Lectures and Readings

Monday, January 7

• Welcome (Nancy Griffeth)
• Introduction (Nancy Griffeth)
• Excitable Systems (Aron Wolinetz)
• BBC, "The Secret Life of Chaos

Tuesday, January 8

• Models and Modeling (Nancy Griffeth)
• What is a good model? (Aron Wolinetz)
• Introduction to biological ideas: cardiac cells, ion pumps and channels, action potentials (Liesl Jones)
• Introduction to the research project (Nancy Griffeth)
• Some playful exercises, related to the project
• 4V Minimal Model (Nancy Griffeth)

Wednesday, January 9

• Differential equations (Rachel Spratt)
  • The Potassium Argon Clock
• Nernst potential (Rachel Spratt)
  • Generation of membrane potential
  • Thermally agitated molecule
• The Hodgkin-Huxley model (and other action potential models) (Nancy Griffeth)
• Hodgkin-Huxley exercises
• HHSim Guide
• TNNP Papers - 2004 and 2006

Thursday, January 10

• More on Hodgkin-Huxley exercises
• Numerical integration (Nancy Griffeth)
• Code review (Charles Beard)
  • Use the TNNP Exercises

Friday, January 11

• Visiting lecturer: Robert Gilmour
• Lunch

Monday, January 14

• Introduction to cardiac models (Visiting Lecturer: Flavio Fenton)
• Saline oscillator in lab

Tuesday, January 15

Wednesday, January 16

• Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (Fred von Stein)

Thursday, January 17

• Paper from 2011 workshop
• Original Minimal Model paper
• Paper about tip patterns

Friday, January 18

• Start project

Tuesday, January 22

• Continue project

Wednesday, January 23

• Continue project

Thursday, January 24

• Bard Ermentrout
• Lunch
• Presentation Preparation

Friday, January 25

• Student presentations

Last modified: Jan 24, 2013