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There is a high demand in Neuroscience to develop new concepts for understanding the brain. Computational and other theoretical approaches aiming at a mathematical analysis of neuroscientific questions are becoming more and more important. However, theoreticians in this area typically have backgrounds in physics, mathematics, computer science, or electrical engineering and no formal training in neuroscience during the early stages of their career. Conversely, the education of experimental neuroscientists lacks in computational and mathematical knowledge. Most importantly, these two groups usually have few opportunities to come together and learn how to collaborate with each other. Our school is designed to address this problem. The school will bring together young scholars from three different areas: experimental and theoretical neuroscience and theoretical physics. Together these students will attend lectures by renowned scientists in the field. In addition, they will form interdisciplinary teams to work on small projects. Ideally, every team will be composed of at least one student in each of the three areas (experimental and theoretical neuroscience, theoretical physics). Experienced computational neuroscientists will help the interdisciplinary teams with their project work, which makes up a significant fraction of the school. A unique feature of our school is the complex systems perspective. We view the brain as a complex system, whose computational powers emerge from the interplay of many comparatively simple elements, and which shares organizational principles with other animate and inanimate complex systems. This view allows neuroscientists to look beyond the specifics of their day-to-day work and it will make it much easier for physicists to approach the neuroscience field. The scientific program will cover the following areas:
Participants.will introduced in the topics of the school during a four-day pre-school. The pre-school courses will take place at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research and FIAS. Lectures will be held in the mornings and early afternoons, from Monday until Friday, the remaining time being dedicated to the projects. Project results will be presented during the last day of the summer school. The participants will have the opportunity to visit experimental research facilities (the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Brain Imaging Center). Sundays will be reserved for recreational activities.
Below are some comments on the quality of the planned course from international faculty:
Your summer school sounds excellent. Your summer school sounds excellent. As a Director of IBRO/FENS Advanced Course on Computational Neuroscience I strongly support your initiative, which would form an ideal complement to our course.
The 2006 FIAS summer school joined together students from 21 countries, on four continents. The success of the first edition is shown by the comments students made at the end of the school: the lectures were excellently prepared invited speakers were the best of their field some of the talks really changed my view of neuroscience many excellent lectures
„nice organization logistics excellent the coffee break snacks were great!
very motivating environment nice and effortful people good atmosphere the work with the supervisors helped me a lot to advance |
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