This is SDSU’s first project funded by the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program
Applied Mathematics Professor Antonio Palacios and team attend a kickoff meeting to start their project funded by the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program
Applied Mathematics Professor Antonio Palacios is a Co-Principal Investigator on San Diego State University’s first project funded by the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.
The MURI program awards interdisciplinary projects which confront complex science and engineering challenges. The project Palacios is part of, one of just 30 awards selected, was granted $9M for 5 years and takes a deep dive into intricate networks such as the brain.
The human brain has been dubbed the most complex network system in nature. While it can be assumed to be overall symmetrical between its left and right hemispheres as well as with respect to rotations along a central axis, closer examination reveals subtle differences in the structure of connections.
In this new project, Palacios and a team of researchers from University of Maryland College Park, SDSU, UC Irvine and UCLA will investigate the effects of these imperfections in the brain and other complex networks.