7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation: CFP

[Bartlett Mel]

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, April 7, 2000
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                 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 

     --- 7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation --- 


                    to be held at the

            UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

                 Saturday, May 20, 2000


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       website:  http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/
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Program Committee-----------

JAMES M. BOWER
Division of Biology, Caltech

GARRISON W. COTTRELL 
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

DONALD D. HOFFMAN
Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, UCI

GILLES LAURENT
Division of Biology & Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech

BARTLETT W. MEL (chair)
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience Program, USC

SHEILA NIRENBERG
Dept. of Neurobiology, UCLA

STEFAN SCHAAL
Dept. of Computer Science and Neuroscience Program, USC

TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSD/Salk Institute

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This annual meeting rotates between institutions in Southern
Califorina and this year will be hosted by the University of
Southern California.

The keynote address this year will be given by:


                  Prof. Gerald M. Loeb

          Biomedical Engineering Department, and 
	  Fellow of the USC Alfred Mann Institute

             "Dialogs with the Nervous System"


Submissions will be open to all members of the Neural
Computation community of Southern California. Research areas
include all aspects of cellular, network, and systems-level
modeling, and applications of neuromorphic algorithms and
hardware to problems in vision, speech motor control, cognitive
function, etc.  Authors are invited to contribute abstracts,
which will be reviewed by the program committee (see above).
The contributed program will consist of 15-minute oral
presentations, as well as a poster session. Abstracts selected
for either oral or poster presentation will be included in the
final program.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, April 7, 2000

As in previous years, a Proceedings consisting of short papers
describing work presented at the May meeting will be published
by the INC.  Contributions to the Proceedings, based on both
oral and poster presentations, are due after the meeting, and
must be submitted no later than Friday, June 2, 2000 to:
Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San
Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive DEPT 0523, La Jolla, CA
92093-0523. Guidelines for the submissions will be distributed
to the presenters at the Symposium. As in previous years,
authors will retain copyright to their papers, so that they may
be resubmitted elsewhere.

Submissions: ALL abstracts must be submitted electronically by
April 7, 2000 through the Joint Symposium web site at

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/

Abstracts may be submitted in RAW ASCII or in HTML. Please note: the
abstracts may contain pointers to the authors pre-prints,
Webpage, graphics and figures, provided the entire entry can be
read by a web-browser.

Notification of acceptance as oral or poster presentation will
be e-mailed to authors by the end of April, 2000.

Registration and attendance at the Symposium is open to the
public.  Attendees who will not present material must also
register through the symposium web site.


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
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Linda Yokote, BME Department, USC, marubaya at rcf.usc.edu, (213)740-0840
Gabriele Larmon, BME Dept, USC, larmon at bmsrs.usc.edu

PROCEEDINGS
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Marilee Bateman, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD,
bateman at cogsci.ucsd.edu

WEB SITE
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Marionne Epalle, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
marionne at caltech.edu