Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Tuesday, 4 Feb 2025 - 18:00

The Connected Brain: Network and Communication

a cgi image of neurons and cells in the brain

The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected to each other. Typically, each region performs different cognitive tasks, from image processing to language. This organisation leads us to model the brain as a network, the ‘brain connectome’. This fundamental view of the brain has become a central paradigm for neurosciences linking topological properties of networks to brain functions.

This lecture presents ideas from graph theory to study this network and understand the way that the brain learns and operates.

Professor Alain Goriely

Professor Alain Goriely FRS

Gresham Professor of Geometry

Alain Goriely is a mathematician with broad interests in mathematical methods, mechanics, sciences, and engineering. He is well known for his contributions to dynamical systems...

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