Mathematical Neuroscience Meeting

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Mathematical Neuroscience Meeting
Edinburgh, Scotland, Mar 21st to Mar 23rd 2005

Organisers
Dr Stephen Coombes, Nottingham (UK) [stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk]
Dr Gabriel Lord, Heriot-Watt, (UK) [gabriel@ma.hw.ac.uk]

The goal of this meeting is to provide an overview of the current state
of research in Mathematical Neuroscience both to those already working
in the field and to those who are considering moving into it. The
workshop will focus on neural networks and their properties. Several
major themes will be addressed: (1) Oscillations, (2) Waves, (3)
Patterns, (4) Development, and (5) Information Processing.

The meeting will be organised under the auspices of the International
Centre for Mathematical Sciences. We aim to bring to together a number
of researchers from the disciplines of applied maths and computational
neuroscience to foster an environment for the exchange of ideas and the
pursuit of collaborative research.

Registration closes on Wednesday 12th Jan 2005 and may close earlier if
numbers exceed the capacity of around 60.

The meeting is supported by the EPSRC, London Mathematical Society,
the ICIAM 99 Fund and the Leverhulme Trust Theoretical Neuroscience
Network.

Some financial support is available, in particular for PhD and Post-Doc
students. Further details of this meeting and how to register may be
found at
http://www.icms.org.uk/meetings/2005/neuro/index.html

Scientific Programme

The meeting will be held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (22 George
Street). The workshop will start at 9am on Monday 21 March and finish
at 5pm on Wednesday 23 March. In addition to invited speakers the
schedule will allow for a number of contributed talks and poster
presentations. Anyone interested in making such a presentation should
contact one of the organisers.

Invited Speakers

Pete Ashwin (Exeter, UK) Computation on networks of cluster states

Carson Chow (Bethesda, USA) The dynamics of localized pulses in
spiking neuronal networks

Jack Cowan (Chicago, USA) Stochastic Neurodynamics

Steve Cox (Houston, USA) Channel localization from dual potential
recordings

Gustavo Deco (Barcelona, Spain) Cross-temporal and cross-modal
integration in the prefrontal cortex: The role of fluctuations in
neurodynamics

Michael Hausser (UCL, UK) (Title to be confirmed)

Carlo Laing (Massey, NZ) Spiral waves in neural field equations

Markus Owen (Nottingham, UK) Bumps, breathers, and waves in a
model neural network with spike frequency adaptation

Ras Petersen (Manchester, UK) Neural coding of tactile stimuli:
white noise analysis of neurons in primary somatosensory cortex

David Pinto (Pittsburgh, USA) Epsilon in neuroscience: the dangers
of going to extremes

John Rinzel (New York, USA) (To be confirmed)

Jonathan Rubin (Pittsburgh, USA) The dynamic range of bursting in a
network of conditional pacemaker cells

John Terry (Loughborough, UK) Bifurcations to seizure states in a
model of neural activity

Bill Troy (Pittsburgh, USA) Waves in a Wilson-Cowan type neural
problem

David Willshaw (Edinburgh, UK) (Title to be confirmed)

Alice Yew (Surrey, UK) Modelling signal transduction and
adaptation in olfactory receptor neurons

Dr S Coombes

EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow

School of Mathematical Sciences
Nottingham, UK

Tel: 0115 846 7836
Fax: 0115 951 3837

http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/~sc/

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