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Symposia & Workshops

Modelling the Brain and Nervous Systems

Associated with ICONIP 2008, Auckland, NZ.
Symposium 1: Development and Learning, Symposium 2: Computational Neurogenetic Modelling.
November 24 - 25, 2008.
Submission deadline: August 31, 2008.

Dynamical Systems in Biology

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Organized by: Eugene Izhikevich, Ying-Cheng Lai, Fern Hunt.
April 12 - 13, 2008.

Manchester Workshop on Local Field Potentials

University of Manchester. Organized by: Marcelo Montemurro, Stefano Panzeri, Rasmus Petersen.
April 4, 2008

Data Sharing and Modeling Challenges in Neuroscience

A Cosyne workshop. Snow Bird, Utah. Organized by: Arnd Roth, Wulfram Gerstner, Fritz Sommer. Will include discussion of results from the Lausanne "Competition: Predicting Single-Neuron Behavior".
March 3 - 4, 2008.
Submission deadline for competition: February 15, 2008.

Spiking Networks and Reinforcement Learning

A Cosyne workshop. Snow Bird, Utah. Organized by: Botond Szatmary, Eugene Izhikevich,
March 3 - 4, 2008.
Submission deadline: January 31, 2008.

Neuroinformatics

A special session of the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07) Pune, India. Organized by: Arunava Banerjee. Topics include: neuroscience data and knowledge bases, tools and techniques for neural data analysis, computational models of brain function at multiple levels.
December 17, 18 or 19, 2007.
Submission deadline: April 2, 2007.

NeuroMath: Advanced Methods for the Estimation of Human Brain Activity and Connectivity

Rome, Italy. Organized by: Fabio Babiloni, Maria Grazia Marciani, Donatella Mattia, Febo Cincotti.
December 4 - 5, 2007.
Submission deadline: October 30, 2007.

Live Demos at "Neuroscience 2007"

a workshop at the Society for Neuroscience meeting San Diego, California. Organized by: the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility.
November 3 - 7, 2007

Computational Approaches for Brain-Machine Interfaces

held at IJCNN 2007 in Orlando, Florida. Organized by: Justin Sanchez, Jose Principe.
Friday, August 17, 2007.

Cortical Microcircuits: Structure, Function and Theory

A CNS*2007 Workshop in Toronto, Canada. Organized by: Vassilis Cutsuridis, Bruce Graham.
July 12, 2007.

Developing Databases and Analysis Software for Electrophysiology: Design, Application, and Visualization

A CNS*2007 Workshop in Toronto, Canada. Organized by: Cengiz Gunay, Tomasz G. Smolinski, William W. Lytton.
July 12, 2007.

Neuro-Machine Interfaces: Integrating Biology and Technology to Develop Functionally Relevant Devices

A CNS*2007 Workshop in Toronto, Canada. Organized by: Mini Kurian, Joe Graham, Sharon Crook, Ranu Jung.
July 12, 2007.

Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

A CNS*2007 Workshop in Toronto, Canada. Organized by: Alex Dimitrov, Aurel A. Lazar.
July 11, 2007.

Workshop on Perspectives for Future Directions in Computational and Mathematical Neuroscience

A CNS*2007 pre-meeting Satellite in Toronto, Canada. Organized by: Frances Skinner, Sue Ann Campbell, Mary Pugh, Richard Zemel.
July 7, 2007.

Quantitative Neuron Modeling: Predicting every spike?

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Organized by: Arnd Roth, Felix Schuermann, Wulfram Gerstner, Renaud Jolivet.
June 25 - 26, 2007.
Competition submission deadline: June 1, 2007.

Closing the gap between neurophysiology and behaviour: A computational modelling approach

University of Birmingham, UK. Organized by: Dietmar Heinke.
May 31 - June 2, 2007.

Brain Connectivity Workshop

Organized by : Gustavo Deco, Barry Horwitz, Viktor Jirsa. There will be four main sessions: (i)Connectivity Analysis, (ii)Dynamical Analysis of Optical Imaging Data, (iii)Statistical approaches for Cortical Dynamics, (iv)Bridging anatomical and functional connectivity. Barcelona, Spain
May 28 - 30, 2007

Manchester Neural Coding Workshop

University of Manchester. Organized by: Marcelo Montemurro, Stefano Panzeri, Rasmus Petersen.
March. 26, 2007

Theory and Neuroinformatics in Research Related to Deep Brain Stimulation

Imperial College London. Organized by: Roman Borisyuk, Xuguang Liu, Nada Yousif.
March. 15 - 16, 2007
Application deadline: February 10, 2007.

Advances in Computational Motor Control V

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA. Organized by: Emo Todorov, Reza Shadmehr.
Friday, Oct. 13, 2006; 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA. Speakers to include M.L. Hines and N.T. Carnevale.
Friday, Oct. 13, 2006; 9 AM - 5 PM
Registration deadline: Friday, September 29, 2006 (limit 40 individuals).

Multisensory Integration and Concurrent Parallel Memory Systems for Spatial Cognition

A satellite workshop of the 9th Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2006).
Rome. Organized by: Angelo Arleo & Ricardo Chavarriaga.
October 1, 2006.
Abstract submission deadline: July 1, 2006.

Multi-level Brain Modeling Workshop

San Diego and La Jolla, California. Organized by: Terry Sejnowski.
September 29 - October 1, 2006.

Theoretical Neuroscience Network Annual Meeting

Bristol University. The meeting will consist of invited speakers, as well as talks by Network members about current research problems.
September 6 - 8 2006.
Registration deadline: July 31, 2006 (or earlier; limit 50 participants).

Mathematical models of development and learning in the nervous system

The aim of this workshop is to bring together mathematical modellers and key experimenters in the field of neural development and learning to: identify innovative applications of mathematics to modeling, and to find new experimental areas that would benefit from mathematical methods.
Raeburn Room, University of Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Chris Williams, Peter Dayan, Andrew Gillies, David Sterratt.
July 21 & 22, 2006.
Application deadline: May 1, 2006.

Continuous Attractor Neural Networks (CANNs)

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Si Wu and Thomas Trappenberg.
July 20, 2006.

Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Aurel Lazar, Alex Dimitrov.
July 20, 2006.

Phase Response Curves: Where theory and experiments intersect

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Theoden (Tay) Netoff & Horacio G. Rotstein.
July 20 (morning session), 2006.

Cortical Microcircuitry

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Thomas Wennekers.
July 19 - 20 (both afternoon sessions), 2006.

Using Extracellular Recordings to Constrain Compartmental Models

A CNS*2006 tutorial in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Carl Gold.
July 19 (afternoon session), 2006.

Interoperability of Simulators

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Erik De Schutter.
July 19 - 20, 2006.

Functional Models of the Hippocampal Formation

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Laurenz Wiskott.
July 19, 2006.

Modelling Structural Plasticity and Development

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: Markus Butz & Arjen van Ooyen.
July 19, 2006.

Cortical Map Development

A CNS*2006 workshop in Edinburgh, UK. Organized by: James Bednar.
July 19 (morning session), 2006.

Workshop on Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Organized by: Jürgen Jost & Henry Tuckwell.
July 6 - 8, 2006.
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2006.

Brain Connectivity Workshop

Organized by : Jorge Riera, Karl Friston. The fifth of a series of workshops dedicated to enhance discussions, to connect complementary disciplines and also to stimulate overseas collaborations around the main subject of Brain Connectivity. Sendai, Japan
May 17 - 20, 2006

Computational Neuroscience : From theory to neurons and back again.
- The 28th International Symposium of the GRSNC

The objectives of this symposium are to illustrate the power and utility of computational approaches to address fundamental issues of brain function from the level of single cells to that of large systems, as well as to discuss how computational and more traditional physiological methods complement one another.
University of Montréal. Organizers : Paul Cisek, John Kalaska, Trevor Drew, Stephen Scott and Yoshua Bengio.
May 8 - 9, 2006
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, March 31, 2006.

The 2006 NEURON Simulator Meeting

Texas Union Building, University of Texas at Austin. Organized by: Michael Hines,  Ted Carnevale,  Daniel Johnston
Friday, May 5 - Sunday, May 7, 2006

Computational Approaches to Cortical Functions

Banbury Center Workshop Series
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Organized by: Larry Abbott, Hirsh Cohen, Robert Shapley.
April 2 - 5, 2006

Nottingham Neurodynamics Meeting

University of Nottingham. Speakers : David McAlpine, Arnd Roth, Hugh Robinsonn, Vincenzo Crunelli, David Halliday, and Wyeth Bair.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Neuro-IT Cerebellar Modeling Workshop

University of Antwerp, Belgium. Twelve invited speakers will present work from seven European countries.
Dec. 5 - 6, 2005.
Registration deadline: Nov. 30 2005, no fee.

Advances in Computational Motor Control IV

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Organized by: Emo Todorov and Reza Shadmehr.
Friday, Nov. 11, 2005; 1:00 - 9:30 PM
Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2005.

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Speakers to include M.L. Hines and N.T. Carnevale.
Friday, Nov. 11, 2005; 9 AM - 5 PM

First ESF Workshop on Computational Neuroscience: Understanding Brain Functions

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Organized by: Gustavo Deco and Geerd Diercksen. The workshop will focus on how theoretical neuroscience can integrate data from different experimental methods and across levels from the single cell through local and global networks to behavior.
June 1 - 3, 2005.

GT Real - Georgia Tech Discussion on Real-Time Methods for Cellular Electrophysiology Experiments

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Organized by: Robert Butera, Astrid Prinz, Dieter Jaeger and Paul Katz.
May 11 - 12, 2005.
Abstract submission / registration deadline: Apr. 25, 2005.

Brain Connectivity Workshop

Organized by : Viktor Jirsa, Anthony Randal McIntosh. Speakers will address the relationship between anatomical and functional connectivity. Target areas of the discussion will include: (i)principles of spatiotemporal pattern formation, (ii)measuring connectivity and dynamics, (iii)clinical aspects of anatomical and functional connectivity. Boca Raton, Florida
April 14 - 16, 2005

GUM*05 - Second Annual GENESIS Users Meeting

Held in association with the first annual meeting for realistic biological modeling (Wam-Bamm*05). All computational biologists, not only those using GENESIS, are invited to present scientific as well as technical work. San Antonio, Texas. Organized by James M. Bower and David Beeman.
Mar. 31 - Apr. 2, 2005.
Abstract submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2005.

Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience

Edinburgh. Organized by Stephen Coombes and Gabriel Lord.
Mar. 21 - 23, 2005.
Abstract submission / registration deadline: Feb. 7, 2005.

Identified Neuron Database Workshop

Georga State University, Atlanta. Organized by Paul Katz.
Dec. 15 - 17, 2004.

Advances in Computational Motor Control III

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA. Organized by: Emo Todorov and Reza Shadmehr.
Friday, Oct. 22, 2004; 1:00 PM - 9:05 PM
Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2004.

Cellular and Sub-cellular Models of  Excitable Cells

A CNS*2004 workshop in Baltimore, Maryland. Organized by: Peter Roper, Brent Doiron, Arthur Sherman.
July 22, 2004.

State-Space Models for Motor Learning and Adaptation

A CNS*2004 workshop in Baltimore, Maryland. Organized by: Jörn Diedrichsen, Opher Donchin, and Reza Shadmehr.
July 22, 2004.

Computational Approaches to Neurogenesis

A CNS*2004 workshop in Baltimore, Maryland. Organized by J.M. Wojtowicz.
July 21, 2004.

Nonlinear Spatio-temporal Neural Dynamics - Experiments and Theoretical Models

A CNS*2004 workshop in Baltimore, Maryland. Organized by: Peter Andras, Peter Erdi, and Robert Kozma.
July 21, 2004.

Computation in the Olfactory System

2004 Annual Symposium, University of Maryland Program in Neuroscience & Satellite symposium to the 2004 Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS*04). Radisson Plaza Lord Hotel, Baltimore, MD. Organized by:  Thomas Cleland.
July 17, 2004; 9:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Neurorobotic Models in Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics

An SAB*2004 workshop in Santa Monica, California. Organized by: Jeff Krichmar, Anil Seth, Olaf Sporns, Auke Ijspeert and Ricardo Chavarriaga.
July 17, 2004.

Modelling of Neuronal Dendritic Trees

The Application of Mathematics to Neural Dynamics and Computation. ICMS, Edinburgh. Organized by: Steven Coombes and Gabriel Lord.
June 18, 2004.

Communication in Brain Systems

Banbury Center Workshop Series
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Organized By: Terry Sejnowski.
May 16 - 19, 2004.

2004 NEURON Simulator Meeting

Organized by: M. Hines, T. Carnevale, J. Surmeier, N. Spruston, and W. Kath.
May 14 - 16, 2004.

Computational Neuroimaging: Adaptation & Priming

Organized by: Daniel Kersten, Scott Murray, Cheryl Olman, Kamil Ugurbil
Apr. 16 & 17, 2004.

Brain Connectivity Workshop

Organized by : Valdés-Sosa and Rolf Kötter. The general aim of the meeting is to bring together experts from the fields of Computational and Experimental Neuroscience to review and advance recent work on structural, functional and effective connectivity. The specific focus of this workshop will be the fusion of different brain imaging approaches for measuring and explaining dynamic interactions between neuronal ensembles and their relation to information processing in the brain. Havana City, Cuba.
April 26 - 29, 2004

Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems perspectives

Organized by: Peter Andras and Hermann Moisl.
Feb. 20 - 22, 2004; 9:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Advances in Computational Motor Control II

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, LA. Organized by: Emo Todorov and Reza Shadmehr.
Friday, Nov. 7, 2003; 2:00 PM - 9:35 PM
Abstract submission deadline: September 20, 2003.

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, LA. Speakers to include M.L. Hines and N.T. Carnevale.
Friday, Nov. 7, 2003; 9 AM - 5 PM

Constraints in Neural Systems Design

A CNS*2003 workshop in Alicante, Spain. Organized by Alex Dmitrov.
July 8, 2003.

Brain Connectivity Workshop

Organized by : Ed Bullmore, Lee Harrison, Lucy Lee & Andrea Mechelli. There will be a focus on complex analysis and dynamical systems theory. Cambridge, England.
May 1 - 3, 2003

Workshop on Cellular Dynamics

Held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Systems Biology, ICSB. The Linné Room, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), Stockholm, Sweden. Organized by: Hans Liljenström and Peter Århem.
December 17, 2002.

GUM*02 - First Annual GENESIS Users Meeting

San Antonio, Texas. Organized by James M. Bower and David Beeman.
Nov. 8-10, 2002.

Advances in Computational Motor Control

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Orlando, FL. Organized by: Emo Todorov and Reza Shadmehr.
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002; 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems

Special session at the American Mathematical Society Central Section Meeting UW-Madison. This session features invited talks and a poster session covering a broad interface between mathematics, neuroscience and computational biology.
Oct. 12-13, 2002.

Complex Nonlinear Neural Dynamics

A CNS*2002 workshop in Chicago, Illinois. Organized by Peter Andras, Robert Kozuma, and Amir Assadi.
July 25, 2002.

Inter-compatibility of models and software systems

A CNS*2002 workshop in Chicago, Illinois. Organized by Fred Howell and Robert Cannon.
July 25, 2002.

Neuroinformatics: bioinformatics for the neurosciences?

Palais des Congres, Paris, France
Jul. 13, 2002

Functional Brain Connectivity

Organized by : Rolf Kötter & Karl Friston. This workshop will bring together and foster interactions between the most prominent research approaches in the field of "functional connectivity". Düsseldorf, Germany
Apr. 4-6, 2002

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA. Presented by: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, J.W. Moore and G.M. Shepherd.
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2001; 9 AM - 5 PM

Quantitative Neuroanatomy Tools

Organized by : Jaap van Pelt, Jan G. Bjaalie & Harry B.M. Uylings. Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oct. 11-12, 2001

Complex Nonlinear Neural Dynamics

A CNS*2001 workshop in Monterey, California. Organized by P. Andras, R. Kozuma, A. Assadi, and D. DeMaris.
July 5, 2001.

8th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California
May 19, 2001.

CREST Workshop on Metalearning and Neuromodulation

Keihanna Plaza, Kansai Science City, Japan
April 6-7, 2001.

Workshop on Olfaction - Facts and Models

Sigtuna, Sweden
March 8-10, 2001.

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, LA. Presented by: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, J.W. Moore and G.M. Shepherd.
Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000; 9 AM - 5 PM

Neural Simulation Software

Organized by : Nigel Goddard. Principal invitees to include Erik De Schutter, Michael Hines and William Levy. Edinburgh, UK
Oct. 2-4, 2000

Persistent Neural Activity

Banbury Center Workshop Series
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Organized By: Sebastian Seung, David W. Tank.
October 1 - 4, 2000.

Computational Models: Applications to Drug Abuse

National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health.
May 30 - 31, 2000.

7th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
May 20, 2000.

Computational Neuroanatomy

A minisymposium of the Experimental Biology 2000 Meeting - American Association of Anatomists in San Diego, California. Chaired by: Giorgio Ascoli.
Monday, Apr. 17, 2000; 10:15 AM - 12:45 PM.

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Miami, FL. Presented by: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, J.W. Moore and G.M. Shepherd.
Saturday, Oct. 23, 1999; 9 AM - 5 PM

1st ESF Symposium on Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics

Principles of information coding and processing in the brain.
International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Sep. 4-6, 1999.

6th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
May 22, 1999.

The Functional Organization of the the Thalamus and Cortex and Their Interactions

Banbury Center Workshop Series
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Organized By: Paul Adams, S. Murray Sherman, Karel Svoboda.
April 5 - 9, 1999.

Olfactory Coding: Myths, Models, and Data

A NIPS*98 workshop session in Breckenridge CO. Presented by Christiane Linster, Wayne Getz and Frank Grasso.
Friday and Saturday, December 4-5, 1998

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

A Satellite Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Los Angeles. Presented by: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, J.W. Moore and G.M. Shepherd.
November 7, 1998.

Spectrum of Computational Neuroscience in Europe

A Special Workshop at the Forum of European Neuroscience in Berlin. Organized by Rolf Kötter and chaired by Peter Erdi.
June 29, 1998.

Neurocomputational Strategies: From Synapses to Behavior

Banbury Center Workshop Series
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Organized By: Paul Adams, Terry Sejnowski.
February 1 - 4, 1998.

Dendritic Computation

NIPS*97 workshop.
December 5, 1997.

Using the NEURON Simulation Environment

John Moore, Michael Hines and Ted Carnavale presented this one day course as a regular Satellite Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans (Sample Outline) .
Saturday, Oct. 25, 1997

Federated Neuroscientific Information Systems

CNS*97 workshop at Big Sky and Bozeman, Montana. Organized and summarized by Rogene Eichler West. Several important collaborations were facilitated at this workshop.
Saturday, July 10 - 12, 1997.

High Performance Computing in Computational Neuroscience

CNS*95 workshop at Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California. Organized by Peyvand Khademi. The resulting NeuroGeek page maintained by Michael Stiber.
Saturday, July 15, 1995.

Neural Simulation Software Demonstration

At the 23rd Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Organized by: Erik De Schutter
November 8 - 11, 1993.

Short Courses

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, CA. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, June 21, through Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
Registration deadline: Monday, June 2, 2008.

The Hippocampus and Navigation

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oerias, Portugal. Organized by: Mate Lengyel, Miguel Remondes.
March 31 - April 4, 2008.
Application deadline: February 24, 2008.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, CA. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, June 23, through Wednesday, June 27, 2007.
Registration deadline: Monday, June 4, 2007.

Biophysics of Biological Circuits: From Molecules to Networks.

XIII International Summer School Nicolás Cabrera. Residencia La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain.
September 19 - 22, 2006.
New registration deadline: September 10, 2006.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, June 24, through Wednesday, June 28, 2006.
Registration deadline: Monday, June 5, 2006.

NWG Course on Computational Neuroscience,

Max-Planck-Institute, Goettingen, Germany. Organizers: Michael Herrmann, Markus Diesmann, Stefan Treue, Theo Geisel.
September 20 - 24, 2005.
Application from: May - July, 2005.

Edinburgh Summer School in Neuroinformatics Simulation Tools

Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Tutorials this year focus on Neuron and Catacomb. Organized by: B. Graham, R. Cannon, A. Gillies, N, Goddard, F. Howell, D. Sterratt, d, Willshaw.
Monday, August 22, through Friday, August 26, 2005.
Application deadline: June 6, 2005.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, June 18, through Wednesday, June 22, 2005.
Registration deadline: Monday, May 9, 2005.

School of Dendrites

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Director: Bert Sakmann Co-Director: Idan Segev. Focus will be on plasticity of dendrites and their synapses, recent use of in-vivo optical probes and modeling electro-chemical processes in dendrites.
April 10 - 14, 2005.
Application deadline: March 1, 2005.

Computational Systems Biology of the Neuronal Cell

SISSA-ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
December 6 - 10, 2004.

Berlin Autumn School

Learning and Memory: Molecular Mechanisms - Cellular Processes - Mathematical Models.
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin.
October 11 - 13, 2004.

Course on Computational Neuroscience

Max-Planck-Institute, Goettingen, Germany. Organizers: Michael Herrmann, Markus Diesmann, Theo Geisel.
September 22 - 26, 2004.
Application deadline: July 23, 2004.

Edinburgh Summer School in Neuroinformatics Simulation Tools

National e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Tutorials this year focus on Neuron, Catacomb and Topographica.
Monday, August 23, through Friday, August 27, 2004.
Application deadline: June 4, 2004.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, July 10, through Wednesday, July 14, 2004.
Registration deadline: Friday, June 11, 2004.

NWG Course on Computational Neuroscience,

Max-Planck-Institute, Goettingen, Germany. Organizers: Michael Herrmann, Markus Diesmann, Theo Geisel.
September 24 - 28, 2003.
Application deadline: July 1, 2003.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, June 21, through Wednesday, June 25, 2003.
Registration deadline: Friday, May 30, 2003.

Bioinformatics 2002: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Tools and Techniques for Mining and Refining Massive Data Sets

A Society for Neuroscience short course presented at NEUROSCIENCE 2002.
Organized by: R.W. Williams & D. Goldowitz.
November, 2002.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An Intensive Hands-On Course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, June 23, through Wednesday, June 27, 2001.
Application deadline: Friday, May 25, 2001.

The NEURON Simulation Environment (NEURON 2000 Summer Course)

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton, and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, August 5, through Wednesday, August 9, 2000.
Application deadline: Friday, July 7, 2000.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An intensive hands-on course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnavale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton and T.J. Sejnowski.
Saturday, July 31, through Wednesday, August 4, 1999.
Register by July 1, 1999.

Winterschool "Networks with Spiking Neurons and Synaptic Plasticity"

The school focuses on key questions of computational neuroscience. Tutorials for non-experts will provide self-contained introductions to experimental results, models, and theoretical concepts. To prepare for the tutorials and lectures, references to selected reviews can be obtained via internet. Berlin, Germany.
December 10-12, 1998.

The NEURON Simulation Environment: An intensive hands-on course

San Diego Supercomputer Center. Faculty includes: N.T. Carnavale, M.L. Hines, W.W. Lytton and T.J. Sejnowski. Register by July 1, 1998 (first come, first served).
August 1-5, 1998.

Intensive Summer Schools & Institutes

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (A Bernstein/Gatsby Neuroscience School)

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Freiburg, Germany. Directors: Israel Nelken, Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Peter Latham.
August 4 - 29, 2008.
Application deadline: March 28, 2008.

Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems (A PENS-Blackwell Summer School)

The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt, Germany. Directors: Wolfgang Maass, Christoph von der Malsburg, Gordon Pipa, Wolf Singer, Jochen Triesch, Misha Tsodyks.
August 2 - 24, 2008.
Application deadline: April 7, 2008.

LASCON 2008 - 2nd Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience

University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Organizer: Antonio Roque.
July 13 - August 1, 2008.
Application deadline: February 15, 2008.

Computational Cell Biology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Instructors: Timothy Elston, Christopher Fall, Leslie Loew, Gregory Smith, John Tyson.
June 27 - July 17, 2008.
Application deadline: Wednesday, March 15, 2008.

Computational Neuroscience: Vision

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Organizers: Geoffrey Boynton, Gregory Horwitz, Stefan Treue.
June 20 - July 3, 2008.
Application deadline: Wednesday, March 15, 2008.
An alumni listing going back to 1985 is available.

Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 29 - July 19, 2008.
Application deadline: Friday, March23, 2008.

Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2008
Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors

Okinawa, Japan. Organizers: Erik DeSchutter, Kenji Doya, Klaus Stiefel, Jeff Wickens.
June 15 - July 4, 2008.
Application deadline: February 17, 2008.

Canadian Summer School in Computational Neuroscience

University of Ottawa. Directors: André Longtin, Len Maler.
June 8 - 20, 2008.
Application deadline: February 1, 2008.

Network Synchronization: from dynamical systems to neuroscience

Leiden, The Netherlands. Coordinators: Nicolas Brunel, F.P. Battaglia, Alessandro Torcini, Massimo Cencini.
May 19 - 30, 2008.
Application deadline: March 1, 2008.

Models in Neuroscience: turning experiments into knowledge (A PENS/Tempus Neuroscience School)

St. Petersburg, Russia. Directors: Risto Näätänen
April 27 - May 5, 2008.
Application deadline: February 15, 2008.

Neuroinformatics

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Directors: Emery Brown and Partha Mitra.
August 11 - 26, 2007.
Application deadline: April 13, 2007.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neurobiology (A PENS Neuroscience School).

Arcachon, France. Directors: Nicolas Brunel, Peter Dayan, Israel Nelken, John Rinzel.
August 6 - August 31, 2007.
Application deadline: April 13, 2007.

FIAS Summer School - Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems

Frankfurt, Germany. Directors: Wolfgang Maass, Christoph von der Malsburg, Gordon Pipa, Wolf Singer, Jochen Triesch, Misha Tsodyks.
August 4 - 26, 2007.
Application deadline: April 30, 2007.

Methods in Computational Neuroscience

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Directors: G. Bard Ermentrout and John A. White.
July 29 - August 26, 2007.
Deadline: March 12, 2007.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
July 1 - 21, 2007.
Application deadline: Friday, March23, 2007.

Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2007)

Neurons, Networks and Behaviors.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna Village, Okinawa, Japan. Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Jeffery Wickens, Klaus Stiefel.
June 26 - July 13, 2007.
Application deadline: April 5, 2007.

EU-India-China Triangular Summer School on Computational Neuroscience
Aspects of Complexity in Computational Neuroscience

ISI Foundation, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy. Scientific Committee: Tomaso Poggio, Emilio Bizzi, Nicolas Brunel, Upinder Bhalla, Jianwei Zhang.
June 25 - July 1, 2007.
Application deadline: April 15, 2007.

Canadian Summer School in Computational Neuroscience

University of Ottawa. Directors: André Longtin, Len Maler.
June 17 - 29, 2007.
Application deadline: February 1, 2007.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (A PENS Neuroscience School)

Arcachon, France. Directors: Peter Dayan, Ad Aertsen, Israel Nelken, Nicolas Brunel.
August 7 - September 1, 2006.
Application deadline: April 10, 2006.

Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems

FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany. Directors: Wolfgang Maass, C. von der Malsburg, Gordon Pipa, Wolf Singer, Jochen Triesch, Misha V. Tsodyks.
August 5 - 27, 2006.
Application deadline: Saturday, April 15, 2006.

Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2006)

Computing Neurons.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna Village, Okinawa, Japan. Organizers: Upinder Bhalla, Kenji Doya, Shinya Kuroda, Nicolas Le Novere.
June 26 - July 7, 2006.
Application deadline: April 10, 2006.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 25 - July 15, 2006.
Application deadline: Friday, March24, 2006.

Computational Neuroscience: Vision

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Organizers: Jonathan Demb, Eero Simoncelli, Stefan Treue.
June 16 - 29, 2006.
Application deadline: Wednesday, March 15, 2006.
An alumni listing going back to 1985 is available.

LASCON 2006 - 1st Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience

University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Organizers: Antonio Roque & Rodrigo Oliveira.
January 15 - 28, 2006.
Application deadline: September 9, 2005.

Complex Networks in Brain Dynamics

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
September 5 - 30, 2005.
Application deadline: May 31, 2005.

Experimental & Computational Neurodynamics

UCSD, La Jolla, CA. Organizer: Henry Abarbanel.
August 15 - 26, 2005.
Application deadline: April 1, 2005. [FREE]

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (An IBRO/FENS Neuroscience School)

Arcachon, France. Directors: Alain Destexhe, Peter Dayan, Ad Aertsen, Israel Nelken.
August 1 - 26, 2005.
Application deadline: April 1, 2005.

Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2005)

Predictions and Decisions.
Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel, Okinawa, Japan. Organizers: Peter Dayan, Kenji Doya, Masamichi Sakagami.
July 1 - 10, 2005.
Application deadline: April 20, 2005.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 26 - July 16, 2005.
Application deadline: Friday, March25, 2005.

Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2004)

Bayesian Brain: Probabilistic Approaches to Neural Coding and Learning.
Bankoku Shinryo-kan, Okinawa, Japan. Organizers: Kenji Doya, Shin Ishii, Alex Pouget, Rajesh Rao.
November 9 - 19, 2004.
Application deadline: September 10, 2004.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (An IBRO Neuroscience School)

Obidos, Portugal. Directors: Alain Destexhe, Peter Dayan, Ad Aertsen, Eilon Vaadia.
August 16 - September 10, 2004.
Application deadline: April 30, 2004.

Neuroinformatics

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Directors: Emery Brown and Partha Mitra.
August 14 - 29, 2004.
Application deadline: March 16, 2004.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 27 - July 17, 2004.
Application deadline: Friday, March19, 2004.

Computational Neuroscience: Vision

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Organizers: Jonathan Demb, Paul Glimcher, Eero Simoncelli.
June 18 - July 1, 2004.
Application deadline: Monday, March15, 2004.
This page provides a description, and an alumni listing going back to 1985.

BBSI - Bioengineering & Bioinformatics Summer Institute

Simulation and Computer Visualization of Biological Systems at Multiple Scales. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Instructors: Ivet Bahar, Rob Coalson, G. Bard Ermentrout, Jeffry Madura, Hagai Meirovitch, Joel Stiles.
May 24 - July 30, 2004.
Application deadline: March 8, 2004.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (An IBRO/FENS Neuroscience School)

Albergaria and Hospederia guesthouses. Obidos, Portugal. Directors: Alain Destexhe, Klaus Obermeyer, Ad Aertsen, Eilon Vaadia.
August 11th - September 5th, 2003.
Lectures are available as Quicktime movies.

Neuroinformatics

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Directors: Emery Brown and Partha Mitra.
August 16 - 31, 2003.
Application deadline: March 14, 2003.

Methods and Models in Neuroscience

Ecole d'Été de Physique Théorique, Les Houches, France. Directors: C. C. Chow, B. Gutkin, D. Hansel, C. Meunier, I. Segev.
July 28th - August 29th, 2003.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 29 - July 19, 2003.
Application deadline: Friday, March21, 2003.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (An IBRO Neuroscience School)

Albergaria and Hospederia guesthouses. Obidos, Portugal. Directors: Alain Destexhe, Klaus Obermeyer, Alessandro Treves, Eilon Vaadia.
August 19th - September 13th, 2002.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 30 - July 20, 2002.
Application deadline: Friday, March15, 2002.

Computational Neuroscience: Vision

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Organizers: E.J. Chichilnisky, Paul Glimcher, Eero Simoncelli.
June 13 - 26, 2002.
Application deadline: Friday, March15, 2002.
Course to be offered again in June of 2004. This page provides a description, and an alumni listing going back to 1985.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (An IBRO Neuroscience School)

International Center for Theoretical Physics. Trieste, Italy. Directors: Erik De Schutter, Klaus Obermeyer, Alessandro Treves, Eilon Vaadia.
July 30 - August 24, 2001.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
July 1 - 21, 2001.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience

International Center for Theoretical Physics. Trieste, Italy. Directors: Erik De Schutter, Klaus Obermeyer, Alessandro Treves, Eilon Vaadia.
August 21 - September 15, 2000.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 26 - July 15, 2000.

Computational Neuroscience: Vision

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Organizers: E.J. Chichilnisky, Paul Glimcher, Eero Simoncelli.
June 15 - 28, 2000.

EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience

International Center for Theoretical Physics. Trieste, Italy. Directors: Erik De Schutter, Klaus Obermeyer, Idan Segev, Alessandro Treves.
August 23 - September 17, 1999.

Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado.
June 27 - July 17, 1999.

Application deadline: Feb. 15.

Workshop on Mathematical Physiology

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.
Neurophysiology is among three session topics that also include cardiology and endocrinology. Speakers: Bard Ermentrout, Arthur Sherman, John Rinzel among others.
June 14-25, 1999.

Computational Neuroscience: Vision

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Organizers: David J. Heeger, Eero P. Simoncelli, Michael N. Shadlen.
June 18 - July 1, 1998.
Application deadline: Friday, March15, 1998.

Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience

University of Crete. Directors: Erik De Schutter, Idan Segev, Adonis Moschovakis.
September 13 - October 9, 1998.

Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience

University of Crete. Directors: Erik De Schutter, Idan Segev, Adonis Moschovakis, Jim Bower.
September 7 - October 3, 1997.

Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience

University of Crete. Directors: Erik De Schutter, Idan Segev, Adonis Moschovakis, Jim Bower.
August 25 - September 21, 1996.

University Courses & Labs

2D1435: Neuronnäts- och Biomodellering

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH). Period 4, vt2004. Erik Fransen, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski

BCS 9.29 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

MIT. Spring 2004. Sebastian Seung

BIO 5483 Computational Neuroscience

University of Texas San Antonio. Spring 2006. Charles Wilson

BioNB 420-03 Introduction to Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience

Christiane Linster's course at Cornell University, Fall 2000, emphasizes neural network theory for the study of brain function, mainly illustrated with models of hippocampal function.

BME 580.439 Models of the Neuron

Johns Hopkins University. Fall, 1997 - 2006. Eric Young

BN 168 Computational Neuroscience

Brown University. Semester II, 2002-03. Elie Bienenstock

CAAM/NEUR 415: Theoretical Neuroscience

Rice University. Spring 2006. Brad Peercy, Fabrizio Gabbiani

CIS 6930: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

University of Florida. Spring 2004. Arunava Banerjee

CN 580: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

Boston University. Fall 2006. Eric Schwartz

CN 780: Special Topics in Computational Neuroscience

Boston University. Spring 2007. Eric Schwartz

COMP415 / PSYC415 Computational Neuroscience

Kalamazoo College. Spring 2008. Péter Érdi

COMP415 / PSYC415 Computational Neuroscience

Kalamazoo College. Spring 2005. Péter Érdi

COMP415 / PSYC415 Computational Neuroscience

Kalamazoo College. Spring 2004. Péter Érdi

CS 15-386/686 Computational Neuroscience: Visual Computation in Biological Systems

Carnegie Mellon University. Spring 2007. Tai Sing Lee

CS 15-883 Computational Models of Neural Systems

Carnegie Mellon University. Spring 2005. Dave Touretzky

CS 15-883 Computational Models of Neural Systems

Carnegie Mellon University. Spring 2001. Dave Touretzky

CS 15-880 Computational Models of Neural Systems

Carnegie Mellon University. Spring 1995. Dave Touretzky

CSCI 6508 Neurocomputing: Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience

Dalhousie University. Fall 2003. Thomas Trappenberg

CSE/NEUBEH 528 : Computational Neuroscience

University of Washington. Winter 2005 and Spring 2007. Rajesh Rao, Adrienne Fairhall

CSE 590RR : Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

University of Washington. Autumn 2003. Rajesh Rao

CSI 734 Computational Neurobiology

George Mason University. Spring 2003. Kim L. Blackwell

CSI 735 Computational Neuroscience Systems

George Mason University. Spring 2004. Kim "Avrama" Blackwell

ECE 796 Models of the Neuron

McMaster University. Winter 2007. Ian Bruce

ECEN 4831/5831 Brains, Minds, and Computers

University of Colorado, Boulder. Fall 2007. Howard Wachtel with Dave Beeman and Matthew Tearle.

ECEN 4831/5831 Brains, Minds, and Computers

University of Colorado, Boulder. Fall 2004. Howard Wachtel and Dave Beeman

EE 048959 Computation and Learning in Networks of Biological Neurons

Technion, Haifa, Israel. Fall 2003. Ron Meir

EN 580.439 Models of the Neuron

Johns Hopkins University. Fall 1997 - 2006. Eric Young

GMS 7795 : Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience

University of Florida. Spring, 2006. Justin C. Sanchez

ISC 6460 14892 : Computational Neuroscience

Florida Atlantic University. Spring, 2004. Dawei Dong

MATH 3375 : Computational Neuroscience

University of Pittsburgh. Spring, 2005. Bard Ermentrout, Jon Rubin

MATH 6397 : Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience

University of Houston. Fall, 2003. Kresimir Josic

MATH 6397 : Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience II

University of Houston. Spring, 2004. Kresimir Josic

MATH 8540 : Mathematical Modeling of Neurons and Neural Networks

University of Minnesota. Spring, 2004. Duane Nykamp

ME 385J / GS140033 : Introduction to Theoretical / Computational Neuroscience

University of Texas Houston / Austin. Spring, 2004. Harel Shouval

MEDS 378 / BME 316 : Computational Neuroscience

University of Connecticut Health Center. Fall, 2003. Duck Kim

NBIO 136b : Computational Neuroscience

Brandeis University. Spring, 2007. Paul Miller

NEUR/PHYS/BISC 335 - Computational Neuroscience with Laboratory

Wellesley College. Spring 2006. Mark Goldman

NSC 4368 - Computational Neuroscience

University of Texas at Dallas. Summer 2004. Larry Cauller

NSC 5201 - Computational Neuroscience

University of Minnesota. Fall 2003. Robert Miller

NSC 5202 - Theoretical Neuroscience

University of Minnesota. Spring 2005. David Redish

PHYSL 317 Methods in Computational Neurobiology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1992 - 2004. Mark Nelson, Tom Anastasio

PS 832 Physiological Psychology - Neural models of cortical memory function

Boston University. Spring 2002. Mike Hasselmo

PSC 290 Computational Neuroscience

University of California, Davis. Spring 2002. Bruno Olshausen

Psych 4/503c: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

Arizona State University. Fall 2007. Jean-Marc Fellous

Psych: MSc in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Sheffield University. Fall 2007. Department of Psychology

Theoretical Neuroscience

University College London. Fall 2005. Peter Latham, Maneesh Sahani, Peter Dayan, Jonathan Pillow, Li Zhaoping, Misha Ahrens

Theoretical Neuroscience

University College London. Fall 2004. Peter Latham, Maneesh Sahani, Peter Dayan, Liam Paninski


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