Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Olivier Faugeras and Romain Veltz were on the Advisory Board of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Boulder Colorado (USA), May 30 - June 2, 2017.

• Mathieu Desroches organised a special session on “Dynamical Systems and Dysfunctions: modeling and neuronal dynamics' interpretation in both healthy and pathological brain states” at the C@UCA workhop (Fréjus, France), June 6-8, 2017.

• Mathieu Desroches co-organised together with Daniele Avitabile (University of Nottingham, UK) and Vivien Kirk (University of Auckland, New Zealand) a two-part mini-symposium on “Recent Advances in Slow-Fast Dynamics” at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (Snowbird, Utah, USA), May 21-25, 2017.

• Romain Veltz co-organised with Stéphane Barland (ILNL, Sophia Antipolis) the workshop Computational Neuroscience and Optical Dynamics held at the Institut Nonlinéaire de Nice (INLN, Sophia Antipolis), May 18-19, 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Pascal Chossat and Martin Krupa were on the Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Boulder Colorado (USA) May 30 - June 2 2017.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Olivier Faugeras is the co-editor in chief of the open access Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Fabien Campillo acts as a reviewer for Journal of Mathematical Biology, for the conference TAMTAM 2017 Tendances dans les Applications Mathématiques en Tunisie, Algérie et Maroc.

• Mathieu Desroches acts as a reviewer for Physica D, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS), PLoS Computational Biology, Dynamical Systems: An International Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B.

• Olivier Faugeras acts as a reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, the Journal of Computational Neuroscience, the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS).

• Martin Krupa acts as a reviewer for Nonlinearity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), the SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS).

• Martin Krupa has edited together with Pietro-Luciano Buono (University of Ontario, Canada) and Ian Stewart (University of Warwick, UK) a special issue of the Journal Dynamical Systems: An International Journal titled “Equivariance and Beyond: M. Golubitsky's 70th Birthday”.

• Romain Veltz acts as a reviewer for Neural Computation, Elife, SIADS, Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Invited Talks

• Pascal Chossat, “Latching dynamics in neural networks with synaptic depression”, C@UCA workshop, Fréjus (France), June 2017.

• Pascal Chossat, “Pourquoi le léopard est-il tacheté et le tigre rayé”, Café des Sciences d'Avignon, Avignon (France), December 2017.

• Pascal Chossat, “Heteroclinic chains as a model of sequential activation of concepts in neural networks”, workshop Nice Nonlinearities, Nice (France), December 2017.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Canards and spike-adding phenomena in neural bursters”, University of Liverpool (UK), March 2017.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Canards and spike-adding in neural bursters”, University of The Balearic Islands (Palma, Spain), March 2017.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Three-timescale dynamics: canards and spike-adding”, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird (Utah, USA), May 2017.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Slow-fast transitions to seizure states in the Wendling-Chauvel neural mass model”, C@UCA workshop, Fréjus (France), June 2017.

• Olivier Faugeras, “Describing the thermodynamic limit of networks of interacting neurons”, workshop PDE and Probability Methods for Interactions, Inria Sophia Antipolis, April 2017.

• Olivier Faugeras, “Multiscale representations in mathematical neuroscience: deterministic and stochastic approaches”, C@UCA workshop, Fréjus (France), June 2017. [keynote lecture]

• Olivier Faugeras, “Coping with correlations in the analysis of the thermodynamic limit of neuronal networks", HBP workshop Theoretical Neuroscience in the Human Brain Project and at the workshop New advances in theoretical tools for the study of large scale neural systems at the CNS Conference, Antwerp, the Netherlands, July 2017.

• Olivier Faugeras, “On a certain McKean-Vlasov equation that arises in Neuroscience", workshop on Singular McKean-Vlasov equations, Inria Sophia Antipolis, September 2017.

• Elif Köksal Ersöz, “Synchronization of weakly coupled canard oscillators”, mini-symposium on “Recent Advances in Slow-Fast Dynamics” at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (Snowbird, Utah, USA), May 21-25, 2017.

• Elif Köksal Ersöz, “Canard mediated (de)synchronization in coupled phantom bursters”, C@UCA workshop, Fréjus (France), June 2017.

• Martin Krupa, “Modeling cortical spreading depression induced by the hyperactivity of interneurons”, C@UCA workshop, Fréjus (France), June 2017. [joint talk with Massimo Mantegazza (IPMC, Sophia Antipolis)]

• Romain Veltz, “Invariant manifolds in Mathematical Neurosciences”, winter school Deterministic and Stochastic Models in Neurosciences, Toulouse (France), December 2017.

• Romain Veltz, “On a toy network of neurons interacting through nonlinear dendritic compartments”, workshop Random Structures on the Brain, Lorentz Center, Leiden (the Netherlands), December 2017.

• Romain Veltz, “Oscillatory dynamics in a stochastic spiking neural network", workshop Brain Dynamics and Statistics, Banff (Canada), March 2017.

• Romain Veltz, “Hopf bifurcation in the mean field of a stochastic spiking neural networks”, European Institute in Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris (France), April 2017.

• Romain Veltz, “Study of a mean field model stemming from a neural network", Gdr NonLocal, Toulouse (France), April 2017.

Scientific Expertise

• Pascal Chossat was on the Advisory Board of the Complex Systems Academy of the UCA${}^{\text{JEDI}}$ Idex.

• Fabien Campillo reviewed a grant proposal for the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is also member of the Comité NICE of the Projects Committee of Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée.

• Mathieu Desroches reviewed grant proposals for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).

• Olivier Faugeras regularly reviews proposals to the European Research Council (ERC) in Mathematics, Computer Science and NeuroScience and he is a member of the ERC Panel 1 (Mathematics). He also reviewed a proposal in Mathematics for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).