Welcome to the UK Mathematical Neuroscience Network: MNN

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:

• establish and maintain a "Mathematical Neuroscience Network" with a balanced membership from experimental and theoretical groups.
• run a number of one-day workshops at a variety of locations in the UK.
• hold an annual meeting in the form of an international conference on Mathematical Neuroscience.
• generate new collaborative projects and develop techniques that cross the boundaries between disciplines and enhance our understanding of neural behaviour.
• report back to members and the wider community on network meetings and progress made within the Network.
• establish a web-based resource for interdisciplinary research in mathematical neuroscience.

Steering Committee

Quick links

• NeuroPod - the neuroscience podcast from Nature
• The UK Neuroinformatics Network
• Leverhulme Trust Theoretical Neuroscience Network
• CARMEN
• UK Spike Train Analysis Network
• COLAMN
• Quantitative Single-Neuron Modeling Competition 2008
• CRCNS - Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience