Connectionists: [COSYNE2016] Travel grants, registration, and hotels

[Tomas Hromadka]

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Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2016 (Cosyne)

MAIN MEETING
Feb 25 - Feb 28, 2016
Salt Lake City, Utah

WORKSHOPS
Feb 29 - Mar 01, 2016
Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah

www.cosyne.org

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REGISTRATION AND HOTELS:

Travel grants submission is currently open.
Online registration is currently open.
Hotel booking is currently open.

Travel grant application deadlines
    Dec 31, 2015, 11.59PM PST (Undergraduate Travel Grant)
    Jan 14, 2016, 11.59PM PST (Other travel grants)

Early registration deadline
    Jan 31, 2016, 11.45PM EST

Hotel booking deadlines
    Jan 19, 2016, Last day for reduced hotel rates at workshops
    Feb 03, 2016, Last day for reduced hotel rates at main meeting

For more detailed information on Cosyne, please visit www.cosyne.org.


TRAVEL GRANTS

Applications are now open for travel grants to attend the conference.
Each awardee will receive at least $500 to help offset the costs of
travel, registration, and accommodations. Larger grants may be available
to those traveling from outside North America. Special consideration is
given to scientists who have not previously attended the meeting,
under-represented minorities, students who are attending the meeting
together with a mentor, undergraduate students, and authors of submitted
Cosyne abstracts. We currently offer four travel grant programs for New
Attendees, Presenters, Mentors, and Undergraduates. For details on
applying, see cosyne.org, section Travel grants.


THE MEETING

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange
of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems
neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function.

The MAIN MEETING is single-track. A set of invited talks are selected by
the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected
by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS
feature in-depth discussion of current topics of interest, in a small
group setting.

Cosyne topics include but are not limited to: neural coding, natural
scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent
activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and
sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map
formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation
with spiking networks.

We would like to foster increased participation from experimental groups
as well as computational ones. Please circulate widely and encourage
your students and postdocs to apply.


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
    Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google)
    Marisa Carrasco (NYU)
    Edward Chang (UCSF)
    Greg DeAngelis (Rochester)
    Mark Goldman (UC Davis)
    Sonja Hofer (Basel)
    Richard Mooney (Duke)
    Mala Murthy (Princeton)
    Peggy Series (Edinburgh)
    Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins)
    Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins)
    Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller)
    Xiao-Jing Wang (NYU)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
    General Chairs: Maria Geffen (U Penn) and Konrad Körding (Northwestern)
    Program Chairs: Megan Carey (Champalimaud) and Emilio Salinas (Wake
Forest)
    Workshop Chairs: Claudia Clopath (Imperial College) and Alfonso
Renart (Champalimaud)
    Publicity Chair: Xaq Pitkow (Rice)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
    Anne Churchland (CSHL)
    Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud)
    Alexandre Pouget (U Geneva)
    Anthony Zador (CSHL)

CONTACT
    cosyne.meeting [at] gmail.com