NEURON course at SFN 2000 meeting

[Ted Carnevale]

Short Course Announcement

USING THE NEURON SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT

Satellite Symposium, Society for Neuroscience Meeting

9 AM - 5 PM on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000

Speakers: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, 
          J.W. Moore, and G.M. Shepherd

This 1 day course with lectures and live demonstrations will 
present information essential for teaching and research 
applications of NEURON, an advanced simulation environment 
that handles realistic models of biophysical mechanisms,
individual neurons, and networks of cells.  The emphasis is 
on practical issues that are key to the most productive use 
of this powerful and convenient modeling tool.

Features that will be covered include:
  importing detailed morphometric data
  constructing and managing models of neurons 
    with the CellBuilder 
  constructing and managing network models 
    with the new Network Builder
  using the Multiple Run Fitter to optimize models 
    that have high-dimensional datasets
  NEURON's new functions for parallelizing simulations 
    over a workstation cluster (32-bit MSWindows and/or
    UNIX/Linux boxes)
  database resources for empirically-based modeling

Each registrant will receive a CD-ROM with software, plus 
a comprehensive set of notes that includes material which 
has not appeared elsewhere in print.

For more information see the course's WWW pages at
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/easy2k.html

--Ted

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Supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
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