CNS*93

[Jim Bower]

                       CALL FOR PAPERS                        

			Second Annual
	     Computation and Neural Systems Meeting
			  CNS*93 

	             July 31 - August 8
                           1993

		       Washington D.C. 

    This is the second annual meeting of an inter-disciplinary  
    conference intended to address the broad range of research
    approaches and issues involved in the general field of 
    computational neuroscience.  Last year's meeting in 
    San Francisco brought 300 experimental and theoretical 
    neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists, 
    cognitive scientists, physicists, and  mathematicians
    together to consider the functioning of biological nervous 
    systems.  85 peer reviewed papers were presented at the
    meeting on a range of subjects related to understanding
    how biological neural systems compute.

    As last year, the meeting is intended to equally emphasize 
    experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical 
    approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.
    The first day of the meeting will be devoted to tutorial 
    presentations and workshops focused on particular technical
    issues confronting computational neurobiology.  The main body 
    of the meeting will include plenary, contributed and poster 
    sessions.  There will be no parallel sessions and the full 
    text of presented papers will be published in a proceedings
    volume. Following the regular session, there will be 
    two days of focused workshops at a rural site outside of the D.C.
    area.  
          
    With this announcement we solicit the submission of presented 
    papers to the meeting.  All papers will be refereed.

    Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are
    solicited. Authors must submit a 1000-word (or less) summary 
    and a separate single page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating 
    their results.  Accepted abstracts will be published in the 
    conference program.  Summaries are for program committee use only.  
    At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page, 
    indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify 
    at least one appropriate category and theme from the following 
    list:

    Presentation categories:
	A. Theory and Analysis
	B. Modeling and Simulation
	C. Experimental
	D. Tools and Techniques 

    Themes:
	A. Development
	B. Cell Biology
	C. Excitable Membranes and Synaptic Mechanisms
	D. Neurotransmitters, Modulators, Receptors
	E. Sensory Systems
	   1. Somatosensory
	   2. Visual
	   3. Auditory
	   4. Olfactory
	   5. Other
	F. Motor Systems and Sensory Motor Integration
	G. Behavior
	H. Cognitive 
	I. Disease	


    Include addresses of all authors on the front of the summary and the
    abstract including email for each author. Indicate on the front of
    the summary to which author correspondence should be
    addressed.  Program committee decisions will be sent to the
    correspondence author only.  Submissions will not be considered 
    that lack category information, separate abstract sheets, 
    author addresses, or are late.

    Submissions can be made by either surface mail or email.  Authors
    submitting via surface mail should send 6 copies of the abstract
    and summary to:	

       Chris Ploegaert
       CNS*93 Submissions 
       Division of Biology
       216-76
       Caltech
       Pasadena, CA. 91125

    email submissions should be sent to:

	cp at smaug.cns.caltech.edu

        (asci, postscript, or latex files accepted)

    in each case, submissions must be postmarked (emailed) by
    January 26th, 1993.


    Registration information: All submitting authors will be sent 
    registration material automatically. Others interested in 
    obtaining registration material once they become available should 
    contact Chris Ploegaert at the above address or via email at:

        cp at smaug.cns.caltech.edu

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   CNS*93 Organizing Committee: 

	Meeting Coordination:  
		Dennis Glanzman, National Institute of Mental Health
		Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore Labs
	Program Co-Chairs:  
		James M. Bower, Caltech
		Eve Marder, Brandeis University
		John Rinzel, National Institute of Health
	Finances: 
		John Miller, University of California, Berkeley 
		Gwen Jacobs, University of California, Berkeley
	Workshop Chair:  
		Bartlett Mel, Caltech
	European Liaison:
		Herbert Axelrad, Faculte de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere Paris
	  
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    Potential participants interested in the content of last year's
    meeting can ftp last year's agenda using the following procedure
    (you enter ""):

	yourhost% "ftp 131.215.137.69"
           220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.

          Name (131.215.137.69:<yourname>): "ftp"
	   331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.

          Password:  "yourname at yourhost.yourside.yourdomain"
           230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

	  ftp> "cd cns93"
	   250 CWD command successful.

	  ftp> "get cns92.agenda"
           200 PORT command successful.
	   150 ASCII data connection for cns92.agenda (131.215.137.69,1363) 
	   226 ASCII Transfer complete.
	   local: cns92.agenda remote: cns92.agenda
           17598 bytes received in 0.33 seconds (53 Kbytes/s) 

          ftp> "quit"
	   221 Goodbye.

	yourhost% (use any editor to look at the file) 

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   **DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 26, 1993**

		       please post