Theory/Computational post-doc position at the Allen Institute. This is a unique opportunity to do theory in a community deeply embedded in data.

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This paper has now been published in PRX Life! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

In this work I developed a scaling theory for spiking neural populations using a renormalization group approach -- the 1st, to my knowledge, applied to models of spiking neurons. See the thread for a brief summary.

Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University (90 min to NYC) is hiring 3 positions in experimental neuro. Any area (systems, molecular, etc) is welcome.
Please spread the word!

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Very few PhD students finish within 4 years. But international students will need to do that if US proposed visa rules change go through.

Sound reasonable to you?

Fed register is accepting comments for next month. Details at the link & comment button

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Just published! "Metastability in networks of stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons," Paliwal, Ocker, & Brinkman, Phys. Rev. E 111, 064402

We showed that a stochastic spiking network with rectified power-law response functions has 2 active states & when stochasticity enhances vs suppresses activity

Some weekend reading for my fellow theoretical neuroscientists: an updated preprint on my Renormalization Group analysis of spiking networks! arxiv.org/abs/2301.096...

Key results:
in vitro = directed percolation
in vivo = Ising model
Inhibition can tune from mean-field to anomalous scaling
1/n

My student Jacob Crosser (looking for postdoc positions!) will be presenting poster 3-067 at #cosyne2025! We investigate a model of estimating responses to perturbations to disambiguate whether spiking networks are critical or just inheriting signatures of criticality from external input.