CNS*92 registration

[Jim Bower]

                Registration announcement for:
 
                        First Annual 
            Computation and Neural Systems Meeting 
                         
                          "CNS*92"
    
        Sunday, July 26 through Friday, July 31,  1992 	   
                   San Francisco, California           
 
 	This is the first 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.
 CNS*92 will bring together experimental and theoretical neurobiologists 
 along with engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, 
 physicists, and  mathematicians interested in understanding how 
 biological neural systems compute.  
 
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                           Program
 
 	The meeting itself is divided into three sections.  The first day 
 is devoted to tutorial presentations including basic tutorials for the
 uninitiated as well as advanced tutorials on new methods of data
 acquisition and analysis.  The main meeting will take place on 
 July 27 - 29 and will consist of the presentation of 106 papers accepted 
 by peer review.  The 24 most highly rated papers will be presented in 
 a single oral session running over these three days.  An additional 
 82 papers have been accepted for poster presentations.  The last two 
 days of the meeting (July 30-31) will be devoted to workshop sessions 
 held at the Marconi Conference Center on the Pacific Coast, north of 
 San Francisco.  
 
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                         Registration
 
 	Registration for the meeting is strictly limited to 350 on a first
 come first serve basis.  Workshop registration is limited to 85.
 
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                     Housing and Travel Grants
 
 Housing:  Relatively inexpensive housing will be available close to 
 the meeting site for participants.  

 Travel Grants: Some funds will also be available for travel 
 reimbursements.  The intention of the organizing committee 
 is to use these funds to provide support for students and
 postdoctoral fellows attending the meeting.  Information on how to
 apply for travel support is provided in the registration materials.   
 
 
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                      Online Information
 
 	Information about the meeting is available via FTP over the 
 internet (address: 131.215.135.69).  To obtain registration forms or
 information about the agenda, currently registered attendees, and/or
 paper abstracts use the following sequence (things you type
 are in quotes):
 
 >	yourhost% "ftp 131.215.135.69"
 >	220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
  	Name (131.215.139.69:<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 pub"
 >	250 CWD command successful.
  	ftp> 
 
 At this point relevant commands are:
 - "ls" to see the contents of the directory.  
 - "get (filename)"   to obtain (filename)
 - "mget *"    to obtain everything listed
 
 Note that the abstracts are contained in a separate directory 
 called <abstracts>
 
 To change to this directory type "cd abstracts".
 
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 For additional information contact:    cns92 at cns.caltech.edu
 
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 CNS*92 Organizing Committee:

 Program  Chair,  James M. Bower, Caltech.
 Publicity  Chair,  Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore Labs.
 Finances, John Miller, UC Berkeley and Nora Smiriga, Institute of
    Scientific Computing Res.
 Local Arrangements, Ted Lewis, UC Berkeley and Muriel Ross, NASA                   Ames.

 Program Committee:

 William Bialek, NEC Research Institute.
 James M. Bower, Caltech.
 Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore Labs.
 Bard Ermentrout, Univ. Pittsburg.
 Scott Fraser, Caltech.
 Christof Koch, Caltech.
 Ted Lewis, UC Berkeley.
 Gerald Loeb, Queen's University.
 Eve Marder, Brandeis.
 Bruce McNaughton, University of Arizona.
 John Miller, UC Berkeley.
 Idan Segev, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
 Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland.
 Josef Skrzypek, UCLA.