Cosyne is an annual meeting providing an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw about 350-400 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines.


Computational and Sytems Neuroscience (Cosyne)
MAIN MEETING WORKSHOPS
28 Feb – 2 Mar, 2008 3 – 4 Mar, 2008
Salt Lake City, Utah Snow Bird Ski Resort, Utah
http://cosyne.org
The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts. Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts.
The WORKSHOPS are held in 6-10 parallel sessions, allowing for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. A Call for Workshop Proposals will be sent out shortly.
2008 INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed):
John Assad (Harvard U.)
Gyuri Buzsaki (Rutgers U.)
Dimitri Chklovskii (Janelia Farm, HHMI)
Karl Deisseroth (Stanford U.)
Mitra Hartmann (Northestern U.)
Michael Hausser (UCL)
David Heeger (NYU)
Sabine Kastner (Princeton U.)
Mitsuo Kawato (ATR)
David McAlpine (UCL)
Tomaso Poggio (MIT)
Krishna Shenoy (Stanford U.)
Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
Rachel Wilson (Harvard U.)
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 Nov 2007
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Tony Zador (CSHL)
Alex Pouget (U Rochester)
Zach Mainen (CSHL)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair: Eero Simoncelli (NYU)
Program Chair: Matteo Carandini (Smith-Kettlewell)
Workshop Chair: Fritz Sommer (UC Berkeley)
Publicity Chair: Alex Wade (Smith-Kettlewell)

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