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<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">We have the pleasure to invite Graduate and Undergraduate students to participate in:</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">LACONEU 2014 </font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">III Latin American Summer School in Computational Neuroscience and Biomedical Analysis</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier">Special Topic: Computational Neuroscience / Network Neurodynamics / Basal Ganglia and Motivated Learning</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">January 13th-31st, 2014</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier">Valparaíso - CHILE</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.laconeu.cl/">http://www.laconeu.cl</a></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">The principal aims of LACONEU 2014 Summer School are to disseminate and to develop Computational Neuroscience in Latin America, gathering researchers and students with common interests in the beautiful and historical city of Valparaiso, in Chile.</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">LACONEU 2014 expects to foster a collaborative exchange between the attendees, researchers and students, based on fundamental theoretical and practical knowledge, and thus, to help the establishment of strong, long-term collaborations.</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">The proficiencies and expertise of the Faculty participants represent an unique opportunity for this research area in Latin America.</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">For this version of LACONEU 2014 we propose a Summer School of three entire weeks combining lectures and student projects. Each week is focused on a different topic: </font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> Week1: Computational Neuroscience</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> Week2: Network Neurodynamics</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> Week3: Basal Ganglia and Motivated Learning.</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">CONFIRMED SPEAKERS</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Pascal Mamassian (Université Paris Descartes, France)</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Fred Wolf (Max Plank Institute, Germany)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Olivier Marre (Institute de la Vision, France)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Romain Brette (Institute Universitaire de France, France)</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Tomás Pérez-Arcle (Computational Biology Lab, Chile)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Helmuth Grubmueller (Max Plank Institute, Germany)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Jason Kerr (Max Plank Institute, Germany)</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Robert Gutig (Max Plank Institute, Germany)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Bruno Cessac (INRIA, France)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Francoise Dellu-Hagedorn (Université de Bordeaux, France)</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Arthur Leblois (Institute National de Sciences Biologiques, France)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Nicolas Rougier (INRIA & Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, France)</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - André Garenne (Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, France)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Thomas Boraud (Université de Bordeaux, France)</font></div><div>
<font class="" face="Courier"> - Adrian Palacios (CINV, Chile)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Maria-Jose Escobar (UTFSM, Chile)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Patricio Orio (CINV, Chile)</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Fréderic Alexandre (INRIA & Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, France)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Thierry Viéville (INRIA, France)</font></div><div>
<font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Call for Applications: July 19th, 2013</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Application submission deadline: September 19th, 2013 (visit the webpage to see the details)</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"> - Acceptance notification: September 30th, 2013</font></div>
<div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">TRAVEL GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDENTS</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="" face="Courier">Looking forward to see you in January!</font></div><div style="font-size:medium"><font class="" face="Courier"><br></font></div></span></div>