Alan H. Bond, Department of Computer Science
Office: Jorgensen 273. Telephone: 626-395-3034.
Office hours: I am available Wed, Thurs and Fri afternoons.
email:bond@cs, I am always available by email.
Fall 2001
Course times
Organizational meeting. Monday, October 1st, Thomas 206.
Course schedule
A possible long term schedule is as follows:
Phase 1. Study and selection of biological systems
Spend some time
initially, researching the literature, selecting
topics and outlining designs for particular multimodular brain
systems. This would be done as a group.
We would meet once per week
and there could be presentations and discussions
on particular brain systems and phenomena.
Ideally, there would be a discussion leader for each
discussion of a particular brain system,
who would be an interested student.
This phase would take most of the fall term.
Phase 2. Design and specification of models.
Then we would select certain projects for detailed
study leading to the generation of detailed designs
for systems, and detailed connections with
experimental data. Each project would be done
by a single student or a small group
of students together with Alan Bond and possibly
other interested faculty. The selection
of projects and determination of groups
would be done in the fall term, and then the
design work would take the first half of the winter term.
Wednesday meetings could be devoted to discussion and criticism
of progress of each project.
Phase 3. Implementation of systems, experimentation,
developing correspondence between model and experimental
data.
There would be implementation
in the second half of the winter term leading to an initial
limited working system. The full implementation
and experimentation would be done in the
first half of the spring term.
Phase 4. Writing reports and papers.
In the second half of the
spring term.