Tuesday, May 25

MS29
Bifurcations in Neuron Dynamics

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: Magpie A/B

Neural excitability, spiking, and bursting result from certain bifurcations of the membrane potential of the cell. Revealing these bifurcations in mathematical models and in vivo helps to understand and classify dynamical properties of neurons and their networks. The speakers in this minisymposium will discuss recent work on neurons and neuron network models.

Organizer: Eugene M. Izhikevich
Arizona State University

10:00-10:25 Adaptation and Synchrony in Neural Oscillators

G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh

10:30-10:55 Phantom Bursting in Pancreatic ß-Cells

Richard Bertram and Joseph Previte, Pennsylvania State University; and Arthur Sherman, National Institutes of Health

11:00-11:25 Propagating Activity Patterns in Thalamic Networks

David Terman, Ohio State University

11:30-11:55 Neural Excitability, Spiking, and Bursting

Eugene M. Izhikevich, Organizer

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