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===========================The Second CFP for DBF'07======================

The Second 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>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, Aihara Complexity Modelling Project 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 first two 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 and topics will include,
Dr. S. Amari: Mathematical Theories of Dynamics of Neural Information Processing,
Dr. I. Tsuda: Chaotic dynamics reality in brain dynamics,
Dr. K. Doya: Neural implementation of reinforcement learning,
Dr. W. Freeman: Recent advances in high-resolution analysis of EEG and MEG,
Dr. A. Aertsen:  Cortical Network Dynamics - Precision in a Noisy Environment ?
Dr. G. L. Gerstein: Coding dynamics- (a) repeating firing patterns, (b) 
firing irregularity,
Dr. M. Abeles: Brain structure and neural-network architecture,



Application dates and Program schedule
* PDF-format is mandatory for all documments submitted.
* Other formats (Word, LATEX, etc) are never accepted.

31 Jul., 2006: Deadline for registration to attend Tutorials and/or DBF
31 Aug., 2006: Deadline for electronic submission of abstracts (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
07 - 08 Mar., 2007: Poster presentations
07 - 09 Mar., 2007: DBF meeting


Registration fee and Travel Grant
Tutorial: Free of charge
DBF: US$200(US$160 for your early bird registration by end of Jun., 2006) 
includes banquet fee.
Financial support: Max. US$1,500 travel cost is financially supported for 
excellent papers awarded
by Program Committee, submitted by Graduate students and Post-docs.

Registration and further information
For registration or further information, please send e-mail to Secretary of 
the Organizing Committee.
Secretary: S. Nagayama: 
<mailto:nagayama at lab.tamagawa.ac.jp>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>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.
- James Wright, Univ. of Auckland, NZ


Executive Committee,
Chairman: Masamichi Sakagami: Tamagawa University, Japan.
-Christph Schreiner: University of California, San Francisco, USA.
-Takeshi Kasai, Osaka Univ., Japan
-Hiroshi Fujii: Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan.
-Kenji Doya: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
-Shuji Aou, Kyushu Institute of Tech, 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.
-Guy Sandner, INSERM, Strasburg, France

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