey motor cortex" (M. Nicolelis)
11:10 - 13:00 : "Synaptic integration in the corticostriatal pathway" (C. Wilson)
14:30 - 19:00 : -- student project work --
Friday, 17/9/99
09:00 - 10:10 : Student project presentations 1 (10 mins/student)
10:30 - 11:30 : Student project presentations 2 (10 mins/student)
12:00 - 13:00 : Student project presentations 3 (10 mins/student)
14:00 - 15:10 : Student project presentations 4 (10 mins/student)
15:30 - 16:30 : Student project presentations 5 (10 mins/student)
20:00 - 26:00 : Farewell party