Thu 1-Aug 10:15 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105. Linear Algebra & Diff Eq
Bootcamp M. Goldman. Thu 1-Aug 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Candle House 105.
MCN course schedule Subject to change; see course wiki for schedule changes - mcn2013.wikispaces.com Week 1: (Thursday Aug 1 – Friday Aug. 2) Lectures Day 0 – Welcome! Welcome Dinner @ 46 Millfield St. Day 1 – Introduction Course introductions
Biophysics bootcamp Linear Algebra & Diff Eq Bootcamp SVD and dimensionality reduction MATLAB tutorial (optional)
M. Fee M. Goldman M. Fee M. Goldman L. Abbott TAs
Thu 1-Aug 9:00 AM 10:00 AM Candle House 104-105
Day 2 - Ion Channels Ion Channels Nonlinear dynamics & bifurcations Channel dynamics & XPP simulator Group Sports Backyard Brains
B. Bean Fri 2-Aug B. Ermentrout Fri 2-Aug B. Ermentrout Fri 2-Aug Fri 2-Aug G. Gage Fri 2-Aug
Thu 1-Aug Thu 1-Aug Thu 1-Aug Thu 1-Aug
10:15 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Candle House 105 7:00 PM 8:30 PM Loeb 360 8:30 PM 9:30 PM Loeb 360
9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Candle House 105 4:00 PM 5:30 PM Meet in front of Swope 7:30 PM 9:30 PM Loeb 360
Week 2: (Monday August 5 – Friday August 9) Lectures Day 3 - Biophysics Dendrites
Lecturer
B. Mel M. Hausser Dendrites B. Mel M. Hausser Intro to Coding A. Fairhall Neural Simulators Discussion Panel B. Mel B. Ermentrout Day 4 - Coding Coding, adaptation & biophysics Generalized Linear Models Neurostatistics applications PS#1 Presentation Day 5 – Early Visual Coding, Circuits Retinal Circuitry Population coding, retinal examples Fly visual motion circuit & connectomics Group Sports MOVE LAB TO LOEB 306 Retina connectome
A. Fairhall J. Pillow L. Paninski
Date
Start
Mon 5-Aug 9:00 AM
End
Location
10:25 AM Candle House 104-105
Mon 5-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 Mon 5-Aug 2:00 PM Mon 5-Aug 3:30 PM
3:15 PM Candle House 105 4:30 PM Loeb 360
Tue 6-Aug Tue 6-Aug Tue 6-Aug Tue 6-Aug
10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 3:30 PM Candle House 105 9:00 PM Loeb 360
9:00 AM 10:50 AM 2:00 PM 8:00 PM
S. Baccus Wed 7-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 E. Shea-Brown Wed 7-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 D. Chklovskii Wed 7-Aug 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Candle House 105
W. Denk S. Seung
Wed 7-Aug 4:00 PM
5:30 PM Meet in front of Swope
Wed 7-Aug 7:00 PM
9:00 PM Lillie Auditorium
Day 6 – Higher coding & circuits Bayesian coding circuits Higher cognitive coding Compressed sensing Day 7 – Decision-making coding & circuits Probabilistic coding of evidence Linear network theory & integration Decision-making & Winner-take-all Group Sports
J. Beck J. Gallant S. Ganguli
Thu 8-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 Thu 8-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 Thu 8-Aug 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Candle House 105
M. Shadlen M. Goldman C. Brody
Fri 9-Aug Fri 9-Aug Fri 9-Aug Fri 9-Aug
9:00 AM 10:50 AM 2:00 PM 4:00 PM
10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 3:30 PM Candle House 105 5:30 PM Meet in front of Swope
Week 3: (Aug. 12-16) Lectures Day 8 – Hippocampal coding & circuits Hippocampal / EC circuitry Error-correcting codes Spatial navigation coding & circuitry PS#2 Presentation Day 9 – Oscillations Central pattern generation Cortical oscillation models Whisker oscillations & multitaper / Chronux Chronux Tutorial Day 10 – Cortical circuits; learning Inhibition-stabilized networks Chaotic networks Intro to Learning Theory Group Sports Day 11 – Plasticity & Learning STDP experiment Developmental learning rules STDP & electric fish learning Day 12 – Reinforcement learning Reinforcement learning REINFORCE learning Project proposal presentations
Lecturer
Date
Start
End
Location
D. Tank I. Fiete E. Moser
Mon 12-Aug Mon 12-Aug Mon 12-Aug Mon 12-Aug
9:00 AM 10:50 AM 8:00 PM 9:30 PM
10:25 AM 12:15 PM 9:00 PM 10:30 PM
Candle House 104-105 Candle House 104-105 Lillie Auditorium Loeb 306
E. Marder N. Kopell D. Kleinfeld
Tue 13-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 Tue 13-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 Tue 13-Aug 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Candle House 105 Tue 13-Aug 3:50 PM
5:20 PM
Loeb 306
K. Miller L. Abbott S. Solla
Wed 14-Aug Wed 14-Aug Wed 14-Aug Wed 14-Aug
10:25 AM 12:15 PM 3:30 PM 5:30 PM
Candle House 104-105 Candle House 104-105 Candle House 105 Meet in front of Swope
R. Froemke K. Miller C. Bell
Thu 15-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 Thu 15-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 Thu 15-Aug 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Candle House 105
Y. Niv L. Abbott
Fri 16-Aug Fri 16-Aug Fri 16-Aug
9:00 AM 10:50 AM 2:00 PM 4:00 PM
9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Loeb 263
Week 4: August 19-23 Lectures Day 13 – Motor Learning Motor learning Motor learning Bialek evening lecture Day 14 – Basal ganglia learning, reinforcement Birdsong dynamics & learning Birdsong dynamics & learning Boat Trip (optional) Group Sports
Lecturer
Date
Start
End
Location
D. Wolpert D. Wolpert B. Bialek
Mon 19-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 Mon 19-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 Mon 19-Aug 8:00 PM 9:00 PM Speck Auditorium
M. Fee M. Fee
Tue 20-Aug Tue 20-Aug Tue 20-Aug Tue 20-Aug
9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 TBD 4:00 PM 5:30 PM Meet in front of Swope
Day 15 – Approaches to disease Brain Machine Interfaces Retinal prosthetics Scientific Ethics Panel Discussion
A. Schwartz Wed 21-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 S. Nirenberg Wed 21-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 Wed 21-Aug 2:00 PM 3:00 PM Candle House 105
Day 16 – Approaches to disease Schizophrenia Epilepsy Boat Trip (optional) Group Sports
J. Lisman Thu 22-Aug T. Sejnowski Thu 22-Aug Thu 22-Aug Thu 22-Aug
9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105 TBD 4:00 PM 5:30 PM Meet in front of Swope
K. Deisseroth Fri 23-Aug P. Dayan Fri 23-Aug
9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105
Day 17 – Approaches to disease Psychiatric disorders Neuromods & depression / social disorders
Week 5: (Aug. 26 & 27) Lectures Day 18 Work on projects
