Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2012: Meeting announcement and call for abstracts (deadline Nov 23 2011)

http://www.cosyne.org

Main meeting: Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown, February 23 – 26, 2012
Workshops: Snowbird Ski Resort, February 27 and 28, 2012

About Cosyne

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. It has attracted a growing number of participants, rising to over 500 in 2011.

To encourage interdisciplinary interactions, the main meeting is arranged in a single track. A set of invited talks are selected by the Executive Committee and Organizing Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts.

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. Participants include pure experimentalists, pure theorists, and everything in between.

Abstract submission

The abstract submission deadline is November 23. Click here for details.

Main meeting featured speakers

John Assad

Michael Brecht

Emery Brown

Nicolas Brunel

Stefano Fusi

Tom Griffiths

Takao Hensch

Zach Mainen

Fred Rieke

Rebecca Saxe

Noam Sobel

Sarah Woolley

Important Dates:

Abstract submission opens: 24 Oct 2011
Abstract submission deadline: 23 Nov 2011

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: Rachel Wilson (Harvard) and Jim DiCarlo (MIT)

Program Chairs: Nicole Rust (Penn) and Jonathan Pillow (UT Austin)

Workshop Chairs: Brent Doiron (Pittsburgh) and Jess Cardin (Yale)

Publicity Chair: Mark Histed (Harvard Medical School)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

Anthony Zador (CSHL)

Alexandre Pouget (U Rochester)

Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme)