Connectionists: WORKSHOP: Mathematical Models of Development and Learning in the Nervous System

[Chris Williams]

Workshop on Mathematical Models of Development
and Learning in the Nervous System

University of Edinburgh, UK
21-22 July 2006

Call for Participation

The aim of this workshop is to bring together mathematical modellers
and key experimenters in the field of neural development and learning
with the objective of:

* Exposing new experimental areas that would benefit from mathematical methods;
* Identifying innovative applications of mathematics to modelling problems; and
* Mapping new frontiers of research.

The workshop will consist of around twelve invited talks 
and two discussion sessions. Expected lecturers include

Gordon Arbuthnott (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge)
Marcus Frean (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Andrew Gillies (University of Edinburgh)
Geoff Goodhill (University of Queensland, Australia)
Bruce Graham (University of Stirling)
Martin Simmen (University of Edinburgh)
Arjen van Ooyen (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Christoph von der Malsburg (Bochum University, Germany)
David Willshaw (University of Edinburgh)

The meeting is limited to around 50 attendees in order to maintain its workshop
character. Applications are invited now from people wishing to
participate in the workshop.  Some financial support is available for
applicants from the UK.  The deadline for applications is 1 May 2006.

See
http://www.icms.org.uk/meetings/2006/nervous/index.html
for further details and the online application form.

The meeting is being held as part of the International Centre for
Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) 2006 workshop programme and will take
place directly after the Computational Neuroscience (CNS*2006)
conference.  The workshop is made possible by grants awarded to ICMS
from EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Programme, the Scottish Higher
Education Funding Council and the London Mathematical Society.  The
meeting is also directly supported by the Institute for Adaptive and
Neural Computation and the School of Informatics of the University of
Edinburgh.

Organizers:
Chris Williams (University of Edinburgh)
Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
Andrew Gillies (University of Edinburgh)
David Sterratt (University of Edinburgh)