Program

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop (Local Organizer & M. Migliore)

09:30 – 10:30 First steps into the ECEMP (L. L. Bologna)

09:30 – 09:45 Coffee / Tea break

10:45 – 11:30 Electrophysiological features extraction (R. Migliore)

11:30 – 12:30 Scientific drive: Single cell modeling – how it is done (M. Migliore)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 17:30 Hands-on session I: (includes a coffee / Tea break in the middle)

                Dealing with 3D cell morphologies (C.A. Lupascu)

Electrophysiological features extraction: practice; speakers: L.L. Bologna, R. Migliore

              Build your own single-cell model; speakers: R. Migliore, P. Vitale, E. Giacalone

09:00 – 10:30 The NEURON-python simulation environment (C.A. Lupascu)

09:30 – 09:45 Coffee / Tea break

10:45 – 11:30 Scientific drive: ion channels (M. Migliore)

11:30 – 12:00 Introduction to visualization tools (O.D.R. Sánchez)

12:00 – 12:30 Single Cell Model optimization (P. Vitale)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 17:30 Hands-on session II: (includes a coffee / Tea break in the middle)

                  The Virtual Brain environment for whole brain models; speakers: E. Baspinar and D. Depannemaecker

09:00 – 10:30 Student Presentations

09:30 – 09:45 Coffee / Tea break

10:45 – 11:30 Scientific drive: Full-scale models of brain area, olfactory bulb & hippocampus (M. Migliore)

11:30 – 12:30 Implementing simplified models (A. Marasco, C.A. Lupascu)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 17:30 Hands-on session III: (includes a coffee / Tea break in the middle)

Visualization tools (O.D.R. Sánchez, S.M. Fernández)                 

The NEST simulator; speaker: S. Solinas

09:00 – 10:00 Network of spiking neurons and their response to perturbations (M. Mattia, M. Giugliano)

10:00 – 10:30 The NEST simulation II (S. Solinas)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee / Tea break

10:45 – 11:30 Scientific drive: Modeling Pathological conditions (M. Migliore)

11:30 – 12:30 In silico experiments using circuits (L.L. Bologna)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 17:30 Hands-on session IV: (includes a coffee / Tea break in the middle)

                  Run your network of spiking neurons; speakers: A. Galluzzi, G.V. Vinci, C. Capone

09:00 – 09:45 Getting supercomputing resources (C. Padrin)

09:45 – 10:45 Netpyne for large network simulations using NEURON (W. Lytton)

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea break

11:00 – 12:30 Using CoreNEURON (M. Hines)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 17:00 Hands-on session V: (includes a coffee / Tea break in the middle)

                  Implementing and running efficient simulations on parallel supercomputer systems; speakers: M. Hines, W. Lytton

17:00 – 18:00 Q&A, discussion, conclusions