Connectionists: CNS 2006 Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS, CNS*2006
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 6, 2006 midnight; submission open
January 15, 2006 
NOTE:  Meeting dates have changed since the announcement at CNS*2005

Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2006 
July 16 - July 20, 2006 
Edinburgh, UK 
http://www.cnsorg.org 

CNS*2006 will be held in Edinburgh, UK from Sunday, July 16 to Thursday, July 
20, 2006. The main meeting will be July 16-18 followed by two days of 
workshops on July 19 and 20. The meeting will take place in the heart of 
medieval 'Old Town' close to plenty of arts and entertainment.  Edinburgh can 
be reached from Edinburgh or Glasgow International Airports.

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 Hausser (University College London) 
Fred Wolf (University of Gottingen) 
Sophie Deneve (CNRS Institute for Cognitive Science) 

Banquet Speaker: 
James Bower (University of Texas San Antonio)

WORKSHOPS PLANNED TO DATE (Organizers):
Cortical map development (J. Bednar)
Cortical microcircuitry (T. Wennekers)
Interoperability of neural simulators (E. De Schutter)
Oscillations (H. Rotstein)
Plasticity and stability (M. van Rossum)

 

PAPER SUBMISSION

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 to 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 "featured oral" 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 the poster sessions.  Authors will be notified of the presentation 
format of their papers by the end of April.  

PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATION 

The proceedings of the meeting will be published as a special supplement to 
the journal Neurocomputing.  Space in the proceedings volume is more limited  
than in previous years and if the number of submitted papers exceeds the  
number that can be published (~100), which seems likely, rankings from the 
review process will be used to select the top 100 papers.  Only papers 
actually presented at the meeting (oral or poster format) are eligible for 
publication in the proceedings.  Each presenting author can publish at most 
one paper in the proceedings volume.
Authors wishing to submit their work for peer-reviewed publication in 
Neurocomputing will be required to submit complete papers (max 6 typeset 
pages) by May 1. Manuscripts will be reviewed according to the usual 
standards for journal publication.  Authors will receive notification of 
submission status (accept, reject, revise) and receive reviewer comments 
before the meeting.  Paper rejection at this stage does not preclude 
presentation at the meeting itself.  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. 
 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The CNS meeting is organized by the CNS Organization (http://www.cnsorg.org) 
Christiane Linster (Cornell University, USA), President.
Program chair: Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Program chair-elect:  Bill Holmes (Ohio University, USA)
Local organizer: Mark van Rossum (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Workshop organizer: Mark van Rossum (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Government Liaison: Dennis Glanzman (NIMH/NIH, USA) and Yuan Liu (NINDS/NIH, 
USA)
Program Committee :
   Steve Bressler (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
   Nicolas Brunel (Universite Paris Rene Descartes, France)
   Frances Chance (University of California, Irvine, USA)
   Sharon Crook (University of Maine, USA)
   Sonja Gruen (Free University Berlin, Germany)
   Ken Harris (Rutgers University, USA)
   Don H. Johnson (Rice University, USA)
   Leslie M. Kay (University of Chicago, USA)
   Theoden Netoff (Boston University, USA)
   Hiroshi Okamato (RIKEN, Japan)
   Mike Paulin (University of Otago, New Zealand)
   


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