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Due to the proximity of the Society for Neuroscience conference, the<br>deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2009 Cosyne meeting has been<br>extended.<br><br>The new (and final) abstract deadline is 11.59PST on Saturday Decmber 6th<br>
<br>You may begin the submission process here:<br><a href="http://cosyne2009.confmaster.net/pages/login.php?Conf=COSYNE2009">http://cosyne2009.confmaster.net/pages/login.php?Conf=COSYNE2009<br></a> <br>Conference registration is available here<br>
<a href="http://cosyne.org/wiki/Cosyne_09_registration">http://cosyne.org/wiki/Cosyne_09_registration<br></a> <br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Dates and location<br></span><br>The 2009 Cosyne Meeting will be held in the Marriott, Downtown, Salt<br>
Lake City, Utah from the 26 February - 1 March 2009.<br><br>The main meeting will be followed by a series of workshops at the<br>Snowbird Ski Resort, Snowbird, Utah on the 2nd and 3rd March 2009.<br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">About Cosyne<br>
</span><br>The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange<br>of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems<br>in systems neuroscience.<br><br>The first Cosyne meeting, held in 2004 at Cold Spring Harbor<br>
Laboratory, drew over 350 participants. Since 2005, the meeting has<br>been held in Salt Lake City, Utah. It has attracted a growing number<br>of participants, from nearly 400 in 2005 to almost 500 in 2008.<br><br>To encourage interdisciplinary interactions, the main meeting is<br>
arranged in a single track. A set of invited talks are selected by the<br>Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by<br>the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts.<br><br>Cosyne topics include but are not limited to: neural coding, natural<br>
scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent<br>activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time<br>and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity,<br>map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention,<br>
computation with spiking networks.<br><br>The abstracts of the 2009 meeting will be published by Frontiers in<br>Systems Neuroscience. Similar to the abstracts of the Society for<br>Neuroscience meeting, these abstracts are citeable, but they are not<br>
full-length proceedings and therefore do not preclude further<br>publication.<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><br>Cosyne 2009 Invited Speakers (confirmed):<br></span><br> * Keynote: Richard Axel (Columbia University and HHMI, USA)<br>
* Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University and HHMI, USA)<br> * Alexander Borst (MPI, Germany)<br> * Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley, USA)<br> * Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)<br> * Henry Markram (EPFL, Switzerland)<br>
* Earl Miller (MIT, USA)<br> * Carl Petersen (EPFL, Lausanne)<br> * Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)<br> * Stephen Scott (Queens University, Canada)<br> * Shihab Shamma (U Maryland, USA)<br> * Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT, USA)<br>
* Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel)<br></div></span><br>-- <br>A.R. Wade Ph.D.<br>Associate Scientist<br>The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute<br>2318 Fillmore Street<br>San Francisco, CA 94115<br><br>tel. 415 345 2083<br>
fax. 309 416 6533<br><br>