Surya Ganguli





Recent projects:

Compressed sensing in the brain: the role of sparseness in short term and long term memory.

S. Ganguli, H. Sompolinsky. Abstract

Deciding without remembering.

S. Ganguli, R. Guetig, H. Sompolinsky. Abstract

Designability as a selection force? An analysis of the yeast cell cycle dynamics.

Y. Nochomovitz, S. Ganguli and H. Li. Abstract

The information geometry of survey propagation.

S. Ganguli, S. Ikeda and S. Amari. Abstract

Bird song learning without reinforcement: the Hebbian self-organization of sensorimotor circuits.

S. Ganguli and R. Hahnloser. Abstract

Learning and memory in an exactly solvable stochastic spiking network.

S. Ganguli. Abstract Slides

Short-term memory in neuronal networks through dynamical compressed sensing.

S. Ganguli and H. Sompolinsky, Neural Information Processing Systems (2010). Paper Supplemental

Statistical mechanics of compressed sensing.

S. Ganguli and H. Sompolinsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010) 104:188701. Paper Supplemental

Feedforward to the past: the relation between neuronal connectivity, amplification, and short-term memory.

S. Ganguli and P. Latham, Neuron (2009) 61:499-501. Preview

Memory traces in dynamical systems.

S. Ganguli, B. Huh, H. Sompolinsky, PNAS (2008) 105:18970-75. Paper Supplemental

One dimensional dynamics of attention and decision making in area LIP.

S. Ganguli, J. Bisley, J. Roitman, M. Shadlen, M. Goldberg and K. Miller, Neuron (2008) 58:15-25. Paper Supplemental

Function constrains network architecture and dynamics: a case study on the yeast cell cycle boolean network.

K. Lau, S. Ganguli and C. Tang, Phys. Rev. E75 (2007) 051907. Paper



String theory publications:

Boundary Scattering in 1+1 Dimensions as an Aharanov-Bohm Effect.

S. Ganguli, A. Ndirango and P. Horava, arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501233.

E10 Orbifolds.

J. Brown, S. Ganguli, O. Ganor, C. Helfgott, JHEP 06 (2005) 057.

Twisted Six Dimensional Gauge Theories on Tori, Matrix Models, and Integrable Systems.

S. Ganguli, O. Ganor and J. Gill, JHEP 0409 (2004) 014.

Holographic Protection of Chronology in Universes of the Godel Type.

E.K. Boyda, S. Ganguli, P. Horava and U. Varadarajan, Phys. Rev. D67 (2003) 106003.



The first chapter of my PhD thesis, which summarizes the above work, and gives an introduction to the very important holographic principle:

Geometry from Algebra: The Holographic Emergence of Spacetime in String Theory.

My undergraduate thesis, done at the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, with Professor Michel Baranger as my advisor:

Quantum Mechanics on Phase Space: Geometry and Motion of the Wigner Distribution.



Some papers I wrote for physics and mathematics coursework at Berkeley:

Fibre Bundles and Gauge Theories in Classical Physics: A Unified Description of Falling Cats, Magnetic Monopoles and Berry's Phase.

Noncommutative Algebras from Geometric Quantization via Symplectic Groupoids.

A Survey of Toric Mirror Symmetry: The Monomial Divisor Mirror Map and Topological Phases in String Theory.

Introduction to Solitons and their Quantization.

The Entropy of Black holes in M-theory.



Some articles I wrote for the World of Physics encyclopedia as a consultant for the Gale Group.

Some articles I wrote for the World of Computer Science encyclopedia: