Connectionists: COSYNE2015: Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts

[Tomas Hromadka]

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        Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)

        MAIN MEETING                WORKSHOPS
        Mar 5 - Mar 8, 2015         Mar 9 - Mar 10, 2015
        Salt Lake City, Utah        Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah

                    http://www.cosyne.org

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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.

This year we would like to foster increased participation from
experimental groups as well as computational ones. Please circulate
widely and encourage your students and postdocs to apply.
Please note that the main Cosyne 2015 meeting will take place in a
different venue (Hilton Salt Lake City Center) one week later than
usual, see www.cosyne.org for details.

IMPORTANT DATES:
	Abstract submission opens:     29 Sep 2014
	Abstract submission deadline:  26 Nov 2014

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)

When preparing an abstract, authors should be aware that not all
abstracts can be accepted for the meeting, due to space constraints.
Abstracts will be selected based on the clarity with which they convey
the substance, significance, and originality of the work to be presented.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
    General Chairs:  Michael Long (NYU) and Stephanie Palmer (U Chicago)
    Program Chairs:  Maria Geffen (U Penn) and Konrad Körding (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)

CONTACT
    cosyne.meeting [at] gmail.com