Connectionists: Registration DEADLINE extended for CCNC 2007 one week to Fri 26-Oct-07

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  ~ CCNC 2007/DYNAMICAL NEUROSCIENCE XV ~

The planning committee has extended the deadline for standard registration to 
MIDNIGHT next FRIDAY October 26, 2007. After that, registration fees will 
increase to $225 faculty/$110 student.

The committee requests that you PLEASE try to register for the conference by 
this deadline in order to help us optimally plan the conference and manage 
our budget. Registration should be done via the conference website at:

	http://ccnconference.org/page5.html
 
HOTEL reservations can be made via the SfN website: http://www.sfn.org. (CCNC 
will be held in the San Diego Convention Center.)

The final program schedule for this year's conference can be viewed at: 

	http://ccnconference.org/page2.html

PLEASE NOTE: In an effort to be family friendly (Halloween), the first day 
will start at 1:30PM to allow for travel that morning, if desired.

Based on the number of poster submissions, it looks like this year's 
conference should be very well attended, with lots of very interesting work!

Regards,
CCNC 2007 Planning Committee
  
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3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
                www.ccnconference.org

To be held in conjunction with Dynamical Neuroscience XV immediately prior to
the 2007 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (SfN) meeting, November 3-7, 2007 at the San
Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.

* CONFERENCE DATES: Thu-Fri November 1 & 2, 2007

* REGISTER AT:

        www.ccnconference.org/page5.html

The inaugural CCNC 2005 meeting held prior to Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
in Washington, DC (also in conjunction with the Dynamical Neuroscience
satellite) was a great success, with approximately 250 attendees, 60 presented
posters, and strongly positive reviews. For 2006, we went to Houston for the
much smaller Psychonomics meeting and still had over 100 attendees and almost
50 posters. In future years, we will continue to rotate among different
neuroscience and psychology meetings.
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* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: (NOW CLOSED - 
POSTERS ACCEPTED ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS ONLY)

Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website:

          www.ccnconference.org/page6.html

As in past years, there will be two categories of submissions:

   -Poster only
   -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster

Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented
minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing of posters will be
inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will
be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme,
and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short
talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness
criteria.

* NOTIFICATION OF POSTER ACCEPTANCE: DONE
* CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: DONE
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Program Summary:
* 2007 Keynote Speakers:
        Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine
	Alex Pouget, University of Rochester
      
* 3 Symposia, each including a mixture of modelers and non-modelers and
  focused on a common theme or issue:

** Computational Models in Biological Psychiatry

   Moderator: Michael Frank, University of Arizona

** Computionally-Based Brain Imaging: Models, Levels, 
and Approaches 

   Moderator: Todd Braver, Washington University - St. Louis

** Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Learning and Memory

   Moderator: Janet Wiles, University of Queensland

* 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters

* Poster sessions
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2007 Planning Committee:

Suzanna Becker, McMaster University
Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University
Nathaniel Daw, New York University
David Noelle, University of California, Merced
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Medical Center

Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder (ex officio)

Executive Staff: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder

For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit:

         www.ccnconference.org
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