Call for Papers -- CNS*96

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS


             Fifth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting
                               CNS*96
                          July 14 - 17, 1996
                          Boston, Massachusetts
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                  DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES AND ABSTRACTS:

                        **>> January 25, 1996 <<**
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        This is the fifth annual meeting of an interdisciplinary conference
addressing a broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the
field of computational neuroscience.  These meetings bring together
experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer
scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested
in the functioning of biological nervous  systems.  The peer reviewed
papers presented at the conference are all related to understanding how
nervous systems compute.   As in previous years, CNS*96 will equally
emphasize experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical
approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.

        The meeting in 1996 will take place at the Cambridge Center Marriott
Hotel and include plenary, contributed, and poster  sessions.  The first
session starts at 9 am, Sunday July 14th and the last session ends at 5 pm
on Wednesday, July 17th.  There will be no parallel sessions and the full
text of presented papers will be published in a proceedings volume.  The
meeting will include time for informal workshops focused on current issues
in computational neuroscience. Travel funds will be available for students
and postdoctoral fellows presenting papers at the meeting.  Day care will
be available for children.

                        SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

        With this announcement we solicit the submission of papers for
presentation.  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 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. Cognition
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.
Also, indicate first author.  Program committee decisions will be sent to
the corresponding 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*96 Submissions
        Division of Biology    216-76
        Caltech
        Pasadena, CA  91125

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION can be obtained by:

        o Using our on-line WWW information and registration server at the URL:
            http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/cns96/cns96.html

        o ftp-ing to our ftp site:
            yourhost% ftp ftp.bbb.caltech.edu
            Name: ftp
            Password:  yourname at yourhost.yoursite.yourdomain
            ftp> cd pub/cns96
            ftp> ls
            ftp> get filename

        o Sending Email to:
           cns96 at smaug.bbb.caltech.edu

CNS*96 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

    Co-meeting chair / logistics -   Mike Hasselmo, Harvard University
    Co-meeting chair / finances -   John Miller, UC Berkeley
    Co-meeting chair / program  -  Jim Bower, Caltech

  Program Committee:
      Charlie Anderson, Washington University
      Axel Borst, Max-Planck Inst., Tuebingen, Germany
      Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH
      Nancy Kopell, Boston University
      Christiane Linster, Harvard University
      Mark Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana
      Maureen Rush, California State University, Bakersfield
      Karen Sigvardt, University of California, Davis
      Philip Ulinski,  University of Chicago

  Regional Organizers:
       Europe- Erik De Schutter (Belgium)
       Middle East - Idan Segev (Jerusalem)
       Down Under - Mike Paulin (New Zealand)
       South America - Renato Sabbatini (Brazil)
       Asia - Zhaoping Li (Hong Kong)

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                       James M. Bower
                     Division of Biology
                     Mail code:  216-76
                           Caltech
                     Pasadena, CA 91125
                      (818) 395-6817
                      (818) 449-0679 FAX

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