Graduate Students
Our Center does not itself constitute a Ph.D.-granting program. Rather, you can do your Ph.D. research in our Center while enrolled in, and otherwise meeting the requirements of, a Columbia Ph.D.-granting program.
Thus, if you wish to work with us: Please apply to a Ph.D. program at Columbia, probably Neurobiology and Behavior, but perhaps one of the other Medical School Ph.D. programs or the M.D.-Ph.D. program, or the Applied Mathematics, Bioengineering (see also Paul Sajda's home page), Biology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (see also Aurel Lazar's home page), Physics, Statistics program (see also Liam Paninski's home page) or Psychology (see also Norma Graham's homepage).
Separately, you may if you wish notify us that you are interested in working in our Center by sending email with a letter explaining which program you've applied to, why you intend to pursue Theoretical Neuroscience in your graduate work, and what background you bring to it. If your application is to a program other than Neurobiology and Behavior, please also include a copy of your application materials, and ask your referees to send us copies of their letters. Send to (please include your name and “graduate applicant, CTN” in the subject line) or you may send a hard copy to:
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University
1051 Riverside Drive, Box 87
New York, NY 10032
Note that the priority application deadline for many programs is Dec. 8 or Dec. 15.