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--- Workshop on Recent Advances in Dynamical Systems Analysis and Applications June 12, 2012 [learn more] Workshop on Biological and Computer Vision Interfaces October 12-13, 2012 [learn more] |
Introduction
NeuroMathComp is a joint project team between INRIA (Méditerranée and Rocquencourt), École Normale Supérieure de Paris (DI), Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (JAD Laboratory) and CNRS (LIENS, UMR 8548. LJAD, UMR 6621).
Neuromathcomp focuses on the exploration of the brain from the mathematical and computational perspectives. We want to unveil the principles that govern the functioning of neurons and assemblies thereof and to use our results to bridge the gap between biological and computational vision.
Our work is very mathematical but we make heavy use of computers for numerical experiments and simulations. We have close ties with several top groups in biological neuroscience. We are pursuing the idea that the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" can be brought, as it has been in physics, to bear on neuroscience.
Computational neuroscience attempts to build models of neurons at a variety of levels, microscopic, i.e. the minicolumn containing of the order of one hundred or so neurons, mesoscopic, i.e. the macrocolumn containing of the order of 104-105 neurons, and macroscopic, i.e. a cortical area such as the primary visual area V1.
Modeling such assemblies of neurons and simulating their behaviour involves putting together a mixture of the most recent results in neurophysiology with such advanced mathematics as dynamic systems theory, bifurcation theory, probability theory, stochastic calculus, and statistics, as well as the use of simulation tools..
