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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:55 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [CTN] CTN Seminar - Wednesday, April 22 - Wilten Nicola</font>
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<b>Wednesday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m. in DC 1304</b></div>
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<b>Speaker</b>: Wilten Nicola, University of Calgary, <a href="https://www.nicolacomputationalneurosciencelab.com/" id="OWA11c67b9c-4ee7-3246-f95b-43f1ae130ec2" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
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<b>Title</b>: Subthreshold Asynchronous States and Pattern Generation in Biophysically Detailed Populations of Neurons</div>
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<b>Abstract: </b>Learning with spikes is difficult. Spikes are metabolically costly and difficult to stabilize for computation. Here, we demonstrate that excitatory/inhibitory asynchronous states can exist without firing spikes through self-sustaining subthreshold
voltage fluctuations in networks of biophysically detailed Hodgkin-Huxley neurons. This novel subthreshold asynchronous state, which we call voltage chaos, can be controlled for useful computation and pattern generation also without firing spikes. Our work
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<b>Bio: </b>Dr. Nicola is an Associate Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, at the Cumming School of Medicine in the University of Calgary. He also holds adjunct appointments
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Physics and is a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. Dr. Nicola completed his PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo and a postdoctoral fellowship
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located on the Haldimand tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our</i></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i> active
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