[Comp-neuro] Workshop NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION in Leiden - may 2008

[Alessandro Torcini]

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This is to announce the Workshop

     NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION: FROM DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS TO NEUROSCIENCE

taking place at the LORENTZ CENTER (Leiden, The Netherlands)  19-30 May 2008

the workshop will be held from 19 May (afternoon) until 30 May (morning)

      http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2008/285/info.php3?wsid=285
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SCIENTIFIC AIMS

The aim of the workshop is to strenghten the communication channels
between the (overlapping) communities of dynamical systems theorists,
computational and experimental neuroscientists, in order to stimulate
 fruitful interactions and exchanges of ideas.  In particular, it aims
to put into contact researchers working in nonlinear dynamics and time
series and pattern analysis, together with computational
neuroscientists involved in the study of realistic neuronal circuits,
 together with experimentalists that are characterizing, with the help
of modern technologies, the nature of interactions in neural networks,
and the cellular and molecular basis of synchronization in such
networks.

The main topics addressed by the workshop include

 * Synchronization in low and high dimensional systems;
 * Emergence of collective dynamics in networks;
 * Nonlinear data analysis: univariate, bivariate and multivariate
   measures;
 * Modeling of neuronal networks: dynamical and topological aspects;
 * Study of the dynamics of neural circuits, in vitro and in vivo
  approaches;
 * Control and modelling of brain oscillations and rhythms;
 * Large scale, inter-structure coherence and synchronization:
  evidence from human MEG and EEG data

INVITED PARTICIPANTS

There will be 7 tutorial lectures (about 3h each) about the main topics
mentioned abovegiven by
 P. FRIES (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), P. GRASSBERGER (Calgary,
Canada), D. HANSEL (Paris, France), P. JONAS (Heidelberg, Germany),
E. OTT (Maryland, USA), A. PIKOVSKY (Postdam, Germany) and M. TSODYKS
(Rehovot, Israel)

And 23 focused talks (45min each) given by ((*) to be confirmed)

P. COLLET (Mallorca, Spain), S. COOMBES (Nottingham, UK), S. GIELEN
(Nijmegen,. The Netherlands), B. GUTKIN (Paris, France), V. HAKIM
(Paris, France), O. JENSEN (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), T. KREUZ (San
Diego USA),
 A. LONGTIN (Ottawa Canada), M. MEHTA (Brown,
USA), S. NEUENSCHWANDER (Frankfurt, Germany), O. PAULSEN (Oxford, UK),
A. POLITI (Florence, Italy), R. QUIAN QUIROGA (Leicester, UK),
A. RIEHLE (Aix-Marseille, France), P. ROELFSEMA (Amsterdam, The
 Netherlands), H. ROTSTEIN (Newark, USA), A. SIROTA (Piscataway,
NJ, USA), C. TALLON-BAUDRY (Paris, France), P. TASS (Juelich,
Germany), M. TIMME (Cornell, USA), R. TRAUB (New York, USA),
C.J.TESSONE (ETH, Zuerich), M. ZAKS (Potsdam, Germany)


APPLICATION:

Persons wishing to partecipate to the Workshop should previously fill
the online Form "Interest in Participation"

URL:  http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2008/285/info.php3?wsid=285

specifying her/his expression of interest and providing
a tentative title/abstract of the presentation by March 1st, 2008.

Applicants will receive a final notification within March 05, 2008;
due to space limitation only (roughly) 20 applications can be accepted.
 The selected participants will have the possibility of using the offices
and the other facilities at the Lorentz Center.

NO FEE is required, but no financial support can be
 given to the applicants due to budgetary limits.


IMPORTANT DEADLINES  :

 * March 1st, 2008 - deadline for applications, by filling the
                    online form "Interest in Participation"

* March 05, 2008 -- Notification of the final decision to the applicants


WEB SITE
More information on the workshop is available at the

URL http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2008/285/info.php3?wsid=285
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATORS:

N. Brunel       (University Rene Descartes, Paris, France),
 F.P. Battaglia  (UvA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands),
M. Cencini      (INFM - CNR, Rome, Italy),
A. Torcini      (ISC - CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)

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 SPONSORS:

* Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences - The Netherlands

* Dipartimento Materiali e Dispositivi - CNR - Italy

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