Newsletter #25

Of gaming, multidisciplinary science, and the functioning of the brain

Will the penalty taker shoot for the right, left or center of the football goal? Professional goalkeepers know that they must take into consideration as much information as possible to prevent the score: the history of the rival player, the position of the taker before contact, and so on. By doing so, goalkeepers are in fact generating a model to improve their prediction about how to stop the hit, though they might not even realize the cognitive process at play. This general idea —that one could call the Goalkeeper’s Dilemma— is potentially the basis of a renewed contribution to the understanding of brain functioning, at least according to members of an ongoing research project at FAPESP’s Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat).

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Peter Frankl, Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, Vojtěch Rödl. A note on supersaturated set systems. European Journal of Combinatorics, volume 51, January 2016.

• Eva Löcherbach. Absolute continuity of the invariant measure in Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes having degenerate jumps. Eprint arXiv:1601.07123, 2016.

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NeuroMat opportunities

• Openings for Software Developers

• Opening for Architecture and Software Development Scholarship

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NeuroMat Parkinson Network

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On NeuroMat

NeuroMat is a research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools. The research center is headed by Prof. Antonio Galves, from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). To receive monthly updates on NeuroMat's work or pertaining news, please subscribe to NeuroMat's newsletter.

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Previous issues of the NeuroMat Newsletter (features)

Newsletter #24

• NeuroMat’s strategic directions for the next two years

Newsletter #23

• Public-school sciences fair gives visibility to NeuroMat's educational activities

• On the VI Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON 2016): a NeuroMat op-ed

Newsletter #22

• Random graphs in the brain: devising a renewed line of research