LASCON 2020

VIII Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

January 6 – 31 2020

The eighth edition of the Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON VIII was held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The school was four weeks long and covered the following topics: biophysically detailed single neuron models; reduced and simplified single neuron models; networks of biophysical and simplified neuron models; synaptic plasticity and learning; spike train analysis; statistical methods in neuroscience; models of extracellular fields; modeling of brain stimulation; predictive coding; dynamics of neuronal functional connectivity; and computational psychiatry. These models were illustrated with the use of programs NEURON, NeuroML, XPP-AUTO, Matlab, NEST, Brian and the Virtual Brain. The faculty was composed of an international team of world-renowned researchers in the field of computational neuroscience.

LASCON 2020 was an activity of the  Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center (RIDC) for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat).

Organizing Committee

Organizers

Antonio Galves (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Antonio Roque (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)

Mauricio Girardi-Schappo (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)

Nilton Kamiji (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)

Local Organizers

Carybé G. Silva (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Cassiano dos Santos (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Celso O. S. Lopes (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Éder Porto (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Lourdes Netto (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Lucas Santos (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Marilucia Otama

Vera L. Ribeiro (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Scientific Committee

Adriano Tort (Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, RN, Brazil)

Antonio Galves (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Antonio Roque (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)

Arnd Roth (University College, London, UK)

John Murray (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA)

Julian Tejada (Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju, SE, Brazil)

Marcelo Reyes (Federal University of ABC, Santo Andre, SP, Brazil)

Mauricio Girardi-Schappo (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)

Nilton Kamiji (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)

Osame Kinouchi (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)

Reynaldo Pinto (University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil)

Rodrigo Oliveira (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal)

Sidarta Ribeiro (Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, RN, Brazil)

Volker Steuber (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK)

William Lytton (State University of New York, New York, NY, USA)