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Dr. Beeman is Professor Adjunct in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, where he participates in the Bioengineering
program. He co-teaches the biomedical engineering course "Brains,
Minds and Computers", giving lectures on computer modeling
of biological and artificial neural networks. He received
his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Los
Angeles in 1967. He joined the faculty of the University of
Colorado in 1990, after 21 years of teaching physics and engineering
at Harvey Mudd College, and performing research in computational
solid state physics and in the use of simulations in undergraduate
physics education. Since 1990, his work has been in computational
neuroscience, with an emphasis on biologically realistic neural
modeling. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience.
His principal activity has been the development of educational
tutorials and instructional materials in computational neuroscience,
using the GENESIS simulator. He has co-authored a textbook
and laboratory manual that incorporates computer simulations
into neuroscience courses (The Book of GENESIS: Exploring
Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation
System, J. M. Bower and D. Beeman, 2nd ed., 1998). He also
participates in a grant from the NIH-funded Human Brain Database
Project to create a software framework for the storage, editing,
and running of neural models that are stored in a heterogenous
network of databases.
Selected Publications:
N. Goddard, M. Hucka, F. Howell, H. Cornelis, K. Shankar,
and D. Beeman, "Towards NeuroML: Model Description Methods
for Collaborative Modelling in Neuroscience", Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society B. 356: 1209-1228 (2001)
J. Forss, D. Beeman, J. M. Bower and R. Eichler-West, "The
Modeler's Workspace: a distributed digital library for neuroscience",
Future Generation Computer Systems 16: 111-121 (1999).
J. M. Bower and D. Beeman, "The Book of GENESIS: Exploring
Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation
System", Second edition, Springer-Verlag (1998).
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