Connectionists: Invited speakers, tutorials, and deadlines for WAM-BAMM*06

[james Bower]

****************   Deadline for paper submission:  Jan 15th.  *****************
                     (Student travel grants available)



                           http://wam-bamm.org


                           The Second Annual
                  World Association of Modelers (WAM)
            Biologically Accurate Modeling Meeting (BAMM)


                             Wam-bamm *06


                      March 23rd - March 25th
                          San Antonio, Texas


                            http://wam-bamm.org



The paper submission deadline for WAM-BAMM*06 is Jan. 15th.

This is the second annual meeting devoted to the promotion and extension of
biologically accurate modeling and simulation.  This year's meeting 
will  start with a pre-meeting on computational olfaction (March 
22nd) which will include a special tribute to Wil Rall and Gordon 
Shepherd on the 40th anniversary of the original publication of their 
modeling work on dendro-dendritic inhibition in the olfactory bulb.

March 23rd will be devoted to tutorials built around issues in 
realistic modeling.  Currently scheduled tutorials include:

David Beeman, University of Colorado Boulder: Introduction to realistic
neural modeling

Michael Hines, Yale University: Large scale parallel network simulations
using NEURON

Dieter Jaeger, Emory University: How to make the best hand-tuned
single-cell model you can

Sharon Crook, Arizona State University, and others to be announced:
Workshop on XML standards for model specification

Upinder S. Bhalla, NCBS, Bangalore: Biochemical kinetics modeling with
Kinetikit and MOOSE.

Hugo Cornelis, UTHSCA: GENESIS simulations with hsolve


The main meeting will take place on March 24th and 25th.  Currently 
scheduled invited speakers include:

Gordon Shepherd (Yale University)
Wil Rall (NIH - retired)
Mike Hasselmo (Boston University)
Phil Ulinski (University of Chicago)
Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore India)
John Rinzel (New York University)



The meeting's primary objective is to promote communication and
collaboration between users and others involved in realistic biological
modeling and to also provide an introduction to other scientists interested
in realistic biological modeling.  This year's meeting will feature a
pre-meeting (on March 22nd) focused on computation in the olfactory 
system.   (see www.wam-bamm.org for additional details).

Supplementary Travel Funds are available for students presenting 
papers at the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you in old San 'antone.


Jim Bower
Dave Beeman

-- 
                       James M. Bower Ph.D.

                      Research Imaging Center
    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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