Connectionists: 2 PostDoc positions in Computational Neuroscience

[Renaud Jolivet]

We are looking for several enthusiastic and highly qualified researchers 
interested in work on

- simplified  models of spiking neurons 
   and/or
- models of spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP)

The Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience is part of the Brain-Mind 
Institute at the EPFL,  and located in Lausanne on the shores of the 
Lake of Geneva in Switzerland. Together with the ETHZ the EPFL (Ecole 
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) ranks amongst the top universities 
in Europe. The EPFL has a very active research program in neuroscience 
with a strong component in theoretical and computational neuroscience.

The ideal candidates should have a background in physics or related 
fields and previous experience in computational neuroscience.

For more information on the work in the lab see 
http://diwww.epfl.ch/mantra/

Recent publications of the lab relevant for the project include

- Simplified Models of Spiking Neurons

R. Jolivet, A. Rauch, H.-R. Luscher and W. Gerstner (2006)
Predicting spike timing of neocortical pyramidal neurons by simple 
threshold models, Journal of Computational Neuroscience 21:35-49

Romain Brette and Wulfram Gerstner (2005)
Adaptive Exponential Integrate-and-Fire Model as an Effective 
Description of Neuronal Activity, J Neurophysiol, 94: 3637 - 3642

- Models of STDP

J.-P. Pfister, T. Toyoizumi, D. Barber, and W. Gerstner (2006)
Optimal Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity for Precise Action Potential 
Firing in supervised learning
Neural Computation 18:1309-1339

T. Toyoizumi, J.-P. Pfister, K. Aihara, and W. Gerstner (2005)
Generalized Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro rule for spiking neurons that 
maximizes information transmission
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102:5239-5244

J.-P. Pfister and W. Gerstner (2005)
Beyond Pair-Based STDP: a Phenomenological Rule for Spike Triplet and 
Frequency Effects.
IN: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18, Y. Weiss and 
B. Schölkopf and J. Platt, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 1083--1090
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PostDoctoral positions are for an initial period of 2 years with a 
flexible starting date.

Applications including
- a 1 page statement of research interests
- CV with publications
- names and contact details of 3 referees

should be sent in pdf format to Wulfram.Gerstner at epfl.ch

-- 
Renaud Jolivet PhD
Brain Mind Institute
EPFL
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http://icwww.epfl.ch/~rjolivet
+41 21 693 9687