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Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2012

Thanks to all for a great meeting in 2012!

Dates for 2013 are:

February 28 - March 2 (Main meeting, Salt Lake City)
March 3 - 5 (Workshops, Snowbird)

Please submit your feedback about Cosyne 2012 and your suggestions for 2013 to cosyne2012feedback@gmail.com

About Cosyne

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. It has attracted a growing number of participants, rising to >550 in 2011. The Cosyne 2011 meeting featured 43 invited and contributed talks, 300 poster presentations, and 14 workshops incorporating a total of 116 presentations. This year, the conference has received a record number of abstracts.

To encourage interdisciplinary interactions, the main meeting is arranged in a single track. A set of invited talks are selected by the Executive Committee and Organizing Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts.

Cosyne topics include (but are not limited to): neural coding, natural scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation with spiking networks. Participants include pure experimentalists, pure theorists, and everything in between.

Sponsors

Thanks to the generosity of the following organizations:

• The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
• Qualcomm Incorporated
• Brain Corporation
• Cell Press/Neuron
• Evolved Machines

The generosity of these organizations makes it possible to offer a number of student and postdoc travel grants.

Exhibitors

• Tucker Davis Technologies
• MIT Press
• Ripple

Cosyne leadership

Organizing Committee:

• General Chairs: Rachel Wilson (Harvard Medical School) and Jim DiCarlo (MIT)
• Program Chairs: Nicole Rust (University of Pennsylvania) and Jonathan Pillow (University of Texas at Austin)
• Workshop Chairs: Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh) and Jess Cardin (Yale)
• Publicity Chair: Mark Histed (Harvard Medical School)

Program Committee:

• Jonathan Pillow (University of Texas at Austin), co-chair
• Nicole Rust (University of Pennsylvania), co-chair
• Matthias Bethge (Max Planck Institute, Tubingen)
• Marlene Cohen (University of Pittsburgh)
• Ila Fiete (University of Texas at Austin)
• David Freedman (University of Chicago)
• Surya Ganguli (Stanford University)
• Maria Geffen (University of Pennsylvania)
• Tim Gollisch (University of Gottingen)
• Andrea Hasenstaub (Salk Institute)
• Greg Horwitz (University of Washington)
• Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
• Mike Long (New York University Medical School)
• Wei Ji Ma (Baylor College of Medicine)
• Christian Machens (Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon)
• Bruno Olshausen (University of California, Berkeley)
• Liam Paninski (Columbia University)
• Elad Schneidman (Weizmann Institute)
• Tatyana Sharpee (Salk Institute)
• Marshall Shuler (Johns Hopkins University)
• Garrett Stanley (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University)

Executive Committee:

• Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme)
• Alexandre Pouget (University of Geneva)
• Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Advisory Board:

• Matteo Carandini (University College London)
• Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• Peter Dayan (University College London)
• Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI)
• Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California)
• Maneesh Sahani (University College London)
• Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI)
• Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farm)