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|purpose      = Integrate mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience
|headquarters = [[University of São Paulo]]
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|leader_name  = Prof. [[Antonio Galves]]
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The '''Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics''' ('''RIDC NeuroMat''', or simply '''NeuroMat''') is a Brazilian research center established in 2013 at the [[University of São Paulo]] that is dedicated to integrating [[mathematical modeling]] and [[theoretical neuroscience]]. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools, keeping an active role under the context of open knowledge, open science and scientific dissemination. The research center is headed by [[Antonio Galves]], from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the [[São Paulo Research Foundation]] (FAPESP). As of 2019, the co-principal investigators are [[Oswaldo Baffa Filho]] (USP), [[Pablo A. Ferrari]] (USP/UBA), [[Fernando da Paixão]] (UNICAMP), [[Antonio Carlos Roque]] (USP), [[Jorge Stolfi]] (UNICAMP), and [[Cláudia D. Vargas]] (UFRJ).  [[Ernst W. Hamburger]] (USP) was the former director of scientific dissemination.  NeuroMat's International Advisory Board consists of [[David R. Brillinger]] (UC Berkeley), [[Leonardo G. Cohen]] (NIH), [[Markus Diesmann]] (Jülich), [[Francesco Guerra]] (La Sapienza), [[Wojciech Szpankowski]] (Purdue).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bv.fapesp.br/pt/auxilios/58573/centro-de-pesquisa-inovacao-e-difusao-em-neuromatematica-neuromat/|title=Centro de Pesquisa, Inovação e Difusão em Neuromatemática - NeuroMat|website=Biblioteca Virtual da FAPESP|language=pt|access-date=11 August 2018}}</ref>
== Research ==
NeuroMat has been involved in the development of what has been called the [[Galves-Löcherbach model]], a model with intrinsic stochasticity for biological neural nets, in which the probability of a future spike depends on the evolution of the complete system since the last spike.[1] This model of spiking neurons was developed by mathematicians Antonio Galves and Eva Löcherbach. In the first article on the model, in 2013, they called it a model of a "system with interacting stochastic chains with memory of variable length.
== See also ==
Among the current large-scale international brain initiatives:
*[[Allen Institute]] – from the USA
*[[AusBrain]] – from Australia
*[[BRAIN Initiative]] – from the USA
*[http://www.brainn.org.br/en/ BRAINN - Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology] – from Brazil
*[[Brain/MINDS]] – from Japan
*[[China Brain]] – from China
*[[Human Brain Project]] – from Europe
*[[Israel Brain Technologies|IBT]] – Israel
*[[Korea Brain Research Institute]] – from the Republic of Korea
==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://neuromat.numec.prp.usp.br/ Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170318003001/http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2014/04/24/conexoes-dinamicas/ NeuroMat on Pesquisa FAPESP magazine]
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