Les Houches summer school: METHODS AND MODELS IN NEUROPHYSICS

[David Hansel]

                        *        NATO Advanced Study Institute
                      METHODS AND MODELS IN NEUROPHYSICS
                                       July 28 - August 29, 2003*

Scientific Direction: C. C. Chow (Pittsburgh), B. Gutkin (London), D.
Hansel and C. Meunier (Paris), I. Segev (Jerusalem)


_Program_

Opening lecture: E. Marder (Waltham, USA)
Why would a self-respecting experimental biologist be susceptible to theory?



_Lecture series:_

L. Abbott (Waltham, USA), P. Bressloff (Salt Lake City, USA),
E. Brown (Boston, USA), J. Rinzel (New York, USA),
H. Sompolinsky (Jerusalem, Israel), D. Terman (Colombus, USA),
T. Tishby (Jerusalem, Israel)

_Short lectures and seminars:_

N. Brunel (Paris, France), W. Gerstner (Lausanne, Switzerland),
D. Golomb (Beersheva, Israel), G. Mato (Bariloche, Argentina),
C. Pouzat (Paris, France), M. Shelley (New York, USA),
A. Treves (Trieste, Italy), M. Tsodyks (Rehovot, Israel),
C. van Vreeswijk (Paris, France), F. Wolf (Gottingen, Germany).

_Topical workshops:_

_Workshop 1_: The neuron in the network.
 L. Graham  (Paris, France) and others to be announced

_Workshop 2_: Dynamics in the somatosensory system
E. Ahissar (Rehovot, Israel), M. Brecht (Heidelberg, Germany), D.
Kleinfeld (San Diego, USA), R. Petersen (Trieste, Italy)
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Workshop 3 _: Learning and Memory
G.Q. Bi (Pittsburgh, USA), Y. Dudai (Rehovot, Israel), J. Taube
(Hanover,USA),
and others to be announced

_Registration_

Applications must be received before March 7, 2003. A contribution of
900 euros per participant is requested for full accomodation. A few
grants are available. Application forms and additional information
are available from the School at

Ecole d'ete de Physique theorique
La Cote des Chavants, 74310 Les Houches, France
Phone: 00-33 -4 50 54 40 69 - Fax: 00 33 -4 50 55 53 25
Email: secretariat.houches at ujf-grenoble.fr
Web: http://www-houches.ujf-grenoble.fr/

Les Houches is a resort village of the Chamonix valley facing the Mont-Blanc
range. Established in 1951, the Physics School is affiliated with
Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), INPG and supported by the Ministere
de la Jeunesse, de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche , by the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and by the Commissariat a
l'Energie Atomique.  This session received support from NATO IBRO and CNRS.