Connectionists: PENS Spring School: Models in neuroscience: turning experiments into knowledge

[Anton Chizhov]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that PENS Neuroscience School

Models in Neuroscience: turning experiments into knowledge

will be held in St.Petersburg, Russia from April, 27 to May, 5 2008.
The school will emphasize the role of modeling as a knowledge 
structuring tool.The lectures will describe the use of mathematical 
model-based approaches to infer knowledge from the experimental data and 
  statistical models used for establishing significance of findings. 
Additional goals of the school are to bridge the gap between future 
cellular and cognitive neuroscientists and to attract the students 
majoring in physics and math to the field of computational neuroscience.

We welcome applications from advanced Ph.D. students and young post-docs 
with interest in all fields of neuroscience as well as students with 
physics/math major. A total of 30 students will be accepted. Meals and 
accommodation are covered for all accepted students, limited number of 
travel awards is available.

Application deadline, February, 15, 2008.

Registration fee: 100 Euro (fee can be waived for students with
advanced records)

Cellular neuroscience: biophysics of ionic channels, synaptic and 
circumneuronal signal transmission, synaptic plasticity, techniques of 
imaging and electrophysiology
Cognitive neuroscience: memory, attention, language, brain imaging, 
multi-modal integration in cognitive data analysis, event-related 
potentials and fields
Computational neuroscience: single-neuron and neural population 
modeling, dynamic causal modeling (DCM), non-parametric statistical 
analysis of EEG/MEG data


For more information, please, visit http://www.neuroscience.spb.ru/school

Ekaterina Volokhonskaya on behalf of the organizing committee