"Precise Timing in the Auditory Brain Stem"

Abstract:
A fundamental problem in neurobiology is to understand how the central
nervous system performs accurate calculations with components (neurons)
whose properties vary across cells and across time and which give variable
responses under repeated trials.  As one example, we will discuss the
sharpening of timing information in auditory brainstem.  We will use
techniques of probability, analysis, asymptotics and dynamical systems to
study the efficacy of coincidence detection as a mechanism to create
precise timers.