15-883: Computational Models of Neural Systems
Fall 2025

General Class Information

Date/Time/Place: Mondays/Wednesdays, 3:30 to 4:50 PM, starting August 25, 2025, in GHC 4303 (Gates Hillman Center).


Professor: Dave Touretzky
Office: GHC 9013
Office hours: Fridays 3:00 to 4:00 pm.
dst@cs.cmu.edu
 
TA: Max Ma
Office hours: Fridays 4:00 to 5:00 pm in GHC 9110 or on Zoom
xma3@andrew.cmu.edu

Course home page (this page): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15883-f25

Syllabus

Lecture Schedule

Canvas

Readings Archive

Matlab demos (zip) (GitHub)

Handouts: homeworks, exams, miscellaneous materials.

Online Resources:

CogNet contains digital versions of many MIT Press books on computational neuroscience topics.

CMU MATLAB Download Site to install MATLAB on your laptop (Windows or Mac).

Getting Started with MATLAB, Language fundamentals, Comprehensive MATLAB Documentation.

Anatomy: Allen Institute Brain Atlases (human and mouse), BrainInfo, The Digital Anatomist, The Whole Brain Atlas


Dave Touretzky
Carnegie Mellon University
dst@cs.cmu.edu