Connectionists: From Maps to Circuits: Models and Mechanisms for Generating Neural Connections

[Stephen Eglen]

 From Maps to Circuits: 
Models and Mechanisms for Generating Neural Connections

28/29 July 2014, Edinburgh UK

http://maps2014.org

Organisers: Stephen Eglen, Matthias Hennig, Andrew Huberman, David
Sterratt, Ian Thompson, David Willshaw


Aim of the meeting

Understanding the development of the nervous system is a key challenge
that has been approached by both experimental and theoretical
neuroscientists. In recent years there has been a gradual move towards
the two groups working more with each other. The idea of this workshop
is to bring key people together who have shown an interest at
combining theoretical and experimental techniques to discuss current
problems in neuronal development, and plan future collaborative
efforts.


Time at the end of each day of the workshop will be devoted to a group
discussion about questions that have been raised during the day to
identify possible research directions and people willing to pursue
them.

Speakers: Tom Clandinin (Stanford), Michael Crair (Yale), Irina
Erchova (Cardiff), David Feldheim (UC Santa Cruz), Geoffrey Goodhill
(U Queensland), Robert Hindges (Kings College London), Sonja Hofer
(Basel), Hitoshi Sakano (U Tokyo), David Wilkinson (NIMR, London),
David Willshaw (Edinburgh), Fred Wolf (Gottingen).


This meeting is supported by Cambridge Univeristy Press, Company of
Biologists, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Institute for Adaptive and
Neural Computation, Wellcome Trust.