Summer course: Computational Visual Neuroscience

[Eero Simoncelli]

	       Computational Neuroscience: Vision
	   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course

			13 - 26 June 2002

Computational modeling and simulation have produced important advances
in our understanding of neural processing.  This intensive 2-week
summer course focuses on areas of visual science in which interactions
among psychophysics, neurophysiology, and computation have been
especially fruitful.  Topics to be covered this year include: neural
representation and coding; photon detection and the neural basis of
color vision, pattern vision, and visual motion perception; oculomotor
function; object/shape representation; visual attention and
decision-making.

The course combines lectures (generally two 3-hour sessions each day)
with hands-on problem solving using the MatLab programming environment
in a computer laboratory.  Lectures are given by the course organizers
and by invited lecturers, including: Edward Adelson (MIT), David
Brainard (U Pennsylvania), Kathleen Cullen (McGill U), Norma Graham
(Columbia U), Kalanit Grill Spector (Stanford U), David Heeger
(Stanford U), Dan Kersten (U Minnesota), Tony Movshon (NYU), Bill
Newsome (Stanford U), Fred Rieke (U Washington), Mike Shadlen (U
Washington), Stefan Treue (U Tuebingen), Preeti Verghese
(Smith-Kettlewell Institute).

Application deadline:  15 March 2002

Further information & application materials: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/csh02

Course Organizers: 
  E.J. Chichilnisky,  Salk Institute
  Paul W. Glimcher,   New York University
  Eero P. Simoncelli, New York University