Applied Mathematics & Computational Biology

Ph.D. Mathematics
M.S. Mathematics
M.A. Conceptual Foundations of Science
B.A. Physics and Philosophy

Publications

• Jean-Marc Fellous, Paul H. E. Tiesinga, Peter J. Thomas and Terrence J. Sejnowski, Discovering Spike Patterns in Neuronal Responses, J. Neuroscience 24, 2989-3001, 2004. (Link to J. Neurosci).

• Peter J. Thomas and Jack D. Cowan, Symmetry Induced Coupling of Cortical Feature Maps, Physical Review Letters, accepted.

• Peter J. Thomas, Donald J. Spencer, Sierra K. Hampton, Peter Park and Joseph Zurkus, The Diffusion-Limited Biochemical Signal-Relay Channel, Advances in Neural Information Processing, to appear 2004.

• Peter J. Thomas, Paul H. E. Tiesinga, Jean-Marc Fellous and Terrence J. Sejnowski, Reliability and Bifurcation in Neurons Driven by Multiple Sinusoids, Neurocomputing 52-54, 955-961, 2003. PDF.


• Wouter-Jan Rappel, Peter J. Thomas, Herbert Levine and William F. Loomis, Establishing Direction during Chemotaxis in Eukaryotic Cells,  Biophysical Journal 83, 1361-1367, September 2002. (Link to Biophysical Journal).
 
• Bressloff P.C., Cowan J.D., Golubitsky M., Thomas P.J. and Wiener M.C., What geometric visual hallucinations tell us about the visual cortex. Neural Computation, 14, 473-491, 2002.

(PDF preprint). (PubMed Abstract).
 
• P.C. Bressloff, J.D. Cowan, M. Golubitsky, P.J. Thomas and M.C. Wiener, Geometric visual hallucinations, Euclidean symmetry, and the functional architecture of striate cortex, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B  356, 299-330, 2001. (PubMed Abstract).
 
• P.C. Bressloff, J.D. Cowan, M. Golubitsky and P.J. Thomas, Scalar and pseudoscalar bifurcations motivated by pattern formation on the visual cortex Nonlinearity 14, 739-775, 2001.  (Link to Nonlinearity).
 
• J.D. Hunter, J.G. Milton, P.J. Thomas and J.D. Cowan, Resonance Effect for Neural Spike Time Reliability, J. Neurophysiol. 80, 1427-1438, 1998. (Link to J. Neurophys.)
 
• Thomas PJ, Wendelburg BE, Venuti SE, Helmkamp GM Jr., Mature rat testis contains a high molecular weight species of phosphatidylinositol transfer protein. Biochim Biophys Acta. 982(1):24-30, June 26, 1989. (PubMed Abstract).
 

• Order and Disorder in Visual Cortex: Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking and Statistical Mechanics of Pattern Formation in Vector Models of Visual Cortex

• Thomas P.J. and Cowan J.D., Fanout Constraints Couple Orientation and Retinotopic Distortion Maps (PDF); (Corel Draw). Society for Neuroscience Poster 2001.