Special Topics

Complex systems science and brain dynamics

Hosted By:
Hava T. Siegelmann, hava@cs.umass.edu

During the last years the incorporation of Dynamical system theory, Evolutionary dynamics and Complex systems has contributed deep understanding to bi...

Deadline for submission: June 15, 2009

Statistical analysis of multi-cell recordings: Linking population coding models to experimental data

Hosted By:
Matthias Bethge, mbethge@tuebingen.mpg.de
Jakob H. Macke, jakob@tuebingen.mpg.de
Philipp Berens, berens@tuebingen.mpg.de

Modern recording techniques such as multi-electrode arrays and 2-photon imaging are capable of simultaneously monitoring the activity of large neuro...

Deadline for submission: December 01, 2009

Theory and models of spike-timing dependent plasticity

Hosted By:
Henry Markram, henry.markram@epfl.ch
Wulfram Gerstner, wulfram.gerstner@epfl.ch
Per Jesper Sjöström, j.sjostrom@ucl.ac.uk

Classical theories of unsupervised learning and Hebbian synaptic plasticity have always been formulated on the level of firing rates, but theoretician...

Deadline for submission: January 31, 2010

Functional neurogeometry and network topology

Hosted By:
Luciano da F. Costa, ldfcosta@gmail.com
Jaap van Pelt, jaap.van.pelt@cncr.vu.nl

Although the importance of synaptic connectivity for neuronal network function has long been recognized in theoretical and applied neuroscience, it wa...

Deadline for submission: May 01, 2010

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