COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
SUMMER SCHOOL
University of Ottawa
June 17-29, 2007
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First announcement
We are pleased to announce the first Canadian Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, which
will be held from Sunday June 17, 2007 until Friday June 29, 2007
inclusively. It is organized by the new Center for Neural Dynamics at the University of
Ottawa. The course is directed at graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows from the physical sciences (e.g. physics, applied mathematics,
engineering, computer science) and the life sciences
(e.g. neuroscience, biology, physiology, human kinetics) who wish to
develop their skills in neural data analysis and in mathematical
modeling of neural activity. The topics will range from cellular to
systems neuroscience, with a focus on sensory and motor systems.
The course will consist of 3 hours of lectures in
the mornings, followed by 3-hour MATLAB-based computer laboratories in
the afternoons. Participants will pair up for these laboratories, and
an effort will be made to pair someone from the life sciences with
someone from the physical sciences. All classes and laboratories will
be held on the main downtown campus of the University of Ottawa
(Biosciences Complex). The School will be held in English, although
many of the lecturers also speak French. The course can be taken for
credit, since it is a University of Ottawa three-credit graduate
course (NSC8104). The mark will be based on work done in the computer
laboratories and a short project. The first day of the school (Sunday
June 17th) will be a mathematics refresher open to all participants,
which will include some introduction to differential equations.
Enrollment in the course will be limited to 40
participants.
Important dates
February 1, 2007: |
Application
(website to follow). |
March 15, 2007: |
Notification
of acceptance and level of financial support. |
April 1, 2007: |
Notification
of acceptance by the participant. |