CORTICAL DYNAMICS IN JERUSALEM, June 11-15, 1995

[Tali Tishby]

                  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
                  The Center for Neural Computation


                           Announces


                  CORTICAL DYNAMICS IN JERUSALEM:
         A Symposium on Experimental and Theoretical Issues
           in The Dynamics and Function of the Neocortex
                        June 11-15, 1995
   


Topics Include:

1. Biophysics of neurons and synaptic intergration:
   the hardware of cortical dynamics.

2. Temporal structures and patterns of synchrony in
   cortical activity.

3. Feedforward and recurrent models of cortical
   information processing.

4. Computational paradigms of brain function.



Invited Speakers Include:

D.J. Amit (Hebrew University, Israel) 
y. Amitai (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
H. Barlow (University of Cambridge, U.K.)
E. Bienenstock (Brown University, U.S.A)
J. Bullier (I.N.S.E.R.M., France)
R. Eckhorn (Philipps University, Germany)
G.L. Gerstein (University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
C. Gilbert (Rockefeller University, U.S.A.)
A.M. Graybiel (M.I.T., U.S.A.)
A. Grinvald (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
D. Hansel (C.N.R.S., France)
A. Kreiter (M.P.I., Frankfurt, Germany)
H. Markram (M.P.I., Heidelberg, Germany)
K.A. Martin (Oxford University, U.K.)
D. Mumford (Harvard University, U.S.A.)
B.J. Richmond (N.I.M.H., U.S.A.)
A. Schuez (M.P.I., Tubingen, Germany)
A.B. Schwartz (Barrow Neurological Inst., U.S.A.)
I. Segev (Hebrew University, Israel)
M. Shadlen (Stanford University, U.S.A)
A. Thomson (Royal Free Hospital, U.K.)
N. Tishby (Hebrew University, Israel)
S. Ullman (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
E. Vaadia (Hebrew University, Israel)
L. Valiant (Harvard University, U.S.A.)



Contributed poster presentations will be accepted.
Registration deadline: March 31st, 1995.

Information and Registration: Alisa Shadmi, Hebrew University,
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, P.O. Box 1255,
Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Tel: 972-2-584899
Fax: 972-2-586152
e-mail: Alisa at vms.huji.ac.il


Organizing Committee:

Moshe Abeles
tel: 972-2-757384 or 972-2-758384
fax: 972-2-439736
e-mail: abeles at md2.huji.ac.il

Haim Sompolinsky
tel: 972-2-584563
fax: 972-2-584437
e-mail: haim at fiz.huji.ac.il