[4eyes] FW: First Dynamical Neuroscience Seminar!

[Matthew Turk]

FYI: UCSB has a new interdisciplinary Dynamical Neuroscience PhD program
(http://www.dynamicalneuroscience.ucsb.edu/, which CS supported), and the
first seminar for the program will be on Wednesday, April 10 - see below for
details.

Come hear how brains communicate and compute using spikes.

	Matthew

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Subject: first Dynamical Neuroscience Seminar!

The first ever Dynamical Neuroscience Seminar will be next week, on
Wednesday, April 10 from 1:00-2:00 PM in Psych East 3834. The speaker is
Eugene Izhikevich from Brain Corporation in San Diego, and who is author of
the excellent text "Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience." Please advertise
this talk within your departments. The title and abstract are included
below.


Title: "Spikes"

Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich
Brain Corporation, San Diego, CA

Abstract:
Most communication in the brain is via spikes. While we understand the
spike-generation mechanism of individual neurons, we fail to appreciate the
spike-timing code and its role in neural computations. The speaker starts
with simple models of neuronal spiking and bursting, describes small
neuronal circuits that learn spike-timing code via spike-timing dependent
plasticity (STDP), and finishes with biologically detailed and anatomically
accurate large-scale brain models.

Biography:
Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich is a computational neuroscientist known for his
contributions into the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems and spiking
networks. He pioneered a novel approach to spiking neurons that combined
biologically plausibility and implementation efficiency, which allowed him
in 2005 to simulate the largest thalamo-cortical model having the size of
the human brain, i.e., the same number of neurons and synapses as in human
brain. Presently, Dr. Izhikevich is the Chief Executive Officer of Brain
Corporation, San Diego, CA, which he founded in 2009 to build a biologically
detailed spiking model of the visual system and motor control
(http://www.braincorporation.com). Before that, he was with The
Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, where he founded Scholarpedia - the
peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org). Eugene
is the editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience and
Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems. Academic webpage is at
http://www.izhikevich.org.