Aonan Tang

Hi Guys:

I am very glad to have the opportunity to make friends at CSSS Beijing.

I received my BS in Material Science and Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, now I am a PhD candidate at Indiana University in the Biocomplexity Institute, where I do electrophysiological experiments in acute cortical slice and organotypic culture slice under the guildance of John Beggs. I also work on the properties of the local cortical networks with a special 512 microelectrode array system cooperating with Alan litke at University of California, Santa Cruz.

I am looking forward to spending a wonderful time with you.

1. What topics do you have some expertise in and would you be willing to help others learn them?

I have some experience in the electrophysiological recording for cortical neural network from rats, primates and human.

2. What do you want to learn at the CSSS?

I would like to learn more about information theory.

3. Do you have any projects or research interests that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach?

Most of my work are experimental in neuroscience, I am glad to use information theory to study the brain.

4. Do you have any ideas for what sort of project you would like to do work on with other CSSS students this summer?

I have several ideas but I am still open to other people. As an experimental neuroscientist with spike trains or time series, I want use information theory to catch the connectivity and information flow between neurons. I am also interested in finding any repeating patterns in the network, that also need much computation and modeling works.

5. Suppose you could travel one-hundred years in the future and ask researchers any three questions. What would those questions be?

a) what is the functional mechanism of learning and memory?

b) thinking...

c) ...........