I am interested in neurocomputation  and its application to
neurophysiology research (specially things like analysing muliple
spike recordings )  .But I have  a good background in biology only. I
would like to have a course (preferably for one year) in applied
mathematics together with the computer programming. Do you know any Distance
learning course that may cover these topics?

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 20 Jun 2004 14:54 PDT

Hi, duda75-ga:

I'd be happy to help you locate some appropriate distance learning
opportunities, but please Clarify what your current background in math
and programming is.

For example, have taken Calculus?  What programming languages, if any,
do you consider yourself proficient in?

regards, mathtalk-ga

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Clarification of Question by duda75-ga on 21 Jun 2004 02:59 PDT

In math I am currently using very basic statistics like:mainlly
comparing two groups with ANOVA and running various statistical test
and for that I am using statistical software UNISTAT which is very
simple to calculate all these p values.I have to say I understand math
behind this  but not in a way that I can design my own formulas and
etc. I had in my undergraduate course calculus, and I was very much
interested into dynamic systems theory specially with modelling
nonlinear systems(bifurcation, chaos and self-organization, things
like that that have a very clear analog in biology),I tried to read
all these books like haken's Synergetics and Prigojin's order out of
chaos. but these information stayed kind of very theoretical for me
since I never ever tried to solve any problems, never ever had any
practical experience. So really dont have a feeling that I understand
them. There is a very new field in biology they call it systems
biology that tries to describe biological systems from mathematical
point of view and find some emergent principles (some rules that are
coming from collective behaviour of it's elements). basically that is
what I would like to do, but mainlly in neurophysiology. In
programming I have no experience at all but as far as I know MATLAB is
the most popular language to use in my case. Hope that information was
enough and thanks in advance