Curriculum Vitae
Reynaldo Daniel Pinto
Date
of birth:
January 3rd, 1968 in São Paulo city, SP, Brazil
e-mail:
reynaldo@if.usp.br, reynaldo@ucsd.edu
homepages:
http://inls.ucsd.edu/~rpinto, http://fge.if.usp.br/~reynaldo
contact
address:
Laboratório de Fenômenos Não Lineares
Departamento de Física Geral
Instituto de Física da USP
Caixa Postal 66318
CEP 05315-970, São Paulo, SP
Brazil
phone: +55 (11) 3091-6788, +55
(11) 3091-6624
fax: +55 (11) 3813-4334
Current Occupation:
- Assistant Professor at the Department of General
Physics (Nonlinear Phenomena Laboratory) of the Institute of Physics (IFUSP)-
University of São Paulo (USP) - State of São Paulo (SP) – Brazil.
- Collaborator at the
Institute for Nonlinear Science (INLS) - University of California, San Diego,
USA (http://inls.ucsd.edu).
Current Research Interests:
- Biological Neural Networks;
- Experiments in Neural Dynamics;
- The role of Chaos in Biological Neural Networks;
- Processing and transmission of information in
Biological Neural Networks;
- Central Pattern Generators;
- Synaptic Plasticity and Learning;
- Modifying Biological Neural Networks by Inserting Artificial Synapses and
Conductances Using Dynamic Clamp Protocol;
- Dynamical Systems and Chaos;
- Topological Characterization of Experimental Attractors;
- Model Neurons and their Electronic Implementation;
- Interaction Between Artificial and Biological Neurons.
Educational Background:
- Post Doctor in Experimental Neuroscience at the
Institute for Nonlinear
Science,
University of California, San Diego, USA from May/1999 to April/2001.
- Ph.D. in Physics in March 1999
from the Institute of Physics - USP - SP - Brazil
with the thesis “Complex
Behavior in the Dripping Faucet Experiment” under
supervision
of Prof. José Carlos Sartorelli.
- Physics B. Sc. in 1993 from the Institute of
Physics - USP - SP - Brazil.
- Electronics Technician in 1985 from the EPSG
Castro Alves - SP - Brazil.
Awards:
- Brazilian Physics Society - “Best
Ph.D. Thesis Prize - Honor
Mention” (November 2000) for the
Ph. D. Thesis “Complex Behavior in a
Dripping Faucet experiment”;
Fellowships:
- Fundação de Amparo
à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
Post Doctoral fellowship at the IFUSP from May 2001;
- Fundação de Amparo
à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
Post Doctoral fellowship at the INLS from May 1999
to April 2001;
- Fundação de Amparo
à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
Ph.D. fellowship from March 1997 to February 1999;
- Conselho Nacional
de Pesquisa - CNPq
fellowship from March 1994 to February 1997.
Professional Experience:
- Teacher - from February
1994 to December 1997 at the Institute of
Physics - USP - SP – Brazil, in the following undergrad regular
courses:
- Introduction to Measurements in Physics – FAP 152 (1994 e
1995);
-
Termodynamics
I – FMT 159 (1995, 1996);
-
Modern
Physics II – FNC 376 (1996);
-
Mecanics
of Rigid Bodies and Flows – FEP 255 (1997);
-
Óptics
– FGE 160 (1997).
- Electronics technician
(development and maintenance of electronic equipment
for Nuclear Physics) - from March 1990 to March 1994 at the
Linear Accelerator
Laboratory - Institute of Physics - USP - SP - Brazil;
- Electronic technician
(computer maintenance) - from June 1986 to March 1990
at the Electronics Computation Center - USP - SP - Brazil;
Supervision of Students:
-Supervision of the lab work of the undergrad student Greeg Stiesberg with the
project: “Implementation of a low dimensional chaotic neuron model in analog
circuitry”, at the Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD from June/1999 to
April/2001.
-Supervision of the undergrad student Fabio Stucchi Vannucchi with the project:
“Information Processing in Electronic Model Neurons: The Role of Chaos”,
at the LFNL-IFUSP from March 2002.
-Supervision of the undergrad student Gabriela Camargo Campos with the project:
“Dynamical Characterization of Electronic Model Neurons Behavior with
Lyapunov Exponents”at the LFNL-IFUSP from March 2002.
-Co-supervision of the Ph.D. student Angela Maria dos Santos with the project:
“Nonlinear Dynamics and Information Theory Applied to Neural Networks”,
at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) with Prof. Ricardo Luiz Viana.
from
March 2002.
Skills:
- computer Hardware;
- computer Operating Systems: DOS, Windows, Windows
95, VMS, UNIX,
Linux;
- development of software: Assembler, Pascal, C, and
C++ languages;
- development and assembly of digital electronics,
data acquisition boards, analog
circuits,
interfaces between experiments and computers;
- mechanical and electro-electronics
assemblies.
Development of
Scientific Software (free downladable):
- DYNACLAMP4: software
developed to control up to 4 biological
neurons, introducing artificial synapses and conductances in real time. Free
downloads from:
http://fge.if.usp.br/~reynaldo/dynclamp.htm or http://inls.ucsd.edu/~rpinto/dynclamp.htm
Relevant Publications:
1) M. I.
Rabinovich, R. D. Pinto, E. Tumer, G. Stiesberg, R. Huerta, and H. D. I.
Abarbanel, The role of dynamical synapses in neural information processing,
Submitted to Network: Computation in Neural Systems (2001).
2) M. I.
Rabinovich, R. D. Pinto, and R. Huerta, Informational Neurodynamics: What are
we looking for?, Accepted for publication in J. Stat. Phys (2001).
3) G. R.
Stiesberg, R. D. Pinto, A. Szücs, and H. D. I. Abarbanel, Implementation of a
low dimensional chaotic neuron model in analog circuitry, Accepted fo
publication in Am. J. Phys. (2001).
4) M. I.
Rabinovich, R. D. Pinto, and R. Huerta, Some problems of Informational
Neurodynamics, Accepted for publication in Izv. VUZ
Raiofiz., RPQAEC, 44(6) junho (2001).
5) R. D.
Pinto, R. C. Elson, A. Szücs, M. I. Rabinovich, A. I. Selverston, and H. D. I.
Abarbanel, Extended dynamic clamp: controlling up to four neurons using a
single desktop computer and interface, J. Neurosci. Methods, 108, 39-48 (2001).
6) R. D.
Pinto, J. C. Sartorelli, and W. M. Gonçalves, Homoclinic tangencies and routes
to chaos in a dripping faucet experiment, Physica A 291, 244-54 (2000).
7) A. I. Selverston,
M. I. Rabinovich, H. D. I. Abarbanel, R. C. Elson, A. Szücs, R. D.
Pinto, R. Huerta, and P. Varona, Reliable
Circuits from Irregular
Neurons: A Dynamical Approach
to Understanding Central
Pattern Generators, J. Physiol. (Paris) 94, 357-374 (2000).
8) R. D.
Pinto, P. Varona, A. R. Volkovskii, A. Szücs, H. D. I. Abarbanel, and M. I.
Rabinovich, Synchronous behavior of two coupled electronic neurons, Phys. Rev.
E 62, 2644-2656 (2000).
9) R. D. Pinto
and J. C. Sartorelli, Homoclinic tangency and chaotic attractor disappearance
in a dripping faucet, Phys. Rev. E 61, 342-347
(2000).
10) A.
Tufaile, R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli, Simulations in a
dripping faucet experiment, Phys. Lett. A 255,
58-64 (1999).
11) W.M.
Gonçalves, R.D. Pinto and J.C. Sartorelli, Symbolic dynamics analysis in the
dripping faucet experiment, Physica D 134,
267-274 (1999).
12) R. D.
Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli I. L. Caldas and M. S. Baptista,
Interior crises in a dripping faucet experiment, Phys. Review E 58, 4009-4011 (1998).
13) W. M.
Gonçalves, R. D. Pinto, J. C. Sartorelli, and M. J. de Oliveira, Inferring
statistical complexity in the dripping faucet experiment, Physica A 257, 385-389 (1998).
14) J. G. M.
da Silva, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto, A scale law in a
dripping Faucet, Phys. Lett. A 226,
269 (1997);
15) M. S. F.
da Rocha, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto, Some dynamical
aspects of the water drop formation in a leaky faucet, Phys. Rev. E 54,
2378 (1996);
16) T. J. P.
Penna, P. M. C. de Oliveira, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D.
Pinto, Long-range anticorrelations and non-Gaussian behavior of a leaky faucet,
Phys. Rev. E 52,
2168R (1995);
17) R. D.
Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, and M. J. de Oliveira, Hopf
bifurcation in a leaky faucet experiment, Phys. Rev. E 52, 6896 (1995);
18) J. C.
Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto, Crisis and intermittence in a leaky
faucet experiment, Phys. Rev. E 49,
3963 (1994).
Participation in
International Conferences:
“Neural Information Processing: Analog simulations
and experiments.”
R. D. Pinto, A. Szücs, R. Huerta, M. I. Rabinovich,
A. I. Selverston, and H. D. I. Abarbanel.
31st Annual Meeting Society for
Neuroscience,
November 10-15, 2001 – San Diego, CA, USA.
“DynClamp4:
inserting simulated synapses and ionic conductances in up to four neurons.”
R.
D. Pinto, R. C. Elson, A. Szücs, A. I. Selverston, M. I. Rabinovich, and H. D.
I. Abarbanel.
30th
Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience
November
4-9, 2000 - New Orleans, LA, USA.
“Generation
of oscillatory activity in small networks of interacting electronic and
biological neurons.”
A.
Szücs, R. D. Pinto, A. I. Selverston, P. Varona, M. I. Rabinovich, and H. D. I.
Abarbanel.
30th
Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience
November
4-9, 2000 - New Orleans, LA, USA.
“Interior Crisis in a Dripping Faucet Experiment.”
R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves and J. C. Sartorelli,
V Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena
September 28 - October 03, 1997 - Canela, RS,
Brazil.
“Reconstruction
of Computationally Equivalent Machines in the Dripping Faucet Experiment.”
W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, R. D. Pinto
and M. J. de Oliveira,
V
Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena
September 28 - October 03, 1997 - Canela, RS,
Brazil.
“The Dripping Faucet: Chaotic or Critical Behavior?”
R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, P. M. C. de Oliveira, T. J.
P. Penna, and A. R. de Lima.
Workshop on Foundations of Statistical Mechanics and
Thermodynamics
October 20-24, 1997 - Natal, RN, Brazil.
“Topological
Machine Reconstruction and Markovian Processes Modeling in the Dripping Faucet Experiment.”
W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, R. D. Pinto
and M. J. de Oliveira.
Workshop
on Foundations of Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
October 20-24, 1997 - Natal, RN, Brazil.
“Interior Crisis in a Dripping Faucet Experiment:
Does it occur Homoclinic Chaos in a Dripping Faucet?”
R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves and J. C. Sartorelli.
School on Non-Linear Dynamics 1997, ICCMP, UnB -
Brasília, DF, Brazil.
“Reconstruction of topological e-machine l-digraph in the dripping faucet
experiment.”
W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, R. D. Pinto
and M. J. de Oliveira.
School on Non-Linear Dynamics 1997, ICCMP, UnB -
Brasília, DF, Brazil.
“Characteristic Periods in the Attractors of a Leaky
Faucet Experiment.”
R. D. Pinto, J. G. M. da Silva, and J. C. Sartorelli.
Non-linear Dynamics, Chaos, Control and their
Applications in Engineering Sciences, American Academy of Mechanics and
Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 1, 212-217 (1997), Proceedings of ICONE - Second International
Conference,
Águas
de São Pedro, SP, Brazil,1996.
“Hopf bifurcation and scale law in a dripping
faucet.”
J. G. M. da Silva, R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
Non-linear Dynamics, Chaos, Control and their
Applications in Engineering Sciences, American Academy of Mechanics and Associação
Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 1,
195-200 (1997), Proceedings of ICONE - Second International Conference,
Águas
de São Pedro, SP, Brazil, 1996.
“Complex behavior in a leaky faucet experiment.”
R.
D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, J. G. M. da Silva, A. Tufaile, and J. C. Sartorelli.
Workshop on complex systems 1996, Brasília, DF,
Brazil.
Participation in national
conferences:
“Nonlinear
Dynamics of Information in Biologycal Neural Networks.”
R.
D. Pinto, A. Szücs, H. D. I. Abarbanel, M. I. Rabinovich, and A. I. Selverston.
XXIV Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
May 15-19, 2001, São Lourenço - MG
R.
D. Pinto, M. I. Rabinovich, A. I. Selverston, and H. D. I. Abarbanel.
XXIV Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
May 15-19, 2001, São Lourenço - MG
“Homoclinic
Chaos in the dripping faucet experiment.”
R.
D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XXI
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
June 2-6, 1998 - Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Numerical integration of bubbles and drops.”
A. Tufaile, W. M. Gonçalves, R. D. Pinto, and J. C.
Sartorelli.
XXI
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
June 2-6, 1998 - Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Chaotic Blue Sky catastrophe in a dripping faucet
experiment.”
R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XXI
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
June 2-6, 1998 - Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Henon-like attractors in the dripping faucet
experiment.”
W. M. Gonçalves, R. D. Pinto, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XXI
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
June 2-6, 1998 - Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Oscillating Flames.”
M. B. Reyes, J. C. Sartorelli, A. Tufaile, R. D. Pinto,
and W. M. Gonçalves.
XXI
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada
June 2-6, 1998 - Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Is there Homoclinic Chaos in a dripping faucet
experiment?”
R.
D. Pinto, J. C. Sartorelli, M. S. Baptista, and I. L. Caldas.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1997
Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Smooth transition to chaos in a dripping faucet
experiment.”
R.
D. Pinto, J. C. Sartorelli, T. J. P. Penna, and P. M. C. de Oliveira.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1997
Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Torus breakup and Chaos in a dripping faucet
experiment.”
R.
D. Pinto, J. C. Sartorelli, M. S. Baptista, and I. L. Caldas.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1997
Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Markovian Processes in a dripping faucet
experiment.”
W. M.
Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, and R. D. Pinto.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1997
Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Similarities Between Leaky Faucets and Hearts.”
A.
R. Lima, T. J. P. Penna, P. M. C. de Oliveira, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves,
and R. D. Pinto.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1997
Caxambu, MG, Brazil.
“Complex behavior in a dripping faucet experiment.”
R. D. Pinto, J. G. M. da Silva, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1996
Águas
de Lindóia, SP, Brazil;
“Measurement of successive time events using a data
acquisition system developed for an IBM-PC.”
R.
D. Pinto and J. C. Sartorelli.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1996
Águas
de Lindóia, SP, Brazil;
“Simulation of big dripping faucets.”
A.
R. de Lima, T. J. P. Penna, P. M. C. de Oliveira, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M.
Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto.
XX
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 1996
Águas
de Lindóia, SP, Brazil;
“Crisis and Hysteresis in a Dripping Faucet
Experiment”
R.
D. Pinto, J. G. M. da Silva, W. M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
IV
Encontro Brasileiro de Física de Plasmas,
Águas
de Lindóia, SP, Brazil, 1996;
“Critical behavior in a leaky faucet experiment”
R. D.
Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, A. Tufaile, J. C. Sartorelli, T. J. P. Penna, and P. M.
C. de Oliveira.
III
Encontro Brasileiro de Física de Plasmas,
Águas
de Lindóia, SP, Brazil, 1995;
“A study of the water drop
formation by video images”
M.S. F. da Rocha, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D.
Pinto.
III Encontro Brasileiro de Física de Plasmas,
Águas de Lindóia, SP, Brazil, 1995;
“Determination of embedding
dimension of complex data set of dripping faucet experiment with the method of false nearest neighbors”
J. G. M. da Silva, R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, A. Tufaile, and J. C.
Sartorelli.
III Encontro Brasileiro de Física de Plasmas,
Águas de Lindóia, SP, Brazil, 1995;
“Combination of logistic
maps. A way to model the dripping water?”
A.Tufaile, R. D. Pinto, W.
M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
III Encontro Brasileiro de Física de Plasmas,
Águas de Lindóia, SP, Brazil, 1995;
“Dynamics of formation of
multiple drops at high dripping rates.”
A. Tufaile, R. D. Pinto, W.
M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XVIII
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1995.
“Using algorithms to
characterize chaotic data series from a dripping faucet experiment.”
J.
G. M. da Silva, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto.
XVIII
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil,1995;
“Study of water drops
formation as a function of the water column.”
R.
D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XVIII
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1995;
“Role of the shape of the
nozzle in a dripping faucet experiment.”
W. M. Gonçalves, R. D. Pinto, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XVIII Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1995;
“Determining the time
evolution of water drops formation.”
M.
S. F. da Rocha, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto.
XVIII
Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1995;
“Periodic and quasi-periodic
regimes in a dripping faucet experiment.”
R. D. Pinto, J. C. Sartorelli, M. J. de Oliveira, and W. M. Gonçalves.
XVII Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1994;
“Study of periodic and
quasi-periodic regimes in a dripping faucet experiment using the correlation
dimension.”
J. G. M. da Silva, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto.
XVII Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1994;
“Sudden changes in chaotic
regimes in a leaky faucet experiment”
J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto.
II Encontro Brasileiro de Física de Plasmas,
Serra Negra, SP, Brazil, 1993;
“Converting an ADC from
Apple to IBM-PC.”
R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, M. C. S. Rosa, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XVI Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1992;
“The dripping faucet
experiment.”
W. M. Gonçalves, R. D. Pinto, and J. C. Sartorelli.
XIV Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada,
Caxambu, MG, Brazil, 1991.
____________________________________
Reynaldo Daniel Pinto
São Paulo, March
22nd, 2002