Cover page Synfire Chains in a Balanced Network Y. Aviel, E. Pavlov, M. Abeles Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel aviel@cc.huji.ac.il elan@cs.huji.ac.il abeles@hbf.huji.ac.il D. Horn School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel horn@neuron.tau.ac.il Corresponding author: Yuval Aviel Mail address: Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Institute: Hebrew University Phone number: +972-2-9997697 Fax number: +972-2-6439736 Submitted for ICOINP2001. Paper categories: 1.2 Data representation and neural coding 2.3 Neural network architectures