Workshop on spatiotemporal models

Luis B. Almeida lba at inesc.pt
Thu Sep 19 12:09:47 EDT 1996


Below is the registration information for the Sintra Workshop on
Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems. Please
distribute and/or post it as widely as you please.

For further information, as well as for obtaining a postscript version
of the registration form (e.g. if you want to post it), please consult:

Workshop's web page:	http://aleph.inesc.pt/smbas/
Mirror:			http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/workshop.html

(the mirror sometimes takes a few days to get updated)


Luis B. Almeida

INESC                     Phone: +351-1-3544607, +351-1-3100246
R. Alves Redol, 9         Fax:   +351-1-3145843
P-1000 Lisboa
Portugal

e-mail:  lba at inesc.pt   or   luis.almeida at inesc.pt

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                          Sintra Workshop on
       Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems
                               SMBAS

                          November 6-8 1996
                          Sintra, Portugal


                     REGISTRATION INFORMATION

The SMBAS workshop will take place in Sintra, Portugal, beginning on
November 6 afternoon and extending through November 8 afternoon. Three
invited speakers are confirmed (Drs. Walter Freeman, Kumpati Narendra
and Scott Kelso), and a fourth invited speaker may still be
announced. Contributed papers are both from the biological and
artificial systems areas, in approximately equal numbers. The list of
accepted papers is given at the end of this message.

Registrations are open until October 25. Participants who won't
present papers are also welcome. The total number of participants is
limited to 50. Among non-contributors, the registrations will be
accepted on a first come first served basis.

The registration prices are:

   Normal registration      50000 Portuguese escudos
   Student registration     30000 Portuguese escudos

As an indication only, the current exchange rate is of about 150
Portuguese escudos per US dollar.

The registration price includes participation in the workshop,
proceedings book, lunches on Thursday and Friday and coffee
breaks. The price also includes 17% VAT.

The registration form is included below. Only registrations
accompanied by payment are accepted. Students should also include a
letter from their supervisor or university representative, written on
the university letterhead, confirming their student status.


                         FORMS OF PAYMENT

CHECK - The check should be in Portuguese escudos, made payable to
  "INESC - SMBAS Workshop". Enclose the check with the registration
  form.

BANK TRANSFER - Make the transfer in Portuguese escudos, to

  Banco Nacional Ultramarino
  Arco do Cego
  Account no. 001399550210009683498
  Account holder: INESC
  Reference: SMBAS Workshop

  Enclose a copy of the bank transfer document with the registration form.

Credit card payments cannot be accepted.


                             FUNDING

A grant of 100000 Portuguese escudos from Fundacao Oriente (Portugal)
is available to be assigned to a participant from East
Asia. Preference will be given to students.

Other funding sources, especially the large grant from the Office of
Naval Research (USA), are already reflected in the registration
prices, which would otherwise be about 80000 escudos higher.


                             LODGING

The workshop will be held at the Hotel Tivoli Sintra. This hotel will
have special room rates for workshop participants:

  Single room:   9700 Portuguese escudos per night
  Double room:  10900 Portuguese escudos per night (for two persons)

The Tivoli hotel accepts individual registrations for double rooms, at
half the price. In this case the participants will be paired by the
hotel.

The participants should reserve rooms directly with the hotel. Please
mention that you are reserving for this workshop.

  Hotel Tivoli Sintra
  Praca da Republica =

  2710 Sintra
  PORTUGAL
  Tel: +351-1-9233505
  Fax: +351-1-9231572

A number of rooms has been allocated in advance at the Tivoli. Should
the hotel become full, the Hotel Central is very close and has only
slightly higher room rates:

  Hotel Central
  Largo Rainha D. Amelia, 35 =

  2710 Sintra
  PORTUGAL
  Tel.: +351-1-9230963 =

  (this hotel has no fax)


==================== Registration form (cut here) =======================

                           Sintra Workshop
    on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems

                November 6-8 1996, Sintra, Portugal

Name____________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________  Sex____________

Address_________________________________________________________________

City___________________________________  State__________________________

Postal/zip code_________________  Country_______________________________

Phone___________________________

Fax____________________________

E-mail_________________________


Type of registration (check as appropriate):

   __ Normal (50000 PTE)

   __ Student (30000 PTE) - enclose a letter from the supervisor or
      university representative, on university letterhead, confirming
      the student status

Enclosed payment:  Amount_________________ in Portuguese escudos
                   (only the Portuguese currency is accepted)

Form of payment:  __ Check (enclose check with this form)

                  __ Bank transfer (enclose a copy of the bank document)


Checks should be made payable to "INESC - SMBAS Workshop"

Bank transfers should be made to

  Banco Nacional Ultramarino
  Arco do Cego
  Account no. 001399550210009683498
  Account holder: INESC
  Reference: SMBAS Workshop


REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 25, 1996


Please mail this form, with the payment document to

  INESC
  SMBAS Workshop
  c/o Mrs. Ilda Ribeiro
  R. Alves Redol, 9
  1000 Lisboa
  Portugal
  Tel: +351-1-3100313
  Fax: +351-1-3145843

Registrations paid by bank transfer can also be sent by fax. In this
case fax both the registration form and the bank document, and send
the fax to Mrs. Ilda Ribeiro, fax no. +351-1-3145843.



=================== (end of registration form) =======================


                      List of accepted papers



METHODS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF EEG IN COARSE AND FINE 
TIME SCALE
K. Blinowska, P. Durka, M. Kaminski - Warsaw University, POLAND
W. Szelenberger - Warsaw Medical Academy, POLAND

SPATIAL EFFECTS AND COMPETIVE COEXISTENCE
T. Caraco - State University of New York, USA
W. Maniatty and B. Szymanski - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

RST: A SPATIOTEMPORAL NEURAL NETWORK
J.-C. Chappelier and A. Grumbach - ENST, FRANCE

TRASIENT SYNAPTIC REDUNDANCY DURING SYNAPTOGENESIS DESCRIBED AS AN ISOSTATIC 
RANDOM STACKING OF NONPENETRATING HARD SPHERES
F. Eddi, G. Waysand - Denis Diderot and P. & M. Curie Universities, FRANCE
J. Mariani - P.& M. Curie University, FRANCE 

MODELLING THE PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS
S. Eglen - University of Sussex, UK

A SELF-ORGANIZING TEMPORAL PATTERN RECOGNIZER WITH APPLICATION TO ROBOT 
LANDMARK RECOGNITION
N. Euliano and J. Principe - University of Florida, USA.
P. Kulzer - University of Aveiro, PORTUGAL

ON THE APPLICATION OF COMPETITIVE NEURAL NETWORKS TO TIME-VARYING CLUSTERING 
PROBLEMS
A. Gonzalez, M. Gra=F1a, A. D'Anjou - Universidad del Pais Vasco, ESPA=D1A 
M. Cottrell - Universit\'{e} Paris I , FRANCE

LOCALISATION AND GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR FOR A MOBILE ROBOT USING PLACE CELLS
K. Harris and M. Recce -  University College London, UK

BRIDGING LONG TIME LAGS BY WEIGHT GUESSING AND LONG SHORT TERM MEMORY
S. Hochreiter - Technische Universitaet Muenchen, GERMANY
J. Schmidhuber - IDSIA, SWITZERLAND

COHERENT PHENOMENA IN THE DYNAMICS OF INTEGRATE AND FIRE NEURAL FIELDS
D. Horn and I. Opher - Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL

SPATIOTEMPORAL TRANSITION TO EPILEPTIC SEIZURES: A NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL 
ANALYSIS OF SCALP AND INTRACRANIAL EEG RECORDINGS
L. Iasemidis, S. Roper, J. Sackellares - University of Florida and V.A. 
   Medical Center, USA
J. Principe, J. Czaplewski, R. Gilmore - University of Florida, USA

A CONTINUUM MODEL OF THE MAMMALIAN ALPHA RHYTHM
D. Liley - Swinburne University of Technology, AUSTRALIA

ANALOG COMPUTATIONS WITH TEMPORAL CODING IN NETWORKS OF SPIKING 
NEURONS
W. Maass - Technische Universitaet Graz, AUSTRIA

SELECTIVE LINEAR PREDICTION FOR RHYTHMIC ACTIVITY MODELLING
N. Martins - Technical University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of 
   Set\'{u}bal, PORTUGAL 
A. Rosa - Technical University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL

CEREBELLAR LEARNING OF DYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE CONTROL OF MOVEMENT
P. Morasso, V. Sanguineti and F. Frisone - University of Genova, ITALY

A CHAOTIC OSCILLATOR CELL IN SUBTHRESHOLD CMOS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULATION
J. Neeley and J. Harris - University of Florida, USA

A TEMPORAL MODEL FOR STORING SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERN MEMORY IN SHUNTING 
COOPERATIVE COMPETITIVE NETWORK
C. Nehme - Brazilian Navy Research Institute, BRAZIL
L. Carvalho and S. Mendes - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

SPATIO-TEMPORAL SPIKE PATTERN DISCRIMINATION BY NETWORKS OF SILICON NEURONS 
WITH ARTIFICIAL DENDRITIC TREES
D. Northmore and J. Elias - University of Delaware, USA

SYNCHRONIZATION IN NEURAL OSCILLATORS THROUGH LOCAL DELAYED INHIBITION
G. Renversez - Centre de Physique Th\'{e}orique Centre National de la Recherche 
   Scientifique, FRANCE

LEARNING REACTIVE BEHAVIOR FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT USING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS
A. Sanchis, J. Molina and P. Isasi - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN

MODELING OF CELLULAR AND NETWORK NEURAL MECHANISMS FOR RESPIRATORY PATTERN 
GENERATION
J. Schwaber, I. Rybak - DuPont Central Research, USA
J. Paton - University of Bristol, UK

FASTER TRAINING OF RECURRENT NETWORKS
G. Silva, J. Amaral, T. Langlois and L. Almeida - Instituto de Engenharia de 
   Sistemas e Computadores, PORTUGAL

HUMAN PERCEPTION OF SUBTHRESHOLD, NOISE-ENHANCED VISUAL IMAGES
E. Simonotto and M. Riani - Universit\'{a} di Genova, ITALY
J. Twitti and F. Moss - University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA

NEUROCONTROL OF INVERSE DYNAMICS IN FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION
L. Spaanenburg, J. Nijhuis and A. Ypma - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, THE 
   NETHERLANDS
J. Krijnen - Academic Hospital Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, 
MODELLED BY PRUNING IN A NEURAL NETWORK
J. Vos, J. van Heijst and S. Greuters - University of Groningen, THE 
   NETHERLANDS



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