Workshop: Mathematical Neuroscience

September 16-19, 2007

Program

 

Sunday, September 16, 2007

08:30
Registration
Room 5345

08:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:40
G. Bard Ermentrout
(University of Pittsburgh)
A coupla ducks: slow currents, canards, and weak coupling
Abstract
09:40 - 10:20
Amitabha Bose
(NJIT)
Determining firing phases in CPG networks
Abstract
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:50 - 11:30
Martin Wechselberger
(University of Sydney)
Canard induced mixed-mode oscillations in stellate cells of the entorhinal cortex
Abstract
11:30 - 12:10
Georgi Medvedev
(Drexel University)
Noise-induced bursting oscillations
Abstract

12:10 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:40
William C. Troy
(University of Pittsburgh)
Waves and synchrony in the Pinto-Ermentrout system
Abstract
14:40 - 15:20
Stephen Coombes
(University of Nottingham)
Brain wave equations: The incorporation of axonal delays, patchy connections, and threshold accommodation
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:50 - 16:30
Axel Hutt
(Humboldt University at Berlin)
Effects of additive noise in neural populations
Abstract
16:30 - 17:10
Eric Shea-Brown
(Courant Institute, New York University)
Tuned correlation transfer and consequences for coding
Abstract

17:15
Welcoming reception and Poster Session
Room 6245

 

Monday, September 17, 2007


Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:10
David Hansel
(CNRS-UMR8119)
Competition beetween feedback loops underlies normal and pathological dynamics in basal ganglia
Abstract
09:10 - 09:50
David Terman
(The Ohio State University)
Synchronous and irregular firing patterns in a model for the STN/GPe network
Abstract
09:50 - 10:10
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:10 - 10:50
Warren Grill
(Duke University)
Effective Deep Brain Stimulation Regularizes Neuronal Activity
Abstract
10:50 - 11:30
Cameron McIntyre
(Cleveland Clinic)
Quantifying the Neural Response to Deep Brain Stimulation
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:50 - 12:30
Peter Tass
(Institute of Medicine)
Long-lasting therapeutic effects of desynchronizing brain stimulation
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:40
Michael Rosenblum
(Potsdam University)
Controlling collective neural synchrony by feedback
Abstract
14:40 - 15:20
Yuri Maistrenko
(Research Center Juelich)
Multistability in the Kuramoto model with synaptic plasticity
Abstract
15:20 - 16:00
Frances Skinner
(University Health Network (UHN))
Control of synchrony by distal dendritic gap junctions
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - André-Aisenstadt Chair 2007
Meeting room : 1360

16:30 - 17:30
John Rinzel
(New York University )
Dynamics of Visual Bistable Perception: e.g., the Necker Cube
Abstract

17:30
Reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, September 18, 2007


Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:10
Ian Bruce
(McMaster University)
Stochastic ion channel gating in the auditory nerve: models and implications
Abstract
09:10 - 09:50
John Rinzel
(New York University )
Timing computations in the auditory brain stem
Abstract
09:50 - 10:10
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:10 - 10:50
Gal Chechik
(Stanford University)
Redundancy reduction in the ascending auditory system
Abstract
10:50 - 11:30
Mounya Elhilali
(Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Maryland)
A cortical view on auditory scene analysis: a physiological & computational approach
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:50 - 12:30
J. Leo van Hemmen
(TU München)
Supervised spike-timing dependent plasticity: A convergence proof
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:40
Benjamin Lindner
(Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
Exact mean and variance of neuronal subthreshold voltage fluctuations driven by shot noise
Abstract
14:40 - 15:20
Paul Miller
(Brandeis University)
Stochastic transitions in neuronal systems: taste, decisions and timing
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:50 - 16:30
Magnus Richardson
(University of Warwick)
Measuring and modelling the neuronal response function of cortical neurons
Abstract
16:30 - 17:10
Néstor Parga
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Synchronous transitions between up and down states in a network model of spontaneous activity
Abstract

 

Wednesday, September 19, 2007


Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:10
Mingzhou Ding
(University of Florida)
Laminar organization and function of cortical oscillations
Abstract
09:10 - 09:50
Philip Holmes
(Princeton University)
Oscillatory circuits underlying the retinal detection of temporal patterns
Abstract
09:50 - 10:10
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:10 - 10:50
Yulia Timofeeva
(University of Warwick)
Resonant dendrites with active spines: sub-threshold dynamics in the spike-diffuse-spike model
Abstract
10:50 - 11:30
Steven Cox
(Rice University)
Inverse problems in neuronal calcium signaling
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:50 - 12:30
Paul C. Bressloff
(University of Utah)
Diffusion of protein receptors on a cylindrical dendritic membrane with partially absorbing traps
Abstract