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Program Participants are expected to arrive Dec 5^th  and leave Dec 12^th The school is organized as a series of lectures, complemented with young scientist's short presentations, and a poster session too. Applicants interested in giving a short presentation/poster are kindly required to send a short abstract in the application form. The young scientists’ short presentations and posters aim to encourage scientific discussions and informal interactions between all participants Tentative schedule Lectures Maria Marinaro Opening remarks (from the age of E.R. Caianiello) Leslie M. Kay 1. Neural processing in the olfactory bulb circuit 2. Distributed dynamics in the olfactory system and beyond Michael Hasselmo 1. Oscillations and grid cells 2. Mechanisms of memory-guided behavior Bruce McNaughton 1.The torroidal attractor model for grid cells, place cells and path integration 2.Offline Reprocessing of Recent Memory and the Trace Reactivation Theory of Memory Consolidation Sonja Gruen 1. Higher-order correlations in massively parallel spike trains 2. Reflections of spike synchronization in local field potential Nachum Ulanovsky 1. Echolocating bats: spatial orientation using biological sonar 2. Hippocampal neural activity in freely-moving echolocation bats: spatial cognition, place cells and theta oscillation Naoyuki Sato 1. Computational theory of memory encoding with theta phase coding 2. Combined approach of a computational model and human brain activity analyses Markus Diesmann 1. Spike synchronization in cortical neural networks 2. Interaction of synchronous spiking and background activity Yoko Yamaguchi 1. Synchroization of theta rhythms in cortico-hippocampal system for memory encoding 2. Synchronization of EEG rhythms in the brain for perception and cognitive control Silvia Scarpetta 1. A computational model of STDP-based encoding and recall of oscillatory spatio-temporal patterns John O'Keefe  1.Hippocampal place cells and the cognitive map 2.Functions of hippocampal theta Wolf Singer Titles under considerarion TOPICS of lectures include: Nonlinear Dynamics and neural networks System dynamics in the olfactory system Path integration in the Hippocampus Hippocampus cognitive map theory and theta precession Dynamical linking by synchronization in the brain Theta rhythm in bat hippocampus Cortical dynamics modelling Computational theory of real time computing in the brain Computational model of hippocampus and human memory TBC