Remus Osan
Georgia State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Neuroscience Institute
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Remus Osan is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and a faculty member of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University. Trained in theoretical physics and computational neuroscience, he studies the nonlinear dynamics of spatially extended neural networks, focusing on how excitation fronts, pulses, and traveling waves propagate across synaptically coupled populations and how low-dimensional attractors encode sensory and motor trajectories.
In September 2026, Osan and colleagues published Periodically modulated traveling waves in integrate-and-fire networks (arXiv:2609.33006). By reducing the leading-edge firing map of a leaky integrate-and-fire network to an exact scalar speed equation with a fast stable branch and a slow unstable branch, the paper proves how periodic spatial inhomogeneities in synaptic coupling induce fold bifurcations and propagation failure, deriving explicit bottleneck speed limits for both slow and rapid spatial modulation.
Osan is classified as a Builder because his equations supply mathematical infrastructure for spiking neural substrates rather than a philosophical doctrine on subjective experience. Within consciousness science and on this site’s Neutral Core Substrate Console, exact conditions for traveling wave survival and failure in leaky integrate-and-fire tissue determine when local sensory Perturbations can ignite global recurrent broadcast versus dying out at structural bottlenecks.
Known for. Mathematical neuroscience of cortical traveling waves, exact speed laws and fold bifurcations in integrate-and-fire networks (arXiv:2609.33006)
Coverage on this site
- Remus Osan Derives the Recursive Speed Law and Propagation Failure of Neural Traveling Waves October 2026
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