CNS*2002 announcement and new paper submission procedure

[Erik De Schutter]

Eleventh Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2002
July 21 - July 25, 2002
Chicago, Illinois USA
http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS.shtml

CNS*2002 will be held in Chicago from Sunday, July 21, 2002 to 
Thursday, July 25 in the Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center. 
This is a historic hotel located on Lake Michigan in downtown 
Chicago.  General sessions will be Sunday-Wednesday, Thursday will be 
a full day of workshops.  The conference dinner will be Wednesday 
night, followed by the rock-n-roll jam session.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Ad Aertsen  (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany)
Leah Keshet (University British Columbia, Canada)
Alex Thomson (University College London, UK)

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Papers will be submitted through a preprint server run by Elsevier 
and linked from the CNS site.  Authors will have the option at the 
time of submission of making their preprint publicly available (which 
qualifies it for inclusion in the Proceedings, if accepted), or 
keeping it private (no inclusion in the Proceedings). Submissions 
will be reviewed in the usual way (independent of their 
public/private status), and the small number of papers not accepted 
will be removed from the preprint site. Papers that are accepted will 
be published in both the journal Neurocomputing and in a separate 
Proceedings volume.
Only papers submitted before the January deadline will be accepted, 
but authors will be able to edit and improve their submissions 
continuously till the Proceedings are finalized.  We will encourage 
the community to access this server before the actual meeting and to 
engage in discussions about papers.  In this way, discussions and 
feedback both before and during the meeting can lead to improved 
quality of the published paper.  It will be possible to use the paper 
on the preprint server directly as Proceedings submission in October. 
To facilitate the transition to this new submission procedure we will 
accept in 2002 both submission old style (= abstract + summary) and 
as real papers (proper length for the Proceedings).
Submission deadline: January 25, 2002.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Program chair: Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Local organizer: Philip Ulinski  (University of Chicago, USA)
Workshop organizer:  Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Computational 
Neuroscience Unit, UK)
Government Liaison: Dennis Glanzman  (NIMH/NIH, USA)
Program Committee:
    Upinder Bhalla    (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
    Avrama Blackwell  (George Mason University, USA)
    Victoria Booth    (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
    Alain Destexhe    (CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
    John Hertz       (Nordita, Denmark)
    David Horn        (University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
    Barry Richmond    (NIMH, USA)
    Steven Schiff     (George Mason University, USA)
    Todd Troyer       (University of Maryland, USA)