[visionlist] please post: Neuroinformatics course announcement at Woods Hole

[Jonathan D. Victor]

Neuroinformatics

Applications are invited for an intensive graduate/postgraduate school in Neuroinformatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, from 11 to 26 August 2012.

The Neuroninformatics school (http://neufo.org/) is a two week course on methods to manage and analyze data sets from neurophysiological and behavioral measurements, particularly large data volumes that require systematic tatistical and computational approaches.

The course includes lectures on fundamental mathematical methods, established and emerging applications, and focused hands-on computer-based sessions. Topics include point processes, e.g., spike trains, continuous processes, e.g., behavior, ECoG, EEG, fMRI, LFP, and MEG recordings, and methods for analyzing neuroanatomical data from light and electron microscopy.
The first week is devoted by lectures on statistical and analytical techniques appropriate for neural data analysis. A concurrent computer laboratory runs in the evenings to supplement the lectures. The second week contains application-based lectures and is focused on emerging research areas.
The second week further contains a "data analysis challenge", in which teams will analyze published data sets in the context of specific questions.
Attendance at the school is targeted broadly, from experimental researchers to those with a theoretical or analytical orientation who work closely ith data. A main aim of the school is to foster close working relations between theorists and experimentalists. Researchers at all levels, from advanced graduate student to working professional, may benefit from participating.

Primary faculty include: Helen Barbas (BU); Amy Barnard (Allen); Mikhail Belkin (OSU); Uri T. Eden (BU); Moritz Helmstaedter (MPI); Matti S. Hamalainen (MGH); Satish Iyengar (Pitt); David Kleinfeld, co-director (UCSD); Partha P.
Mitra, co-director (CSHL); Bijan Pesaran (NYU); Keith P. Purpura (Weill-Cornell); Nicholas D. Schiff (Weill-Cornell); Andrew T. Sornborger (Georgia); and Jonathan D. Victor (Weill-Cornell).
Application Deadline: May 11, 2012 (http://www.mbl.edu/education/)

Jonathan D. Victor MD PhD
Fred Plum Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medical College, LBRC 807
1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 USA
jdvicto at med.cornell.edu
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personal webpage: http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jdvicto/jdvonweb.html

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