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ENGR 400A
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BANN 415
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Brian Fischer Assistant Professor Mathematics Visit Website Contact Information Phone (206) 296 5575 Email fischer9@seattleu.edu Office BANN 419 Teaching and Research Interests Teaching Interests: Dr. Fischer teaches courses in statistics and applied mathematics. Research Interest: Dr. Fischer's  research is in computational neuroscience with a focus on sound localization. He uses statistical analyses of neural data to determine how sound is processed in the owl’s brain. He is also interested in how principles of Bayesian statistical inference describe brain function.   Recent publications B.J. Fischer, L.J. Steinberg, B. Fontaine, R. Brette, J.L. Peña. Effect of instantaneous frequency glides on interaural time difference processing by auditory coincidence detectors PNAS 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1108921108 B.J. Fischer, J.L. Peña. Owl’s behavior and neural representation predicted by Bayesian inference. Nature Neurosci, 14: 1061-1066, 2011.   Biography Dr. Fischer received his B.A. in Mathematics from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1999 and his D.Sc. in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005. He spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher in experimental neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology, one year as an adjunct professor in the Mathematics Department at Occidental College, and two years as a post-doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris before moving to Seattle University.