Connectionists: Submit to Neuroscience and Machine Learning sessions at the 2017 American Physical Society annual March Meeting

[Nemenman, Ilya]

Dear Colleagues:

The 2017 American Physical Society (APS) March meeting (March 13-17, 2017; New Orleans, LA) will again emphasize “Physics of Neural Systems” in its program; in addition, multiple sessions will be held to discuss the interface between physics and machine learning. Invited and Focus sessions of relevance to neuroscientists and machine learning researchers will include, among others,
1. Robot scientists and machine learning for the modeling and control of biological systems
2. Patterns and control in animal behavior
3. Physics of neural network dynamics for the brain
4: Photoreceptor and signal transduction.
5: Neural control of behavior
6: Non-equilibrium dynamics of neural circuits
7: Machine learning for modeling and control

You can also submit to the following related general DBIO sorting categories:
4.10: Physics of Neural Systems
4.11: Physics of Behavior
4.13: Methods in Biological Physics

Some of the invited / confirmed speakers include:
Misha Ahrens (Janelia Research Campus)
Gordon Berman (Emory University)
Andre Brown (Imperial College)
Steve Brunton (University of Washington)
Giancarlo La Camera (Stony Brook University)
Hod Lipson (Columbia University)
Michale Fee (MIT)
Ross King (University of Manchester)
Andrew Leifer (Princeton University)
Bo Li (CSHL)
Kenneth Miller (Columbia University)
Leslie Osborne (University of Chicago)
David Schwab (Northwestern University)
Sara Solla (Northwestern University)
Charles Stevens (Salk Institute)
Anthony Zador (CSHL)
and others

We are now accepting abstract submissions for contributed talks on a broad range of topics on the intersection of physics, neuroscience, and machine learning, such as quantitative experimental protocols, modeling of neural dynamics, statistical physics of deep learning, analysis of collective computation in neural circuits, and others.

March meeting abstract submission website: https://www.aps.org/meetings/march/index.cfm
Abstract submission deadline: November 11, 2016, 5:00pm EST

APS March meeting is the largest physics meeting in the world, attracting about 10,000 physicists. At the meeting, the APS Division of Biological Physics supports one of the largest and scientifically diverse programs on the interface of physics and biology, from molecular and cellular biophysics, to computational neuroscience and population dynamics, featuring over 700 talks last year.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts. If you have any questions about neuroscience at the March Meeting, please don’t hesitate to contact Ilya Nemenman (ilya.nemenman at emory.edu).

Sincerely,

Ilya Nemenman

Professor of Physics and Biology
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
and
Chair, Division of Biological Physics (DBIO)
American Physical Society (APS)
http://nemenmanlab.org

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