The chair of Theoretical Biophysics at the Physik Department of the Technical University of Munich (T35, Professor J. Leo van Hemmen) has openings for outstanding graduate students with a background in either theoretical physics or applied mathematics. Read the rest of this entry…
The aim of this project is the deciphering of neural mechanisms of vocal learning, and in particular the role of the Basal Ganglia (BG), using the songbird model. It relies on an interdisciplinary approach combining experimental (including electrophysiology and optogenetics) and theoretical (computational modeling) approaches. Read the rest of this entry…
In this tutorial by Dr. Liam Paninski, the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is discussed and illustrated in a variety of neural examples. Read the rest of this entry…