From: Judy Macias (judy@bbb.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 16:35:46 MST
http://cns.numedeon.com/cns2001
DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES AND ABSTRACTS:
**>> 11:59 pm January 26, 2001 PST<<**
This is the tenth annual meeting of an interdisciplinary conference
addressing a broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the
field of computational neuroscience. These meetings bring together
experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer
scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested
in the functioning of biological nervous systems.
THIS YEAR'S MEETING
The meeting in 2001 will take place on the Central West Coast of the United
States. The meeting will officially convene in San Francisco on the
evening of June 30th with an opening reception. Then on the morning of
Sunday July 1st, meeting participants will board busses for the Monterey
Peninsula where the formal scientific sessions will start at 5:00 p.m. at
the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove. The last meeting event
will be the traditional banquet on Thursday evening, July 5th.
As in past meetings, both oral and poster sessions will be organized. Oral
presentations will take place in one session during the day, with poster
presentations in the afternoons and evenings. The meeting will include
time for informal workshops as well.
Housing accommodations will be available for the evening of June 30th at
the Ramada Plaza hotel in the Market Street area of San Francisco and at
the Asilomar Conference Grounds for the duration of the meeting. Please
contact the Ramada Plaza Hotel for hotel reservations on the 30th (the
special conference rate is also available for preceding nights, code:
CNS*01). To make reservations at the Ramada Plaza Hotel please make
reservations prior to Feb. 28, 2001, please call (800) 227-4747 or (415)
626-8000. Also, please fax the enclosed room registration form directly to
the Asilomar Center at (831) 642-4261. Meeting attendees are responsible
for making their own hotel reservations.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
With this announcement we solicit paper submissions to the meeting. Papers
can include experimental, model-based, as well as more abstract theoretical
approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. We especially
encourage papers that mix experimental and theoretical studies. We also
accept papers that describe new technical approaches to theoretical and
experimental issues in computational neuroscience.
Papers for the meeting should be submitted via email as an attached
electronic file (Microsoft Word Preferred) to submit@bbb.caltech.edu. The
body of the email submission MUST include the first and last names of all
authors, their academic affiliations, and their email addresses. The
corresponding author should also be indicated clearly. The scientific
submission must be provided in two forms: First, a 100 word abstract must
be provided that succinctly describes the research results. Abstracts for
all accepted papers will be published in the conference program as well as
on the meeting web site. Authors must also submit a 1000 word (MAXIMUM)
description of their research. This description is used as the basis for
the review process and should clearly state the objectives and context for
the work as well as the results and its significance. Also, at the bottom
of each abstract page and on the first summary page indicate preference for
oral or poster presentation. (PLEASE SEE WORD SAMPLE ATTACHED)
All submissions will be acknowledged by email. It is important to note
that this notice, as well as all other communication related to the paper
will be sent to the designated correspondence author only. Full
instructions for submission can be found at the meeting web site:
http://cns.numedeon.com/cns2001
THE REVIEW PROCESS
All papers submitted to CNS are peer reviewed. The review process will
take place in two rounds. In the first round the papers willbe judged and
accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with which the work is
described and the biological relevance of the research. For this reason
authors should be careful to make the connection to biology clear in both
the 100 word abstract and the 1000 word research summary. We expect to
notify authors of meeting acceptance by the second week of February.
The second stage of review involves evaluation of each submission by two
referees. The primary objective of this round of review will be to select
papers for oral presentation. All accepted papers not selected for oral
talks as well as papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will
be included in one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be
notified of the presentation format of their papers no later than the
second week of May, 2000.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
All research accepted and presented at the CNS meeting is eligible for
publication in the CNS proceedings. The proceedings volume is published
each year as a special supplement to the journal 'Neurocomputing'. In
addition the proceedings are published in a hardbound edition by Elsevier
Press. 6 page proceedings papers are submitted in October following the
meeting. For reference, papers presented at CNS*99 can be found in volumes
32 and 33 of Neurocomputing published in 2000.
STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
Students and postdoctoral fellows presenting papers are eligible for travel
grant supplements based on need and available funding.
FURTHER MEETING CORRESPONDENCE
Additional questions about this year's meeting or the paper submission
process can be sent via email to cns2001@bbb.caltech.edu or via surface
mail to:
CNS*2001
Division of Biology 216-76
Caltech
Pasadena, CA 91125
CNS*2001 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Meeting Chair- Jim Bower, Caltech
Governmental Liaison - Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH
Workshop Organizer - Maneesh Sahani, University College, London
CNS*2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Avrama Blackwell, George Mason University
Upinder Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences
Victoria Booth, New Jersey Institute of Technology
John Hertz, Nordita
Chip Levy, University of Virginia
Ray Glantz, Rice University
David Horn, University of Tel Aviv
Steven J. Schiff, George Mason University
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