Carina Curto
Professor
Department of Mathematics
The Pennsylvania State University

Office: 331 McAllister
Phone: (814) 863 9119
email: ccurto -at- psu -dot- edu

A.B. Harvard University 2000
Ph.D. Duke University 2005

CV

Here is a brief bio.

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Fall 2023 ICERM Semester Program

Math + Neuroscience: Strengthening the Interplay Between Theory and Mathematics
Sep 6 - Dec 8, 2023

ICERM is an NSF math research institute located at Brown University.

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Research Interests
Mathematics applied to and arising from theoretical and computational neuroscience.
Neural network theory and neural coding. Applied algebra, topology, and geometry.

Software

TLN software in Matlab: CTLN Basic 2.0, written with Katie Morrison.
Clique topology software in Python: PyCliqueTop_2023, written by Nikki Sanderson.

Additional software can be found on my Github, and nebneuron.

Publications

Outdated lab page: Mathematical Neuroscience Lab
Check out our CTLN Project website.
Listen to our network songs!!

My call for more beautiful models in neuroscience.

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Just for fun
My advice to young people.
A little poem about mathematicians showing off.
Take my midlife personality quiz.
My favorite physics poem.
A 25-word poem about how (not?) to deal with academic culture wars.

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Miscellanea
Feynman's 1974 Caltech Commencement Address: Cargo Cult Science.
Fighting windmills: My email to Politico about Quillette's (lack of) fact-checking on Hill's article.
Argentina on two steaks a day. (pdf version)
Two Simons Foundation articles following my 2018 Cosyne talk: simple networks and cross-pollination.
The March 2018 AMS Notices issue for Women's History Month.
A nice article in Forbes about my 2015 PNAS paper. (pdf version)
An article on why mathematical biology is good for mathematics.
A brief history of the Math Revolution!
The case for blind math.
Want to know more about neuroscience? Check out BrainFacts.org.
Random math questions: mathoverflow.net
Find research articles on PubMed and arXiv.org.

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"Still the rain can't confuse the thoughts that come, come in rhythm." -- Tori Amos