LASCON III

LASCON III — III Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience

Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

January 17 — February 9 2010

The third edition of the Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON III was held at the University of São Paulo, campus of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State, Brazil. The school was 3.5 weeks long and covered the following topics: biophysically detailed single neuron models; simplified neuron models; neural network models; synaptic plasticity and memory models; biochemical modeling and information-theoretic methods of spike train analysis. These models were illustrated with the use of programs NEURON, GENESIS, neuroConstruct, XPP-AUTO and Matlab. The faculty was composed of an international team of world-renowned researchers in the field of computational neuroscience.

University of São Paulo

Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

January 17-February 9 2009

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

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
André Luzardo
Denise Arruda
Lucas Baggio Figueira
Diogo Porfírio
Julián Tejada Herrera
Rafael Arantes
(University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
James Bower (University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA)
David Beeman (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA)
Osame Kinouchi (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)
Rodrigo Oliveira (Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
Reynaldo Pinto (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
Antonio Roque (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)

Sponsors

IBRO – International Brain Research Organization (IBRO Latin American Regional Committee)

CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

FAPESP – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

USP – Universidade de São Paulo

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