Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2008
With generous support from the Swartz Foundation
Main meeting: 28 Feb - 2 Mar 2008, Marriott, Downtown, Salt Lake City, Utah
Workshops: 3-4 Mar 2008, Snowbird Ski Resort, Snowbird, Utah
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 evolved from a series of invitation-only workshops on Neural Information and Coding that have been held since 1996. The first Cosyne meeting, held in 2004 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, drew over 350 participants. The 2005 and 2006 meetings, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, drew nearly 400 participants, and the 2007 meeting drew 440.
The main meeting is arranged in a single track, so as to encourage interdisciplinary interactions. A set of invited talks are selected
by the Executive 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, computation with spiking networks.
Cosyne 2008 Invited Speakers:
- Keynote: Tomaso Poggio (MIT)
- György Buzsáki (Rutgers U)
- Dimitri Chklovskii (Janelia Farm, HHMI)
- Karl Deisseroth (Stanford U)
- Mitra Hartmann (Northestern U.)
- Michael Hausser (UCL)
- David Heeger (NYU)
- Sabine Kastner (Princeton U.)
- Mitsuo Kawato (ATR)
- David McAlpine (UCL)
- Krishna Shenoy (Stanford U.)
- Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
- Rachel Wilson (Harvard U.)
Cosyne 2008 Organizing Committee:
- General Chair: Eero Simoncelli (NYU)
- Program Chair: Matteo Carandini (Smith-Kettlewell)
- Workshop Chair(s): Fritz Sommer, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein (UC Berkeley)
- Publicity/Publication Chair: Alex Wade (Smith-Kettlewell)
Cosyne 2008 Program Committee:
- Matteo Carandini, chair (Smith-Kettlewell)
- Dora Angelaki (WUSTL)
- Mathew Diamond (Int'l School for Advanced Studies, Trieste)
- Allison Doupe (UCSF)
- Adrienne Fairhall (U Washington)
- Michael Hasselmo (Boston U)
- Adam Kepecs (CSHL)
- Peter Latham (UCL)
- Klaus Obermayer (Technische Universität Berlin)
- Bijan Pesaran (NYU)
- John Reynolds (Salk Institute)
- Daniel Wolpert (U Cambridge)
Cosyne 2008 Executive Committee:
- Tony Zador (CSHL)
- Alex Pouget (U Rochester)
- Zach Mainen (CSHL)
- Eero Simoncelli (NYU)
- Matteo Carandini (Smith-Kettlewell)
