Neural Coding: Call for Participation

[Nigel Goddard]

THE NEURAL CODE: MULTILEVEL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES

	a Maxwell Neuroinformatics Workshop
	    Call for Participation

     May 28-June 1, 2001, Edinburgh, Scotland
        http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/workshops

This workshop is concerned with theoretical and empirical
approaches to understanding the neural code, particularly with respect
to analysis of multineuron data and theoretical approaches which can
inform these analyses.  To be able to address the key questions, it is
necessary to bring together biologists, physicists, computer
scientists and statisticians.  The workshop brings together
scientists with experimental, computational and theoretical approaches
spanning multiple levels to provide an opportunity for interaction
between methodological and phenomenological foci.

Confirmed speakers include:

Moshe Abeles
Peter Dayan 
Peter Foldiak 
Andreas Herz 
Rob Kass 
Bruce McNaughton 
Mike Oram 
Stefano Panzeri 
Maneesh Sahani 
David Sterret 
Alessandro Treves 
Emma Wood 
Florentin Worgotter 
Rich Zemel

The meeting is being organized in a small workshop style with emphasis
on short presentations from invited speakers and from participants,
round table discussions, and open debates on emerging topics.  Time is
scheduled for informal, self-organised, small-group activities.
Computers will be available to support explorative work and
demonstrations.

In addition to the invited speakers, a limited number of places will
be available to interested scientists, who will be chosen on the basis
of the contribution they can make to the workshop.  A number of places
are reserved for junior faculty, postdoctoral researchers and senior
graduate students who are early on in a research career in the areas
covered by the workshop and who could gain significantly from exposure
to the workshop presentations and discussions. We will have some
travel/accommodation stipends for some of these participants who do
not have access to their own funding to participate.

Registration is via the developing Neuroinformatics portal at
http://www.neuroinf.org, and further information can be found at
the workshope site: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/workshops