News
| Aug 08, 2014
With the increasing use of computation in several areas of science, data have assumed an increasingly important role in the process of scientific discovery. Computational analysis of data collected in digital format and the generation of data through computer simulation have figured prominently in the list of tools of scientific research nowadays. Kelly Rosa Braghetto, A Rede, 08/2014.
Events
| Jul 29, 2014
The 18th EEGLAB Workshop will take place from Sunday, September 7th through Wednesday, September 10th, 2014, at the Neurology Institute Deolindo Couto of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Participants will be expected to bring laptops with Matlab installed so as to be able to participate in the practical sessions. The workshop will introduce and demonstrate the use of EEGLAB and EEGLAB plug-in tools for performing analysis of EEG and related data, with detailed method expositions and practical exercises. This event relates to the general goals of NeuroMat.
A short movie on the combining of neuroscience and mathematics, NeuroMat's cornerstone, has been released. This movie was produced by the Pesquisa Fapesp crew, in May 2014. The video is in Portuguese, with English subtitles.
| Jul 25, 2014
NeuroMat is launching a Wikipedia Initiative. The general purposes of this initiative are to contribute to improving entries in the encyclopedia pertaining to neuromathematics by making it easier for NeuroMat members and supporters to become involved in editing these entries and to facilitating Wikipedia-related assignments in classrooms or elsewhere as a means of scientific dissemination.
The recently established Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat), hosted by the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) is offering two doctoral fellowships for candidates with outstanding research potential.
