The goal of the internship is to explore mechanisms of cortical gamma oscillations using computational modeling, to account for recent data on the spatial and temporal characteristics of gamma oscillations in mouse visual cortex. During the internship, we will employ rate models that may suffice to capture the interplay between thalamic inputs and locally coupled excitatory and inhibitory populations, as well as recurrent networks of spiking (e.g. leaky integrate and fire) neurons that may be necessary to capture spike-gamma event synchrony. Model predictions will be cross-checked using publicly available datasets of mouse V1 activity and intracellular recordings of V1 excitatory and inhibitory neurons.