Neuroscience has become an actively collaborative research field in nowadays science. Neuroscience has been rapidly and increasingly attracting independent recruits from exact disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and computer science. Computational and mathematical neuroscience has a pivotal role in modeling, plausibly and phenomenologically, experimental findings and in explaining dynamical mechanisms underlying neurophysiological or cognitive processes. Approaches and tools of the theory of dynamical systems have proved to organically suit and benefit studies of complex, nonlinear phenomena in the nervous system. Experimental discoveries have been provided a positive feedback and became the source and the force driving the further development of mathematical and computational neuroscience.
The aim of the Neurodynamics Workshop (NDy'14) is to give an overview of recent achievements and current standings in this cross-disciplinary field. It will bring together applications from nonlinear dynamics (qualitative and bifurcation theory, singular perturbations, numerical methods, networks, pattern formation) and from neuroscience (recordings in isolated cells, central pattern generation, neural circuitries, cognition). The emphasis is placed on experimental findings soliciting for theoretical explanations. The meeting is focused on mathematical and computational tools for modeling and elucidating the universal mechanisms of rhythms, functions and behaviors in the brain.
The ultimate goal of the meeting is stimulating the momentum of existing collaborations and fostering future collaborations seeded at the meeting.
The workshop length will be 4 days of special sessions and plenary talks, and daily round table discussions.
Scientific committee
- Roberto Barrio, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
- Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Antoni Guillamon, Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña, Spain
- Andrey Shilnikov, Georgia State University, USA
- Martin Wechselberger, University of Sydney, Australia
Organizing committee
Computational Dynamics Group (CoDy) and GME, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Web page: http://cody.unizar.es
