时 间：2019年10月28日（周一）16：50
地 点：武汉大学樱顶老图书馆
主讲人：David McLaughlin 美国科学院院士
题 目：Ring models for binocular rivalry and fusion
主讲人简介：
David McLaughlin院士是美国国家科学院和美国艺术与科学院两院院士, 也是美国科学促进会、美国数学学会、工业与应用数学学会会士，克朗数学科学研究所（CIMS）数学和神经科学的教授。1971年于印第安纳大学获得物理博士学位。1994年至2002年任纽约大学库兰数学科学研究所所长。2002年至2016年，他担任纽约大学教务长。2003年至2005年任美国国家科学院数学科学及其应用委员会主席，2011年至2013年任布朗大学计算与实验研究所（ICERM）创始董事会成员，2011年至2016年任国家科学院工程与物理科学司委员会成员，2011年至今都是美国克瑞顿大学文理学院校友咨询委员会成员。
McLaughlin院士是一位知名应用数学家，迄今为止，已发表学术论文140多篇,完成著作2部，指导博士和博士后超过21人。 在物理和数学的多个领域所做的贡献成为相关领域的经典工作，为此在1994年被邀请在国际数学家大会上作大会报告。McLaughlin早期研究兴趣主要围绕着复杂系统的数学模型，例如非线性色散波，他对这些方程的解的数学性质很感兴趣，特别是在如何在解的性质中看到系统的各个组件的集体行为。在克朗所，他开始从事神经科学领域的工作，在初级视觉皮层的建模和大规模计算方面做了很多有意义的工作。
Brief Introduction of Professor David McLaughlin
Professor David McLaughlin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Professor McLaughlin is the Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), New York University. He obtained his PhD in Physics at Indiana University in 1971. From 1994 to 2002, he was Director of NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. From 2002 to 2016, he served as the Provost for New York University. From 2003 to 2005, he was Chairman of Board of Mathematical Sciences and their Applications, National Academy of Sciences. From 2011 to 2013, he was Member of Founding Board of Trustees, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research (ICERM), Brown University. From 2011 to 2016, he was Member of Division Committee on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Academies (DEPSCOM). From 2011 till now, he is Member of Creighton University, College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Advisory Board.
Professor McLaughlin is a world-renowned physicist and applied mathematician, has published more than 140 scientific articles, and supervised more than 13 PhD students and 9 Postdocs. McLaughlin has made many important contributions to several areas of physics and mathematics. As early as 1994, he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich. From his earliest research days, McLaughlin’s interests have revolved around mathematical models of complex systems, such as nonlinear dispersive waves. McLaughlin is intrigued by the mathematical properties of solutions to these equations, especially in how the collective behavior of a system’s individual components can be seen in properties of the solutions. At Courant, however, he began working in the field of neuroscience, especially on the modeling and large-scale computation of the primary visual cortex and had made a big progress in this field.
