<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#0b5394"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-43e52706-7fff-9c82-0ea6-469453e59f1d"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CNS-2024 Workshop on “Neuronal Oscillations: From Mechanisms to Computation”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Information and call for spontaneous presentations by members of the community</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2024 Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (</span><a href="https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2024" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2024</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; CNS-2024) will be in Natal, Brazil, July 20-24. The last two days of the meeting are devoted to workshops organized by members of the community. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As in previous years, we are organizing a workshop on “Oscillations: from mechanisms to computations”. The workshop is scheduled for July 24. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The primary purpose of this workshop is to bring together modelers, experimentalists, and theorists with the goal of sharing and discussing their current results and ideas on the underlying mechanisms that govern the generation of these rhythms at various levels of organization, and their functional implications.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Following the tradition of this workshop</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have reserved slots for members of the community whom we might not have been aware of their interest in actively participating in the workshop, particularly the more junior members of the community</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are calling for  spontaneous five minutes long data blitz where interested students and postdocs can briefly present their work and contribute to the discussion</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will allow for ample time for discussion by keeping the talks relatively brief. </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to conclude by having an open discussion on</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-roman;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The role of oscillations for neural computation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-roman;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The opportunity that presents to the community to apply the insights from oscillatory dynamics in the brain to the design of artificial neural networks (ANNs). </span></p></li></ol><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If time becomes an issue, we will have this discussion after the regular workshop schedule to allow for a larger group of participants.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will do our best to accommodate people who are interested in being part of the workshop and/or contribute to the discussion on the topics i and ii listed above. Please, contact us. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Horacio</span></p></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span>-- </span><br><div> <span style="color:rgb(102,51,255)"> <span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">                                      Horacio, NY/NJ area.</span></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">"Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeide" (Yiddish expression)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Horacio G. Rotstein, PhD (he/they) <br>Professor</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Mathematical Biology & Computational Neuroscience</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">BioDatanamics Lab</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Federated Department of Biological Sciences<br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Rutgers University / New Jersey Institute of Technology</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">Newark, NJ, 07102, USA. <br><br>Graduate Faculty<br>Behavioral Neurosciences Program<br>Rutgers University (NWK) </span><br><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">tel: (1-973) 596-8460</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">e-mail: </span><a style="color:rgb(51,51,153)" href="mailto:horacio@njit.edu" target="_blank">horacio@njit.edu</a> <br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,153)">            </span><a style="color:rgb(51,51,153)" href="mailto:horacio@njit.edu" target="_blank">horacior@andromeda.rutgers.edu</a><br style="color:rgb(51,51,153)"><a style="color:rgb(51,51,153)" href="http://web.njit.edu/%7Ehoracio" target="_blank">http://web.njit.edu/~horacio</a></div></div></div>