Week

Date

 Details

Theme

0

Thursday, September 4

Intro (Ch1)

A bit history

Intro

1

Tuesday, September 9

MATLAB (Ch 12.1)

Matrix algebra (App A)

Background

Thursday, September 11

Neurons and conductance based models (Ch 2)

Numerical integration (App C)

Neurons (Ch 2&3)

2

Tuesday, September 16

Thursday, September 18

Spiking neurons  (Ch 3.1)

Response variability (Ch 3.3)

Probability distributions (App B)

3

Tuesday, September 23

Cortical organizations (Ch 4.1)

Population Dynamics (Ch 4.3)

Neurons in a network (Ch 4)

Thursday, September 25

Sigma node (Ch 4.4)

Sigma-Pi (Ch 4.5)

4

Tuesday, September 30

canceled

Thursday, October 2

canceled

5

Tuesday, October 7

Neural code (Ch 5.1)

Information theory (Ch 5.2)

Population coding (Ch 5.4, 5.5)

Neural Code & Information theory (Ch 5)

Thursday, October 9

Feed-forward mapping networks (Ch6)

Mapping networks (Ch 6)

6

Tuesday, October 14

Associators and synaptic plasticity (Ch7.1-7.5)

Weight distributions & PCA (Ch7.6-7.8)

Test1

Thursday, October 16

Auto-associative memory (Ch 8)

Attractor Neural Networks (Ch 8)

7

Tuesday, October 21

Phase diagram & network dynamics (Ch 8)

Thursday, October 23

8

Tuesday, October 28

CANN1

Thursday, October 30

CANN2

9

Tuesday, November 4

SOM (Ch 9)

Supervised learning and reward systems (Ch10)

Thursday, November 6

10

Tuesday, November 11

Remembrance day

Thursday, November 13

System level organization and coupled networks (Ch 11)

11

Tuesday, November 18

Presentation order:

Henry

Grahame

Wei

Dominic

Guenes

Thursday, November 20

 Presentations

Tuesday, December 2

 Presentations

 Coupled (modular) networks

 (Ch 11.1-3)

Thursday, December 4

System level models

(Ch 11.4-6)

Test2