Tomorrow May 7th at 3 pm in Aula Seminari (third floor H2bis)
Prof. Israel Michael Sigal (University of Toronto) will give a talk
"On propagation of electrical pulses in neurons"
Abstract:
Alongside the Nobel prize winning Hodgkin-Huxley system (HHS), the FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) one is at the foundation of quantitative neuroscience, giving a qualitatively, and often quantitatively, faithful description of the propagation of electrical impulses (pulses) in neurons.
Though pulses propagate on a surface of neural axons which are cylindrical surfaces of a complicated geometry, in computations and theoretical work, the latter are modelled by the zero thickness infinite straight line.
In this talk I will describe the recent mathematical results on propagation of pulses in a more realistic model of neural axons as cylindrical surfaces of variable radii. The talk is based on the recent joint work with Afroditi Talidou and Almut Burchard and with Georgia Karali and Kostas Tzirakis.
Abstract:
Alongside the Nobel prize winning Hodgkin-Huxley system (HHS), the FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) one is at the foundation of quantitative neuroscience, giving a qualitatively, and often quantitatively, faithful description of the propagation of electrical impulses (pulses) in neurons.
Though pulses propagate on a surface of neural axons which are cylindrical surfaces of a complicated geometry, in computations and theoretical work, the latter are modelled by the zero thickness infinite straight line.
In this talk I will describe the recent mathematical results on propagation of pulses in a more realistic model of neural axons as cylindrical surfaces of variable radii. The talk is based on the recent joint work with Afroditi Talidou and Almut Burchard and with Georgia Karali and Kostas Tzirakis.
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Since I believe some of the students of the course of Differential Geometry I might find this seminar of great interest, tomorrow class will finish at 3 pm.