Call for papers CNS*94

[Jim Bower]

                      CALL FOR PAPERS                        

                        Third Annual 
            Computation and Neural Systems Meeting 
                          CNS*94 

                     July 21 - 25, 1994

                    Monterey, California

   DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 26, 1993

This is the third annual meeting of an interdisciplinary conference 
intended to address the broad range of research approaches and 
issues involved in the field of computational neuroscience.  The last 
two year's meetings, in San Francisco (CNS*92) and Washington DC 
(CNS*93), brought experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along 
with engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, 
and mathematicians together to consider the functioning of biological 
nervous  systems.  Peer reviewed papers were presented at the 
meeting on a range of subjects related to understanding how 
biological neural systems compute.

As in previous years, the meeting is intended to equally emphasize  
experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical  
approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. The main 
body of the meeting will take place at the Monterey Doubletree hotel 
and include plenary, contributed and poster  sessions.  There will be 
no parallel sessions and the full text of presented papers will be 
published in a proceedings volume. Following the regular session, 
there will be two days of focused workshops at the natural ocean 
side setting of the Asilomar Conference Center on the Monterey 
Peninsula. 

With this announcement we solicit the submission of presented  
papers to the meeting.  All papers will be refereed.  Authors should 
send original research contributions in the form of a 1000-word (or 
less) summary and a separate single page 50-100 word abstract 
clearly stating their results.  Summaries are for program committee 
use only.  Abstracts will be published in the conference program.  At 
the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page,  
indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify at 
least one appropriate category and theme from the following  list:

Presentation categories: 
	A. Theory and Analysis 
	B. Modeling and Simulation 
	C. Experimental 
	D. Tools and Techniques 

Themes: 
	A. Development 
	B. Cell Biology 
	C. Excitable Membranes and Synaptic Mechanisms 
	D. Neurotransmitters, Modulators, Receptors 
	E. Sensory Systems 
	   1. Somatosensory 
	   2. Visual 
	   3. Auditory 
	   4. Olfactory 
	   5. Other systems
	F. Motor Systems and Sensory Motor Integration 
	G. Learning and Memory
	H. Behavior 
	I. Cognitive  
	J. Disease	

Include addresses of all authors on the front of the summary and the 
abstract including the E-mail address for EACH author. Indicate on 
the front of the summary to which author correspondence should be 
addressed.  Program committee decisions will be sent to the 
correspondence author only.  Submissions will not be considered if 
they lack category information, separate abstract sheets,  author 
addresses, or are late.

Submissions can be made by surface mail ONLY by sending 6 copies 
of the abstract and summary to:	

    CNS*94 Submissions
    Division of Biology    216-76
    Caltech    
    Pasadena, CA. 91125

Submissions must be postmarked by January 26th, 1993.

Registration information: All submitting authors will be sent  
registration material automatically. Others interested in obtaining 
registration material once they become available should surface mail 
to the above address or email to:

cp at smaug.cns.caltech.edu

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   CNS*94 Organizing Committee: 

	Co-meeting chair logistics - John Miller, UC Berkeley
	Co-meeting chair program  -  Jim Bower, Caltech

	Program committee
            John Rinzel, NIDDK/NIH
            Gwen Jacobs,  UC Berkeley
            Catherine Carr, University of Maryland, College Park
            Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH
	    Charles Wilson, University of Tennessee, Memphis

	Proceedings - Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore National Labs.
	Workshops - Mike Hasselmo, Harvard University

	European organizer - Erik DeSchutter (Belgium)
	Middle Eastern organizer - Idan Segev, Jerusalem
	Down under organizer - Mike Paulin (New Zealand)
	South American organizer - Renato Sabbatini (Brazil)
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In each of the past two years, the meeting has been able to 
offer travel grants to students presenting papers with 
support from the National Science Foundation.  Potential 
participants interested in the content of last year's meeting 
can ftp last year's agenda as follows (you enter text in quotes):

yourhost% "ftp 131.215.137.69"
    Connected to 131.215.137.69.
    220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.

Name (131.215.137.69:<yourname>): "ftp" 
    331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.

Password:  "yourname at yourhost.yourside.yourdomain"
    230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

ftp> "cd cns94" 
    250 CWD command successful.

ftp> "get.agenda93"
    200 PORT command successful.
    150 ASCII data connection for agenda93 (131.215.137.60,2916) (12761 bytes).
    226 ASCII Transfer complete.
    local: agenda93 remote: agenda93
    13145 bytes received in 0.26 seconds (49 Kbytes/s) 

ftp> "quit" 
    221 Goodbye.

yourhost% (use any editor to look at the file) 
   
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DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 26, 1994

                   please post