[Comp-neuro] Summer school in computational neuroscience, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 4 – June 17, 2012

Summer school and seminars in computational neuroscience:  "White Nights of Computational Neuroscience: neurotheory from cell to cognition 2012"

to be held in

Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 4 – June 17, 2012

http://www.neurobiotech.ru/en/WNCN

The school in the format of one-lecturer-per-day will be take place in Academic University and Saint Petersburg State University.  Lectures cover a wide range of topics in computational neuroscience and be supported by a series of informal seminars as well as satellite symposia.

Invited lectures:

Roman Brette (ENS, Paris)

Alain Destexhe  (CNRS, France)

Lyle Graham (Descartes University, Paris)

Boris Gutkin (ENS, Paris)

Vincent Hakim (ENS, Paris)

Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland)

Staffan Johansson (University of Umea, Sweden)

Etienne Koechlin (ENS, Paris)

Mate Lengyel (Cambridge University)

Christian Machens (ENS, Paris)

Gianluigi Mongillo (Descartes University, Paris)

Misha Tsodyks  (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot)

Carl Van Vreeswijk (Descartes University, Paris)

Organizers:

Boris Gutkin (ENS, Paris), Anton Chizhov (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St-Petersburg), Anna Shestakova (Saint Petersburg State University),  Michael Dubina (Saint Petersburg Academic University) as well as the advisory board of the European Tempus project "Postgraduate Training Network in Biotechnology of Neurosciences (BioN)".

Target Audience:

Applications from PhD and MSc students, and students in their final year are accepted till April 13, 2012. Places are limited. Please, send CV and motivation letter to the school coordinator Elena Smirnova elena.smirnova at mail.ioffe.ru

The travel and living expenses support will be provided only for the participants from the BioN project (www.neurobiotech.ru).

More information is available on the webpage http://www.neurobiotech.ru/en/WNCN.