Computational Neuroscience

MATH/BIOL/EECS/EBME/NEUR 478
MATH/BIOL/COGS 378

* denotes problems to be done by all students.
** denotes problems to be done students enrolled in MATH 378 or any of the cross-lists numbered 478.
Any math or statistics majors and any graduate students enrolled in any section should do these problems as well.
*** denotes problems to be done by students enrolled under MATH 478, or math graduate students enrolled under any course number.

Date Assigned	Assignment	Date Due
1/15	Informal writing assignment: Read the first chapter of Izhikevich and define the following in your own words: attractor limit cycle threshold separatrix bifurcation	1/17
1/24	First (normal) homework assignment.	2/5
2/12	Second homework assignment. Here is the LaTeX file.	2/26
3/20	Third homework assignment. Here is the LaTeX file. Here is the file single-cell-example.hoc.	4/8
4/8	This assignment is optional. Final homework assignment Here is the LaTeX file.	4/24

Download XPP here.
Download some simple course exercises separately or all in one tar file.

Download the tar file.

Download the tar file.

Date	Assignment
Tues-Thurs 4/8-10	Wilson & Cowan (1972) EXCITATORY AND INHIBITORY INTERACTIONS IN LOCALIZED POPULATIONS OF MODEL NEURONS Brunel & Hakim (2008) Sparsely synchronized neuronal oscillations. XPP file for the Wilson-Cowan equations. XPP file for the spatially extended Wilson-Cowan equations. Instructions for working with the spatially extended Wilson-Cowan equations in XPP.
Tues-Thurs 4/15-17	Ermentrout neural networks review article. Sections 1-2 cover material we've already discussed in the course. We'll discuss some topics selected from the remaining sections. nn1delay.ode. Instructions for exploring a simple 1-D neural network model with delayed feedback.

On Thursday 4/24/08 another event is scheduled in Crawford A09 from 11:30-1:15. We may need to begin class a few minutes late that day.

Updated: January 17, 2008