Connectionists: Neural Coding 2007 -- Student/Postdoc Travel Support

[Michael Stiber]

Neural Coding 2007 -- Student/Postdoc Travel Support

Funding is available for US postdoctoral and predoctoral (graduate and
undergraduate) researchers to attend the 2007 Neural Coding meeting
and its associated Joint US/Uruguay Workshop on Neural Dynamics, to be
held in Montevideo, Uruguay on November 4-12, 2007. Support in the
amount of $2000, to be used toward registration fees, hotel expenses,
and other travel costs, will include post-meeting travel to research
laboratories in the southern cone region of South America; contacts to
research laboratories will be provided (participants will be
responsible for arranging the specifics of their own travel).  This
will be an excellent opportunity to establish contacts with
international experts and a small but very valuable and growing
community of Uruguayan and Latin American scientists.

The Neural Coding symposia bring together scientists from different
fields with the conviction that multidisciplinary approaches are
essential for better understanding neural coding mechanisms as well as
their disturbances in clinical cases. Hence, the attendees of the
Neural Coding Workshop should be prepared to cross the borders of
their own disciplines. Intense discussions of experimental, modeling,
and analytical approaches are expected.  Major emphasis will be placed
on biologically inspired formal and computer models which could
elucidate the functionally relevant dynamics of the neural coding
mechanisms, including their possible roles in causing and treating
neurological and related diseases.

For more information on the meeting, please see the meeting web site
at <http://www.neuralcoding2007.edu.uy/>.

The deadline for applications is September 14. In your application,
please include:

1. For postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, an abstract
    prepared in accordance with the instructions at the Neural Coding
    web site. Alternatively, you may indicate that you are a co-author
    of an already submitted paper (please indicate the title and author
    list of the paper as well). You will be expected to present your
    research during the Joint Workshop.

2. A personal statement describing your research interests and plans
    and how this experience will factor into them. Your personal
    statement should also indicate: your commitment to attend both the
    Joint Workshop and the main Neural Coding meeting, a plan for your
    stay in the southern cone area of South America beyond these (see
    the Neural Coding web site for a list of contacts), and your
    agreement to submit afterwards a brief summary of your experiences
    at the Joint Workshop and during your travels in the region,
    including prospective new collaborations.

3. A curriculum vitae.

4. The name and contact information (including email) for a faculty
    member or other scientific reference who will be sending a
    (separate) letter of reference for you. Please arrange for this
    letter to be sent directly to us.

All application materials should be sent via email to <nc07 at uwb.edu>.

Awardees will be notified of the grant within two weeks after the
deadline date.

Support is provided by the US National Science Foundation under grant
number OISE-0652336.