Program / OCNC2017
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- All the lectures take place in the Seminar Room, OIST Seaside House unless otherwise indicated.
- Meetings with faculty take place in Meeting room 1
- Meetings with faculty on Thu. July 06 take place at Main Campus.
Week 1 (Jun 26-Jul.02) : Methods
Monday, June 26
09:30-09:45 Greetings from the organizers
10:00-13:00 Parallel Sessions
Biologists: Kenji Doya Introduction to numerical methods for ordinary and partial differential equations
Theoreticians: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama Neuronal basis for information processing. / Meeting Room 1
14:00-18:00 Student poster presentations (14:00-16:00 Group1 / 16:00-18:00 Group2)
19:00-21:00 Reception & Dinner
Tuesday, June 27
09:30-12:30 Upinder Bhalla Molecular computation in the brain
14:00-15:00 Introduction of the tutors
15:00-17:30 Tutorial: Python
Wednesday, June 28
09:30-12:30 Bernd Kuhn
- Ion channel physiology and the Hodgkin-Huxley model of neuronal activity
- Functional optical imaging
14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Brian2
16:00-18:00 Tutorial: Neuron
Thursday, June 29
09:30-12:30 Erik De Schutter Introduction to modeling neurons and networks
14:00-16:00 Tutorial: Nest
16:00-18:00 Tutorial: Advanced Matlab
Friday, June 30
09:30-12:30 Kenji Doya Introduction to reinforcement learning and Bayesian inference
14:00-16:00 Tutorial: LFPy/STEPS
16:00-18:00 Meeting with Dr. Bhalla or Meeting with Dr. Doya
Saturday, July 01
09:30-12:30 Greg Stephens An introduction to dynamical systems: from neural activity to natural behavior
14:00-15:00 Tutorial: Git
15:00-16:00 Project Work
Sunday, July 02 (Day off)
Week 2 (Jul 03-09) : Neurons, Networks and Behavior I
Monday, July 03
09:30-12:30 Shin Ishii Decoding neural decision making
14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Stephens
16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. De Schutter
Tuesday, July 04
09:30-12:30 Bard Ermentrout Mechanisms of excitability in simple neuronal models
14:00-16:00 Optional Tutorial: XPP by Dr. Ermentrout or Meeting with Dr. Fiete
16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Ishii
Wednesday, July 05
09:30-12:30 Charles Wilson Neuronal Oscillation and Entrainment
14:00-16:00 Project work or meeting with Dr. Ermentrout
16:00-18:00 Project work or meeting with Dr. Wilson
Thursday, July 06
09:30-12:30 Ila Fiete Theory of the neural circuits for spatial navigation
13:40-16:00 Visit to OIST Campus
16:00-18:00 Meeting with Dr. Kuhn or Meeting with Dr. Yazaki-Sugiyama or OIST Tea Time
Friday, July 07
09:30-12:30 Sukbin Lim
Recurrent network models of working memory
14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Lim
16:00-18:00 Project work
Saturday, July 08
09:30-12:30 Sonja Grün Analysis and interpretation of massively parallel neuronal data
14:00-16:00 Project work
Sunday, July 09 (Day off)
Week 3 (Jul 10 – 13) : Neurons, Networks and Behavior II
Monday, July 10
09:30-12:30 Michele Migliore Biophysical modeling of neurons and networks using the NEURON simulation environment
14:00-16:00 Project work or meeting with Dr. Grün
16:00-18:00 Project work
Tuesday, July 11
09:30-12:30 Jason Kerr Easy to collect, hard to interpret: Making sense of neurosphysiology data collected in vivo using electrical and imaging techniques
14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Migliore
16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Kerr
Wednesday, July 12
09:30-12:30 Nicholas Hatsopoulos Encoding of movement in the motor system
14:00-16:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Hatsopoulos
16:00-18:00 Project work or Meeting with Dr. Redish
Thursday, July 13
09:30-12:30 David Redish Computational models of decision-making systems: implications for computational psychiatry
14:00-17:00 Student project presentations
19:00-21:00 Banquet & Dinner