Submitting an abstract to Cosyne 2020
Cosyne 2020 submission deadline is 31 October 2019 11.59pm PST
Please note that Cosyne is moving to a double-blind review process. Updated submission instructions are available below.
Submission Format
Before you log onto the submission website, you should have the following items prepared: (1) title, (2) author list (including email addresses of all authors), and (3) two-page PDF submission. Submissions that do not meet the following guidelines may be rejected.
Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of a two page (A4 or US Letter) submission in PDF format. This two-page PDF should contain:
- Title - 100 characters or fewer (including spaces), capitalized in sentence case
- 300-word Summary - brief description of the study's primary findings, emphasizing their significance, generality, novelty and relevance. You will be asked to copy this 300-word summary into a text-only box; it will be included in the conference program if your submission is accepted.
- Additional Detail - use the remaining space to expand upon the central question(s), approach, results, and/or conclusions of the study. You may include equations as appropriate. Figures are optional. You need not touch upon all the major points of the Summary, but should aim to include whatever detail will best help reviewers to evaluate the significance of your study. Do not feel obliged to fill the entire two pages.
- Double-blind - The reviewing process for Cosyne will be double blind at the level of reviewers. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their submission. In particular, do not include author names, author affiliations, or acknowledgements in the abstract or body of the submission and avoid providing any other identifying information in text or figures. If you need to cite one of your own publications, you should do so with adequate anonymization to preserve double-blind reviewing (e.g., write “In the previous work of Author et al. [1]…” rather than “In our previous work [1]...”). If you need to cite one of your own papers that is a non-anonymous preprint (on arXiv, social media, websites, etc.) please do so with adequate anonymization (e.g., if the cited submission is available as a non-anonymous preprint, then write “Author et al. [1] concurrently show…”). Reviewers will be instructed not to actively look for such preprints, but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest. Alternatively, authors may submit work that is already available as a preprint (e.g., on arXiv) without citing it; however, previously published papers by the authors on related topics must be cited (with adequate anonymization to preserve double-blind reviewing).
Font size (including any figure legends) must be at least 12 point. Margins should be at least 0.5". This two-page PDF will be the only document seen by reviewers. (Abstracts exceeding two pages will have additional pages removed). Submissions that do not meet these guidelines may be rejected.
For questions regarding abstract submission, please contact: meeting [at] cosyne.org
Evaluation Criteria
PDF submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
- Significance
- Originality
- Clarity
- Relevance to the Cosyne audience.
The submission should clearly explain why your question is important and how your claims will advance the field. Include enough detail that reviewers can assess the technical content of your methods and results. Please be sure to address the significance and fit of your submission for the Cosyne audience, which includes a mix of experimentalists and theoreticians interested in the functional properties of neural systems. Potentially inappropriate abstracts include pure machine learning studies, or studies of single cells with no clear implications for neural systems.
Approximately 30 submissions will be chosen for short talks and ~330 will be chosen for poster presentations.
Submission Instructions
Submission is now closed.
Note that you must 'sign up' for the submission site, before submitting an abstract. Please note that submission confirmation emails might be delayed during peak submission hours, i.e. close to submission deadline. Your submission, however, will be fine.
The person who uploads the submission must certify that they are the "presenting author". This is the author who plans to present the poster or talk at the meeting. You may act as "presenting author" on only one submission (although you may appear as a co-author on more than one). You and all your co-authors will receive an email confirmation once submission is finalized. If you appear as a co-author on multiple submissions, please use the same name, email, and affiliation on all your submissions.
Authors who are selected for posters and talks will be notified on 12 January 2020. Authors whose submission was rejected will also be notified on this date.
The presenting author for each abstract must register for the meeting by 31 January 2020, 11.59pm EST. Note that registration and abstract submission are not the same process.
A preliminary meeting schedule will be published online (in mid-January 2019). Participants who need letters of invitation to obtain an entry visa may contact the Program Co-chairs in advance of this date (meeting [at] cosyne.org) or Leslie Weekes (leslie.weekes [at] cosyne.org). When enquiring about the letter of invitation, please send your submission number, abstract title, and a complete list of authors.
Cosyne Program Committee
- Anne-Marie Oswald (U Pittsburgh), co-chair
- Srdjan Ostojic (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris), co-chair
- Athena Akrami (UCL)
- Demba Ba (Harvard)
- Omri Barak (Technion)
- Brice Bathellier (Paris)
- Laura Busse (LMU Munich)
- Yoram Burak (Hebrew University)
- Steve Chase (Carnegie Mellon)
- Anne Collins (Berkeley)
- Christine Constantinople (NYU)
- Saskia De Vries (Allen Institute)
- Victor de Lafuente (UNAM Mexico)
- Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard)
- Tatiana Engel (Cold Spring Harbor)
- Sean Escola (Columbia)
- Annegret Falkner (Princeton)
- Kevin Franks (Duke)
- Julijana Gjorgjieva (Max Planck Frankfurt)
- Tim Hanks (UC Davis)
- Ann Hermundstad (Janelia)
- Andrew Leifer (Princeton)
- Mattieu Louis (UC Santa Barbara)
- Jakob Macke (TU Munich)
- Mackenzie Mathis (EPFL Lausanne)
- Cris Niell (Oregon)
- Adrien Peyrache (McGill Montreal)
- Xaq Pitkow (Rice)
- Christina Savin (NYU)
- Marshal Shuler (Johns Hopkins)
- Robert Rosenbaum (Notre Dame)
- Daniela Vallentin (Max Planck Munich)
- Joel Zylberberg (York University Toronto)
Publication of Summaries
Summaries of posters and talks will be published online on the Cosyne website. Authors will be asked to consent to publication when they submit their summaries. These summaries are citable, but they are not full-length proceedings and therefore do not preclude further publication. Copyright in individual summaries is the property of their respective authors. You may not revise your summary after submission, so please check it carefully for errors. Abstracts should be cited as follows:
Doe, John. (2020). A computational model of simple and complex cells. Cosyne Abstracts 2020, Denver, CO.
