Connectionists: Announcing Cosyne 2009

[Alex Wade]

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Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)

MAIN MEETING
26 Feb - 1 Mar, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah

WORKSHOPS
2 - 3 Mar, 2009
Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah

http://cosyne.org

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Cosyne is an annual meeting providing 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.

The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both
oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see
below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts.
Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts.

The WORKSHOPS are held in 6-10 parallel sessions, allowing for more
in-depth discussion of specialized topics. A Call for Workshop
Proposals will be sent out shortly.

2009 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
* Richard Axel (Columbia University, USA)
* Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University, USA)
* Axel Borst (MPI, Germany)
* Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley, USA)
* Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
* Henry Markram (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Earl Miller (MIT, USA)
* Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
* Stephen Scott (Queens University, Canada)
* Shihab Shamma (U Maryland, USA)
* Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT, USA)
* Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2 Dec 2008


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
* Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
* Alex Pouget (University of Rochester)
* Zach Mainen (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
* General Chair: Matteo Carandini (University College London)
* Program Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London)
* Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Alex Huk (UT Austin)
* Publications Chair: Alex Wade (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute)

ADVISORY BOARD:
* Eero Simoncelli (New York University)
* Peter Dayan (University College London)
* Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco)
* Karel Svoboda (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)