Marcelo F. CamperiUSF Physics ChairpersonWelcome to my page. I am an associate professor at the Physics Department, University of San Francisco. I invite you (if you are not coming from there now) to visit our home page. There, you will discover some of the exciting things that are happening at the Department.
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I began my physics life at the great Universidad Nacional de la Plata, in Argentina. I then got my Ph.D. in Physics at Boston University, working in topological field theory and some phenomenology of elementary particles. Upon graduating, I became interested in the study of the brain from a physicists' point of view. Currently, I work in theoretical and computational neuroscience, and I am also interested in computational physics, and in computers in education.
Courses that I teach regularly (linked to their websites if I am currently teaching them)
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Research My research is in the field of theoretical neuroscience and animal electrosensoty systems. My current projects include simulating large neuronal networks on parallel computers, using information theory in the analysis of brain spiking histories, and electrosensory prey detection and navigation in elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays). In addition, I am interested in computational physics, computers in education, and in my ever-present first love: mathematical physics. Selected recent publications: "Measuring Shared Information and Coordinated Activity in Neuronal Networks." K. Klinkner, C. Shalizi, and M. Camperi, NIPS, 2005. Olufsen, M., M. Whittington, M. Camperi, and N. Kopell "New Roles for the Gamma Rhythm: Population Tuning and Preprocessing". Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 14, 33–54, (2003). M. Camperi and M. V. Manias, "On Duration and Dopamine Modulation of Sustained Activity in Prefrontal Cortex Using Conductance-Based Network Models". Neurocomputing 52, 699-705 (2003) |
