Also in 2011, the Bernstein Center Göttingen will organize a Fall Course on Computational Neuroscience.

The course is intended to provide graduate students and young researchers from all parts of neuroscience with working knowledge of theoretical and computational methods in neuroscience and to acquaint them with recent developments in this field.

Various speakers will provide an overview on important aspects and recent developments in their fields of expertise by means of three-hour tutorials. In addition to the tutorials, participants will gather in small groups and study one out of a number of recent research papers that are related to the respective tutorial. The "self-study" will be supervised by the speakers who will encourage students to apply and extend what they have learned in the tutorials towards achieving deeper insight into the main ideas of the paper. The results of the self-study will be shared with other participants and discussed with them and the speakers during the presentations.

Already in the previous courses the combination of lecturing with and interactive learning has proven to be an efficient format.

Speakers:

• Rainer Friedrich, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
• Jason Kerr, Neural Population Imaging, BCCN Tübingen, Max Planck Institut for biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
• David McAlpine, Ear Institute, School of Life & Medical Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
• Susanne Schreiber, BPCN, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Sara Solla, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
   

The course is meant as a tutorial for BCCN students as well as an open fall course for external students.

Application deadline extended!: August 15, 2011 August 27, 2011

Please find further information regarding the course set-up, schedule, contacts, fees, registration, etc. on the course homepage.

Organizer:
David Hofmann