Thematic Workshops for the 2003 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Neuroscience

周梁 2003年7月28日至8月29日，研究者和同事们在法国组织了一个关于神经科学理论方法的暑期学校，并组织了主题实验讲习班。 本课程涵盖了系统神经科学中使用的现代理论方法。 它是Les Houches暑期学校系列的一部分，该系列具有涵盖前沿理论主题的杰出传统。 本课程是为那些具有物理学、数学或其他定量领域背景的研究生和博士后开设的。 神经科学变化很快，理论家必须了解新的实验结果和技术。 因此，组织者与理论计划一起举办了三个主题研讨会。 在这些研讨会上，实验者会就生理学问题进行演讲，并引导与理论讲座中所涉及的主题相关的讨论。 这个暑期学校对学生、理论讲师和实验人员的影响怎么强调都不过分。除了接受培训，学生们还有机会与许多优秀的神经科学家见面和互动。 相反，高级参与者有机会与下一代理论家见面。 在生物学中，理论和实验之间的关系仍然是试验性的。 研讨会提出的主题本身就很重要，它们很好地配合并扩大和接地的理论议程，他们提供了一个显着的机会，建立理论家和实验家之间的联系，在生物学的一个重要和动态的领域。 所有的演讲者都被要求写一篇随附的论文，并将其放入出版的论文集中。 这些会议记录将有重要的细节被视为一本关于理论神经科学现代方法的教科书，并将成为一个有价值的信息来源。

Chow The investigator and colleagues organize thematicexperimental workshops in conjunction with a summer school ontheoretical methods in neuroscience in France from July 28 -August 29, 2003. The course covers modern theoretical methodsused in systems neuroscience. It is part of the Les Houchessummer school series, which has a distinguished tradition ofcovering leading edge theoretical topics. The course is intendedfor graduate students and postdocs who have backgrounds inphysics, mathematics or other quantitative fields. Neurosciencerapidly changes and it is essential for theorists to be aware ofnew experimental results and techniques. Thus, the organizershold three Thematic Workshops in conjunction with the theoreticalprogram. In these workshops, experimentalists give talks onphysiological issues and lead discussions related to the topicscovered in the theoretical lectures. The impact of this summer school on the students,theoretical lecturers and experimentalists cannot be overstated.In addition to the training the students receive they also havethe opportunity to meet and interact with many prominentneuroscientists. Conversely, the senior participants have anopportunity to meet the next generation of theorists. In biologythe relationship between theory and experiment is stilltentative. The workshops present topics important in themselves,they fit well with and amplify and ground the theoretical agenda,and they provide a remarkable opportunity to establishconnections between theoreticians and experimentalists in animportant and dynamic area of biology. All of the lecturers arerequired to write an accompanying paper to be placed in apublished proceedings. These proceedings will have sufficientdetail to be treated like a textbook on modern methods oftheoretical neuroscience and will be a valuable source ofinformation.