Connectionists: [COSYNE2015] Travel grants, registration, and hotels

[Tomas Hromadka]

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 Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)

 MAIN MEETING
 Mar 5 - Mar 8, 2015
 Salt Lake City, Utah

 WORKSHOPS
 Mar 9 - Mar 10, 2015
 Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah

 http://www.cosyne.org

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REGISTRATION AND HOTELS:

Travel grants submission is currently open.
Online registration is currently open.
Hotel booking is currently open.

Travel grant application deadline:
    Dec 31, 2014, 11.59PM EST (Undergraduate Travel Grant)
    Jan 22, 2015, 11.59PM EST (Other travel grants)

Early registration deadline:
    Jan 31, 2015, 11.59PM EST

For deadlines on discounted hotel rates, as well as for more detailed
information on Cosyne, please visit www.cosyne.org


TRAVEL GRANTS

Applications are now open for travel grants to attend the conference.
Each awardee will receive at least $500 to help offset the costs of
travel, registration, and accommodations. Larger grants may be available
to those traveling from outside North America. Special consideration is
given to scientists who have not previously attended the meeting,
underrepresented minorities, students who are attending the meeting
together with a mentor, undergraduate students, and authors of submitted
Cosyne abstracts. We currently offer four travel grant programs for New
Attendees, Presenters, Mentors, and Undergraduates. For details on
applying, see http://www.cosyne.org/c/index.php?title=Travel_Grants .


THE MEETING

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange
of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems
neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function.

The MAIN MEETING is single-track. A set of invited talks are selected by
the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected
by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS
feature in-depth discussion of current topics of interest, in a small
group setting.

Cosyne topics include but are not limited to: neural coding, natural
scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent
activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and
sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map
formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation
with spiking networks.


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

 Amy Bastian (Johns Hopkins)
 Matteo Carandini (UCL)
 Sophie Deneve (ENS)
 Florian Engert (Harvard)
 Marla Feller (UC Berkeley)
 Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL)
 Shawn Lockery (U Oregon)
 Liam Paninski (Columbia)
 Nicole Rust (U Penn)
 Tatyana Sharpee (Salk)
 Mariano Sigman (UBA)
 Emo Todorov (U Washington)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 General Chairs: Michael Long (NYU) and Stephanie Palmer (U Chicago)
 Program Chairs: Maria Geffen (U Penn) and Konrad Kording (Northwestern)
 Workshop Chairs: Robert Froemke (NYU) and Claudia Clopath (Imperial
College)
 Publicity Chair: Xaq Pitkow (Rice)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
 Anne Churchland (CSHL)
 Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud)
 Alexandre Pouget (U Geneva)
 Anthony Zador (CSHL)