Topic: interdisciplinary collaboration

Tufts seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in applied or computational mathematics, starting in autumn 2027. Interests include AI-based mathematical methods, scientific computing, probability, optimization and theory with substantial computational content. The role combines an active research programme with undergraduate and graduate teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration. The advertised salary range is USD 90,000–135,000. Submit a cover letter, CV, research and teaching statements, a generative-AI-use statement and four references, including one on teaching. Applications received by

We understand the brain in representational terms. E.g., we understand spatial navigation by appealing to the spatial properties that hippocampal cells represent, and the operations hippocampal circuits perform on those representations (Moser et al., 2008). Philosophers have been concerned with the nature of representation, and recently neuroscientists entered the debate, focusing specifically on neural representations. (Baker & Lansdell, n.d.; Egan, 2019; Piccinini & Shagrir, 2014; Poldrack, 2020; Shagrir, 2001). We want to know what representations are, how to discover them in the brain, and