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Topics
This is a partial listing of what the course covers.
- Design and construction of models of individual neurons and networks of neurons
- Specifying model properties with hoc, Python, and NEURON's GUI
- Importing Neurolucida and other morphometric data formats with the Import3D tool
- Adding new biophysical mechanisms with NMODL and the Channel Builder
- Prototyping network models with the Network Builder
- Using the ModelViewer to analyze and understand models created by yourself and others
- Optimizing mechanisms and models
- Integration methods
- accuracy, stability, and computational efficiency
- fixed timestep vs. global and local adaptive integration--
which method to use, and how to use it
- Speeding up simulations by parallel execution on hardware from multicore PCs to massively parallel computers
- multithreaded execution
- bulletin board style parallelization
- distributed simulation of cells and/or networks over multiple processors
- Customizing the GUI for simulation control and analysis of results
- Managing modeling projects
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Faculty
The course faculty include Ted Carnevale, Michael Hines, Bill Lytton, and Terry Sejnowski.
All are leaders in the development and application of simulation
tools for biologically realistic modeling. All have taught computational
neuroscience at their home institutions, and all have participated in
past offerings of the NEURON Summer Course.
Hines and Carnevale have also presented short
courses on NEURON at Yale and other academic institutions around the world, and at
annual
meetings of the Society for Neuroscience. The NEURON 2011 Summer
Course draws on their experience and addresses specific needs expressed
by participants in prior courses.
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Location
The NEURON Summer Course will be held at the
Institute for Neural Computation
on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
This is an excellent site for the NEURON Summer Course
because of the close synergy between the course and
the goals of the INC.
Each registrant is expected to bring his or her own ethernet-
or wifi-capable laptop computer.
This will allow everyone to work in a familiar hardware/software environment,
be it MSWin or Linux on a PC, or OS X on a Mac.
Obligatory disclaimer: this conference is not sponsored by the University of California.
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Food and housing
The registration fee includes the cost of food and housing from the evening
of Friday, June 17, through the morning of Thursday, June 23.
Registrants should indicate any special dietary, mobility,
or accessibility requirements on the course application form.
Registrants will stay in graduate student housing on the campus of the
University of California, San Diego.
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Travel
Registrants must make their own travel arrangements to and from the course.
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How does this course differ from the courses at the
Society for Neuroscience meeting?
- The 1 day courses at SFN rely completely on
didactic presentations and demonstrations,
since time and cost constraints preclude hands-on exercises.
- The longer duration of the
Summer Course allows us to address a far wider range of topics.
- Registrants in the Summer Course work through numerous hands-on exercises
that challenge them to use what they have just learned, in a setting where
expert assistance is close at hand.
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NEURON 2011 Summer Course