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Neuroimaging technology has revolutionized the study of how the human brain functions, how disparate regions of the brain are connected to each other, and how the structure and function of the brain evolve over time as a result of normal development and disease. This talk will begin with a brief overview of some of the current research problems that myself and others at UC Davis are addressing in order to extract scientifically useful information from neuroimaging data. Then, I will present some of the mathematical challenges that neuroimaging researchers currently struggle with. These challenges arise from variability in topology between brains, the complexity of the wiring of the brain, and the complex spatial arrangement of features of interest within the brain.