Connectionists: Conference Announcement: Computational Neuroscience, Dec 8-11, 2008 @ the Warwick Mathematics Institute, Warwick University, UK

[Dimitris Vavoulis]

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EPSRC Workshop on Computational Neuroscience
Date:            December 8-11, 2008
Venue:         Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, UK
Organizers: Prof. Jianfeng Feng (Warwick University)
                      Prof. David McLaughlin (New York University)
                      Dr. Dimitris Vavoulis (Warwick University)
Support:      Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK  
(EPSRC)
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The Warwick Mathematics Institute is organizing a four-days Workshop  
on Computational Neuroscience, from
Monday 8 to Thursday 11 of December 2008. The workshop is part of a  
series of workshops under the general title
"Challenges in Scientific Computing", which are funded by the  
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC, UK).

Online registration and accommodation requests:

https://www.warwick.ac.uk/mrc/register.php?event=66&linked=no

Background:

Computational Neuroscience requires various aspects of modern applied  
mathematics, together with the direct use of
experimental data and design. The systems or theoretical approach in  
Neuroscience plays an important role and it is
fully demonstrated in the wide applications of the Hodgkin-Huxley  
model (a PDE or a multi-compartment model with
thousands of ODEs). Indeed, up to this day, Systems Neuroscience is  
one of the best examples of Systems Biology.
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of research on the modeling  
of intracellular activities, single cell activity
and biophysically realistic neuronal networks, and on the integration  
over different scales. The applications of abstract
and simplified models such as the integrate-and-fire model have also  
become an active area of research. A related exciting
field is the analysis of experimental data including multi-electrode  
data (local-field-potential and spike data), image data
and related ohmic data.

Aim:

The aim of this workshop is to bring scientists (both theoreticians  
and experimentalists) together to exchange ideas and identify
key areas of future research, in particular to promote the development  
of new analytical, computational and experimental tools for
the successful resolution of current problems in the field.

Format:

The conference will start on Monday morning and finish on Thursday  
afternoon. There will be a limited number of lectures per day,
to give the participants enough time for discussions and  
collaborations. We will invite both leading theoreticians and  
experimentalists
to join the meeting. The workshop will be organized around the  
following topics: (i) experiments, models and analysis of intracellular
mechanisms (ii) Single cell activity, both at  the biophysical and  
abstract levels (iii) neuronal networks modeling and experiments
(iv) dealing with experimental data in particular multi-electrode  
recordings and reverse engineering approaches.

Schedule:

(to be announced)

Speakers (as of July 1, 2008):

01. Gareth Leng (Edinburgh)
02. Paul Bressloff (Utah)
03. Petr Lansky (Czech Republic)
04. Karl Friston (UCL)
05. Andre Longtin (Ottawa)
06. Stephen Coombes (Nottingham)
07. John Rinzel (New York)
08. Erik De Schutter (Japan)
09. Ding Mingzhou (Florida)
10. Xiao-Jing Wang (Yale)
11. Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN, Japan)
12. Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL)
13. Henry Tuckwell (Max Planck Institute, MiS)
14. Hugh Robinson (Cambridge)
15. Claude Meunier (Paris)
16. Jurgen Jost (Max Planck Institute, MiS)
17. Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN)
18. David Cai (New York)
19. Roger Traub (IBM Research, SUNY Downstate Medical Centre)
20. Jianfeng Feng (Warwick)

More information:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2008_2009/symposium/
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2008_2009/symposium/wks1/

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