Connectionists: Call for participation and contribution to 2nd Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, July 22nd, 2010

[Dr Zhaoping Li]

The 2nd Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience is 
an intensive, high quality, one day symposium taking place on July 22, 
2010, in Tsinghua University. It will feature presentations of theories, 
models, and theory/model- motivated experiments in neuroscience. Most 
presentations will be contributed posters, allowing extensive interactions 
and exchanges between participants. Additionally, there will be four 
invited oral presentations. The topics of interests include, but are not 
limited to, computational theories and models of vision or other sensory 
processes, motor control, learning,  memory, and decision making; 
physiological and psychological experiments to test or develop 
computational theories, such as monkey electrophysiology to test theories 
of visual attention, and human psychophysics to explore models of visual 
adaptation, inference, and perceptual learning, and inter-disciplinary 
investigations in neural encoding and decoding, learning and plasticity, 
neural circuits and networks, etc. This symposium aims to encourage 
interaction between computational and experimental communities, between 
researchers in the regional and international communities of computational 
neuroscience, and to foster and encourage interest among students and 
young researchers in this field.


The symposium website is http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/home


Invited Speakers are (in alphabetical order)
Larry Abbott (Columbia University, USA),
Peter Dayan (University College London, UK),
Dan Kersten (University of Minnesota, USA),
Li Wu (Beijing Normal University, China).

Some names of the participants and contributors are
Fang Fang (Peking University, China),
Tomoki Fukai (RIKEN, Japan),
Bo Hong  (Tsinghua University, China),
Pei-Ji Liang  (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Zach Mainen (Institute Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal)
Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN, Japan),
Ning Qian (Columbia University, US),
Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China),
Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, China),
Cong Yu (Beijing Normal University, China),
Liqing Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China),
Mingsha Zhang (Institute of Neuroscience, China),
Li Zhaoping (University College London, UK/Tsinghua University, China).

Call for contributions and participations:

Researchers and students are encouraged to contribute and participate in 
the symposium. Registration is required, early registration is recommended 
if you want to secure a place. Registration is free if you do not sign up 
for symposium dinner, and costs 150 yuan otherwise.  To contribute a 
poster presentation, please submit an abstract (max 200 words) together 
with a one to two A4 page summary of the work in a pdf file at the 
registration website. Submission deadline is June 10th, 2010.   The 
submissions will be reviewed by the symposium committee.  Limited travel 
funds are available to help students and young researchers to participate 
in the symposium. Preference will be given to those who present their 
work. Please contact the symposium secretary to apply for travel 
assistance if needed.

To register or to submit a contribution, please go to the website

http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/registration

Submission deadline is June 10, 2010.
More details about the symposium organization, travel/accommodation, 
program schedule,  contact details, and information about the sy
mposium in 2009,  can be found at the symposium website 
http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/home