Connectionists: Announcing Cosyne 2010

[Byron Yu]

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Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)

MAIN MEETING
25 - 28 Feb, 2010
Salt Lake City, Utah

WORKSHOPS
1 - 2 Mar, 2010
Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah

http://cosyne.org

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPENS:    20 Oct 2009

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 Nov 2009

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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 over 500
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.

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Keynote: Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School)
- Tirin Moore (Stanford University)
- Jackie Schiller (Technion)
- Eve Marder (Brandeis University)
- Michael Platt (Duke University)
- Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester)
- John Lisman (Brandeis University)
- Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories)
- Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington)
- Howard Berg (Harvard University)

Cosyne 2010 will include a special symposium in honour
of Horace Barlow, featuring talks by:

- Honorary Lecturer: Horace Barlow (Cambridge University)
- Geoff Hinton (University of Toronto)
- Bill Geisler (University of Texas)
- David Field (Cornell University)


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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- General Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London)
- Program Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and
Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California)
- Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Mark Laubach
(Yale University)
- Communications Chair: Byron Yu (Stanford University and CMU)

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