COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL University of Ottawa June 17-29, 2007

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.

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