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Fridays 31.1. - 28.2.2014

Theoretical Neuroscience

Lecture and Analytical Tutorial
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Wiskott
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Requirements

To follow this course to any detail you need to know basic math on the level of a high-school diploma / Abitur. For instance, you need to know elementary functions (such as cosine, sine and the exponential function), you should be able to calculate derivatives, and you should know what an integral is. You should also be able to solve simple equations with one unknown. Please consult your old math school books or some elementary algebra books from a library.

Lectures go from 14:00-15:30 and 15:45-17:15.


Schedule

- date topic
1 31.01. Neural Networks Introduction
2 07.02. Feedforward Networks
Principal Component Analysis
3 14.02. Independent Component Analysis
4 21.02. Receptive Fields
5 28.02. to be announced (guest lecture by PD Rolf Würtz)

Laurenz Wiskott, http://www.ini.rub.de/PEOPLE/wiskott/