| Lecturer: |
Professor Aurel A. Lazar |
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Office hours: |
Wednesdays, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, EST, Room 819 Schapiro |
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E-mail address: |
aurel "at" ee.columbia.edu |
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Class Web Site: |
Offered by CourseWorks |
| Day and Time: |
Mondays, 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
| Class Location: |
ENG 253 |
| Credits for course: |
4.5 points |
| Prerequisites |
[ELEN E3801 Signals and Systems] or [Biology W3004 Neurobio I: Cellular and Molecular (plus Matlab or Python)]
or [BMEB W4020 Computational Neuroscience: Circuits in the Brain] or [the instructor's approval]. |
| Description: |
Introduction to Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, Electrophysiology of Neurons, One-Dimensional Systems, Two-Dimensional Systems, Conductance-Based Models and Their Reductions, Bifurcations, Neuronal Excitability, Simple Models, Bursting, Synchronization.
Major project(s) in Matlab. |
| Required texts: | ---
Izhikevich E.M., Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007.
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| Homework(s): |
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| Paper(s): |
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| Project(s) |
2 Projects |
| Midterm exam: |
Project |
| Final Exam: |
Project |
| Grading |
The final grade has two components: midterm project and final project. Weighting: 1/2 for each project. |
| Hardware requirements: |
Laptop for demos and discussions |
| Software requirements: |
Matlab (student version) or Python |