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Dear Mailing list owner:

This is Prof. Dr. Minoru Tsukadab at Tamagawa University Brain Science 
Reserch Center in Japan.
Would you kindly distribute the following Call for Papers for the "10th 
Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum-DBF'07" scheduled for March 5-9, 2007 in 
Japan.

Thank you for your cooperation in advance.
Best regards,

===========================CFP for DBF'07======================

The first Announcement and Call for Papers
10th Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum-DBF'07

5-9 March 2007
Hakuba Tokyu Hotel in Hakuba Village, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Conference Framework:
The 10th Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum (DBF'07) will be held on March 
5-9, 2007 at Hakuba Tokyu Hotel,
URL: http://www.tokyuhotel.co.jp/en/TR/TR_HAKUB/index.html in Hakuba 
Village, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The Dynamic Brain Forum (DBF) is an 
annual international forum organized by the Tamagawa University Brain 
Science Research Center.  In 2007, the DBF will be co-sponsored by Riken 
Brain Institute, Integrative Brain Research Project, Japanese Neural 
Network Society and by the 21st Century COE Programs in Tamagawa 
University, Kyushu Institute of Technology and Hokkaido University.

The theme of DBF'07 is Cortical Dynamics: Physiology, Theory and 
Applications. The forum is organized in several sessions focused on 
different aspects of the theme, with lectures in each session followed by a 
thematic discussion.  In addition, there will be poster
presentations on newest results by the discussants and participants. 
Posters will be up during these three days of meeting, allowing 
comprehensive discussions by participants.

Preceding the forum, there also be two full days of Tutorial Programs, 
primarily oriented toward young researchers and Ph.D. students interested 
in the theory and applications of various kinds of dynamic brain function. 
Tutorial presenters will include,
D.Eng. S. Amari: Mathematical Theories of Dynamics of Neural Information 
Processing,
Prof. I. Tsuda: Chaotic dynamics reality in brain dynamics,
Ph.D. K. Doya: Neural implementation of reinforcement learning,
Prof. W. Freeman: Recent advances in high-resolution analysis of EEG and MEG,
Prof. A. Aertsen:   -informed later-

Application dates and Program schedule
31 Jul., 2006: Deadline for registration to attend Tutorials and/or DBF
31 Aug., 2006: Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts (PDF-format 
with less than 400 words, English)
01 Sep. - 30 Oct., 2006: Oral/poster/acceptance or rejection notification
31 Oct., 2006: Deadline for electronic submission of paper (4 pages on 
A4-size, English)
30 Nov., 2006: Electronic submission of final paper revisions.

04 - 06 Mar., 2007: Reception of Tutorials and/or DBF at Hakuba Tokyu Hotel
05 - 06 Mar., 2007: Tutorials
07 - Mar., 2007: DBF and poster presentations

Registration fee and Financial support
Tutorial: Free of charge
DBF: US$200 or equivalent Japanese Yen include Banquet fee.
Financial support: Max. US$1,500 travel cost is financially supported for 
excellent papers
approved by Program Committee, submitted by Graduate students and Post-docs.

Registration and further information
For registration, inquiries and further information, please send e-mail to 
Secretary of
the Organizing Committee.
Secretary: S. Nagayama: nagayama at lab.tamagawa.ac.jp
Address: Department of Intelligent Information Systems, Faculty of 
Engineering, Tamagawa University,
             6-1 Tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo, 194-8160, Japan
And, also visit our web-site: "10th Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum - DBF'07"
URL:  http://www.tamagawa.ac.jp/sisetu/gakujutu/brain/dbf2007/index.html

Committee:
Advisory Committee,
Chairman: Shun-ichi Amari: Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan.
-Jun Tanji: Tamagawa University, Japan.
-Mitsuo Kawato: ATR, Japan.
-Takeshi Yamakawa: Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan.
-Walter Freeman, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Organizing Committee,
Chairman: Minoru Tsukada: Tamagawa University, Japan.
Vice-Chairman: Ichiro Tsuda: Hokkaido University, Japan.
-Keiji Tanaka: Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan.
-Ad Aertsen: University of Freiburg, Germany.
-Aike Guo: Chinese Academy of Science, China.
- Fanji Gu: Fudan University, China.
-Gert Hauske: Munich University of Technology, Germany.
-Antonio Roque: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
-Edger Koemer: HONDA R&D Europe, Germany.

Executive Committee,
Chairman: Masamichi Sakagami: Tamagawa University, Japan.
-Christph Schreiner: University of California, San Francisco, USA.
-Hiroshi Fujii: Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan.
-Kenji Doya: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
-Hiroshi Kojima: Tamagawa University, Japan.
-Takeshi Aihara: Tamagawa University, Japan.
-Yutaka Sakai: Tamagawa University, Japan.

Program Committee,
Chairman: Shigetoshi Nara: Okayama University, Japan
-Kazuyuki Aihara: University of Tokyo, Japan.
-Shozo Yasui: Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan.
-:Hatsuo Hayashi: Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan.
-Hiroyuki Ito: Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan.
-Tomoki Fukai: Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan.

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M.Tsukada/Tamagawa Univ.
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Prof. Dr. Minoru Tsukada
Tamagawa University Brain Science Reserch Center /
Department of Information & Communication Engineering,
Faculty of Engneering, Tamagawa University
6-1-1, Tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo 194-8610, JAPAN
Phone : +81-427-39-8430 , Fax : +81-427-39-8858
E-mail : tsukada at eng.tamagawa.ac.jp
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