Connectionists: COSYNE 2017: Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts

[Tomas Hromadka]

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Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2017 (Cosyne)

MAIN MEETING
23 - 26 February 2017
Salt Lake City, Utah

WORKSHOPS
27 - 28 February 2017
Snowbird, Utah

www.cosyne.org

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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

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. For details on workshop proposals please visit Cosyne.org 
-> Workshops.

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.


IMPORTANT DATES

    Abstract submission opens: 01 October 2016
    Abstract submission deadline: 10 November 2016
    Workshop pre-proposal deadline: 01 October 2016
    Workshop proposal deadline: 31 October 2016


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

     Yoshua Bengio (Montreal)
     Brent Doiron (Pittsburgh)
     Catherine Du Lac (Harvard)
     Greg Gage (Backyard Brains)
     Surya Ganguli (Stanford)
     Maria Geffen (Penn)
     Ann Graybiel (MIT)
     Gero Miesenbock (Oxford)
     Liz Phelps (NYU)
     Jonathan Pillow (Princeton)
     Vanessa Ruta (Rockefeller)
     Daphna Shahomy (Columbia)
     Kay Tye (MIT)
     Nao Uchida (Harvard)


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: Megan Carey (Champalimaud) and Emilio Salinas (Wake 
Forest)
     Program Chairs: Ilana Witten (Princeton) and Eric Shea-Brown (U 
Washington)
     Workshop Chairs: Laura Busse (LMU, Munich) and Alfonso Renart 
(Champalimaud)
     Publicity Chair: Il Memming Park (Stony Brook)


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


CONTACT
     cosyne.meeting [at] gmail.com


COSYNE MAILING LISTS

Please consider adding yourself to Cosyne mailing lists (groups) to 
receive email updates with various Cosyne-related information and join 
in helpful discussions. See Cosyne.org -> Mailing lists for details.