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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,
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<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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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
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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
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<div><font size="-1">Interim Co-Director, <span
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for the Neural Basis of Cognition</span></font></div>
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