[Imageworld] Call for participation and contribution to 3rd Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, July 13-14th

[Zhaoping Li]

This symposium will be held on July 13-14, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 
China

See http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon11/


What:
An intensive, high quality, two day symposium on computational 
neuroscience, organized by Tsinghua University Medical School, will 
feature presentations of theories, models, and theory/model- motivated 
experiments in neuroscience. Most presentations will be contributed 
posters, allowing extensive interactions and exchanges between 
participants. Additionally, there will be two tutorials and a few 
invited oral presentations (see below). The topics of interests include, 
but are not limited to, computational theories and models of vision or 
other sensory processes, motor control, learning, memory, and decision 
making; physiological and psychological experiments to test or develop 
computational theories, such as electrophysiology to test theories of 
visual attention, and human psychophysics to explore models of visual 
adaptation, inference, and perceptual learning; inter-disciplinary 
investigations in neural encoding and decoding, learning and plasticity, 
neural circuits and networks, etc. This symposium aims to encourage 
interaction between computational and experimental communities, and 
between  the regional and international communities of computational 
neuroscience, and to foster and encourage interest among students and 
young researchers in this field. We hope that such interactions and 
exchanges will lead to collaborations between participants.


Invited Tutorial and symposium speakers:

Invited Tutorial speakers

Jeremy Wolfe —  Visual search, experiments and models
Mitsuo Kawato —- Computational motor control and BMI
There will be two hours of lectures on each topic on July 13th.

Invited Symposium Speakers include:
Mitsuo Kawato (ATR, Japan)   —- Perceptual learning incepted by decoded 
fMRI neurofeedback without visual stimulus presentation
Guosong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)  — Enhancement of cognition
Fred Wolf (Max Planck Institute for dynamics and self-organization, 
Goettingen, Germany)  — Title to be announced.


Some names of the participants and contributors are
Fang Fang (Peking University, China),
Barbara Gilliam (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Bo Hong (Tsinghua University, China),
Zili Liu (UCLA, USA)
Zuxiang Liu (Institute of biophysics, academic sinica, China)
*Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN, Japan),
Ning Qian (Columbia University, US),
Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China),
Taro Toyoizumi (RIKEN, Japan)
*Doris Tsao (Caltech, USA)
*Misha Tsodyks (Weismann Institute, Israel)
Katsumi Watanabe (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, China),
Cong Yu (Beijing Normal University, China)
Li Zhaoping (University College London, UK/Tsinghua University, China).
(*, not confirmed)

Symposium committee: Bo Hong, Ning Qian, Sen Song, and Li Zhaoping.

For information for the past symposium (2009 and 2010), see
http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/   and 
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/BeijingMeeting2009.html


Call for contributions and participations:

Researchers and students are encouraged to contribute and participate in 
the symposium. Registration is required, early registration is 
recommended if you want to secure a place. To contribute a poster 
presentation, please submit an abstract (max 200 words) together with a 
one to two A4 page summary of the work in a pdf file at the registration 
website. Submission deadline is June 10th, 2010. The submissions will be 
reviewed by the symposium committee. Limited travel support funds are 
available to help some Chinese students and young researchers to 
participate in the symposium. Preference will be given to those who 
present their work. Please contact the symposium organization to apply 
for financial assistance for travel if needed.

Registration:

Registration is required to participate in the symposium, early 
registration is recommended if you want to secure a place. The 
registration is free for students who do not sign up for symposium 
dinner. For non-students, the registration costs 450 yuan (about 69 US 
dollars), or 200 yuan for students who like to sign up for symposium 
dinner. Receipts will be provided for all registration payments (payable 
ASAP or when you arrive at the symposium) received.

Submission:

Please go to Registration to submit poster contributions. Each 
submission requires an abstract (max 200 words) and a summary (1-2 A4 
pages in a pdf file) of the work. Submission deadline is June 1st, 2010.
The submissions will be reviewed by the symposium committee with 
decision about one week after the deadline.

Enquiries: Please email biscon11 at gmail.com, or, for urgent enquiries to 
lizhaoping at tsinghua.edu.cn.

Sponsorships:
Tsinghua University Medical school, Tsinghua University Computational 
Neuroscience Laboratory,  Tsinghua University.