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The second edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School

The second edition of TENSS will take place between 1-17 July, 2013
See the school’s website

Intricate connections between the Julia and Mandelbrot sets

RIST’s scientist Marius F. Danca and his colleagues have discovered that the Mandelbrot set is not only the set of complex plane points for which Julia sets are connected, but also the set of all parameter values for which alternated Julia sets are disconnected.

The research of Raul Mureşan’s lab is featured on the Max Planck website

The website of the prestigious Max Planck Institute (Germany) features an article on the work of the group led by Raul Mureşan at our institute’s Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies.

TENSS at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The blog of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory features an article on the Transilvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, co-organized by our institute.

TENSS in National Geographic

National Geographic featured an article on the history of organizing the Transilvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, co-organized by our institute.

Nature showcases the research of Florian Engert

The prestigious Nature journal showcases the research of Florian Engert, who is a member of the board of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology and a professor at Harvard University, USA.

The chronotron – a neuron that learns to fire temporally precise spike patterns

Răzvan Florian has shown how neurons can learn to process and memorize information that is entirely temporally coded, both as input and as output, in the precise timings of spikes.

Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School

The institute will organize in June 2012 this summer school, which will concentrate top-level international expertise to teach a dozen students techniques and concepts in experimental systems neuroscience. Lectures and lab sessions will focus on modern optical and electrophysiological methods to study the connectivity and function of neuronal circuits.

Best PhD thesis of the year in computational game theory

RIST awarded the following young scientists for the best PhD thesis project of the year in computational game theory: Noémi Gaskó, Tudor Dan Mihoc, and Scott Duke Kominers.

Finding attractors of continuous-time systems by parameter switching

RIST’s Marius F. Danca has found that if the control parameter p, of a continuous-time nonlinear system belonging to a large class of systems, is switched within a set of chosen values in a deterministic or even random manner, while the underlying model is numerically integrated, the obtained attractor is a numerical approximation of one of the existing attractors of the considered system.