Título: Thermodynamic Formalism in Neuronal Dynamics and Spike Train Statistics
Palestrante: Rodrigo Cofré (Universidad de Valparaiso)

Data: 15/03/2021
Horário: 15:00h
Local: Transmissão online

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Resumo: The Thermodynamic Formalism provides a rigorous mathematical framework for studying the quantitative and qualitative aspects of dynamical systems. At its core, there is a variational principle that corresponds, in its simplest form, to the maximum entropy principle. It has been used as a statistical inference procedure to represent the collective behavior of complex systems by specific probability measures (Gibbs measures). This framework has found applications in different domains of science. In particular, it has been fruitful and influential in neurosciences. In this talk, I will discuss and briefly review how Thermodynamic Formalism can be exploited in the field of theoretical neuroscience, as a conceptual and operational tool, to link the dynamics of interacting neurons and the statistics of action potentials from either experimental data or mathematical models. I will end this talk by commenting on perspectives and open problems in theoretical neuroscience that could be addressed within this formalism.