Subject: Gordon Research Conference From: "Kevin O'Connor" <knoconnor(at)UCDAVIS.EDU> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:37:20 -0800<html> <body> <br> <font size=3>Dear Auditory List Members:<br><br> </font>I am posting the following message on the behalf of Bruno Olshausen.<br><br> <font size=3>---------------------------<br> Gordon Research Conference:<br> ---------------------------<br><br> <br> "Sensory coding and the natural environment"<br><br> September 5-10, 2004<br> The Queen's College, Oxford, UK<br><br> Bruno Olshausen, Chair<br> Jack Gallant & Mike Lewicki, Vice-chairs<br><br> <br> This conference will bring together researchers from diverse<br> disciplines to discuss the statistical structure of natural scenes,<br> and how nervous systems exploit these statistics to form useful<br> representations of the environment. Topics include sensory<br> neurophysiology, perceptual psychology, and the mathematics of<br> signal statistics, applied to a variety of sensory modalities and<br> organisms. A list of speakers as well as instructions on how to<br> apply are available at<br><br> <a href="http://www.grc.org/programs/2004/senscod.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.grc.org/programs/2004/senscod.htm</a><br><br> Applications will be reviewed in April, at which point accepted<br> applicants may register. All participants will have the opportunity<br> to present their work in poster sessions. We hope to have funds<br> available to subsize fees and travel for students and postdocs.<br> </font></body> <br> </html>