FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS, CNS*2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS, CNS*2005:
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1, 2005 midnight
NOTE: New submission procedure this year

Fourteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2005
July 17 - July 21, 2005
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
www.cnsorg.org

CNS*2005 will be held in Madison Wisconsin from Saturday, July 17 to
Wednesday, July 21, 2005. The main meeting will be July 17-19 followed
by two days of workshops on July 20 and 21.

Submissions can include experimental, model-based, as well as more
abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological
computation.  We especially encourage research that mixes experimental
and theoretical studies.
 We also accept papers that describe new technical approaches to theoretical
and experimental issues in computational neuroscience or relevant software
packages.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Michael Hasselmo (Boston University)
Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley)
Gyorgy Buszaki (Rutgers University)


Submissions to the meeting will take the form of a 3-page summary
describing the nature and scope of the work, and outlining the main
results.  Details regarding formatting of submissions will be posted
at www.cnsorg.org. These summaries will be reviewed by the program
committee and used determine acceptance for presentation at the
meeting as well as to construct the oral program.  Authors will also
be asked to submit a standard abstract for printing in the program
book.  All submissions will be acknowledged by email.

THE REVIEW PROCESS

Summaries will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the
clarity with which the work is described and the biological relevance
of the research.  For this reason authors should be careful to make
the connection to biology clear.  CNS strongly believes in the open
exchange of ideas and we reject only a small fraction of submissions
(~5%). Rejections are usually based on absence of biological relevance
(e.g. pure machine learning). We will notify authors of meeting
acceptance by April 1.

All acceptable summaries will be reviewed by two independent referees, and the
oral program of the meeting will constructed based on these reviews.  Most
oral presentations will be 20 minutes in length, but several papers will be
selected for longer =91featured oral=92 presentations.  In addition to perceived
quality as an oral presentation, the novelty of the research and the diversity
and coherence of the overall program will be considered.  To ensure diversity,
those who have given talks in the recent past will not be selected and
multiple oral presentations from the same lab will be discouraged. All
accepted papers not selected for oral talks may be presented during evening
poster sessions.  Authors will be notified of the presentation format of their
papers by the end of April.

PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATION

In the past, the proceedings of the meeting were published as a
special supplement to the journal Neurocomputing.  The same review
process was used to determine the program acceptance in the journal.
This year, the proceedings of the meeting will take the form of
electronic publication of all 3-page summaries of work presented at
the meeting.  A separate review process will be used for those
electing for post-meeting journal publication.

Authors wishing to submit their work for peer-reviewed publication in
Neurocomputing will be required to submit complete 6-page papers by
May 2nd.  Manuscripts will be reviewed according to the usual
standards for journal publication.  Authors will notification of
submission status (accept, reject, revise) and receive reviewer
comments by the end of June, several weeks before the meeting.
Authors will then have until September 15 to submit revised
manuscripts.  Final notification of acceptance based on these
revisions will be sent by October 15. Detailed instructions to authors
will be posted at www.cnsorg.org.


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