Welcome to the Dynamics and Neural Systems Group!
The Dynamics and Neural Systems Group is an interdisciplinary research team in the School of Physics at The University of Sydney led by Ben Fulcher.
We do quantitative research focused on understanding the properties of complex dynamical systems by applying (and developing new) physical and statistical methods. We apply these tools to applications in neuroscience to gain a quantitative, physically based understanding of how the brain works.
We are located at The University of Sydney, which has a beautiful campus full of intelligent people and a vibrant interdisciplinary community that includes researchers in physics, maths, statistics, computer science, engineering, psychology, physiology, and biomedical science, all investigating the brain.
We are a part of Complex Systems Physics. Being an interdisciplinary group, we collaborate closely with diverse researchers, including information theory (like Joe Lizier), systems neuroscience (like Mac Shine), consciousness (like Nao Tsuchiya), and quantum mechanics (like Sahand Mahmoodian).
We are always looking for enthusiastic new students!
Our values
- We aim to foster and encourage authenticity of expression and an environment in which all types of people, personalities, backgrounds, and beliefs, feel supported.
- We are committed to producing science that is high-quality, makes meaningful contributions, is open, and is clearly, transparently, and honestly communicated.
- We believe that high-quality and creative science is possible when group members have the freedom to follow their interests, and can protect time free for fun, nourishing, and complementary life interests and pursuits.
- We aim to train students in a way that helps them understand themselves and their motivations well and can align them with problems that excite and motivate them.
- We aim to guide students to become independent thinkers, providing them with the skills and opportunities to do so.
- To ensure that we are continue to perform in accodance with these values, and can improve them, we regularly reflect on our values and practices and seek (anonymous) feedback on them from all team members.
News
31 October 2024Kieran's work on tracking sources of non-stationarity from an unknown process is published as an Editor's Pick in Chaos
1 September 2024Brendan's work on predicting critical points from noisy systems is written for a general audience in
Welcome Teresa! Starting her first day as a PhD student today :)
7 June 2024Congratulations to Brendan Harris for getting his paper on criticality published in PRX!
10 May 2024Information theoretic formulation of network participation paper is now published!
10 April 2024Aria's new preprint is now out :)
3 March 2024Aria submitted her MPhil thesis on feature-based interactions between time-varying processes! A preprint should emerge soon :)
16 January 2024Annie's paper on extracting dynamical signatures from rs-fMRI using a combination of local and pairwise coupling measures is now out as a preprint!
25 October 2023Brendan's paper on noise-robust signatures of critical points is out today as a preprint.