LASCON is a biennial school aiming at introducing advanced undergraduate, graduate students and young researchers, mostly from Latin America, to the use of mathematical and computational methods for modeling neurons and neural networks of the brain.

LASCON is an intensive four-week school with morning, afternoon and evening activities. The morning periods are dedicated to theoretical classes on the fundamentals of neuron and neural network modeling, the afternoon periods are dedicated to hands-on training in computer programs commonly used in neural network simulation and analysis, and the evening periods are dedicated to exercises. The faculty is composed of researchers with large experience in computational neuroscience and the use of these programs. Besides attending the classes and doing the exercises, students have to carry out small research projects using the tools taught at the school and present them orally at the end of the school.

The fifth edition of the Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON V will be held at Hotel Eurosol Tibau Resort in Tibau do Sul (Pipa beach), State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The school will last for four  weeks and will cover topics as: biophysically detailed single neuron models; simplified neuron models; neural network models; synaptic plasticity and memory models; biochemical modeling; spike train analysis; neuroprosthetics; and methods of extracting information from neural populations. These models will be illustrated with the use of programs like NEURON, GENESIS, neuroConstruct, XPP-AUTO, NEST and Matlab. The faculty is composed of an international team of world-renowned researchers in the field of computational neuroscience.