<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">**** Apologies for cross-posting ****</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">IX Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience - LASCON 2024</span></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">January 8 - February 2, 2024, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil</span></p><p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,60,192)"><span class="gmail-s3" style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="http://www.sisne.org/lascon-ix">www.sisne.org/lascon-ix</a></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 14, 2023</span></p><p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Dear Colleagues, </span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">After the hiatus of the pandemic, I am pleased to announce that the 9th edition of the Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON 2024) will take place January 8 - February 2, 2024 at the NeuroMat Center in the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. </span></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">LASCON aims at introducing young researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students to the use of computational and mathematical methods for modeling neurons and neural networks. The following topics will be covered: </span><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(29,29,29)">single-cell models (biophysically detailed, reduced and simplified), circuit and network models of biophysically detailed and simplified spiking neurons, probabilistic neuronal models, synaptic plasticity and learning, spike train analysis, neural population models, neuron-glia interaction models, models of extracellular fields, brain criticality, computational psychiatry, traveling waves in neural systems, and dynamics of neuronal functional connectivity</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">. These subjects will be taught via theoretical classes and hands-on tutorials with the use of the programs NEURON, NetPyNE, NEST, Brian, The Virtual Brain and others. Students will have to work on small research projects (to be done in groups of two), which they will present orally at the end of the school. </span></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">The following lecturers will be in charge of theoretical classes and tutorials:</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Aline Duarte, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Arnd Roth, University College, London, UK</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Christophe Pouzat, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Demian Battaglia, </span>University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France</p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">German Mato, Bariloche Atomic Center, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Hans Ekkehard Plesser, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Horacio Rotstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">John Murray, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Junji Ito, Juelich Research Center, Juelich, Germany</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Lyle Muller, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Marja-Leena Linne, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Mauricio Girardi-Schappo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Mauro Copelli, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Sonja Gruen, Juelich Research Center, Juelich, Germany</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Tilo Schwalger, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Valeriy Bragin, State University of New York, New York, NY, USA</span></p><p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">William Lytton, State University of New York, New York, NY, USA</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,2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:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:11px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Antonio Roque </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">LASCON Director</span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Antonio C. Roque<br>Professor Associado<br>Departamento de Fisica<br>FFCLRP, Universidade de Sao Paulo<br>14040-901 Ribeirao Preto-SP<br>Brazil  -  Brasil</p><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:antonior@ffclrp.usp.br" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">antonior@usp.br</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:aroquesilva@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">aroquesilva@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.sisne.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.sisne.org</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">ORCID: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1260-4840" target="_blank">0000-0003-1260-4840</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">ResearcherID: <a href="http://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/C-2316-2011" target="_blank">C-2316-2011</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Google Scholar: <a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=GqHWF74AAAAJ" target="_blank">GqHWF74AAAAJ</a></div><div>CV Lattes: <a href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/4609096963207702" target="_blank">4609096963207702</a></div></div></div></div></div>