My research is in theoretical neuroscience, studying the structure, function, and dynamics of the brain using mathematical models and computational methods.

Makliya Mamat

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Image: NASA / JPL

A collection of links to openly available neuroimaging datasets. 

Thermodynamics meets neuroscience every time you realize that remembering things takes more energy than forgetting them.

Blogs

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in using mathematics to understand the natural world.

Brain networks and molecular mechanisms underlying cortical morphology and associated topological abnormalities.

Earth’s hits and visual wonders in a single, interstellar love letter to the cosmos.

I sat down with Dr. Wogu, a lecturer and researcher in Nigeria, learning about her work and the current state of neuroscience research in Africa.

Some Talks and Writings

You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming

The End of the Beginning, by Robert Sinsheimer

How to Do Great Work, by Paul Graham

I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, by Martin Luther King

A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
 
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

Each act of kindness, each effort to alleviate suffering, however small, sends forth a ripple of hope.

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

John Archibald Wheeler

Theoretical Physicist