Welcome to the webpage of
The Computational Neuroscience @ Duke Seminar Series
The Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series is a series of events designed to foster an
interactive, interdisciplinary community of researchers from different disciplines and
universities. Participants come from the departments of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering,
Physics, Mathematics, Psychological and Brain Sciences and the ISDS here at Duke, and from
UNC-Chapel Hill, RTP, NC State and Wake Forest.
Our program features two types of events: invited seminars and informal discussions. The
invited seminars feature a talk by a researcher either from within the local community or
an outside institution. Along with the seminar, the invited speaker participates in a lunch
with students and postdocs and a dinner after the seminar at someone's house. The informal
discussions, new this year, are led by junior researchers from within the community, and focus
on topics related to their research.
To recieve information about upcoming seminars, subscribe to our mailing list
by sending an email to santucci@neuro.duke.edu.
Upcoming Seminars
No seminars are currently scheduled
Past Seminars
Paul Tiesinga, UNC-Chapel Hill
January 23rd, 2003
Synchronization as a mechanism for attentional gain modulation
Mark Stopfer, NICHD
February 27th, 2003
Spatiotemporal codes for odor identity and concentration
Emilio Salinas, Wake Forest
April 10th, 2003
Background synaptic activity as a switch for neural networks
Erik De Schutter, University of Antwerp
April 30th, 2003
Fast cerebellar oscillations: experiments and modeling
Steve Potter, Georgia Tech
May 22nd, 2003
The neurally-controlled animat: using multielectrode arrays, 2-photon
microscopy and optical recording to study learning in vitro
Larry Abbott, Brandeis
March 3rd, 2004
Scale-invariant dynamics in neural systems
Joseph McIntyre, LPPA/CNRS
April 28th, 2004
Space and time in visuo-motor coordination
Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Lab
April 29th, 2004
The cocktail party problem: computation in the auditory cortex
Henry Abarbanel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
September 14, 2004
Dynamical model of birdsong maintenance and control
Anna Lin, Physics, Duke
November 11th, 2004
Quantifying signaling patterns in nerve and glia networks
Craig Henriquez, BME, Duke
November 11th, 2004
From spikes to EEG: modeling the extracellular potential in clusters of neurons
Carlos Brody, Cold Spring Harbor Lab
January 26th, 2005
Dynamical systems in biology: an integrated neural model of two-interval discrimination
J. Leo van Hemmen, TU Munich
April 1st, 2005
How a frog learns what is where in the dark: STDP as supervised learning
Jim Bower, University of Texas-San Antonio
April 20th, 2005
Reconsidering the physiological, computational, and functional
structure of cerebellar cortex: 100+ years later
Michael Hausser, University College London
May 18th, 2005
Where does it all begin? Action potential initiation and
propagation in cerebellar Purkinje cell axons
Past Discussions
Shih-Chieh Lin, Nicolelis Lab, Duke
December 9th, 2004
Basal forebrain control of cortical activation
V. Anne Smith, Jarvis Lab, Duke
January 12th, 2005
Inferring neural information flow networks from electrophysiology data
Fidel Santamaria, Augustine Lab, Duke
Thursday, March 10th
Using concepts from engineering and physics to understand dendritic computation