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Computational and Sytems Neuroscience (COSYNE)
MAIN MEETING WORKSHOPS
Feb 22-25, 2007 Feb 26-27, 2007
Salt Lake City, UTAH The Canyons, UTAH
http://cosyne.org/
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION and REGISTRATION are now open at
http://cosyne.org/
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Abstract submission deadline: 15-Dec-06
* Complete schedule release: 25-Jan-07
* Early on-line registration ends: 31-Jan-07
The annual COSYNE meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange
of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems
neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw about 350-400
researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. Topics include but
are not limited to: neural coding; natural scene statistics; dendritic
computation; neural basis of persistent activity; nonlinear receptive
field mapping; representations of time and sequence; reward systems;
synaptic plasticity; map formation and plasticity; population coding;
attention; computation with spiking networks.
The MAIN MEETING, held in Salt Lake City, will be single-track, and
will consist of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations
will be invited, while others will be drawn from short submitted
abstracts. Poster presentations will be drawn from submitted
abstracts. Invited speakers for this year are as follows:
* Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute)
* Richard Andersen (Caltech)
* Ed Callaway (Salk Institute)
* Paul Glimcher (NYU)
* Michael Goldberg (Columbia)
* Judith Hirsch (USC)
* Mitsuo Kawato (ATR)
* Eric Knudsen (Stanford)
* Mike Lewicki (CMU)
* Zhaoping Li (UCL)
* Dan Margoliash (U Chicago)
* Bruce McNaughton (U Arizona)
* Bartlett Mel (USC)
* Sheila Nirenberg (Cornell)
* Mike Shadlen (U Washington)
The WORKSHOPS will be at the Canyons ski resort nearby, and will offer
parallel sessions for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics.
Preliminary workshop topics are as follows:
1. How silent/active is the brain?
2. Hippocampal and entorhinal coding across species (2 days)
3. Emerging information-theoretic measures and methods in
neuroscience
4. Neurally plausible statistical inference
5. Functional requirements of a visual theory
6. Conserved functions of the basal ganglia circuit
7. What role does spike synchrony or correlation play in sensory
processing?
8. Asking why - normative models in neuroscience
9. Quantitative analysis of shape representation in mid and higher
level visual areas
10. Random matrix theory and neural networks
11. Motor control
12. Decision making
For further information, please consult http://cosyne.org or send
email to cosyne At rochester.edu
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