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Horacio G. Rotstein
Undergraduate Advisor,Associate Professor
Phone: 973-596-5306
Email: horacio@oak.njit.edu
Dept: Mathematical Sciences
Room: 614 * Cullimore Hall
Website: http://web.njit.edu/~horacio
Education
PhD, Applied Mathematics, TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology (1998).
MSc, Applied Mathematics, TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology (1994).
BSc, Chemistry, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (1989).
Research Areas
- Mathematical biology
- Computational neuroscience
- Pattern formation in chemical and biological systems: Oscillatory chemical reactions and evolution of fronts
- Dynamical Systems
Selected Publications
H. G. Rotstein, T. Oppermann, J. A. White, N. Kopell (2006). The dynamic structure underlying subthreshold oscillatory activity and the onset of spikes in a model of medial entorhinal cortex stellate cells. To be published in the J. Comp. Neurosci.
D. D. Pervouchine, T. I. Netoff, H. G. Rotstein, J. A. White, M. O. Cunningham, M. A. Whittington, N. Kopell (2006). Low-dimensional maps encoding dynamics in the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus. Neural Computation 18:2617-2650.
H. G. Rotstein, R. Kuske (2006). Localized and asynchronous patterns via canards in coupled calcium oscillators. Physica D. 215:46-61.
H. G. Rotstein, D. D. Pervouchine, C. D. Acker, M. J. Gillies, J. A. White, E. H. Buhl, M. A. Whittington, N. Kopell (2005). Slow and fast inhibition and an h-current interact to create a theta rhythm in a model of CA1 interneuron network. J. Neurophysiol. 94:1509-1518.
T. Gloveli, T. Dugladze, H. G. Rotstein, R. D. Traub, H. Monyer, U. Heinemann, M. Whittington, N. Kopell (2005). Orthogonal arrangement of rhythm-generating microcircuits in the hippocampus. PNAS 102:13295-13300.
H. G. Rotstein, N. Kopell, A. M. Zhabotinsky, I. R. Epstein (2003). Canard phenomenon and localization of oscillations in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction with global feedback. J. Chem. Phys. 119:8824-8832.
H. G. Rotstein, N. Kopell, A. M. Zhabotinsky, I. R. Epstein (2003). A canard mechanism for localization in systems of globally coupled oscillators. SIAM J. Appl. Math., 63:1098-2019.