Organizers:

Michael C. Reed
Department of Mathematics
Duke University
http://www.math.duke.edu/faculty/reed/

and

Eric D. Young
Johns Hopkins University
young@bme.jhu.edu
www.bme.jhu.edu/~eyoung/

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together mathematicians, biologists and engineers who work on different aspects of the auditory system. The entire auditory system will be covered, including:

• the mechanics of the outer, middle, and inner ear;

• hair cells and the eighth nerve;

• information processing in the brainstem, mid-brain, and cortex;

• behavioral and psychophysical correlates of auditory phenomena; and

• the design of prosthetic devices.

Mathematical modelling and computer simulation are playing a more and more significant role in auditory research. The goals of the workshop are to increase the communication and cooperation between expermentalists, mathematical modellers, and the designers of prosthetic devices and to introduce mathematicians with little previous experience in this area to the wide range of interesting mathematical problems in auditory science.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

MONDAY, MARCH 8
8:00 am	Registration and Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
8:40 am	Willard Miller, Fred Dulles and Michael Reed	Introduction
9:00-10:00 am	Donata Oertel University of Wisconsin	Anatomy and Physiology of the Mammalian Brainstem
10:00 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30-11:15 am	Richard L. Hyson Florida State University	Coding Interaural Time Differences in the Chick Brain Stem Auditory System
11:15-12:00	Paul B. Manis Johns Hopkins University	Ionic Conductances Regulating the Discharge Patterns of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons
1:15-2:00 pm	Edwin W. Rubel University of Washington	Anatomical and Physiological Properties of GABAergic Inputs to n. Laminaris from the Superior Olivary Nucleus of the Chick
2:00-2:45 pm	Dan H. Sanes New York University	Modification of Auditory Midbrain Neuron Coding Properties During Sound Stimulation
2:45-3:30 pm	Herbert F. Voigt Boston University	Issues to be Considered when Modeling (or Studying) the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (DCN)
4:00-5:15 pm	IMA Tea	IMA East, 400 Lind Hall A variety of appetizers and beverages will be served.
TUESDAY, MARCH 9
8:45 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00 am	H. Steven Colburn Boston University	Fundamental Issues in Binaural Processing
10:00 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30-11:15 am	Thomas J. Park University of Illinois at Chicago	Interaural Intensity Difference Processing in Auditory Midbrain Neurons: Effects of a Transient Early Inhibitory Input
11:15-12:00	Jacob J. Blum Duke University Medical Center	Model Calculations of Steady State Responses to Binaural Stimuli in the Dorsal Nucleus of the Lateral Lemniscus
1:15-2:00 pm	Alan R. Palmer University of Nottingham	Motion and Interaural Delay Sensitivity in the Inferior Colliculus
2:00-2:45 pm	Thomas J. Imig Kansas University Medical Center	Differential Sensitivity of Dorsal and Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Neur ons to Pinna Cues for Sound Direction
2:45 pm	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:15-4:00 pm	Benedikt Grothe University of Muenchen	The Role of Inhibition in ITD-coding
4:00-5:15 pm	Tom C.T. Yin University of Wisconsin Medical School	Why Do We know So Much More About the Visual Than the Auditory System and What Can We Do About It?
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10
8:45 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00-10:00 am	Nobuo Suga Washington University	The Cerebral Cortex for the Adjustment and Improvement of Auditory Signal Processing
10:00 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30 11:15 am	George D. Pollak University of Texas	Functional Interactions Between Ipsi- and Contralaterally Evoked Inhibition in the Dorsal Nucleus of the Lateral Lemniscus and Inferior Colliculus
11:15-12:00	Steven Dear Penn State College of Medicine	Spatiotemporal Patterns of Stimulus-locked Multiunit Activity in the Auditory Cortex of the Big Brown Bat Resemble Wavelet Packet Computations
1:15 pm	Laurel H. Carney Boston University	Spatiotemporal Coding of Sound Level in Auditory Nerve Responses: Quantitative Analyses and New Aspects of Nonlinear Temporal Cues
2:00-2:45 pm	Ellen Covey University of Washington	Brainstem Circuits for Analyzing Temporal Patterns of Sound in Echolocating Bats
2:45 pm	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:15 pm	John H. Casseday University of Washington	Specializations in the Auditory Midbrain for Detecting Temporal Parameters of Biologically Important Sounds
4:00-5:15 pm	Michael Reed Duke University	Discussion
THURSDAY, MARCH 11
8:45 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00-10:00 am	Don H. Johnson Rice University	Signal Encoding in the Discharge Patterns of Auditory Neurons
10:00 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30-11:15 am	Israel Nelken Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School	Processing of Natural Sounds in Auditory Cortex
11:15 - 12:00	Christoph E. Schreiner University of California San Francisco	Functional Organization of Cat and Monkey Auditory Cortex: Effects of Background Noise
1:15 pm	Eric D. Young Johns Hopkins University	Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Representation of Speech-like Sounds in the Damaged Cochlea
2:00 pm	Daniel Margoliash University of Chicago	TBA
2:45 pm	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:15 pm	Xiaoqin Wang Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Intensity and Temporal Processing in the Unanesthetized Auditory Cortex
4:00-5:15 pm	Jonathan Z. Simon/Shihab A. Shamma University of Maryland	Spectro-Temporal Response Fields in Primary Auditory Cortex (AI)
6:00 pm	Workshop Dinner	TBA
FRIDAY, MARCH 12
10:00 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:30 am	Discussion Details will be announced	Lind Hall, 4th Floor

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

As of 3/4/99

Name	Affiliation	Department
Jont Allen	AT&T Labs Research
Jacob J. Blum	Duke University Medical Center	Cell Biology
Laurel Carney	Boston University	Biomedical Engineering
John H. Casseday	University of Washington	Psychology
H. Steven Colburn	Boston University	Biomedical Engineering
Ellen Covey	University of Washington	Psychology
Steven Dear	Penn State College of Medicine	Neuroscience
Didier Depireux	University of Maryland	Institute for Systems Research
Janet Fitzakerley	University of Minnesota	Pharmacology
Benedikt Grothe	University of Munchen	Zoologisches Inst.
Shay Gueron	Technion-I.I.T.	Mathematics
Laura Hurley	University of Texas	Zoology
Richard Hyson	Florida State University	Psychology
Thomas Imig	University of Kansas Medical Center	Physiology
Don Johnson	Rice University	Electrical and Computer Eng.
Patrick Kanold	Johns Hopkins University	Biomedical Engineering
David Klein	University of Maryland	Institute for Systems Research
Zeph Landau	University of California - San Francisco	Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology--Dept. of Physiology
Paul Manis	Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Margoliash	University of Chicago	Organismal Biology & Anatomy
Israel Nelken	Hadassah Medical School	Physiology
Donata Oertel	University of Wisconsin	Neurophysiology
Mathew J. Palakal	Indiana University Purdue University	Computer Science
Alan R. Palmer	University of Nottingham	MRC Institute of Hearing Research
Tom Park	University of Illinois at Chicago	Biology Science
George Pollak	University of Texas	Zoology
Anita Rado	University of Arizona	Program in Applied Mathematics
Michael C. Reed	Duke University	Mathematics
Martin Rickert	University of Minnesota	Psychoacoustics Lab
John Rinzel	New York University	Center for Neural Science
Edwin Rubel	University of Washington	VMB Hearing Research Center
Dan Sanes	New York University	Center for Neural Science
Christolf Schreiner	University of California School of Medicine	Otolaryngology
James Simmons	Brown University	Neuroscience
Jonathan Z. Simon	University of Maryland	Institute for Systems Research
Mark A. Stellmack	University of Minnesota	Psychology
Nobuo Suga	Washington University	Biology
Dianne Van Tasell	Starkey Laboratories	Advanced Research
Herbert F. Voigt	Boston University	Biomedical Engineering
Xiaoqin Wang	Johns Hopkins University	Biomedical Engineering
Magdalena Wojtezak	University of Minnesota	Psychoacoustics Lab
Tom C.T. Yin	University of Wisconsin Medical School
Eric D. Young	Johns Hopkins University	JH Medical Institutions E Balt
Jane J. Yu	Johns Hopkins University	Biomedical Engineering

1998-1999 Mathematics in Biology

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