Probabilistic Spiking Neuronal Nets: Neuromathematics for the Computer Era

About Antonio GalvesChristophe PouzatEva Löcherbach

Antonio Galves was a Senior Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of S. Paulo. His later research focused on statistical model selection as a conceptual framework to model neurocognition and on modeling networks of spiking neurons as systems of interacting point processes with memory of variable length. From 2011 until 2023 he was the coordinator of the Research Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat). He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and he was awarded the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit. He passed away on September 5 2023. Eva Löcherbach is presently Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Previously she was a professor at CY Cergy Paris Université where she started to work on the stochastic modeling of neurons going from models for single neurons (the stochastic HodgkinHuxley model and its longtime behavior) to systems of interacting and spiking neurons described by point processes their mean field limits and the emergence of collective behavior. She was a plenary speaker at ECMTB in Lisbon 2018. Christophe Pouzat is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and at the University of Strasbourg. His PhD and postdoctoral work was in experimental neurophysiology (adapting multi-electrode arrays extracellular recordings to the first olfactory relay of insects). He was then recruited by the CNRS in 2001 where he combined experimental work with methods development for 10 years. He then joined the maths department of his University (then Paris-Descartes) and has since been working on neurophysiological data analysis as well as on stochastic models of neuronal networks and their simulation.