CBSG Theme Days
May 7-8, 2010

Program


Friday, May 7, 2010 Thackeray Hall
Room 704
9:30 am - 9:45 am Opening remarks
9:45 am - 10:35 am The Fundamentals of Model–based Control Theory Steven Schiff
Penn State University
10:45 am - 11:35 pm The Asynchronous State of the Cortex Jaime de la Rocha
Rutgers
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Catered lunch
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm How do antiepileptic drugs and epileptogenic mutations change cell and network dynamics? Tay Netoff
University of Minnesota
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Function of Neuronal Diversity Nathan Urban
University of Pittsburgh
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Oscillations and Synchrony in Primary Visual Cortex Stefanos Folias
University of Pittsburgh
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Informal Discussion


Saturday, May 8, 2010 Thackeray Hall
Room 704
9:00 am - 9:50 am Towards Model–based Control of Epilepsy and Parkinson’s Disease Steven Schiff
Penn State University
10:00 am - 10:50 am Statistical Inference for Certain Stochastic
Integrate–and–Fire Models
Satish Iyengar
University of Pittsburgh
11:00 am - 11:30 am Coffee break
11:30 am - 11:55 pm Synaptic Circuit Plasticity Modulates Neural Responses: a Novel Role for LTP and LTD — Part I Thanos Tzounopoulos
University of Pittsburgh
12:00 am - 12:25 pm Synaptic Circuit Plasticity Modulates Neural Responses: a Novel Role for LTP and LTD — Part II Brent Doiron
University of Pittsburgh
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Catered lunch

Complex Biological Systems Group
The University of Pittsburgh
301 Thackeray Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260