Applied Maths Seminar: Muller -- A complex dynamic brain. From cells to systems: theory to application

We will have Eli Muller of the Brain and Mind Research Centre giving a talk at the
usual time and place (Wednesday 9th April at 11am in Carslaw 173).  Afterwards we will
go to lunch.  Students are welcome and encouraged to attend both these things! 

Title: A complex dynamic brain.  From cells to systems: theory to application Abstract:
The multi-scale nature of the natural world is mirrored by the biological systems that
seek to predict and control it.  To explore how the brain has approached this suite of
control problems we employ theoretical and empirical techniques – leveraging
biophysical spiking and mean field models, and statistical modelling – showing how
cells coordinate to form larger neural assemblies through the lense of dynamical systems
theory.  We extended these insights to key features of neural anatomy that inform our
understanding of neural dynamics across phylogeny and behaviour, arousal, consciousness,
its deficits in disease, and its potential axes for manipulation in clinical
treatments.