Mathematics vs Dementia: The ultimate intellectual folly

Speaker


Alain Goriely (Oxford University)
Date
Thu February 14th 2019, 7:30pm
Location
Cubberley Auditorium
MRC Event Series

Neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimer’s and parkinson’s are devastating dementia conditions with poorly understood mechanisms and no known cures. Yet, they exhibit a characteristic invasion pattern through the brain associated with cognitive deficits and pathologies. How can we use mathematics to understand this process? By linking new mathematical theories to recent progress in imaging, we can unravel some of the universal features associated with dementia and, more generally, brain functions.

He is inter alia, the author of the recently published textbook "Applied Mathematics, A Very Short Introduction"

You can learn more about Professor Alain Goriely at https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/alain.goriely