Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) Meeting Posted By: David Kennedy - Jul 7, 2008Tool/Resource: NITRC Community MAIN MEETING 26 Feb - 1 Mar, 2009 Salt Lake City, Utah WORKSHOPS 2 - 3 Mar, 2009 Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah See http://cosyne.org for complete details. Cosyne is an annual meeting providing an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw about 500 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts. Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS are held in 6-10 parallel sessions, allowing for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. A Call for Workshop Proposals will be sent out shortly. 2009 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: * Richard Axel (Columbia University, USA) * Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University, USA) * Axel Borst (MPI, Germany) * Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley, USA) * Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) * Henry Markram (EPFL, Switzerland) * Earl Miller (MIT, USA) * Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA) * Stephen Scott (Queens University, Canada) * Shihab Shamma (U Maryland, USA) * Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT, USA) * Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2 Dec 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * General Chair: Matteo Carandini (University College London) * Program Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London) * Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Alex Huk (UT Austin) * Publications Chair: Alex Wade (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) ADVISORY BOARD: * Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI) * Peter Dayan (University College London) * Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI) * Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farms) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: * Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) * Alex Pouget (University of Rochester) * Zach Mainen (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia) |
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