The National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science
DYNAMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
Integrating Observations Across Scales
Friday and Saturday -- October 24-25, 1997
A Satellite Symposium of the 27th Annual Meeting
of the Society for Neuroscience
New Orleans Convention Center
This workshop will bring together leading theoretical and experimental
neuroscientists to discuss how currently available technologies and data
analytic methods are used to collect, store, analyze and visualize
information. The emphasis will be on how to identify the most useful
information in complex data sets. Several of the obstacles faced by
experimentalists in handling very large and incomplete data sets will be
addressed, including discussions regarding data compression and display.
The objective is not to provide a detailed account of individual methods
and techniques, but rather to examine how investigators go about
identifying important or relevant information at different scales. For
example, techniques that are helpful in representing spatiotemporal
processes at one scale (e.g., multiple units) may be useful at other scales
(e.g., fMRI). By bringing together experts who use different approaches and
technologies across a range of experimental model systems, the hope is to
enhance understanding on how different scales of observation and
organization are linked.
This announcement constitutes a call for posters to be presented in
conjunction with the Symposium. Please submit poster abstracts before
August 22, 1997, via E-mail only, in the same format used for the Society
for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, to: dynamics@helix.nih.gov
For further information: Please contact Dennis L. Glanzman, Theoretical
and Computational Neuroscience Research Program, Division of Neuroscience
and Behavioral Science, NIMH, Parklawn Building, Rm. 11-102, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-1576 Fax: (301) 443-4822 E-mail:
glanzman@helix.nih.gov
R e c e i p t D e a d l i n e : A u g u s t 2 2, 1997
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