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      The eighth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of
      Neural Data (<b>SAND8</b>) will take place May 31-June 2, 2017, in
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      3rd Annual Conference for Statistical Methods in Imaging is also
      taking place on the same days, in parallel, at a nearby location
      in Pittsburgh.</div>
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      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.</div>
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      style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">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.  </div>
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        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.</b> Please see our website:</div>
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      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.</div>
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      organizers are Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo, Rob Kass, Liam
      Paninski, Sri Sarma and Jonathan Victor. </div>
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                          <div><font size="-1">Robert E. Kass</font></div>
                          <div><font size="-1">Maurice Falk Professor of
                              Statistics and Computational Neuroscience</font></div>
                          <div><font size="-1"><span
                                style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Department
                                of Statistics and Machine Learning
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                          <div><font size="-1">Interim Co-Director, <span
                                style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Center
                                for the Neural Basis of Cognition</span></font></div>
                          <div><font size="-1">Carnegie Mellon
                              University</font></div>
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