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Mathematical neuroscience here means an area of neuroscience where mathematics is the primary tool for elucidating the fundamental mechanisms responsible for experimentally observed behaviour.
MNN aims to provide a UK focus for the use of mathematical approaches to problems in neuroscience. The Network will allow and encourage more UK mathematicians to engage in fundamental neuroscience and at the same time tackle substantial mathematical challenges that will be of broader scientific interest to the nonlinear and complex systems community. Importantly, it can draw attention to, and develop, those pieces of mathematical theory which are likely to be relevant to future studies of the brain.
Specific objectives are to:
| Prof. Stephen Coombes (PI) | Dr Yulia Timofeeva (CoI) |
| Prof. David Willshaw | Prof. Charles Marsden | Dr John Terry |
MBI Emphasis Year on Mathematical Neuroscience July 2012 - June 2013 (29 August 2011)
In 2012-13 MBI will return to mathematical neuroscience, which was the subject of its first emphasis year in 2002-3. Over the past decade, mathematics has entered new subfields of neuroscience, and has begun to suggest unexpected parallels among others. We will open the emphasis year with a workshop focusing on such parallels, in the form of general challenges posed by dynamics of nonlinear, spiking networks, and will organize a series of workshops to follow that will highlight mathematical impact and possibilities in the most active and exciting areas of neuroscience.Neurodynamics: a workshop on heterogeneity, noise, delays, and plasticity in neural systems: 5-7 Mar 2012, Edinburgh. (16 October 2011)
Registration now open (closes Jan 6 2012). The meeting will consist of invited speakers and registered participants, though will be limited to 100 people. The schedule will allow for a number of poster presentations.
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Making Sense of Sounds
20 - 21 February 2012, Plymouth, UK
COSYNE
23 - 28 February 2012, Snowbird, Utah
4th G-Node Winter Course in Neural Data Analysis
5 - 9 Mar 2012, Munich, Germany
Neurodynamics: a workshop on heterogeneity, noise, delays, and plasticity in neural systems
6 - 7 Mar 2012, Edinburgh, UK