Gaute Einevoll: Computational neuroscience - modeling the brain

Physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians are increasingly joining the life sciences using their tools to help figuring out how life works.

Brain science is particularly attractive since we have a fairly good understanding of the principles for how individual nerve cells work and how they can be modelled. Now the challenge is to leverage this knowledge to help us understand how networks of thousands, millions and eventually billions of such nerve cells make us perceive, think and feel. In the seminar I will introduce the challenges, and in particular talk about how hundreds of European scientists in the EU Human Brain Project work together to address this formidable and exciting challenge which some call the "holy grail" of neuroscience.

Dear all, welcome to a new semester for all of you at the  Computational Science Master of Science program.

Since the very start of the program (Fall 2018), we have been organizing seminars each second  Friday on topics related to the program. We usually invite seminar speakers from both the private and public sectors as well as from academia. These speakers are either former CS students, and/or representatives of companies and thereby potential employers (and/or offering  potential internships and master of science projects) as well as researchers from universities etc.  It is also an excellent way of getting to know people from all study directions of the CS program (ten study directions in total). 

This is an exciting project spanning several disciplines, Math, Bioscience, neuroscience, physics, informatics and more.

Pizza + snacks and refreshments are served. This is an excellent way to get to know each other and end the week before the weekend kicks in. We will later also organize gaming evenings after the seminars. Stay tuned.

You are all most welcome.

Best wishes for the week and we hope to see as many as possible of you.

Published Aug. 30, 2022 3:24 PM - Last modified Aug. 30, 2022 3:24 PM