Connectionists: 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics

[INCF - Elli Chatzopoulou]

The organizers of Neuroinformatics 2008 are inviting you and your 
research team to register for the:

1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics:

*Databasing and Modeling the Brain*
/Stockholm, Sweden -September 7-9, 2008 /

Neuroinformatics 2008 will focus on dissemination of recent progress and 
community building in this emerging field. The congress is organized as 
a single track event, with 6 keynote speakers, 5 workshops, and 2 poster 
sessions, as well as live demos of neuroinformatics applications.

Online registration and abstract submission is now open!
*www.neuroinformatics2008.org*

/Keynote Speakers:/
-Mark Ellisman
-Mitsuo Kawato
-Mary Kennedy
-Henry Markram
-Idan Segev
-David Van Essen

*Workshops*
-Future hardware challenges to scientific computing
Erik de Schutter (chair), Gabriel Wittum, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, John Shalf

-Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics in database 
research
Robert Williams (chair), Ed Lein, Seth Grant, Kristen Harris

-Extraction if structural and functional information from brain images
Ulla Ruotsalainen (chair), Arthur Toga, Alan Evans, Thomas Mrsic-Flögel

-Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology
Andrzej Wrobel (chair), György Buzsaki, Miguel Nicolelis, Xiaoqin Wang

*Special session*
Perspectives in funding research in neuroinformatics
Kathie Olsen, Wolfgang Boch


We especially encourage junior researchers to submit abstracts for the 
poster session.
We kindly ask you to spread information about the conference to 
potentially interested colleagues and target groups.

-- 
Elli Chatzopoulou, Ph.D.
Scientific Information and Public Relations Officer

International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
Secretariat
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

Email: elli.chatzopoulou at incf.org
Phone: +46 8 524 87491
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Fax: +46 8 524 87150
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