Subject: COSYNE 2017: Travel grants, registration, and hotels From: Tomas Hromadka <tomas.hromadka@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 23:12:17 +0100 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 ==================================================== REGISTRATION AND HOTELS Travel grants submission is currently open. Online registration is currently open. Hotel booking is currently open. Travel grant application deadlines Dec 31, 2016, 11.59PM PST (*Undergraduate* Travel Grant) Jan 14, 2017, 11.59PM PST (Other travel grants) Early registration deadline Jan 31, 2017, 11.45PM EST Hotel booking deadlines Jan 13, 2017, Last day for reduced hotel rates at workshops Feb 01, 2017, Last day for reduced hotel rates at main meeting For more detailed information on Cosyne, please visit www.cosyne.org. TRAVEL GRANTS Applications are now open for travel grants to attend the conference. Each awardee will receive at least $500 to help offset the costs of travel, registration, and accommodations. Larger grants may be available to those traveling from outside North America. Special consideration is given to scientists who have not previously attended the meeting, under-represented minorities, students who are attending the meeting together with a mentor, undergraduate students, and authors of submitted Cosyne abstracts. We currently offer four travel grant programs for New Attendees, Presenters, Mentors, and Undergraduates. For details on applying, see cosyne.org, section Travel grants. THE MEETING 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, section 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. 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 attend. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Yoshua Bengio (Montreal) Brent Doiron (Pittsburgh) Catherine Dulac (Harvard) Greg Gage (Backyard Brains) Surya Ganguli (Stanford) Maria Geffen (Penn) Gero Miesenbock (Oxford) Liz Phelps (NYU) Jonathan Pillow (Princeton) Vanessa Ruta (Rockefeller) Daphna Shohamy (Columbia) Kay Tye (MIT) Nao Uchida (Harvard) 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) Undergraduate Travel Chairs: Angela Langdon (Princeton) and Robert Wilson (U Arizona) 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.