Final call for applicants to apply to the 12th summer course on

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE in Göttingen, Germany

September 08th - 12th, 2014

Organized by Agostina Palmigiano, Joscha Liedtke and Maximilian Puelma-Touzel

Sponsored by

-the Bernstein Centre for Computation Neuroscience, Göttingen

-the International Max Planck Research School for the Physics of Biological and Complex Systems

-the Goettingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

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The course is intended to provide graduate students and young researchers from within and outside of neuroscience with working knowledge of theory and analysis methods used in the field and to acquaint them with recent developments therein. The focus of this year's course is modelling and theory of neuronal ensembles.

The course includes tutorials and lectures from the following researchers:

* Carl Van Vreesijk, Universite Rene Descartes, Paris, France

* Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London, London, England

* Srdjan Ostojic, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

* Gasper Tkacik, Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria

* Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

The course takes place at the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics of the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen.

A course fee of 100 Euro includes participation in the tutorials, study materials, and part of the social events. The number of participants is limited to 30. Course language is English.

To apply please fill out the application form at:

http://www.bccn-goettingen.de/events/cns-course

by *August 6, 2014*

Best wishes and looking forward to seeing you in Göttingen,

Max Puelma Touzel (on behalf of the organizers)

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Fassberg 17, 37077 Goettingen, Germany

+49 551 5176 444 Office

+49 (0)176 6 876 2821 Mobile

mptouzel@nld.ds.mpg.de

www.nld.ds.mpg.de