General Presentation - FOCUS PROGRAM ON NEW GEOMETRIC METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCE
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Description
3 weeks of conferences, courses and seminars at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto canada) on "New Geometric Methods in Neuroscience".
Registration for each event in the program is now available online. Please register for each event you wish to attend by purchasing the appropriate tickets.Workshops and Conferences
- Introduction to Geometric Modelling for Neuroscience February 24 - 28, 2020
- New Mathematical Methods for Neuroscience March 2 - 6, 2020
- Research Seminars: Exploring the Geometry of Neuroscience March 9 - 13, 2020
Organizing Committee
- Jeremie Lefebvre - Krembil Research Institute
- Matilde Marcolli - University of Toronto
- Florence Roullet - McMaster University
- Doris Tsao - Caltech
- Don Weaver - Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network
PROGRAMS
1. Introduction to Geometric Modelling for Neuroscience February 24 - 28, 2020, The Fields Institute
Location: Fields Institute, Room 230
Description
The minicourses will cover introductory material about modelling of the brain, the use of topological and geometric methods in neuroscience, and new categorical models of probability and information and of computing with potential applications to neuroscience.
Friday February 28: Special lecture by Eugenia Cheng
Minicourses speakers:- Carina Curto (Pennsylvania State University)
- Daniela Egas Santander (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Lisbeth Fajstrup (Aalborg University)
- Tobias Fritz (Perimeter Institute)
- Sara Kalisnik (Wesleyan University)
- Florence Roullet (McMaster University)
- Giovanna Citti (Università di Bologna)
- Lyle Muller (University of Western Ontario)
Other participants
- Britt Anderson (University of Waterloo)
- Farzad Fathizadeh (Swansea University)
- Lior Pachter (Caltech)
- Sivabal Sivaloganathan (University of Waterloo)
- Nora Youngs (Colby College)
2. New Mathematical Methods for Neuroscience March 2 - 6, 2020, The Fields Institute
Location: Fields Institute, Room 230
Description
The workshop will bring together neuroscientists and mathematicians from different disciplines, with the purpose of discussing the use of new mathematicalmethods based on geometry, algebraic topology, and category theory, to problems of modelling and of data analysis in neuroscience. These new mathematical approaches can complement and enrich the more traditional use of dynamical systems and differential equations, in modelling the brain at scaleslarger than single neurons, in terms of connectivity, functionality, neural coding and information flows.
Workshop speakers:- Britt Anderson, University of Waterloo
- Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
- Jorn Diedrichsen, University of Western Ontario
- Lisbeth Fajstrup, Aalborg University
- Farzad Fathizadeh, Swansea University
- Chad Giusti, University of Delaware
- Vladimir Itskov, Pennsylvania State University
- Matilde Marcolli, University of Toronto
- Lyle Muller, University of Western Ontario
- Tevin Rouse, Carnegie Mellon
- Alexander Ruys de Perez, Texas A&M University
- Doris Tsao, Caltech
- Hugh Wilson, York University
- Anqi Wu, Columbia University
- Dan Yamins, Stanford University
- Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute NYU
- Nora Youngs, Colby College
3. Research Seminars: Exploring the Geometry of Neuroscience March 9 - 13, 2020, The Fields Institute
Location: Fields Institute, Room 230
Description
Daily seminar and discussion sessions meetings will take place, organized around specific topics, including brain modelling of healthy and clinical brain, geometric modelling of the visual cortex with contact and symplectic geometry, information measures and their use in neuroscience modelling, persistent topology of neuroscience data. These seminars are structured more in the style of informal discussions and presentations that focus more on ideas than on polished details and already established results. They are aimed at developing new interactions between geometry and neuroscience and creating opportunity for new collaborations to develop among the participants, by identifying specific questions and projects.
The activities of this week will be organized around daily "research seminars", accompaniedby one or two main lectures.
The seminar activities will consist of shorter informal presentations, as well as discussion sessions, round tables and other such open interaction opportunities. The names listed under each daily seminar theme will be responsible for running the activity, while all people attending the event are strongly encouraged to participate in all of these seminars.
Seminar speakers:- Britt Anderson, University of Waterloo
- Pierre Baudot, Median Technologies
- Florence Roullette, McMaster University
- Alessandro Sarti, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
- Sivabal Sivaloganathan, University of Waterloo
- Ann Sizemore Blevins, University of Pennsylvania
- Frances Skinner, Krembil Research Institute
- Dan Yamins, Stanford University
- Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute NYU
- Nora Youngs, Colby College
