Workshop on Mechanisms for Oscillatory Neural Synchrony
CNS*2025 in Florence, Italy on July 08, 2025
From 9:00 to 12:30
This workshop will bring together researchers who have recently published on synchronization networks of coupled oscillators, with a mix of approaches but an emphasis on phase response curve (PRC) theory. The researchers come from both theoretical and experimental backgrounds. Topics include synchronization mechanisms for theta nested gamma in the medial entorhinal cortex, mean-field pulsatile coupling methods for fast oscillations in inhibitory networks, beta oscillations in parkinsonian basal ganglia, the relative contributions of synaptic and ultra-fast non-synaptic ephaptic coupling to the inhibition of cerebellar Purkinje cells by basket cells, infinitesimal macroscopic PRC (imPRC) within the exact mean-field theory applied to ING and PING, and robustness in a neuromechanical model of motor pattern generation.
Carmen Canavier, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans: “A Mean Field Theory for Pulse-Coupled Oscillators based on the Spike Time Response Curve”
Joshua A Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Empirical study of dendritic integration and entrainment of basal ganglia pacemakers using phase response curves”
Dimitri M Kullmann, University College London: “Basket to Purkinje Cell Inhibitory Ephaptic Coupling Is Abolished in Episodic Ataxia Type 1”
Hermann Rieke, Northwestern University: “Paradoxical phase response of gamma rhythms facilitates their entrainment in heterogeneous networks”
Yangyang Wang, Brandeis University: “Variational and phase response analysis for limit cycles with hard boundaries, with applications to neuromechanical control problems”
Brandon Williams, Boston University: “Fast spiking interneurons generate high frequency gamma oscillations in the medial entorhinal cortex”