Connectionists: International Summer School on Maps in the Brain - 8-12 Aug 2016

[Charl]

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International Summer School on Maps in the Brain

8th - 12th of August, 2016
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Dear students and colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to the Maps in the Brain summer school.
Topological maps are widespread in the brain: from hippocampal place cells
that encode our movement in space, to the maps of motor cortex that plan
and encode action, to neural pathways responsible for decoding sensory
information. This week-long summer school will bring together the world's
leading scientists in spatial, cognitive and functional maps.

The meeting is organised into four main themes: Creating the Maps,
Modifying the Maps, Reading the Maps and Function of the Maps. In bridging
these themes, we will cover a level of detail from fundamental anatomy and
physiology, up to a higher-level functional view and consequences for
information processing. Next to the lectures, the course will include daily
computer practical sessions, where these topics will be explored hands-on.
All participants are also invited to present their research in poster
sessions accompanying the four themes, with awards for best poster in each
theme!

Confirmed lecturers include (in alphabetical order):

 * Alan Carleton (Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva -
Switzerland)
 * Tansu Celikel (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour -
Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
 * Mathew Diamond (SISSA International School for Advanced Studies -
Trieste, Italy)
 * Stephen Eglen (Cambridge Computational Biology Institute - Cambridge, UK)
 * Vincent Hayward (Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics - Paris,
France)
 * Moritz Helmstaedter (Max Planck Institute - Frankfurt, Germany)
 * Anthony Holtmaat (Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva -
Switzerland)
 * Henrik Jörntell (Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund
University - Sweden)
 * Mark van Rossum (Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation -
Edinburgh, UK)
 * Johannes Seelig (Center of Advanced European Studies and Research -
Bonn, Germany)

REGISTER NOW: http://tinyurl.com/maps-summer-school

Application deadline: June 15th --- late applications may be considered
based on space available

Looking forward to seeing you in Nijmegen!

Charl Linssen <c.linssen at donders.ru.nl> and Tansu Celikel <
celikel at neurophysiology.nl>
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