Conference announcement

Tue Feb 22 22:18:10 EST 1994

	ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Conference on Oscillations in Neural Systems, Sponsored by the 
Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND) and the University  
of Texas at Arlington.  To be held Thursday through Saturday, 
MAY 5-7, 1994

Location:
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
MAIN LIBRARY, 6TH FLOOR PARLOR

Official Conference Motel:
Park Inn
703 Benge Drive
Arlington, TX 76013
1-800-777-0100 or 817-860-2323

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Park Inn for $35 a night 
(single or double).  Room sharing arrangements are possible.  
Reservations should be made directly through the motel.

Official Conference Travel Agent:
Airline reservations to Dallas-Fort Worth airport should be made 
through Dan Dipert travel in Arlington, 1-800-443-5335.  For those 
who wish to fly on American Airlines, a Star File account has been 
set up for a 5% discount off lowest available fares (two week 
advance, staying over Saturday night) or 10% off regular coach 
fare; arrangements for Star File reservations should be made  
through Dan Dipert.  Please let the conference organizers know   
(by e-mail or telephone) when you plan to arrive: some people    
can be met at the airport (about 30 minutes from Arlington),   
others can call Super Shuttle at 817-329-2000 upon arrival for  
transportation to the Park Inn (about $14-$16 per person).

Registration for the conference is $25 for students, $65 for non-
student oral or poster presenters, $85 for others.  MIND members 
will have $20 (or $10 for students) deducted from the registration.
A registration form is attached to this announcement.  
Registrants will receive the MIND monthly newsletter (on e-mail 
when possible) for the remainder of 1994. 

Invited speakers:

Bill Baird (University of California, Berkeley)
Adi Bulsara (Naval Research Laboratories, San Diego)
Alianna Maren (Accurate Automation Corporation)
George Mpitsos (Oregon State University)
Martin Stemmler (California Institute of Technology)
Roger Traub (IBM, Tarrytown, New York) 
Robert Wong (Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn)
Geoffrey Yuen (Northwestern University)

       Those interested in presenting are invited to submit 
abstracts (1-2 paragraphs) any time between now and March 15,  
1994, of any work related to the theme of the conference.  The 
topic of neural oscillation is currently of great interest to  
psychologists and neuroscientists alike.  Recently it has been  
observed that neurons in separate areas of the brain will oscillate
in synchrony in response to certain stimuli.  One hypothesized 
function for such synchronized oscillations is to solve the    
"binding problem," that is, how is it that disparate features
of objects (e.g., a person's face and their voice) are tied  
together into a single unitary whole.  Some bold speculators
(such as Francis Crick in his recent book, The Astonishing 
Hypothesis) even argue that synchronized neural oscillations form
the basis for consciousness.
       Talks will be 1 hour for invited speakers and 45 minutes for 
contributed speakers including questions.  There will be no  
parallel sessors.  Contributors whose work is considered worthy
of presentation but who cannot be fit into the schedule will be 
invited to present posters.
       Presenters will not be required to write complete papers.  
After the conference is over, we will attempt to obtain a contract 
with a publisher for a book based on the conference.  Oral and
poster presenters will be invited to submit chapters to this book, 
although it is not a precondition for being a speaker.  Two books 
based on previous MIND conferences (Motivation, Emotion, and
Goal Direction in Neural Networks and Neural Networks for Knowledge
Representation and Inference) have been published by Lawrence 
Erlbaum Associates, and a book based on our last conference 
(Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks?) is now in
progress, under contract with Erlbaum as part of their joint series 
with INNS.
       Abstracts should submitted, by e-mail, snail mail, or fax, 
to:

Professor Daniel S. Levine
Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
411 S. Nedderman Drive
Arlington, TX 76019-0408
Office telephone: 817-273-3598, fax: 817-794-5802
e-mail: b344dsl at utarlg.uta.edu

Further inquiries about the conference can be addressed to  
Professor Levine or to the other two conference organizers:

Professor Vincent Brown       Mr. Timothy Shirey
817-273-3247                  214-495-3500 or 214-422-4570
b096vrb at utarlg.uta.edu        73353.3524 at compuserve.com

Please distribute this announcement to anyone you think may be 
interested in the conference.

REGISTRATION FOR MIND/INNS CONFERENCE ON OSCILLATIONS IN NEURAL
SYSTEMS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, MAY 5-7, 1994

Name  ______________________________________________________________

Address  ___________________________________________________________

         ___________________________________________________________

         ___________________________________________________________

         ____________________________________________________________

E-Mail    __________________________________________________________

Telephone _________________________________________________________

Registration fee enclosed:
                   _____   $15  Student, member of MIND

                   _____   $25  Student

                   _____   $65  Non-student oral or poster presenter

                   _____   $65  Non-student member of MIND

                   _____   $85  All others

Will you be staying at the Park Inn?         ____  Yes  ____  No
Are you planning to share a room with
someone you know?                            ____  Yes  ____  No

If so, please list that person's name __________________________            

If not, would be you be interested in
sharing a room with another conference
attendee to be assigned?                     ____  Yes  ____ No

PLEASE REMEMBER TO CALL THE PARK INN DIRECTLY FOR YOUR RESERVATION
(WHETHER SINGLE OR DOUBLE) AT 1-800-777-0100 OR 817-860-2323.