Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (A PENS/Bernstein Training Center), Germany, 03-28/08/09

Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (A PENS/Bernstein Training Center)

PENS TRAINING CENTER 2009, August 03 - 28, 2009
Freiburg, Germany

Application Deadline: 2009-04-02

Aims and Scope
The course has two complementary parts. Mornings are devoted to lectures given by distinguished international faculty on topics across the breadth of experimental and computational neuroscience. During the rest of the day, students are given practical training in the art and practice of neural modelling, by pursuing a project of their choosing under the close supervision of expert tutors.

The first week of the course introduces students to essential neurobiological concepts and to the most important techniques in modelling single cells, synapses and circuits. Students learn how to solve their research problems using software packages such as MATLAB, NEST, NEURON, XPP, etc. During the following three weeks the lectures cover networks and specific neural systems and functions. The course ends with project presentations by the students.

Topics
Topics range from modelling single cells and subcellular processes through the simulation of simple circuits, large neuronal networks and system level models of the brain.

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