What Can Mathematics Teach Us About the Mind/Brain?

Philosophy meets mathematics meets neuroscience in this roundtable investigating how cutting-edge mathematical models are elucidating the computational rules encoding brain functions and the implications for a deeper understanding of mind.

Participants:

Ned Block, Ph.D., Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science, New York University

G. Bard Ermentrout, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Computational Biology; Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Kenneth Miller, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University

George Reeke, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Biological Modeling, The Rockefeller University

Xiao-Jing Wang, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, of Physics and of Psychology; Professor of Physics; Director, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology, Yale University

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