Statistical and Computational Methods in
Neurosciences
Professors Catherine
Loader and Wojbor
Woyczynski will conduct a regular seminar on Statistical
and Computational Methods in Neurosciences.
No prior knowledge of neuroscience will be assumed. This seminar series
is intended to introduce an exciting research area with many open statistical
and probabilistic problems, and many possible directions for dissertation
research.
Spring 2003
Note the new start time, effective Jan. 21, 2003.
Tues. February 11
9:00 a.m.
Yost, Rm 327
No meeting. Instead, Professor Satish Iyengar, from the University
of Pittsburgh, will meet graduate students on February 14, 9:00-9:45am.
I encourage all to attend.
Tues. January 14
Yost, Rm 327
Professor Woyczynski will continue from Section 1.4 of Dayan
and Abbott.
Fall 2002
Tues. November 26
Yost, Rm 327
Neural Encoding, Firing Rates and Spike Statistics
David Kitska will discuss sections 1.1 to 1.3 of the book Theoretical
Neuroscience by P. Dayan and L. F. Abbott.
The Nerve Impulse
Francisco Bezanilla's website, document and Java applets.
Tues. November 19
Yost, Rm 327
Neural Encoding, Firing Rates and Spike Statistics
David Kitska will discuss sections 1.1 to 1.3 of the book Theoretical
Neuroscience by P. Dayan and L. F. Abbott.
