From tobias at nld.ds.mpg.de Tue Jul 3 16:56:31 2007 From: tobias at nld.ds.mpg.de (Tobias Niemann) Date: Wed Jul 4 11:38:29 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] PhD position in cellular neuroscience Message-ID: <468A639F.9090707@nld.ds.mpg.de> The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience G?ttingen invites applications for a PhD student position (BATIIa/2) in cellular neuroscience. The successful candidate will use biophysical methods to characterize the synaptic mechanisms that mediate the coding of sound intensity and timing by the first synapse in the auditory pathway. Recently, we found evidence that at the active zone of the inner hair cell the exocytosis of a given synaptic vesicle may be controlled by only one or few nearby Ca2+ channel(s). This Ca2+ nanodomain control of transmitter release implies that sound coding is determined by the stochastic gating of single Ca2+ channels. The successful candidate will study the relationship of Ca2+ channel opening and single vesicle exocytosis at the microscopic, single active zone level. This will be done by cell-attached patch-clamp recordings from inner hair cells and accompanying modelling of the synaptic signalling cascade. We are looking for applicants with a first degree in a natural science, preferably with prior experience in biophysics and neuroscience. The candidate's PhD research will be supported the recently established Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) in G?ttingen. G?ttingen is a center of neuroscience in Europe hosting numerous internationally recognized neuroscience research institutions, including three Max Planck Institutes, the European Neuroscience Institute, the German Primate Research Center, and G?ttingen University's Centers for Systems Neuroscience (ZNV) and for the Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB). The BCCN integrates theoretical and experimental research groups from these institutions to foster interdisciplinary research in computational neuroscience specifically supporting close collaboration between theorists and experimental researchers. Please submit your application preferably in one single PDF-document, including cover letter, CV, list of publications, names of possible referees, relevant certificates to: jobs@bccn-goettingen.de (Subject: BioPhAN PhD) While e-mail is preferred, applications may also be submitted in hardcopy to the following address: Dr. Andreas Neef Subject: BioPhAN PhD InnerEarLab Department of Otolaryngology University Clinics Goettingen D-37099 Goettingen Germany http://www.bccn-goettingen.de The BCCN is an equal opportunity employer. From tobias at nld.ds.mpg.de Tue Jul 3 16:56:39 2007 From: tobias at nld.ds.mpg.de (Tobias Niemann) Date: Wed Jul 4 11:38:31 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] PhD position in theoretical neurophysics In-Reply-To: <461CB576.7030407@nld.ds.mpg.de> References: <461CB576.7030407@nld.ds.mpg.de> Message-ID: <468A63A7.5040101@nld.ds.mpg.de> The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience G?ttingen invites applications for a PhD student position (BATIIa/2) in theoretical neurophysics. The successful candidate will use mathematical and computational modelling to characterize on the encoding of complex sounds in the auditory system. Key aspects of auditory encoding are determined by the first stage of auditory neuronal processing, the inner hair cell ribbon synapse that transforms sound information into neuronal impulse sequences. This synapse?s precision to code the temporal fine structure of acoustic stimuli is unparalleled. For example, our capacity to locate sound sources in space depends on interaural time differences in the arrival of sound of only a few hundreds of microseconds. Theoretical studies will address (1) the biophysical mechanisms that dynamically shape the synaptic encoding of sounds and (2) the resulting temporally precise coding schemes used by auditory processing stages in the brain. Modelling will be based on experimental data obtained by electrophysiological and imaging approaches. We are looking for applicants with a first degree in physics, preferably with prior experience in theoretical physics or theoretical neuroscience, good computational skills and the ability to work in an interdisciplinary research team. Prior knowledge of biophysics and neuroscience is welcome but not required. The candidate's PhD research will be supported the recently established Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) in G?ttingen. G?ttingen is a center of neuroscience in Europe hosting numerous internationally recognized neuroscience research institutions, including three Max Planck Institutes, the European Neuroscience Institute, the German Primate Research Center, and G?ttingen University's Centers for Systems Neuroscience (ZNV) and for the Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB). The BCCN integrates theoretical and experimental research groups from these institutions to foster interdisciplinary research in computational neuroscience specifically supporting close collaboration between theorists and experimental researchers. Please submit your application preferably in one single PDF-document, including cover letter, CV, list of publications, names of possible referees, relevant certificates to: jobs@bccn-goettingen.de (Subject: AuditoryTheoNeurohys PhD) While e-mail is preferred, applications may also be submitted in hardcopy to the following address: Dr. Fred Wolf Subject: AuditoryTheoNeurohys PhD Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) G?ttingen Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Bunsenstrasse 10 D - 37073 G?ttingen, Germany http://www.bccn-goettingen.de The MPIDS is an equal opportunity employer. From rubin at math.pitt.edu Tue Jul 3 18:52:25 2007 From: rubin at math.pitt.edu (Jonathan Rubin) Date: Wed Jul 4 11:38:33 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to call your attention to a workshop, "Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks," that we have organized, to be held at the Hotel Delta in Mallorca, Spain on October 17-20, 2007. The scientific themes of the meeting include: -- the possible roles of globally coherent rhythms in the coordination of distributed processing, -- the possible roles of coherence in stimulus discrimination, -- the interplay of coherence of neuronal network activity with Hebbian plasticity, and -- the mechanisms and functional implications of repeated spiking sequences. Additionally, one of the goals of the meeting is to promote the development and continuation of interdisciplinary collaborations in these areas, as well as the exchange of ideas between participants from a variety of backgrounds and career stages. More information about the meeting, including a list of speakers, is available at ifisc.uib.es/public/cobenn/ The meeting will include a poster session, and funds are available to support student and postdoc travel. If you or someone from your group is interested in attending and presenting a poster, as we hope you will be, then please complete an application form, available at the above website. Space is limited, so we encourage early applications. PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for applications for travel funding is July 31, 2007. We will admit applicants on a rolling basis. Once you are notified of your acceptance, you will be asked to fill out a registration form online. Thanks for your attention, Kresimir Josic (josic@math.uh.edu) Manuel Matias (manuel@imedea.uib.es) Jonathan Rubin (rubin@math.pitt.edu) From announce at ccnconference.org Wed Jul 4 05:50:23 2007 From: announce at ccnconference.org (announce@ccnconference.org) Date: Wed Jul 4 11:38:35 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CCNC 2007 Abstract submission website now operational Message-ID: <200707032150.23712.announce@ccnconference.org> IMPORTANT UPDATES: * The website for submitting is now operational: http://www.ccnconference.org/page6.html * Like last year, we are planning another special issue of Brain Research for selected papers from this meeting -- no need to indicate interest with your abstract submission at the present time * Also like last year, we plan to award a limited number of competitive travel fellowships for students -- look for a notice by late summer * 2007 registration fee: $175 ($75 student) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ Call-for-Abstracts ~ 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE www.ccnconference.org To be held in conjunction with Dynamical Neuroscience XV immediately prior to the 2007 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (SfN) meeting, November 3-7, 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA. * CONFERENCE DATES: Thu-Fri November 1 & 2, 2007 The inaugural CCNC 2005 meeting held prior to Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Washington, DC (also in conjunction with the Dynamical Neuroscience satellite) was a great success, with approximately 250 attendees, 60 presented posters, and strongly positive reviews. For 2006, we went to Houston for the much smaller Psychonomics meeting and still had over 100 attendees and almost 50 posters. In future years, we will continue to rotate among different neuroscience and psychology meetings. ____________________________________________________________________________ * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, July 27, 2007 (NEW DATE!) Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website: www.ccnconference.org/page6.html As in past years, there will be two categories of submissions: -Poster only -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing of posters will be inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme, and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness criteria. * NOTIFICATION OF POSTER ACCEPTANCE: Approx. August 15, 2007 * CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: Approx. September 15, 2007 __________________________________________________________________________ Program: * 2007 Keynote Speakers: Alex Pouget, University of Rochester Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine * 3 Symposia, each including a mixture of modelers and non-modelers and focused on a common theme or issue: ** Use of computational and cognitive models in functional brain-imaging Moderator: Todd Braver, Washington University - St. Louis ** Sequential structure learning Moderator: TBA ** Hippocampal neurogenesis in learning and memory Moderator: Janet Wiles, University of Queensland * Approximately 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters * Poster sessions ____________________________________________________________________________ 2007 Planning Committee: Suzanna Becker, McMaster University Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University Nathaniel Daw, New York University David Noelle, University of California, Merced Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Medical Center Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder (ex officio) Executive Organizer: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit: www.ccnconference.org _______________________________________________ From ntcrook at brookes.ac.uk Wed Jul 4 15:14:03 2007 From: ntcrook at brookes.ac.uk (Nigel Crook) Date: Wed Jul 4 17:12:57 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] IPCAT2007 call for participation Message-ID: <468B9D1B.2000501@brookes.ac.uk> Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. ================================================================== C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ================================================================== - I P C A T 2 0 0 7 - Seventh International Workshop on INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CELLS AND TISSUES 29, 30, 31 August, Jesus College, Oxford, United Kingdom The conference is held in the historic and picturesque setting of Jesus College, Oxford (http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/). We are pleased to be able to offer you college-style accommodation in single bedrooms for the duration of IPCAT2007. Meals are served in the college dining hall, with its fine panelled walls and priceless antique paintings. The provisional programme for the workshop is given below. A discount is offered for early registration (the deadline for early registration is 19th July 2007). Conference Website: http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/computing/IPCAT Kindest regards, Nigel Crook (General Chair) ntcrook@brookes.ac.uk Tjeerd olde Scheper (Programme Chair) tvolde-scheper@brookes.ac.uk PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 29TH AUGUST 2007 08:30 Registration 09:15 Opening SESSION 1: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN BIO-DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS 09:30 M-ary Modulation Signalling for Intercellular Communication J. Dilhac (France) 10:00 Emulation of Synchronous Automata Networks with Dynamically Changing Topologies by Asynchronous Automata Networks C.L. Nehaniv, P. Quick (UK) 10:30 Information Processing Functionality of Spiking Neurons for Image Feature Extraction Q. Wu, M. McGinnity, L. Maguire, B. Glackin, A. Belatreche (UK) 11:00 Coffee or Tea Break SESSION 2A: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN NEURAL AND NON-NEURAL BIOSYSTEMS 11:30 Sensitivity and stability: A signal propagation sweet spot in a sheet of recurrent centre crossing neurons C.L Buckley, S. Bullock (UK) 12:00 Towards Smart Biosensors: Hints From Deciphering the Enigma of Human Creativity F. Hong (USA) 12:30 Lunch SESSION 2B: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN NEURAL AND NON-NEURAL BIOSYSTEMS 13:30 Event-driven simulation of cerebellar granule cells R. Carrillo, E. Ros, S. Tolu (Spain), T. Nieus, E. D'Angelo (Italy) 14:00 A cerebellum-like spiking neural network for robot control R.R. Carrillo, E. Ros (Spain), C. Boucheny, O. J-M D Coenen (France) SESSION 3: EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS 14:30 Towards a parsimonious analysis of regeneration and self-repair in animal evolution G. Benenati, J.I. Montoya-Burgos, B. Galliot (Switzerland) 15:00 Coffee or Tea Break 15:30 An effective Immunological Algorithm with self-avoiding, penalty and repair heuristics for Protein Structure Prediction in 3DCubic Lattice G. Morelli, G. Nicosia (Italy) 16:00 Colouring graphs using a GRN/cell-based system M. Buck, C. Nehaniv (UK) 16:30 Natural Computation Inspired by Protein Binding S. Smith, S. Murant, J. Timmis (UK) THURSDAY 30TH AUGUST 2007 SESSION 4: AUTOMATA AND CELLULAR AUTOMATA 09:00 Hybrid Networks of Evolutionary Processors with Simple Splicing Rules A. Choudhary, K. Krithivasan (India) 09:30 A Cell Pattern Generation Model Based on an Extended Artificial Regulatory Network A. Chavoya (Mexico), Y. Duthen (France) 10:00 CrickBot: A mobile robot with a bio-mimetic control architecture M. Folgheraiter, G. Gini, A. Nava, V. Lumare (Italy) 10:30 Coffee or Tea Break SESSION 5: EVOLVING, ADAPTING, AND NEURAL HARDWARE 11:00 Learning to hear:The emergence of spectro-temporal response fields in a model of auditory cortex M. Coath, S. Denham, M. Denham (UK) 11:30 Unruly Motifs - No Convergent Evolution of Network Topologies J.F. Knabe, C.L. Nehaniv, M.J. Schilstra (UK) 12:00 Hormones for Extreme Temperatures D. Laketic, P. Haddow (Norway) 12:30 Lunch SESSION 6: MACHINE LEARNING 13:30 Novel embryonic arrays with neural network characteristics M. Samie (Iran), G. Dragffy (UK) 14:00 Neural Assembly Formation with Complementary Roles of Classical and Temporal Coding T. Burwick (Germany) 14:30 Optimal connection strategies in one- and two-dimensional associative memory models L. Calcraft, R. Adams, N. Davey (UK) 15:00 Coffee or Tea Break SESSION 7: NOVEL BIO-INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 15:30 Confrontation between models and real data for DNA molecules space structure M. Essabbah, R. Gherbi, M. Mallem (France) 16:00 Pomitaxis: Computing with a Bacterial-Inspired Algorithm D. Nicolau, P. Maini (UK) 16:30 Nonlinear transient computation in cortical columns N.T. Crook, W.J. Goh (UK) 19:30 Conference Dinner FRIDAY 31ST AUGUST 2007 SESSION 8: ENZYME AND GENE NETWORKS 09:00 Positive circuits and two-dimensional spatial differentiation: Application to the formation of sense organs in Drosophila A. Crumiere (France) 09:30 Mathematical modeling and Sensitivity analysis of G1/S phase in the cell cycle including the DNA damage signal transduction pathway K. Iwamoto, Y. Tashima, H. Hamada, Y. Eguchi, M. Okamoto (Japan) 10:00 A network cell with molecular tokens that divides from centrosome signals H. Suzuki (Japan) 10:30 Coffee or Tea Break SESSION 9: MODELLING OF METABOLIC PATHWAYS AND RESPONSES 11:00 Algebraic Properties of Automata Associated to Petri Nets and Applications to Computation in Intermediary Metabolism A. Egri-Nagy, C. Nehaniv (UK) 11:30 Krohn-Rhodes Analysis of Computation in BioChemical Reactions A. Egri-Nagy, C. Nehaniv, M. Schilstra (UK), J. Rhodes (USA) 12:00 Why Biological Systems Are Rarely Chaotic T. olde Scheper (UK) 12:30 Lunch SESSION 10: SELF-ORGANISING, SELF-REPAIRING, AND SELF-REPLICATING SYSTEMS 13:30 Calcium signalling mechanisms as a biological rhythm: a theoretical study C. Santini, A. Tyrrell (UK) 14:00 Bio-inspired Self-organizing Cellular Systems A. Stauffer, D. Mange, J. Rossier, F. Vannel (Switzerland) 14:30 The Role of Body Wall Muscles in C. elegans Locomotion J. Boyle, N. Cohen (UK) 15:00 Coffee or Tea Break SESSION 11: SIMULATION OF GENETIC AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 15:30 Modeling the fitness of plant morphologies across three levels of complexity J. Watson, J. Wiles (Australia) 16:00 Toward a formal expression of morphogenesis; a mechanical based integration of cell growth at tissue scale J. Chopard, C. Godin, J. Traas (France) 16:30 Dsweep: A lightweight tool for distributed parameter sweeps J. Watson, S. Maetschke, J. Wiles (Australia) -- Dr Nigel Crook Reader in Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department of Computing, School of Technology Oxford Brookes University Wheatley Campus, Wheatley, Oxford OX33 1HX UK Email: ntcrook@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 484526 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 484545 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ntcrook.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 277 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070704/20e1a97e/ntcrook.vcf From claverol at eel.upc.es Thu Jul 5 14:18:44 2007 From: claverol at eel.upc.es (Enric Claverol) Date: Thu Jul 5 14:48:18 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 2 Postdoc positions: Multielectrode arrays and robotised electrophysiology, Barcelona, Spain Message-ID: <002c01c7befe$a1967030$2796050a@pcb.ub.es> 2 POSTDOC/ENGINEER POSITIONS at the CATALONIA BIOENGINEERING INSTITUTE (IBEC), BARCELONA, SPAIN Position 1: Neuroengineering and neurophysics The neuroengineering lab at IBEC has developed novel all-polymeric multielectrode array chips (ApMEAs) supporting multi-site recording and stimulation of individual patterned neurons and neuronal aggregates in vitro. As part of a multinational European project, these devices are being integrated with an imaging subsystem to exploit voltage-sensitive nanoparticles (VSNs) for optical measurement of membrane potential. ApMEA chips and VSNs hold tremendous potential for basic research on neuronal computation as well as in drug screening in vitro. We offer a postdoc position to pursue research on these technologies. This opportunity is open to biomedical engineers, neurobiologists and physicists. The successful candidate will have a strong background in neuroscience and experience in at least one of the following areas; bioinstrumentation for electrophysiology (either conventional patch-clamp and/or multielectrode arrays), microfabrication of biosensors or biomedical optics. We seek a new member for our team with demonstrated academic excellence and ability to work independently. Interest in technology transfer is a plus. Start date: Immediate. Deadline for applications: 1/10/07 Duration: Two years with midterm renewal conditional upon performance. Salary: 25000 euros/year (34000$) . Send CV, email addresses of three references and brief statement of career goals to: Enric Claverol-Tintur? (claverol@eel.upc.edu) For more info on our work check: petrus.upc.es/~claverol About our research facilities see: www.pcb.ub.es About lifestyle in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/english/ihome.htm Position 2: Robotised electrophysiology We offer a position for a biomedical engineer with experience in robotics to develop a novel electrophysiology robot. This system will render possible high-throughput studies of network activity in vitro to support development of therapeutic compounds against neurodegenerative diseases and theoretical models of network level dynamics. Candidates with a background in neurobiology or physics will also be considered as long as the following requirements are met. The successful candidate will have experience in the development of biomedical instrumentation, with emphasis in automated systems. Previous experience in electrophysiology would be desirable. Ability to work independently and demonstrated academic/industrial excellence are essential. Start date: Immediate. Deadline for applications: 1/10/07 Duration: Two years with midterm renewal conditional upon performance. Salary: 25000 euros/year (34000$) . Send CV, email addresses of three references and brief statement of career goals to: Enric Claverol-Tintur? (claverol@eel.upc.edu) For more info on our work check: petrus.upc.es/~claverol About our research facilities see: www.pcb.ub.es About lifestyle in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/english/ihome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Enric Claverol-Tintur? Technical University of Catalonia Lab. Nanobioenginyeria c/ Josep Samitier 1-5 Barcelona 08028 Spain Phone: 34 934 037 180 ----------------------------------------------------------- From claverol at eel.upc.edu Thu Jul 5 14:26:34 2007 From: claverol at eel.upc.edu (Enric Claverol) Date: Thu Jul 5 14:48:20 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 2 Postdoc positions: Multielectrode arrays and robotised electrophysiology, Barcelona, Spain Message-ID: <006c01c7beff$b9a2f170$2796050a@pcb.ub.es> 2 POSTDOC/ENGINEER POSITIONS at the CATALONIA BIOENGINEERING INSTITUTE (IBEC), BARCELONA, SPAIN Position 1: Neuroengineering and neurophysics The neuroengineering lab at IBEC has developed novel all-polymeric multielectrode array chips (ApMEAs) supporting multi-site recording and stimulation of individual patterned neurons and neuronal aggregates in vitro. As part of a multinational European project, these devices are being integrated with an imaging subsystem to exploit voltage-sensitive nanoparticles (VSNs) for optical measurement of membrane potential. ApMEA chips and VSNs hold tremendous potential for basic research on neuronal computation as well as in drug screening in vitro. We offer a postdoc position to pursue research on these technologies. This opportunity is open to biomedical engineers, neurobiologists and physicists. The successful candidate will have a strong background in neuroscience and experience in at least one of the following areas; bioinstrumentation for electrophysiology (either conventional patch-clamp and/or multielectrode arrays), microfabrication of biosensors or biomedical optics. We seek a new member for our team with demonstrated academic excellence and ability to work independently. Interest in technology transfer is a plus. Start date: Immediate. Deadline for applications: 1/10/07 Duration: Two years with midterm renewal conditional upon performance. Salary: 25000 euros/year (34000$) . Send CV, email addresses of three references and brief statement of career goals to: Enric Claverol-Tintur? (claverol@eel.upc.edu) For more info on our work check: petrus.upc.es/~claverol About our research facilities see: www.pcb.ub.es About lifestyle in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/english/ihome.htm Position 2: Robotised electrophysiology We offer a position for a biomedical engineer with experience in robotics to develop a novel electrophysiology robot. This system will render possible high-throughput studies of network activity in vitro to support development of therapeutic compounds against neurodegenerative diseases and theoretical models of network level dynamics. Candidates with a background in neurobiology or physics will also be considered as long as the following requirements are met. The successful candidate will have experience in the development of biomedical instrumentation, with emphasis in automated systems. Previous experience in electrophysiology would be desirable. Ability to work independently and demonstrated academic/industrial excellence are essential. Start date: Immediate. Deadline for applications: 1/10/07 Duration: Two years with midterm renewal conditional upon performance. Salary: 25000 euros/year (34000$) . Send CV, email addresses of three references and brief statement of career goals to: Enric Claverol-Tintur? (claverol@eel.upc.edu) For more info on our work check: petrus.upc.es/~claverol About our research facilities see: www.pcb.ub.es About lifestyle in Barcelona: http://www.bcn.cat/english/ihome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Enric Claverol-Tintur? Technical University of Catalonia Lab. Nanobioenginyeria c/ Josep Samitier 1-5 Barcelona 08028 Spain Phone: 34 934 037 180 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Enric Claverol-Tintur? Catalonia Bioengineering Institute Technical University of Catalonia c/ Josep Samitier 1-5 Barcelona 08028 Spain Phone: 34 934 037 180 ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070705/03864a33/attachment.html From joyboseroy at gmail.com Fri Jul 6 14:42:55 2007 From: joyboseroy at gmail.com (Joy Bose) Date: Fri Jul 6 14:50:16 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] PhD thesis available: predictive sequence learning with spiking neurons using rank order coding Message-ID: Dear connectionists, This is to announce that my PhD dissertation on the topic of sequence learning is available for download. Title: Engineering a sequence machine out of spiking neurons employing rank order codes Download URL: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~bosej/JoyBose_PhD.pdf (216 pages, 5.23 MB) With regards, Joy Bose APT Research Group Computer Science The University of Manchester Email: bosejATcs.man.ac.uk, joyboseroyATgmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: Sequence memories play an important role in biological systems. For example, the mammalian brain continuously processes, learns and predicts spatio-temporal sequences of sensory inputs. The work described in this dissertation demonstrates how a sequence memory may be built from biologically plausible spiking neural components. The memory is incorporated in a sequence machine, an automaton that can perform on-line learning and prediction of sequences of symbols. The sequence machine comprises an associative memory which is a variant of Pentti Kanerva's Sparse Distributed Memory, together with a separate memory for storing the sequence context or history. The associative memory has at its core a scalable correlation matrix memory employing a localised learning rule which can be implemented with spiking neurons. The symbols constituting a sequence are encoded as rank-ordered N-of-M codes, each code being implemented as a burst of spikes emitted by a layer of neurons. When appropriate neural structures are used the spike bursts maintain coherence and stability as they pass through successive neural layers. The system is modelled using a representation of order that abstracts time, and the abstracted system is shown to perform equivalently to a low-level spiking neural system. The spiking neural implementation of the sequence memory model highlights issues that arise when engineering high-level systems with asynchronous spiking neurons as building blocks. Finally, the sequence learning framework is used to simulate different sequence machine models. The new model proposed here is tested under varied parameters to characterise its performance in terms of the accuracy of its sequence predictions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070706/cf5561ae/attachment-0001.html From mgoldma2 at wellesley.edu Sat Jul 7 00:38:05 2007 From: mgoldma2 at wellesley.edu (Mark Goldman) Date: Sat Jul 7 11:57:15 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoc positions available: UC Davis, SF Bay Area Message-ID: Two postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Goldman at the University of California at Davis. The lab works on a broad range of problems in computational neuroscience, from neural coding, to plasticity, to neural dynamics of single neurons and networks. The postdoctoral candidate would have flexibility to work on a range of issues of his or her choosing. For one of the positions, the primary project is to build mathematical models of persistent neural activity, neural integration, and short-term-memory related neural activity. The work will involve a mixture of analytical and computational work, and be performed in close collaboration with the experimental laboratory of Dr. David Tank at Princeton University. We are currently interested in understanding both the neural dynamics of this circuit and the plasticity in the system including interactions with the cerebellum. The postdoctoral candidate will have ample opportunity to interact both within the large Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis as well as within the vibrant computational and systems neuroscience community in the San Francisco Bay area. Candidates should send a CV, brief statement of previous research and future research interests, and email addresses and phone numbers of three references to: Mark Goldman, mgoldma2@wellesley.edu. I will be present at the upcoming CNS 2007 meeting and would be happy to meet with candidates in person. Further information about my laboratory can be found on my home page at: http://www.wellesley.edu/Physics/mgoldman/MGoldmanHomePage/MGoldmanHome.htm From dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Mon Jul 9 01:02:20 2007 From: dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Peter Dayan) Date: Mon Jul 9 10:10:38 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Gatsby Postdoc Training Fellowships In-Reply-To: <20061013122857.GA10331@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> References: <20061013122857.GA10331@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20070708230220.GA2602@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Postdoctoral Training Fellowships - Theoretical Neuroscience Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/ The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for postdoctoral training fellowships in theoretical neuroscience and related areas. The Gatsby Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning, focusing on the interpretation of neural data, population coding, perceptual processing, neural dynamics, neuromodulation, and learning. The Unit also has significant interests across a range of areas in machine learning. For further details of our research please see: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other world-class research groups in related departments at UCL, including Anatomy, Computer Science, Functional Imaging, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Statistics, and the new cross-faculty Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning. The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes enable staff and students to engage with leading researchers from across the world. Candidates must have a strong analytical background and demonstrable interest and expertise in theoretical neuroscience. Salaries are competitive, based on experience and achievement. Funding for the positions is available for an initial period of between one and two years. Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to: asstadmin@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies The closing date for applications is 6 August 2007. From prodrigues at liacc.up.pt Fri Jul 13 01:33:57 2007 From: prodrigues at liacc.up.pt (Pedro Pereira Rodrigues) Date: Fri Jul 13 10:21:03 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for Papers - deadline approaching - International Workshop on Learning from Massive Data - CAEPIA 2007 Message-ID: <200707130033.59488.prodrigues@liacc.up.pt> ========================================== INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEARNING FROM MASSIVE DATA CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================== http://www.lsi.us.es/~ferrer/caepia07/ In conjunction with the 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence http://caepia.usal.es/ This workshop aims at gathering data mining researchers to demonstrate their recent research results in the area. While the primary objective is to provide an avenue for dissemination of research results and works in progress, we also seek to discuss the future development of knowledge discovery in massive data, and how the research will benefit applications. We invite authors to submit their work that demonstrates current research and novel applications in this area. Papers that address mining massive data techniques, systems and applications are welcome. We also encourage position and on-going research papers. ============================================= IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: July, 14th Articles acceptance notification: September, 14th Final version submissions: October, 9th Workshop date: November, 13th ============================================= SUBMISSIONS Papers should be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and not exceed 10 pages including references and figures. Paper submissions should be posted in PDF by the submission deadline to: ferrer@lsi.us.es prodrigues@liacc.up.pt Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers from our International Scientific Committee. The scientific committee will select a subset of accepted papers for different kinds of presentations at the two workshop sessions. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cfp.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 36963 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070713/7787d881/cfp-0001.pdf From jcs77 at ufl.edu Thu Jul 12 22:07:21 2007 From: jcs77 at ufl.edu (Justin Sanchez) Date: Fri Jul 13 10:21:15 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Brain-Machine Interfaces Message-ID: <501D1A79D8A54835BFE85E6A2749BB71@Tranquility> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IJCNN_2007_BMI_Workshop_Program.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 23846 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070712/1d04cf1c/IJCNN_2007_BMI_Workshop_Program-0001.pdf From steve at cns.bu.edu Fri Jul 20 01:34:44 2007 From: steve at cns.bu.edu (Stephen Grossberg) Date: Fri Jul 20 11:00:31 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] texture segregation, grouping, attention, learning, painting Message-ID: The following two articles are now available at http://www.cns.bu.edu/Profiles/Grossberg : Grossberg, S. The Art of Seeing and Painting. Spatial Vision, in press, special issue on Art and Neuroscience ABSTRACT The human urge to represent the three-dimensional world using two-dimensional pictorial representations dates back at least to Paleolithic times. Artists from ancient to modern times have struggled to understand how a few contours or color patches on a flat surface can induce mental representations of a three-dimensional scene. This article summarizes some of the recent breakthroughs in scientifically understanding how the brain sees that shed light on these struggles. These breakthroughs illustrate how various artists have intuitively understand paradoxical properties about how the brain sees, and have used that understanding to create great art. These paradoxical properties arise from how the brain forms the units of conscious visual perception; namely, representations of three-dimensional boundaries and surfaces. Boundaries and surfaces are computed in parallel cortical processing streams that obey computationally complementary properties. These streams interact at multiple levels to overcome their complementary weaknesses and to transform their complementary properties into consistent percepts. The article describes how properties of complementary consistency have guided the creation of many great works of art. Keywords: complementary computing, visual cortex, perceptual grouping, surface filling-in, figure-ground perception, amodal boundaries, perspective, T-junctions, opponent colors, neon color spreading, watercolor illusion, chiaoscuro, complementary consistency, Impressionism, Fauvism, Matisse, Monet, Hawthorne, Hensche, Leonardo da Vinci ****************************************** Bhatt, R., Carpenter, G., and Grossberg, S. Texture segregation by visual cortex: Perceptual grouping, attention, and learning. Vision Research, in press ABSTRACT A neural model called dARTEX is proposed of how laminar interactions in the visual cortex may learn and recognize object texture and form boundaries. The model unifies five interacting processes: region-based texture classification, contour-based boundary grouping, surface filling-in, spatial attention, and object attention. The model shows how form boundaries can determine regions in which surface filling-in occurs; how surface filling-in interacts with spatial attention to generate a form-fitting distribution of spatial attention, or attentional shroud; how the strongest shroud can inhibit weaker shrouds; and how the winning shroud regulates learning of texture categories, and thus the allocation of object attention. The model can discriminate abutted textures with blurred boundaries and is sensitive to texture boundary attributes like discontinuities in orientation and texture flow curvature as well as to relative orientations of texture elements. The model quantitatively fits the Ben-Shahar & Zucker (2004) human psychophysical data on orientation-based textures. Surface-based attentional shrouds improve texture learning and classification: Brodatz texture classification rate varies from 95.1% to 98.6% with correct attention, and from 74.1% to 75.5% without attention. Object boundary output of the model in response to photographic images is compared to computer vision algorithms and human segmentations. Keywords: Texture segregation, object recognition, image segmentation, perceptual grouping, spatial attention, object attention, attentional shroud, visual cortex, Adaptive Resonance Theory From tbosse at few.vu.nl Fri Jul 20 13:05:04 2007 From: tbosse at few.vu.nl (Tibor Bosse) Date: Fri Jul 20 14:52:22 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence - Deadline Extended Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE Darmstadt, Germany, November 10, 2007 Workshop at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI'07) Call for Papers Background The environment in which humans operate has an important influence on their wellbeing and performance. For example, a comfortable workspace may improve the productivity of an employee, and an attentive partner or acquaintance may contribute to preventing more severe health problems by early detection. As another example, our car may warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or when we are too drunk to drive. Developments within Ambient Intelligence provide possibilities to contribute to such personal care. This can be based on the one hand on possibilities to acquire sensor information about humans and their functioning, but on the other hand, more far-reaching applications crucially depend on the availability of adequate knowledge for analysis of such information about human functioning. If such knowledge about human functioning is computationally available in devices in the environment, these devices can show more human-like understanding and contribute to such personal care based on this understanding. In recent years, scientific areas focusing on humans such as cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience and biomedical sciences have made substantial progress in providing an increased insight in the various physical and mental aspects of human functioning. Although much work still remains to be done, models have been developed for a variety of such aspects and the way in which humans (try to) manage or regulate them. From a more biomedical angle, examples of such aspects are (management of) heart functioning, diabetes, eating regulation disorders, and HIV-infection. From a more psychological and social angle, examples are emotion regulation, attention regulation, addiction management, trust management, stress management, and criminal behaviour management. If such models of human processes and their management are represented in a formal and computational format, and incorporated in the human environment in devices that monitor the physical and mental state of the human, then such devices are able to perform a more in depth analysis of the human's functioning. This can result in an environment that has a human-like understanding of humans and that may more efffectively affect the state of humans by undertaking in a knowledgeable manner actions that improve their wellbeing and performance. For example, the workspaces of naval officers may include systems that, among others, track their eye movements and characteristics of incoming stimuli (e.g., airplanes on a radar screen), and use this information in a computational model that is able to estimate where their attention is focussed at. When it turns out that an officer neglects parts of a radar screen, such a system can either indicate this to the person, or arrange on the background that another person or computer system takes care of this neglected part. In applications like this, an ambience is created that has a more human-like understanding of humans, based on computationally formalised knowledge from the human-directed disciplines. For example, this may concern elderly people, criminals and psychiatric patients, but also, as the example shows, humans in highly demanding circumstances or tasks. Aims This workshop addresses multidisciplinary aspects of Ambient Intelligence with human-directed disciplines such as psychology, social science, neuroscience and biomedical sciences. The aim is to get people together from these disciplines or working on cross connections of Ambient Intelligence with these disciplines. The focus is on the use of knowledge from these disciplines in Ambient Intelligence applications, in order to take care of and support in a knowledgeable manner humans in their daily living in medical, psychological and social respects. The workshop can play an important role, for example, to get modellers in the psychological, neurological, social or biomedical disciplines interested in Ambient Intelligence as a high-potential application area for their models, and, for example, get inspiration for problem areas to be addressed for further developments in their disciplines. From the other side, the workshop may make researchers in Computer Science, and Artificial and Ambient Intelligence more aware of the possibilities to incorporate more substantial knowledge from the psychological, neurological social and biomedical disciplines in Ambient Intelligence architectures and applications, and may offer problem specifications that can be addressed by the human-directed sciences. Some of the areas of interest * computational modelling of psychological, neurological, social and biomedical processes for Ambient Intelligence * collecting and analysing histories of behaviour * computational modelling of mind reading, Theory of Mind * building profiles; user modelling in Ambient Intelligence * sensoring; e.g., tracking physiological states, gaze, body movements, gestures * analysis of sensor information; e.g., voice and skin analysis with respect to emotional states, gesture analysis, heart rate analysis * environmental modelling and awareness * analysis of applications to care of humans in need of support for physical and mental health; e.g., elderly or psychiactric care, surveillance, penitentiary care, humans in need of regular medical or psychological care, support for psychotherapeutical/selfhelp communities * analysis of applications to support humans in demanding circumstances and tasks, such as warfare officers, air traffic controllers, crisis and disaster managers, humans in space missions. * responsive and adaptive systems; agent system approaches * human interaction with devices * handling aspects of privacy and security; philosophical and ethical aspects Submission and Proceedings Papers can be submitted of at most 18 pages in Springer LNCS format (as for the AmI'07 conference). Proceedings will be available at the workshop. The intention is to realise publication of extended postproceedings as a book on the workshop theme by a recognized publisher after the workshop. More submission details will follow at the workshop's Website: http://www.few.vu.nl/~treur/HAwsCfP.htm Important Dates Submission Deadline August 20, 2007 Notification of Acceptance September 20, 2007 Camera ready papers October 25, 2007 Workshop November 10, 2007 Coordination Commitee Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) Jan Treur (contact person, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Programme Committee (partly to be confirmed) Gerhard Andersson (Link?ping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences) Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing and Mathematics) Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, InfoMus Lab) Nick Cassimatis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science Department) Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) James L. Crowley (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Perception and Integration for Smart Spaces Group) Pim Cuijpers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Clinical Psychology) Henk Elffers (Institute for Criminology and Law; Antwerp University, Faculty of Law) Rino Falcone (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction) Ingrid Heynderickx (Philips Research Netherlands) Anthony Jameson (DFKI, Human-Computer Interaction) Paul Lukowicz (Austrian University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology) Isaac Marks (King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry/Maudsley Hospital) Silvia Miksch (Danube University Krems, Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering) Scott Moss (Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Policy Modelling) Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre Dame, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory) Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Dept of Computer and Information Science) Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science Department) Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Robert L. West (Carleton University, Department of Cognitive Science) From gros07 at itp.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jul 23 14:05:59 2007 From: gros07 at itp.uni-frankfurt.de (gros07@itp.uni-frankfurt.de) Date: Mon Jul 23 14:49:02 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] PhD position in cognitive system theory Message-ID: Open PhD-position in Cognitive System Theory At the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt am Main, Field(s): cognitive systems, complex systems, neural networks, adaptive dynamical systems Application deadline: September 9, 2007 Contact: Prof. Claudius Gros E-mail: secretariate@itp.uni-frankfurt.de Address: Institute for Theoretical Physics, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, Job description: Applications are invited for a PhD position (payment: BAT IIa/2, equivalent to approx. 1000Euro per month) in cognitive system theory at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the J.W. Goethe University. The field of research involves the development of the Frankfurt Cognitive System plattform for an autonomous general-purpose cognitive system based on a meta-network of self-adapting generalized neural networks. The candidates should have a Diploma/M.S. in physics, cognitive sciences or informatics with an excellent academic background and good computational skills. Experience or strong interest in the fields of artificial or biological cognitive systems are expected. The degree of scientific research experience is expexted to be on the level of a German Diplom/Master. The appointments will start in Fall 2007, for up to three years. Interested applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to the address below. Maripola Kolokotsa Institute for Theoretical Physics J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt Max-von-Laue-Str. 1 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany secretariate@itp.uni-frankfurt.de ======================================================================= Prof. Dr. Claudius Gros | email: (given on the homepage) Institute for Theoretical Physics | www.itp.uni-frankfurt.de/~gros J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt | office: +49 (069) 798-47818 Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1 | sectr.: +49 (069) 798-47817 60438 Frankfurt a.M., Germany | FAX : +49 (069) 798-47832 ======================================================================= From R.Borisyuk at plymouth.ac.uk Thu Jul 26 15:08:04 2007 From: R.Borisyuk at plymouth.ac.uk (Roman Borisyuk) Date: Wed Aug 8 09:22:54 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] PhD position in multiple spike train data analysis Message-ID: <52A8091888A23F47A013223014B6E9FE0A2450EA@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk> Applications are invited for 3 year PhD studentship in the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Plymouth, UK, starting from the 1st of October 2007. The studentship will cover a stipend of ?12,600 per year and tuition fees at the home rate (?3,250 per year), overseas candidates will be liable for the difference between 'home student fees' and 'foreign student fees'. PhD student will participate in development of new mathematical and statistical methods, numerical algorithms and software for analysing multiple spike train data (simultaneously recorded activities of several neurons). These new methods will lead to better understanding the relations between brain functions and spiking activity of neurons. This interdisciplinary project is exciting and challenging. The studentship is funded as a part of CARMEN project grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). CARMEN (Code Analysis, Repository and Modelling for e-Neuroscience) is a neuroinformatics project coordinated by the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University (www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/) which brings together a consortium of 11 UK Universities with expertise in experimental neuroscience, computing science and statistical data analysis. Some information on CARMEN may be found at http://bioinf.ncl.ac.uk/carmen/index.php/Main_Page. We are looking for a strong candidate with a good knowledge of mathematical and statistical methods for data analysis. Applicants must normally hold a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent qualification, or a masters degree, in an appropriate discipline (maths, statistics, computer science, physics, engineering), and have a strong interest in studying information processing in the brain and experimental data analysis. Knowledge/experience in neuroscience and good programming skills will be an advantage. Requests for further particulars and informal enquires may be made to Prof Roman Borisyuk (roman.borisyuk@plymouth.ac.uk ). General information about applying for a research degree at the University of Plymouth and application forms are available at http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pghowtoapply or by contacting Ann Treeby (ann.treeby@plymouth.ac.uk ). 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URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070726/36b0c7b9/attachment-0001.html From announce at ccnconference.org Mon Jul 30 06:18:20 2007 From: announce at ccnconference.org (announce@ccnconference.org) Date: Wed Aug 8 09:22:56 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CCNC 2007 --- Call-for-Abstracts DEADLINE EXTENDED to August 17, 2007 Message-ID: <200707292218.21041.announce@ccnconference.org> IMPORTANT UPDATE: Because of the recent time change moving the start of the conference to 1:30PM on Thursday, November 1, along with the fact that we have not yet opened the online registration website, we are extending the deadline for submitting poster abstracts to Friday August 17, 2007. The CCNC 2007 planning committee had recently been made aware that the first day of conference, November 1, is the day after Halloween. In an effort to be family friendly, the committee is planning for the conference to start at 1:30PM so as to allow attendees the possible option of flying in that morning. That will make for a rather late night on day one, but the committee feels that, on balance, the family friendly benefits of a late start will significantly outweigh that cost. OTHER UPDATES: * Our meeting has been officially assigned to the San Diego Convention Center by SfN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ Call-for-Abstracts ~ 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE www.ccnconference.org To be held in conjunction with Dynamical Neuroscience XV immediately prior to the 2007 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (SfN) meeting, November 3-7, 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA. * CONFERENCE DATES: Thu-Fri November 1 & 2, 2007 The inaugural CCNC 2005 meeting held prior to Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Washington, DC (also in conjunction with the Dynamical Neuroscience satellite) was a great success, with approximately 250 attendees, 60 presented posters, and strongly positive reviews. For 2006, we went to Houston for the much smaller Psychonomics meeting and still had over 100 attendees and almost 50 posters. In future years, we will continue to rotate among different neuroscience and psychology meetings. ____________________________________________________________________________ * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, August 17, 2007 (NEW DATE!) Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website: www.ccnconference.org/page6.html As in past years, there will be two categories of submissions: -Poster only -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing of posters will be inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme, and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness criteria. * NOTIFICATION OF POSTER ACCEPTANCE: Approx. September 5, 2007 * CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: Approx. September 15, 2007 __________________________________________________________________________ Program: * 2007 Keynote Speakers: Alex Pouget, University of Rochester Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine * 3 Symposia, each including a mixture of modelers and non-modelers and focused on a common theme or issue: ** Use of computational and cognitive models in functional brain-imaging Moderator: Todd Braver, Washington University - St. Louis ** Computational models in biological psychiatry Moderator: Michael Frank, University of Arizona ** Hippocampal neurogenesis in learning and memory Moderator: Janet Wiles, University of Queensland * Approximately 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters * Poster sessions ____________________________________________________________________________ 2007 Planning Committee: Suzanna Becker, McMaster University Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University Nathaniel Daw, New York University David Noelle, University of California, Merced Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Medical Center Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder (ex officio) Executive Staff: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit: www.ccnconference.org _______________________________________________ From beckmann at fmrib.ox.ac.uk Tue Jul 31 12:50:38 2007 From: beckmann at fmrib.ox.ac.uk (Christian Beckmann) Date: Wed Aug 8 09:23:07 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] NON-CLINICAL LECTURER IN IMAGING METHODOLOGY Message-ID: Imperial College Department of Clinical Neuroscience Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health Salary range ?38,880 - ?43,420 Imperial College is ranked in the top ten universities of the world, according to the 2006 Times Higher Education Supplement league tables. The Department of Clinical Neuroscience within the Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health invites applications to the post of non-clinical Lecturer in Imaging Methodology. The appointee will work alongside a newly appointed Senior Lecturer in MRI Methodology. The post will be based primarily at the Hammersmith campus, located in East Acton. We wish to appoint a motivated individual who shares our commitment and enthusiasm for non-clinical neuroscience research and its application to neurological disorders and who will complement our existing research by developing novel data acquisitions and analysis methodologies for in vivo imaging of higher cognitive function, with a focus on using MR/fMRI/EEG. Potential research activities involve multi-modal imaging such as simultaneous EEG/fMRI, multi-variate analysis of neuroimaging data or advanced approaches to obtain functional and structural connectivity pattern in the brain. Applicants will have a PhD or equivalent in an area appropriate to cognitive neuroscience and/or neuroimaging and must be able to demonstrate an excellent track record of research, including high quality peer-reviewed publications. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the teaching programme of the Faculty of Medicine and should be able to demonstrate clear teaching and leadership skills and the ability to work as a team player. Informal enquiries concerning this post should be made to Ms. Hayley Kendall, Divisional Administrator, tel: +44 (0)20 8383 0656, email: h.kendall@imperial.ac.uk. An application form and job description may be obtained from the following links: Application form: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/portal/page? _pageid=208,14212030&_dad=portallive&_schema=PORTALLIVE Job description: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/portal/pls/portallive/ docs/1/19931699.DOC Alternatively, for an application pack please contact the Human Resources Assistant, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, Commonwealth Building, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, or email hmrecr@imperial.ac.uk quoting reference number HM2007096. Closing date: 31 August 2007 Valuing diversity and committed to equality of opportunity From alexwade at gmail.com Tue Jul 31 21:29:46 2007 From: alexwade at gmail.com (Alex Wade) Date: Wed Aug 8 09:23:11 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Cosyne 2008 Meeting Announcement Message-ID: <76eaaa9a0707311229w37de349ap9e2662013920263e@mail.gmail.com> =================================== 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 ==================================== 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. 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) From alexwade at gmail.com Tue Jul 31 21:20:45 2007 From: alexwade at gmail.com (Alex Wade) Date: Wed Aug 8 09:23:12 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Cosyne 2008 Meeting Announcement Message-ID: <76eaaa9a0707311220w140c19dcq44ad6ab9129e8a64@mail.gmail.com> =================================== 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 ==================================== 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. 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)