This week, the Math/Stats Colloquium is proud to feature our own Nida Kazi Obatake (MS Math) giving one of the best-titled colloquia of all time, “Rat GPS: Drawing Place Field Diagrams of Neural Codes Using Toric Ideals”. A rat has special neurons that encode its geographic location. These neurons are called place cells and each place cell points to a region in the space, called a place field. Neural codes are collections of the firing patterns of place cells. In this talk, we investigate how to algorithmically draw a place field diagram of a neural code, building on existing work investigating neural codes, ideas developed in the field of information visualization, and the toric ideal of a neural code.
Background: Students of all backgrounds are welcome. Abstract algebra is encouraged, but certainly not required.
- Date: Wed May 04
- Time: 3-3:50pm
- Room: MH320
- Snacks: 2:30pm in MH331B
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Hope to see you there!
Upcoming events:
- Wed May 11: Slobodan Simic, SJSU
“Topology and physics”