A follow-up to our PNAS paper on a new theory of steroid-mediated gene induction is now available on PLoS One here. The title and abstract is below. In the first paper, we proposed a general mathematical framework to compute how much protein will be produced from a steroid-mediated gene. It had been noted in the … Continue reading New paper on steroid-mediated gene induction
A new paper in Physical Review E is now available on line here. In this paper Michael Buice and I show how you can derive an effective stochastic differential (Langevin) equation for a single element (e.g. neuron) embedded in a network by averaging over the unknown dynamics of the other elements. This then implies that … Continue reading New paper
I just returned from an excellent meeting in Marseille. I was quite impressed by the quality of talks, both in content and exposition. My talk may have been the least effective in that it provoked no questions. Although I don’t think it was a bad talk per se, I did fail to connect with the … Continue reading Talk in Marseille
I’m on my way back from the 2011 Joint Mathematics Meeting. I gave a talk yesterday on finite size effects in neural networks. I gave a pedagogical talk on the strategy that Michael Buice and I have employed to analyze finite size networks in networks of coupled spiking neurons. My slides are here. We’ve adapted the … Continue reading 2011 JMM talk
I’m currently in England at the Dendrites, Neurones, and Networks workshop. The talks have really impressed me. The field of computational neuroscience has really reached a critical mass where truly excellent work is being done in multiple directions. I gave a talk on finite system size effects in neural networks. I mostly covered the work … Continue reading Slides for Talk
Karen M. Ong, John A. Blackford, Jr., Benjamin L. Kagan, S. Stoney Simons, Jr., and Carson C. Chow. A theoretical framework for gene induction and experimental comparisons PNAS 200911095; published ahead of print March 29, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0911095107 This is an open access article so it can be downloaded directly from the PNAS website here. This … Continue reading New paper on gene induction
It had been many years since I last read any books by or about Feynman. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to hear him speak in person. I also had never read the book version of “The character of physical law” before so there were several things that struck me after watching some of the … Continue reading More on Feynman
I was at the FACM ’09 conference held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology the past two days. I gave a talk on “Effective theories for neural networks”. The slides are here. This was an unsatisfying talk on two accounts. The first was that I didn’t internalize how soon this talk came after the … Continue reading Talk at NJIT
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