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Statistical Mechanics of Spiking Neural Networks

Seminar WS 2011/12

Agenda: The goal of this internal seminar is to review the theory of networks of spiking neurons, with an emphasis on asynchronous states and oscillations.

Format: The seminar will consist of blackboard talks, given by PhD students/PostDocs/Profs. Each topic will be covered in two subsequent seminar dates and by a team of two people, to make it easier and more enjoyable to run through the (in places challenging) theory. A list of topics and papers is given below.

Time & Place: Wednesday, 10-12h, Seminar room of the ITB

Kick-off meeting: Thursday, 29.9.2011, 13.00, Seminar room ITB

Topics & Literature list:

  1. Dynamics of homogeneous networks I
    Date: 2.11.2011
    Speakers: Ekaterina Zhuchkova, Fabian Santi
    Mirollo & Strogatz (1990) -- SIAM J. Appl. Math. 50(6), pp. 1645-1662
    Abbott & van Vreeswijk (1993) -- Physical Review E 48(2), pp. 253-264
  2. Dynamics of homogeneous networks II
    Date: 16.11.2011
    Speaker: Nikolay Chenkov
    Gerstner (1995) -- Physical Review E 51(1), pp. 738-758
  3. Dynamics of homogeneous networks III
    Date: 23.11.2011
    Speaker: Jorge Jaramillo
    Gerstner (2000) -- Neural Computation 12(1), pp. 43-89
  4. Oscillations in inhibitory networks
    Date: 30.11.2011
    Speaker: Jan-Hendrik Schleimer, Urs Bergmann
    Brunel & Hakim (1999) -- Neural Computation 11(7), pp. 1621-1671
  5. E/I networks 1: Balanced networks I
    Date: 14.12.2011
    Speaker: Jose Donoso
    Shadlen & Newsome (1994) -- Current Opinion in Neurobiology 4, pp. 569-579
    van Vreeswijk & Sompolinsky (1996) -- Science 274, pp. 1724-1726
  6. E/I networks 1: Balanced networks II
    Date: 11.1.2012
    Speaker: Felix Droste, Sven Blankenburg
    van Vreeswijk & Sompolinsky (1998) -- Neural Computation 10, 1321-1371
  7. E/I networks 2: Self-consistent mean-variance analysis
    Date: 18.1.2012
    Speaker: Anja Matthiä, Henning Sprekeler
    Amit & Brunel (1997) --Cerebral Cortex 7, pp. 237-252
  8. E/I networks 3: Fokker-Planck theory
    Date: 8.2.2012
    Speaker: Petra Ritter, Matthias Reinacher
    Brunel (2000) -- Journal of Computational Neuroscience 8(3), pp. 183-208
  9. Partial synchronization
    Date: 15.2.2012
    Speakers: Michiel Remme, Eric Reifenstein
    van Vreeswijk (1996) -- Physical Review E 54(5), pp. 5522-5537
    Brunel & Hansel (2006) -- Neural Computation 18(5), pp. 1066--1110