Daily MCN schedule-Final

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

Lecturer

Date

Start

End

Location

Wed 31-Jul 6:00 PM 10:00 PM Meet in Swope lobby @ 6pm

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

Lecturer Date

Start

Mon 26-Aug All day

End

Location Loeb 306

Day 19 Final presentations

Tue 27-Aug 9:00 AM 10:25 AM Candle House 104-105

Final presentations

Tue 27-Aug 10:50 AM 12:15 PM Candle House 104-105

Banquet dinner

Tue 27-Aug TBD

TBD

TBD