MNN, An EPSRC funded Mathematics Network
MNN, An EPSRC funded Mathematics Network

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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:

Steering Committee

Prof. Stephen Coombes (PI) Dr Yulia Timofeeva (CoI)
Prof. David Willshaw Prof. Charles Marsden Dr John Terry

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Current news and opportunities

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.

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Upcoming MNN meetings and Other Events

The 16th Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems
30 May - June 1 2012, Boston University, USA

The sixth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND6)
31 May - June 2 2012, Pittsburgh, USA

Osnabrueck Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting (OCCAM 2012) on "The Brain as an Information Processing System"
4 - 6 June 2012, Osnabrueck, Germany

White Nights of Computational Neuroscience: neurotheory from cell to cognition 2012
4 - 17 June 2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Upcoming seminars

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