Does anyone know anything about any work related to computational neuroscience
in the Research Triangle (Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh) area of North Carolina
(USA)? I'm currently a student in a well-known neuroscience Ph.D. program in
California and although I enjoy the work, it leaves me no time for my other
interests. Also I've discovered that I loathe Californian (lack of) culture,
and being three thousand miles distant from my friends and family. So I'm
searching for alternatives - jobs or schools. (People in my program don't yet
know that I want to get out; that's why I've anonymized this posting.)
My background is in computer science. Before entering the neuroscience program
I worked in artificial intelligence (natural language parsing) and incremental
computation (attribute-grammar-based programming environments). Most of the
work that I've been doing in neuroscience is computational: digital eyeblink
filtering and neural-net classification of EEG, and some hack work on 3D
reconstruction of NMR scans. I finished my M.S. in neuroscience this past
spring.
I've heard that Duke is into computational stuff but when I checked Peterson's
Guide for their neurobiology program I didn't find much of that. Am I looking
in the wrong department? Is any information available by www or gopher?
I'd also like to hear stories or advice from anyone who's been similarly
disenchanted with a graduate program. What did you end up doing, and how did
it turn out?
Please e-mail me a copy of any reply that you post, since I'm unable to access
Usenet frequently from my current location.
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