What is "neuromat"

The Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat, or simply NeuroMat) is a Brazilian research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools, keeping an active role under the context of open knowledge, open science and scientific dissemination. The research center is headed by Prof. Antonio Galves, from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Other names related to NeuroMat are the co-principal investigators Pablo Ferrari and Yoshiharu Kohayakawa; Béla Bollobás, Michael Merzenich and Wojciech Szpankowski as members of the International Advisory Board and also Ernst W. Hamburger, the former director of scientific dissemination.