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<span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Dear colleagues,</span><br class="">
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</font><font class="" style="font-family: Arial;">We are writing to announce that registration is now open for the Kavli Brain Forum Symposium at Emory, which will take place at Emory on May 18-19, 2017. Speakers at the symposium, which is entitled <b class="">“New
Directions in Motor Control”</b>, will discuss their work exploring how the nervous system controls complex behaviors, with emphasis on how the brain employs sensory information to guide motor action and how patterns of motor activity are organized in space
and time. </font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">This workshop is sponsored by the Kavli Brain Forum at Emory and Georgia Tech, Emory’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, and an anonymous gift to promote theoretical physics approaches in biology.</span><br class="">
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</font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">The conference, which will include both </span><b class="" style="font-family:
Arial;">formal presentations</b><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> and </span><b class="" style="font-family: Arial;">half-day
small-group tutorials </b><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">on advanced methods for analyzing neural and behavioral data, will be held at the Emory Conference Center and Hotel (1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA, 30329). Presentations will be given by a
number of distinguished neuroscientists from around the world as well as by members of the local neuroscience community.</span><br class="">
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</font><b class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);
color: rgb(50, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;">REGISTRATION DETAILS:</b><br class="">
<span style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;
background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);" class="">Conference registration is free and open to all, however you must be registered to attend the workshop/tutorials.</span><br class="">
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</font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(50,
51, 51); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Please visit the workshop website ( </span><font class="" style="font-family:
Arial;" color="#323333"><a href="http://www.physics.emory.edu/home/new-directions-in-motor-control/index.html" class="">http://www.physics.emory.edu/home/new-directions-in-motor-control/index.html</a></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(252,
252, 252);"><font class="" color="#323333"> )
for registration information and to find more information on the workshops and tutorials. </font></span><b class="" style="font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);">All attendees must register by May 4, 2017.</b><br class="">
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</font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(50,
51, 51); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">For attendees traveling to Atlanta from elsewhere, housing (group rate) is available at the conference hotel for $169/night. </span><b class="" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);">The
deadline for reserving hotel rooms at the group rate is April 25, 2017. </b><font class="" style="font-family: Arial;" color="#323333">Information for making housing arrangements is available in the “Lodging” tab on the workshop website.</font><br class="">
<font class="" color="#5856d6" face="Arial"><b class=""><u class=""><br class="">
</u></b></font><u class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><b class="">Keynote speakers</b></u><br class="">
<a href="https://www.activetouch.de/index.php?id=1&L=0" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Michael Brecht</a><font class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin)</font><br class="">
<span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/Hatsopoulos/lab/">Nicholas Hatsopoulos</a> (University of Chicago)</span></span><br>
<a href="http://www.mousemotorlab.org/">Mackenzie Mathis</a> (Harvard University, Universität Tübingen)<br class="">
<a href="http://osbornelab.uchicago.edu/PI.html" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Leslie Osborne</a><font class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (University of Chicago)</font><br class="">
<a href="https://people.epfl.ch/carl.petersen" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Carl Petersen</a><font class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (EPFL Lausanne)</font><br class="">
<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/jennifer-raymond?tab=bio" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Jennifer Raymond</a><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""> (Stanford University)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://www.shadmehrlab.org/" class="" style="font-family:
Arial;">Reza Shadmehr</a><font class="" style="font-family:
Arial;"> (Johns Hopkins University)</font><br class="">
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</font><u class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><b class="">Local speakers</b></u><br class="">
<a href="http://www2.gsu.edu/%7Ebiodhe/" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Don Edwards</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Georgia State University)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://nemenmanlab.org/%7Eilya/index.php/Lab_Members" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">David Hofmann</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://www.biology.emory.edu/research/Jaeger/" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Dieter Jaeger</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://nemenmanlab.org/%7Eilya/index.php/Ilya_Nemenman" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Ilya Nemenman</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://snel.gatech.edu/" class="" style="font-family:
Arial;">Chethan Pandarinath</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University/Georgia Tech)</span><br class="">
<a href="https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/soberlab/" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Sam Sober</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://s1.sponberg.gatech.edu/" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Simon Sponberg</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University/Georgia Tech)</span><br class="">
<a href="http://neuromechanicslab.emory.edu/people/ting-lena.html" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Lena Ting</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Emory University/Georgia Tech)</span><br class="">
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</font><b class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><u class="">Hands-on Tutorials</u></b><br class="">
<span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Tutorials will be held (concurrently) the morning of May 19. The </span><a href="http://www.physics.emory.edu/home/new-directions-in-motor-control/register.html" class="" style="font-family: Arial;">registration site</a><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> will
allow you to select a tutorial to attend.</span><br class="">
<font class="" color="#5856d6" face="Arial"><b class=""><u class=""><br class="">
</u></b></font><b class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color:
rgb(252, 252, 252);">Information theoretic analysis of neural spike trains
</span></b><span class="" style="color: rgb(50,
51, 51); font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><br>
led by </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252,
252, 252);">Ilya Nemenman</span></span><br class="">
<b class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Application of generalized linear models to spike trains
<br>
</span></b><span class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color:
rgb(252, 252, 252);">led by </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">David Hofmann</span></span><br class="">
<b class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Beyond Spikes: Insights from local field potential recordings in electrode array data
<br>
</span></b><span class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color:
rgb(252, 252, 252);">led by </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Audrey Sederberg</span></span><br class="">
<b class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Quantitative behavioral analysis using dimensionality reduction
<br>
</span></b><span class="" style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);
font-family: Arial;"><span class="" style="background-color:
rgb(252, 252, 252);">led by </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Gordon Berman</span></span><br class="">
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</font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Looking forward to seeing you in May!</span><br class="">
<font class="" color="#5856d6" face="Arial"><br class="">
</font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">On behalf of the organizing committee,</span><br class="">
<font class="" color="#5856d6" face="Arial"><br>
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<span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">David Hofmann </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre;">
</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">(Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University Physics)</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
Sam Sober </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre;">
</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">(Assistant Professor of Biology, Emory University)</span><br class="">
<span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Simon Sponberg </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre;">
</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">(</span><font class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Assistant Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)</font><br>
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