GUM*2002

[James Bower]

                                          CALL FOR PAPERS 

                          First Annual GENESIS Users Meeting

                                               GUM*2002
                                           November 8,9,10

                                              San Antonio
                                                   Texas
                                              

The first annual GENESIS Users Meeting will take place this fall in 
beautiful San Antonio, Texas.  Unique in its structure, this meeting 
will combine introductory, intermediate, and advanced tutorials in 
the use of GENESIS with a full agenda of scientific presentations 
focused on the study of biological systems using realistic modeling 
techniques.  The meeting's overall objective will be to promote 
communication and collaboration between GENESIS users and others 
involved in realistic biological modeling and to provide an 
introduction to other interested scientists.


GENESIS Tutorials.

The schedule on Friday, November 8th, will be devoted to tutorials 
organized at several different levels.  The introductory tutorial 
will be lead by Dr. David Beeman, who has been providing introductory 
instruction in GENESIS use since the first course in Computational 
Neuroscience at the Marine Biological Laboratory in the summer of 
1989, and more recently with the European Course in Computational 
Neuroscience.  Students, Postdoctoral Fellows or Faculty interested 
in realistic modeling techniques are encouraged to attend. 
Concurrent tutorials will also be offered on Friday for intermediate 
and advanced GENESIS users.


Scientific Program

Saturday and Sunday, November 9th and 10th, will be devoted to 
scientific and technical presentations related to realistic 
simulations of biological systems.  Appropriate presentations include 
scientific results from realistic modeling efforts, presentations on 
technical aspects of simulator use and development, and presentations 
describing biological systems felt to be ripe for simulation and 
modeling.  While research using GENESIS is especially encouraged, 
presentations based on other simulation systems are also welcomed.

  The organization of the scientific program will also be somewhat 
unique.  The morning sessions will be devoted to 15 minute oral 
presentations from each of the contributing authors.  This will 
provide all attendees exposure to the full range of work presented at 
the meeting.  The afternoon will then be devoted to more detailed 
discussion of results in a poster/demonstration format. 


Community Building

In addition to the educational and scientific aspects of meeting, 
opportunities will also be provided for more relaxed interactions 
between participants.  San Antonio Texas is famous for its River Walk 
(http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/index.asp) where the meeting 
banquet will take place on Saturday evening.  The San Antonio/Austin 
area of South Texas is also famous for its indigenous music scene - 
recently added to by Ramon and the K-Halls, who, it is rumored, are 
already putting pressure on meeting organizers for an exclusive 
contract.  In other words, a good time will be had by all! 


Society for Neuroscience Attendees

Likely attendees of this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in 
Orlando Florida should note that GUM*02 is scheduled the weekend 
after the neuroscience meeting, and Texas is not very far from 
Florida and much more interesting and real than Orlando.


Meeting Registration Costs

Registration for GUM*02 will be $99 for students and $159 for 
non-students.  Extra banquet tickets will be available for $35. 


Pre-Registration

Because this is the first GUM, we would ask that interested 
participants pre-register by sending email to the GENESIS users group 
at babel at genesis-sim.org.  There is no obligation, but 
pre-registration will allow the organizers to gauge the likely number 
of participants.   With that information, the organizers will be able 
to arrange special rates for housing.


Registration and Request for Presentations

Meeting and tutorial registration will open on August 1st.  At that 
time authors will be asked to provide an abstract for their 
presentations. 



We hope to see you in 'ol San Antone this Fall

-- 
                       James M. Bower Ph.D.

                      Research Imaging Center
    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
                        7703 Floyd Curl Drive
                     San Antonio, TX  78284-6240

                  Cajal Neuroscience Center
                University of Texas San Antonio

                      Phone: 210 567 8080
                         Fax: 210 567 8152