Compare the subthrehold dynamics of the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron with the subthreshold dynamics of the spiking model by Izhikevitch [1]. Write up your observations in a brief paper (conference style). The paper must include a title, authors name and affiliation, short abstract and references. The fond size must be at least 11pt and the page limit is 4 pages.
Note: A very nice discussion and comparison of various spiking models is given in [2]. An example of the subthreshold dynamics of IF neurons in comparison to HH neurons is given in [3].
[1] Izhikevich E.M. (2005), Simple Model of Spiking Network, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, submitted
[2] Izhikevich E.M. (2004), Which Model to Use for Cortical Spiking Neurons?, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15:1063-1070 (special issue on temporal coding)
[3] Trappenberg T.P and Standage (2004), Differences in the subthreshold dynamics of leaky integrate-and-fire and Hodgkin-Huxley neuron models, draft