Subject: COSYNE 2017: Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts From: Tomas Hromadka <tomas.hromadka@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 13:35:22 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>==================================================== 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 ==================================================== 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.