Rice/TMC/UH Computational Neuroscience REU

June 1 through August 6, 2010


Final Reports:

Hadas Friedman (IIT, Physics),
Adam Burch (Pitt, Physics),
Jordon Cavazoz (Rice, Math),
Brian Chang (Northwestern, Math),
Stephen Keeley (Rochester, Physics),
Ariah Klages-Mundt (Amherst, Math),
Robert Hardwick (U Washington, Neurobiology),
Alexandra Lee (Bryn Mawr, Math),
Shan McDonell (Rice, Biochem),
Marvin Thielk (UC Berkeley, Math),
Rose Psalmond (Agnes Scott, Math),
Peter Navarra (Rice, Cog Sci)

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Schedule for Week 1, June 1-4, All meetings held in Rayzor 106 at Rice

Tuesday June 1
9-10am: Paperwork (Payroll, IDs,...)
10am-12pm: Fundamentals of Biophysics, R. Raphael
12-12:20: Raphael Project Talk
12:20-1:20: Lunch
1:20-3:20pm: Fundamentals of Brain Imaging, Beauchamp & Laconte
3:20-3:40pm: Beauchamp Project Talk,
3:40-4:00pm: TBA Project Talk
4:15-5:30pm: Lab Visits, Rice (Raphael 4:15-5, Cox 5-5:30)

Wednesday June 2
10am-12pm: Linear Algebra & MATLAB, S. Cox
12-12:20: Cox and Ji Project Talk
12:20-1:20: Lunch
1:20-3:20: Information Processing in Visual Cortical Networks, V. Dragoi
3:20-3:40: Dragoi Project Talk
4-5:40: Lab Visits, UTH (Chen 4-4:20, Sereno 4:20-4:40, Beauchamp 4:40-5, Byrne 5-5:20, Dragoi 5:20-5:40)

Thursday June 3
10am-12pm: Probability & MATLAB, Weiji Ma
12-12:20: Ma Project Talk
12:20-1:20: Lunch
1:20-3:20: Fundamentals of Multielectrode Recordings, A. Tolias
3:20-3:40: Tolias Project Talk
4:00-5:20: Lab Visits, BCM (Ma 4-4:20, Tolias 4:20-4:40, Ji 4:40-5)
5:20-6:20: Common Reading Discussion at Brown House
6:20-8:00: Dinner out

Friday June 4
10am-12pm: Differential Equations and MATLAB, K. Josic
12:00-12:20 Josic and Dragoi Project Talk
12:20-1:20: Lunch
1:20-3:20: Fundamentals of Cellular Imaging, P. Saggau
4:30-6: Welcome reception and Lab Match at Trevisios

Research Presentations, Wednesdays at 6pm (starting June 16) in BROW 146

Quest for Consciousness Discussions, Wednesdays at 5pm at Brown House

June 9, Rose leads 3 and Alex leads 4, Adam scribes in Rayzor 106
June 16, Brian 5, Jordon 6, Pete scribes
June 23, Ryan 7, Robert 8, Brian scribes
June 30, Hadas 9, Ari 10, Jordon scribes
July 7, Adam 11, Shan 12, Rose scribes
July 14, Marvin 13, Hadas 14, Shan scribes
July 21, Stephen 15, Adam 16, Marvin scribes
July 28, Pete 17, Shan 18, Alex scribes
August 4, Stephen 19, Hadas and Stephen edit final review

Poster Session, Friday July 30

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