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DESCRIPTION:ISS Informal Systems Seminar\n\n\n	Speaker: Yarom Baram – Israel
  Institute of Technology\, Israel \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n\n	Presentation on YouTube
 .\n\n	Abstract: Starting with an elementary definition of cortical linguist
 ics\, letters and words are defined by neurons and neural circuits\, which
 \, in turn\, follow the elements of mathematical graphs. These are shown t
 o go a long way in building cortical structures and explaining their funct
 ional purposes. Mathematical properties\, such as number primality and neu
 ral circuit categories\, are found to resolve the wonders of large-scale i
 nformation storage and retrieval by relatively small neural circuits. Cort
 ical dynamics\, driving memory storage and retrieval as well as mechanical
  operations\, such as motion\, are shown to be managed by a variety of neu
 ral circuit firing rates\, ranging from chaos\, through oscillation\, to s
 ilence\, are\, in turn\, driven by neural circuits interaction. Some end r
 esults\, including motion control in the neurologically impaired\, are exp
 lained and illustrated by examples.\n\n	\n	Biography: Professor Yoram Baram 
 of the Computer Science department at the Technion – Israel Institute of T
 echnology\, received the BSc degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the T
 echnion in 1972\, the MSc degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT 
 in 1974\, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
 e from MIT in 1976. Until 1988 he was mainly investigating theoretical iss
 ues of control systems. Between 1989 and 1998 he was mainly investigating 
 the theory of artificial neural networks. A 1999 incidental acquaintance w
 ith movement impairments in patients with Parkinson’s disease has led him 
 to the development of a closed-loop virtual-reality device for gait entrai
 nment\, for which he received a US patent in 2004. The device has proved t
 o be highly effective for gait improvement in a variety of other neurologi
 cal disorders\, such as multiple sclerosis\, cerebral palsy\, brain stroke
  and senile gait. Around 2012 he became particularly interested in mathema
 tical neuroscience\, which he found to be consistent with experimental fin
 dings. His work has been published in the leading scientific journals\, an
 d has been recently summoned in two books published by World Scientific: “
 The Subcritical Brain” (2021) and “Motion Control” (2023).\n\n
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LOCATION:CA\, ZOOM
SUMMARY:The Subcritical Brain and Motion Control 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/cim/channels/event/subcritical-brain-and-motion-c
 ontrol-351624
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