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DESCRIPTION:On the Understanding of Behaviour as a Guide to Understand the 
 Brain: Advances in Multiscale Coordination Dynamic\n\nBy Dr. Viktor Jirsa
 \n\nAix-Marseille-Université in Marseille\, France\n\nWith High-Level Pane
 l of Leaders in Science\, Technology\, On-the-Ground Action\, and Policy\n
 \nRegister & watch the webinar\n\nOver the last few decades\, neuroscience
  and various associated disciplines have expanded enormously in terms of o
 utput\, tools\, methods\, concepts\, and large-scale projects. In spite of
  these developments\, the principles underlying brain function and behavio
 ur are yet only partially understood. I wish to insist that brain function
 ing requires the understanding of behaviour\, elucidating the rules associ
 ated with all possible task realizations\, rather than targeting the activ
 ity underlying a specific realization. A first step in that direction is t
 aken by approaches focusing on dynamical structures underlying task perfor
 mances\, as exemplified by coordination dynamics. Its theoretical foundati
 on owes much to Haken’s synergetics\, which provides a formalism through w
 hich the degrees of freedom associated with high-dimensional systems may b
 e effectively reduced to one or a few functional variables in the vicinity
  of phase transitions. The recent theoretical development of structured fl
 ows on manifolds (SFM) allows the employment to a potentially broader rang
 e of applications. I will explain the SFM framework and propose that the e
 mergent two-tiered fast–slow dynamics may be a basic mathematical organiza
 tion underlying the architecture of brain and behaviour dynamics. Then I w
 ill illustrate along a few examples how this framework allows for the inco
 rporation of notions cardinal to ecological psychology.\n\nAbout the speak
 er\n\nViktor Jirsa is Director of the Inserm Institut de Neurosciences des
  Systèmes at Aix-Marseille-Université in Marseille\, France. Dr. Jirsa rec
 eived his PhD in 1996 in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics and h
 as since then contributed to the field of Theoretical Neuroscience\, in pa
 rticular through the development of large-scale brain network models based
  on realistic connectivity. His work has been foundational for network sci
 ence in medicine with translations to clinical applications. Dr. Jirsa ser
 ves as Chief Science Officer of the European digital neuroscience infrastr
 ucture EBRAINS and lead investigator in the Human Brain Project (HBP) (htt
 ps://www.humanbrainproject.eu/). Dr. Jirsa has been awarded several intern
 ational prizes for his research including the first HBP Innovation prize (
 2021) and Grand Prix de Re-cherche en Provence (2018) and has published mo
 re than 160 scientific articles.\n\n\nAbout the series\n\nThe Precision Co
 nvergence series is launched to catalyze unique synergy between\, on the o
 ne hand\, novel partnerships across sciences\, sectors and jurisdictions a
 round targeted domains of real-world solutions\, and on the other hand\, a
  next generation convergence of AI with advanced research computing and ot
 her data and digital architectures such as PSC’s Bridges-2\, and supportin
 g data sharing frameworks such as HuBMAP\, informing in a real time as pos
 sible the design\, deployment and monitoring of solutions for adaptive rea
 l-world behaviour and context.\n\nThe Precision Convergence Webinar Series
  is co-hosted by The 91ºÚÁÏÍø Centre for the Convergence of Health and Econo
 mics (MCCHE) at 91ºÚÁÏÍø and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
 \, a joint computational research centre between Carnegie Mellon Universit
 y and the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Viktor Jirsa 
URL:/desautels/channels/event/mcche-precision-converge
 nce-webinar-series-viktor-jirsa-340624
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