Newsletter #21

Collaboration among mathematicians and neuroscientists is a necessity to move brain theory forward: an interview with Remco van der Hofstad

The collaboration between Mathematics and Neuroscience has evolved in the last five years, from being just a tentative association of interest and exchange to building a joint research agenda that could lead to fundamental progress in the understanding of the brain. This is the general view of mathematician Remco van der Hofstad, who has been at the forefront of this collaboration and co-organizes the workshop “Random Graphs in the Brain,” that the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) will host at the end of November in São Paulo. The workshop's official website is: neuromat.numec.prp.usp.br/rgbrain. Professor in probability at Eindhoven University of Technology and scientific director of the European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and its Applications (EURANDOM), Hofstad discusses challenges and perspectives of modeling at the neuronal and functional levels. He has been the leading person of the workshop on “Random Graphs and the Brain,” in 2011, in Eindhoven, and in the interview that follows makes sense of the evolution of the understanding of brain connectivity. "To some extent, we are moving from an attempt to establish a collaboration among neuroscientists and mathematicians to organizing joint research. In 2011, random graph theory and brain theory needed to be bridged, now we moved further and this is evident in the title change from 2011 and 2015. Things are getting more concrete.”

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