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Abstracts and Talk Materials:

Mathematical Neuroscience

June 16-27, 2008

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Self-introductions by the participants
June 16, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Douglas N. Arnold (University of Minnesota)
http://umn.edu/~arnold/

Welcome and introduction
June 16, 2008 8:45 am - 9:00 am

Christoph Borgers (Tufts University)

Cortical rhythms
June 23, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Steven J. Cox (Rice University)
http://www.caam.rice.edu/~cox/

Inverse problems
June 25, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh)

Noise correlations
June 24, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Cables and dendrites
June 16, 2008 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Firing rates, filters, and introduction to the visual system
June 17, 2008 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Channels
June 18, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Membrane dynamics, singular perturbation, bursting, synapses
June 19, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Attractor networks and bumps
June 20, 2008 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Phase resetting, weak coupling
June 23, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Phase resetting, weak coupling
June 23, 2008 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Public lecture: Toys! Toys! Toys! The dynamics of some curious toys
June 24, 2008 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Waves, Evans functions, spatial models
June 26, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

G. Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.pitt.edu/~phase/

Development, pattern formation
June 27, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Ken Miller (Columbia University)
http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/

Pattern formation in the visual system
June 17, 2008 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Theoden Netoff (University of Minnesota)

Experimentalists' perspective–what can we measure?
June 18, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Duane Nykamp (University of Minnesota)
http://www.math.umn.edu/~nykamp/

Information theory/population coding
June 24, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Introduction to the nervous system
June 16, 2008 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Simple models and networks
June 17, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Hodgkin-Huxley theory
June 18, 2008 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Membrane dynamics, singular perturbation, bursting, synapses
June 19, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Small networks and synchrony
June 20, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Synapses and plasticity
June 25, 2008 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Waves, Evans functions, spatial models
June 26, 2008 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Jonathan E. Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~rubin/

Development, pattern formation
June 27, 2008 11:00 am - 12:30 pm