Symposium: Computation in the Olfactory System

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A symposium of potential interest to our community will be held in Baltimore
next July as a satellite meeting to the 2004 Computational Neuroscience
meeting (CNS*04) and as the 2004 Annual Symposium of the University of
Maryland Program in Neuroscience. The announcement follows, and a PDF
flyer of the announcement can be downloaded from the www.cnsorg.org site
for posting. Please feel free to repost this announcement as you see fit.

For further information, please either contact me or refer to the following
web sites:

CNS Organization and CNS*04 Information: http://www.cnsorg.org
Program in Neuroscience at the University of Maryland:
http://neuroscience.umaryland.edu/

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Symposium: Computation in the Olfactory System

The neural representations of odors are shaped not only by the physical
parameters of olfactory stimuli but also by organismal factors including
motivation and prior experience. This symposium will explore the
contributions of centrifugal projections to olfactory sensory processing in
the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex, and the mechanisms by which this
centrifugal activity is integrated with and shapes the neural
representations evoked by odor stimulation. Speakers will approach this
topic from diverse perspectives including olfactory learning and the
biophysics of odor representation, and employing levels of analysis
including animal behavior, cellular and network physiology, and
computational modeling.

Speakers include:
    Edi Barkai, University of Haifa
    Abdallah Hayar, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
    Leslie Kay, University of Chicago
    Michael Leon, University of California, Davis
    Christiane Linster, Cornell University
    Pierre-Marie Lledo, Institut Pasteur
    Barry Richmond, Section on Neural Coding and Computation, NIMH
    Michael Shipley, University of Maryland

Saturday, 17 July 2004
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Radisson Plaza Lord Hotel
Baltimore, MD

Lodging at reduced rates has been arranged at the hotel. Please consult the
web sites below for additional information.

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The Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS*04) will be held in the same
hotel from July 18-20, with assorted workshops following on July 21-22.
Please consult http://www.cnsorg.org for details.

Cheers,

Thom Cleland

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Thomas A. Cleland
Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
W249 Seeley G. Mudd Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
voice (607) 254-4331; fax (775) 254-2756; email tac29@cornell.edu
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