Connectionists: SAND5 - 2010

[Barbara Dorney]

The fifth international workshop on Statistical Analysis
of Neural Data (SAND5) will take place May 20-22, 2010,
in Pittsburgh, PA.

This workshop series is concerned with analysis methods
for neural signals from various sources, including EEG,
fMRI, MEG, 2-Photon, and extracellular recordings. It aims to

   * define important problems in neural data analysis and useful
     strategies for attacking them;
   * foster communication between experimental neuroscientists and
     those trained in statistical and computational methods;
   * encourage young researchers, including graduate students, to
     present their work;
   * expose young researchers to important challenges and
     opportunities in this interdisciplinary domain, while providing
     a small meeting atmosphere to facilitate the interaction of
     young researchers with senior colleagues.

We expect some travel funds to be available.

A series of short talks (20 minutes, including questions) will
be given by young investigators (within 5 years of Ph.D.) on
a competitive basis. Anyone interested in presenting their work
as a talk should submit an abstract by February 28.

In addition, all participants are encouraged to present posters
involving new methodology, investigation of existing methods, or
application of state-of-the-art analytical techniques. We expect
there to be a special issue of the Journal of Computational
Neuroscience devoted to analysis of neural data, including
many papers from this workshop.

Here are the confirmed keynote speakers:

 Nancy Kopell (Boston U.)
 Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon)
 Partha Mitra (Cold Spring Harbor)
 Tirin Moore (Stanford)
 Clay Reid (Harvard)
 Walt Schneider (Pittsburgh)
 Garrett Stanley (Georgia Tech)
 Mriganka Sur (MIT)

The organizers are Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo,
Rob Kass, Liam Paninski, and Jonathan Victor.
For further information please see http://sand.stat.cmu.edu.