Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Romain Veltz was the General Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Antibe-Juan les Pins, May 30 - June 1 2016.

Member of the Organizing Committees

Mathieu Desroches was on the Organizing Committee of the MURPHYS-HSFS 2016 Workshop on Hysteresis and Slow-Fast Dynamics held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) in Barcelona, June 13-17, 2016.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Pascal Chossat and Martin Krupa were on the Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Antibe-Juan les Pins, May 30 - June 1 2016.

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

• Mathieu Desroches acts as a reviewer for Physica D, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS), PLoS Computational Biology, Journal of Nonlinear Science, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience.

• 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).

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

Invited Talks

• R. Veltz, “Some applications of hybrid systems in neurosciences”, University of Bristol, April 2016

• M. Desroches, “Simplifying singular perturbation theory in the canard regime with piecewise-linear dynamics; application to neuronal models”, Invited Plenary talk, 10th NoLineal Conference, University of Seville (Spain), June 2016.

• M. Desroches, “Canards, folded singularities and bursting”, Invited talk in the mini-symposium Slow-fast dynamics in neuroscience at the 10th ECMTB Conference, Nottingham (UK), July 2016.

• M. Desroches, “Spike-adding in parabolic bursters: the role of folded-saddle canards”, Invited talk in the workshop Dynamics in Life Science, Neuroscience at the Volga Neuroscience meeting 2016, St-Petersburg/Nizhny-Novgorod (Russia), July 2016.

• M. Desroches, “Canards in piecewise-linear slow-fast systems”, Invited seminar talk, Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Sydney (Australia), August 2016.

• M. Desroches, “Canards in planar piecewise-linear slow-fast systems”, Invited seminar talk, Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Auckland (New Zealand), September 2016.

• M. Desroches, “Understanding synaptic mechanisms: why a multi-disciplinary approach is important”, Invited talk in the Symposia meeting New Techniques in Electro- and Optophysiology, SFN conference, San Diego (USA), November 2016.