Connectionists: Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND8) Workshop Registration

[Barbara Dorney]

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The eighth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neural Data 
(*SAND8*) will take place May 31-June 2, 2017, in Pittsburgh, PA.

/Partial travel support is available. /

The 3rd Annual Conference for Statistical Methods in Imaging is also 
taking place on the same days, in parallel, at a nearby location in 
Pittsburgh.
SAND8 will begin with a morning-long panel discussion on “Emerging 
Challenges of Brain Science Data,” and will end with several talks that 
connect statistical analysis to mathematical modeling. In between there 
will be keynote talks by senior investigators and shorter presentations 
by junior investigators, the latter selected on a competitive basis. 
There will also be a poster session, to which all participants are 
invited to contribute. Talks and posters may involve new methodology, 
investigation of existing methods, or application of state-of-the-art 
analytical techniques. In addition, there will be a lunchtime discussion 
devoted to opportunities and challenges for women in computational 
neuroscience.

Confirmed keynote lecturers, panelists, and discussants include the 
following: Genevera Allen, Rice; Marlene Behrmann, CMU; Emery Brown, 
MIT/Harvard Medical School; Elizabeth Buffalo, U. Washington; Anne 
Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor; Peter Dayan, Gatsby; Alain Destexhe, 
CNRS, France; Adrienne Fairhall, U. Washington; Sonja Grun, Julich 
Institute, Germany; Alon Korngreen, Bar-Ilan, Israel; Mark Kramer, 
Boston U.; Andrew Leifer, Princeton; Brian Litt, Penn; Katherine Nagal, 
NYU; Jonathan Pillow, Princeton; Sridevi Sarma, Johns Hopkins; Aarti 
Singh, CMU; Andreas Tolias, Baylor; Timothy Verstynen, CMU.

*Any young investigator interested in presenting their work as a talk 
should submit an abstract by MARCH 6.  Requests for travel support are 
due MARCH 20.* Please see our website:
http://sand.stat.cmu.edu <http://sand.stat.cmu.edu/>

This workshop series is concerned with analysis of neural data of all 
kinds, ranging from anatomy to electrophysiology, to neuroimaging. It 
aims to define  important problems in neuronal data analysis and useful 
strategies for attacking them;  foster communication between 
experimental neuroscientists and those trained in statistical and 
computational methods encourage young researchers, including graduate 
students, to present their work; and expose young researchers to 
important challenges and opportunities in this interdisciplinary domain, 
while providing a small meeting atmosphere to facilitate the interaction 
of young researchers with senior colleagues. We are especially 
interested in attracting to this workshop people wishing to learn more 
about challenges in the analysis of neural data who are females, 
under-represented minorities, or persons with disabilities.
The organizers are Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo, Rob Kass, Liam 
Paninski, Sri Sarma and Jonathan Victor.
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Robert E. Kass
Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience
Department of Statistics and Machine Learning Department
Interim Co-Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~kass <http://www.stat.cmu.edu/%7Ekass>

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