Methods in Computational Neuroscience

[Diana Blazis]

2002 Marine Biological Laboratory Special Topics Course

Methods in Computational Neuroscience
August 4 - September 1, 2002
Directors:      William Bialek, Princeton University
Rob de Ruyter, NEC Research Institute.

Financial assistance is available for this course
Deadline extended to: March 7, 2002

    Animals interact with a complex world, encountering a wide variety of 
challenges: they must gather data about the environment, discover useful 
structures in these data, store and recall information about past events, 
plan and guide actions, learn the consequences of these actions, etc. These 
are, in part, computational problems that are solved by networks of 
neurons, from roughly 100 cells in a small worm to 100 billion in humans. 
Careful study of the natural context for these tasks leads to new 
mathematical formulations of the problems that brains are solving, and 
these theoretical approaches in turn suggest new experiments to 
characterize neurons and networks. This interplay between theory and 
experiment is the central theme of this course.

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Diana E.J. Blazis, Ph.D.                              dblazis at mbl.edu
Staff Scientist and Director,
CASSLS at the Marine Biological Laboratory      PH (508) 289-7535
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