Newsletter #28

Moving brain theory along mathematical simplicity and biological plausibility

Mathematical simplicity and biological plausibility. The combining of these two axes is at the core of the inception and development of FAPESP’s Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat). “Without biology, mathematicians can at most generate nice models, that could have internal coherence, but remain absolutely useless to provide a conceptual framework for neuroscience. Without mathematics, neuroscientists are unable to move to a higher level of abstraction and could fall into the trap of driving all their scientific power to gather minute details that have little to inform to a systemic understanding of neural nets,” said NeuroMat’s coordinator, Antonio Galves.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• João Guilherme Ferreira Campos, Ariadne de Andrade Costa, Mauro Copelli, and Osame Kinouchi. Neural Networks with Dynamical Links and Self-Organized Criticality. arXiv:1604.05779 (2016).

• Pierre Hodara, Nathalie Krell, Eva Löcherbach. Non-parametric estimation of the spiking rate in systems of interacting neurons. arXiv:1604.07300 (2016).

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NeuroMat in the media

• NeuroMat investigates how much time a brain takes to make a decision. Tabita Said, Jornal da USP, 5/23/2016. (In Portuguese).

• Research Center on Neuromathematics collaborates with Wikipedia to disseminate science. Diego Freire, Agência FAPESP, 5/9/2016. (In Portuguese).

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NeuroMat opportunities

• Positions for Postdoctoral Researchers

• Opening for photo or audiovisual scientific journalism scholarship

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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 #27

• Towards a collaborative network in brain science

Newsletter #26

• A mathematical framework for neuroscience: NeuroMat hosts event of large international brain initiatives

Newsletter #25

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