Fall 2025 Biomedical-Electrical Engineering-Biology W4020 section 001

COMP NEURO: CIRCUITS IN BRAIN

Call Number 11018
Day & Time
Location
T 7:00pm-9:30pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Department
Instructor Aurel A Lazar - e-mail, homepage
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

The biophysics of computation: modeling biological neurons, the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, modeling channel conductances and synapses as memristive systems, bursting neurons and central pattern generators, I/O equivalence and spiking neuron models. Information representation and neural encoding: stimulus representation with time encoding machines, the geometry of time encoding, encoding with neural circuits with feedback, population time encoding machines. Dendritic computation: elements of spike processing and neural computation, synaptic plasticity and learning algorithms, unsupervised learning and spike time-dependent plasticity, basic dendritic integration. Projects in MATLAB.

Web Site Vergil
Department Electrical Engineering
Enrollment 0 students (80 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, April 3, 2025
Subject Biomedical-Electrical Engineering-Biology
Number W4020
Section 001
Division School of Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate
Open To Schools of the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Engineering:Graduate, GSAS, Global Programs, General Studies, SIPA, Professional Studies
Section key 20253BMEB4020W001