Math Neuroscience

MTh 12:30 PM-1:45 PM
Thackeray 3rd floor conf room

The grades are based on

Single cells
- Nernst equation, CFE, etc
- Homework: page 16, section 2.4:2,4,7
- Equivalent circuits
- Homework: page 36, 2.12:1,4
- Dendrites/compartmental modeling
- Homework: page 40: section 3.11, 1-4
- HW Due Jan 24
Week of Jan 15. 2.7-2.11, 3.1-3.6
Homework due Feb 7
Weeks of Feb 4-14 more dynamics and chapter 5 (channels)
- HW due Feb 21: page 102:1,2,8,9 (these are fun and can be tricky!) (Note on problem 8, a typo EL=-60), page 104:13 (you can skip part c if you want, but it is interesting), 105:15
Week of Feb 19: chapt 6 (just a bit) and chapt 7 (time permitting) Bursting equations can be found here
Week of Feb 26: chapt 9 HW Due March 19th end of chapter 9 (starting page 202), 1,2,4,5, 6,8,9,13 Morris lecar with noise THis also tells you how to do ISI histograms
Week of March 3 Brent Doiron will guest lecture on Poisson processes
Week of Mar 10 SPRING BREAK
Week of Mar 17 Chapt 8 - synapses
- Homework page 165 (8.3):2,3,4; (8.4):1,2
Mar 20: start chapter 11