Dear colleague,
We are organizing the Workshop on Complex Nonlinear Neural Dynamics this
year again at the CNS 2002 in Chicago. Please feel free to forward this
e-mail to your friends and colleagues, who you think that might be
interested in coming to this workshop. This workshop will be a full day
workshop on July 25, and is open to all CNS 2002 participants. For
participation information see the CNS 2002 web-site:
www.neuroinf.org/CNS.shtml
Best regards,
Peter Andras
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Complex nonlinear neural dynamics
CNS 2002 workshop
Organizers: Peter Andras (U Newcastle, UK), Robert Kozma (U Memphis, TN),
Amir Assadi (U Wisconsin, WS)
Website:www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/peter.andras/cnnd-ws2002.htm
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Studying nonlinear, dynamical aspects of information processing and memory
in biological and computational neural systems has attracted a lot of
attention in recent years. This session aims at giving a forum to
researchers interested in this field introducing their results and
discussing new developments in this area. The major questions addressed at
this session will be:
What evidence do we have that indicates that neurons, neural circuits or
brain components have functionally meaningful complex nonlinear dynamic or
chaotic activity? How should we interpret these experimental results?
What is the role of noise in the operation of biological systems? How does
noise contribute to the stability of complex nonlinear systems in biology
and in computational models?
What are the most promising approaches to the analysis of complex nonlinear
dynamics in neural network models ? What spatio-temporal features indicate
complex behavior? What new insights are provided by the analysis of lattices
of coupled nonlinear maps ? Is symbolic dynamics the right conceptual
framework to describe the dynamical macro-behavior of neural systems ?
How does the chaotic dynamics analysed in the context of some neural network
models correspond to the complex spatio-temporal dynamical effects observed
in biological brains ? What are the established links between the two kinds
of complex neural dynamics and what are the gaps that are waiting to be
bridged ? Is it essential to have complex nonlinear dynamics in the neural
system to perform computation or would it be more advantageous to do it
without any chaos ? Is it possible that chaos is just a side effect from the
point of view of neural computation ?
The workshop will consist of a few invited talks, a selection of short talks
and discussion panels. We invite participants of the CNS 2002 to submit
proposals for short talks at the workshop. The proposals should be in the
form of a one page abstract, summarizing the content of the talk and
indicating which of the above listed questions are going to be addressed by
the talk. Please indicate also if the proposed talk is different from your
paper(s) submitted to the CNS 2002. The selected proposals will be allocated
a 10 minutes presentation time. All other proposals will be considered for
presentation as posters. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to the
address: peter.andras@ncl.ac.uk. Deadline for abstracts: July 3, 2002.
E-mail notification about acceptance for oral presentation will be sent out
by July 12, 2002.
The organizers intend to publish a volume of the papers related to the talks
given at the workshop.
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