WS 2025/2026
Computational Neuroscience:
Models of Neural Systems,
Theoretical Lectures
Richard Kempter and Benjamin Lindner
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WS 2025/2026Computational Neuroscience:
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Dates and Times: Weekly, on Mondays from 10:15 to 11:45h
Location: Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences Berlin, Haus 6, Lecture Hall, Philippstr. 13.
Lecture notes and recommended reading (pdf files): Available at the Moodle Course ''Models of Neural Systems: Theoretical Lecture''
| | Abstract, simple, phenomenological models | | |
| (1) | 20.10.2025 | Introduction; Simple units and networks of units (part 1) | (Kempter) |
| (2) | 27.10.2025 | Simple units and networks of units (part 2); Adaptation and learning (part 1) | (Kempter) |
| (3) | 03.11.2025 | Adaptation and learning (part 2) + Visual recepive fields | (Kempter) |
| (4) | 10.11.2025 | Visual receptive fields | (Kempter) |
| | Complex, biophysical models: | | |
| (5) | 17.11.2025 | Nernst equation, GHK equation, membrane equation | (Lindner) |
| (6) | 24.11.2025 | Voltage clamp, synapses, integrate-and-fire models | (Lindner) |
| (7) | 01.12.2025 | Nonlinear membranes, voltage-dependent conductances | (Lindner) |
| (8) | 08.12.2025 | Gate model, Hodgkin-Huxley equations | (Lindner) |
| (9) | 15.12.2025 | Channel models, Conductance-based neuron models | (Lindner) |
| | Concepts of nonlinear dynamics; excitability: | | |
| (10) | 05.01.2026 | Phase-space analysis (1- and 2-dim systems) | (Lindner) |
| (11) | 12.01.2026 | Phase-space analysis (2-dim systems) | (Lindner) |
| (12) | 19.01.2026 | Phase-space analysis (2-dim systems) | (Lindner) |
| | Spatially extended neurons and networks: | | |
| (13) | 26.01.2026 | Models of dendrites and axons (cable theory I) | (Kempter) |
| (14) | 02.02.2026 | Models of dendrites and axons (cable theory II) | (Kempter) |
| (15) | 09.02.2026 | Network models | (Kempter) |