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| Conference on Neural Dynamics and Computation |
| held in honor of John Rinzel |
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| Courant Institute, New York University |
| June 13-14, 2009 |
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| Sponsored by NSF; Courant Institute, NYU; Center for Neural Science, NYU; the Swartz Foundation |
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| Program |
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| Saturday, June 13 |
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| 9:15-9:30 am |
Opening Remarks |
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| 9:30-10:00 am |
Charles Peskin |
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"Spontaneous Transitions between Synchrony and Asynchrony in a Network of Discrete-State Neurons with Stochastic Synaptic Transmissiont" |
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| 10:00-10:30 am |
Victoria Booth |
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"Simulating microinjection of neurotransmitter agonists and antagonists in a novel model of the sleep-wake regulatory network" |
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| 10:30-11:00 am |
Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 am |
Shihab Shamma |
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"Auditory perception through the cortical analysis of spectrotemporal modulations" |
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| 11:30-12:00 pm |
Dan Sanes |
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"Exploiting development to evaluate sensory coding mechanisms" |
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| 12:00-12:30 pm |
Catherine Carr |
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"On Hearing with More Than One Ear: Lessons from Evolution" |
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• Presentation:
CCarr-NDC-RINZEL-JUN-2009.ppt |
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| 12:30-2:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
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| 2:30-3:00 pm |
Michael O’Donovan |
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"TBA" |
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| 3:00-3:30 pm |
David Terman |
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"A mathematical model of the sleep/wake cycle" |
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| 3:30-4:00 pm |
Joseph Keller |
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"Sound source location by barn owls" |
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| 4:00-6:10 pm |
Poster session and reception |
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| 6:30-8:30 pm |
Banquet Dinner at the NYU Torch Club |
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| Sunday, June 14 |
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:30-10:00 am |
Bard Ermentrout |
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"Some reflections on waves" |
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| 10:00-10:30 am |
Arthur Sherman |
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"What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Cooperativity of Synaptic Release?" |
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| 10:30-11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 am |
Wilfrid Rall |
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"TBA" |
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| 11:30-12:00 pm |
Sharon Crook |
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"Motoneuron model of self-sustained firing after spinal cord injury" |
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| 12:00-12:30 pm |
Leo van Hemmen |
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"Theory of internally coupled ears – the ICE model: How lizards and birds provide us with a novel category of hearing" |
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| 12:30-2:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
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| 2:30-3:00 pm |
Jack Cowan |
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"Statistical Mechanics of Large-Scale Brain Activity" |
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| 3:00-3:30 pm |
Xiao-Jing Wang |
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"Reconciling coherent oscillation with rate modulation of irregular spiking activity in selective attention: gamma-range synchronization between sensory and executive cortical circuits" |
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| 3:30-4:00 pm |
David McLaughlin |
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"Representing Neuronal Dynamics through Coarse-Grained Event-Trees" |
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