SISSA Colloquium: Topological adventures in neuroscience | 29 May, 4pm

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You are all invited to the next SISSA /Colloquium/ on Wednesday 29 May 
at 4 pm at SISSA, "Paolo Budinich" Main Lecture Hall: "*Topological 
adventures in neuroscienc**e*" by Kathryn Hess Bellwald of the Ecole 
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Over the past decade, and particularly over the past five years, 
research at the interface of topology and neuroscience has grown 
remarkably fast. Topology has, for example, been successfully applied to 
objective classification of neuron morphologies and to automatic 
detection of network dynamics. On Wednesday 29 May, Kathryn Hess 
Bellwald, mathematician of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 
(EPFL), will introduce the algebraic topology of brain structure and 
function, describing results obtained by the members of her lab in 
collaboration with the Blue Brain Project on digitally reconstructed 
microcircuits of neurons in the rat cortex. She will also present their 
on-going work on the topology of synaptic plasticity. The talk will 
include an overview of the Blue Brain Project and a brief introduction 
to the topological tools that they use.
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