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Áine Byrne and Alban Levy, both PhD students in the School, have been selected to represent mathematical sciences in the UK at the forthcoming ‘’ exhibition on 7 March. The poster exhibition is held in the Houses of Parliament and aims to promote the work of early career researchers in Science and Engineering.

Miss Byrne will present a poster at the event. In her work with  and  she uses mathematics to model how the neurons in the brain interact to produce oscillations. In particular she's interested in a phenomenon known as "beta-rebound" which is used as a biomarker for certain neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.

Mr Levy's poster will focus on his current PhD work with , (Medicine) and . His research revolves around artificial recognition of sounds in complex scenes from auditory neuronal activity, in order to probe how the brain itself separates sound sources. Through the question of source segregation, we look for neural information processing, the 'what, how and why' of what your brain does with sounds. This problem lies at the interface of Neurosciences, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

Well done Áine and Alban!