The human brain is the most complex machine in existence. Every brain is loaded with some 100 billion nerve cells, each coecting to thousands of others, giving around 100 trillion coections. Mapping those coections, or synapses, could enable scientists to decipher what causes neurological disease and mental illness. It's an immense, daunting task. The best way to tackle it? Use large amounts of data, saysMichael I. Miller, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and University Gilman Scholar. Miller and an interdisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins researchers are merging their neuroscience, computing, and data science expertise to unravel the brain's mysteries and give other scientists tools to do the same. "We're calling it data-intensive brain science," Miller says. In early 2016, the team launched the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at Johns Hopkins. Miller co-directs the institute with Richard Huganir, director of the Department of Neuroscie

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Prof Sergio Palomares-Ruiz of Valencia Univ is going to give a seminar on neutrino astronomy. More information can be found belowTime: 10th of Aban (31st of October), 11 am Venue: Lecture room A, ground floor Speaker: Prof Sergio Palomares-Ruiz of Valencia Univ Title: On the high-energy IceCube neutrinos Abstract: The observation of the first high-energy neutrinos in the IceCube detector at the South Pole has signaled the begiing of neutrino astronomy. After four years of data taking, 53 neutrino events with energies between 20 TeV and 2 PeV have provided the first evidence for the existence of an extraterrestrial neutrino flux at more than 6 sigma. The discovery of this flux has motivated a large number of studies in the literature to unravel their origin, from different scenarios within standard cosmic-ray sources to more exotic possibilities. In this talk, I will describe the evolution of these data and their main features and I will present the results of statistical anal