IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
A Research Associate position in computational neural modeling
is immediately available at the University of Pittsburgh.
The focus of research will be on dynamical
and integrative behaviors of neural systems, especially
coherent neuronal oscillations. Topics include
electrophysiology of neurons in the thalamus and neocortex;
cellular and network basis of slow sleep rhythms and
fast oscillations during arousal; origin of transient
population events with high variabilities; neuromodulation
of synaptic transmission; synaptic organization of cooperative
neuronal firing patterns in the hippocampus. Projects are
expected to be carried out in close interactions and
collaborations with experimental neurobiologists.
Candidates with training and research experience in neuroscience,
the mathematics of nonlinear dynamical systems, and computer
simulations, are preferred.
The University of Pittsburgh has an active interdisciplinary
program in neuroscience. A new Center for Neural Basis of
Cognition (CNBC) has just been established jointly with
the Carnegie-Mellon University.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and a brief description of
fields of interest, and have three letters of recommandation sent to the
following address.
Professor Xiao-Jing Wang
Department of Mathematics and
Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
505 Thackeray Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-1759; Fax: 412-624-8397
email: xjwang@math.pitt.edu