Abstract submission, Cosyne 2010
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59PM PST on 20 Nov 2009.
Abstracts submitted by the deadline may be revised until 11:59PM PST on 22 Nov 2009.
Submission Format
Submissions must adhere strictly to the following guidelines.
- The title must have at most 100 characters (including spaces). It should be capitalized as a normal sentence, e.g.: "A title that is appropriate for Cosyne 2009".
- The abstract must contain only text and have at most 500 words. It should indicate clearly:
- the open question addressed by your study,
- the methods and/or models used to answer the question,
- the results of the study,
- and what conclusions can be drawn from them.
- The abstract alone should suffice to convince the Program Committee that your work satisfies the criteria for acceptance (see below). It should stand on its own, without citing the supplementary PDF document (see below). The abstract may not include figures, formatted equations or markup (italics, etc). It may be separated into paragraphs by empty lines. In case of acceptance, the abstract will appear in the program booklet and will be published online by Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience and therefore be citeable. There will be no opportunity to revise this abstract after the revision deadline (22 Nov 2009), so double-check it for errors.
- If you wish, you may also submit a supplementary PDF document with a maximum of 2 pages (A4 or US Letter). This PDF document could include a figure, formatted equations, and any other additional information that you wish to communicate. It should clearly show the title and first author's name at the head of each page. Font sizes should be at least 8 points in figures and 11 points in text. When submitting you may choose either to make this PDF document available to only the Program Committee or (in case of acceptance) to also make it available with your abstract in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. The Program Committee will endeavor to consult this supplementary information, but you should not assume that they will do so.
Submission Instructions
Submissions should be made at cosyne2010.confmaster.net.
You and your co-authors will receive an email confirmation. You may act as "submitting author" on only one abstract (although you may appear as a co-author on more than one). Revisions may be submitted any time before the revision deadline of 11:59PM PST Sunday, 22 Nov 2009.
The submitting author for each abstract must register for the meeting, which includes payment of registration fees, by 31 Jan 2010. Abstracts whose submitting author does not register will be withdrawn.
The complete meeting schedule will be published online (we aim for a publication date of 25 Jan 2010). Participants who need letters of invitation to obtain an entry visa may contact the Program Chair in advance of this date.
Abstract Evaluation
Submitted abstracts will be evaluated by members of the Program Committee, listed below. Evaluations are based on the following criteria: (1) relevance of the topic; (2) novelty/originality of the question and approach; (3) technical standard of the experiment/model/analysis and extent to which conclusions are supported by the data; (4) significance of the results; (5) clarity and completeness of the abstract.
Cosyne 2010 Program Committee:
- Anne Churchland (UW), co-chair
- Bartlett Mel (USC), co-chair
- Wyeth Bair (Oxford)
- Sue Becker (McMaster)
- Nicolas Brunel (CNRS)
- Mark Churchland (Stanford)
- Yang Dan (UC Berkeley)
- Jim DiCarlo (MIT)
- Aapo Hyvarinen (Helsinki)
- Vivek Jayaraman (Janelia)
- Adam Kepecs (CSHL)
- Konrad Koerding (North Western)
- Daniel O'Connor (Janelia)
- Jonathan Pillow (UT Austin)
- Jennifer Raymond (Stanford)
- Eric Shea-brown (UW)
- Thanos Siapas (Caltech)
- Ed Vul(MIT)
- Alex Wade (SKI)
- Mike Wehr (Oregon)
Approximately 20 submissions will be chosen for oral presentation and approximately 300 submissions will be chosen for poster presentation. Based on last year's numbers we expect this to mean that about 80-90% of submissions will be accepted.
Publication of Abstracts
The abstracts of the 2010 meeting will be published by Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Similar to the abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience meeting, these abstracts are citeable, but they are not full-length proceedings and therefore do not preclude further publication. The copyright in individual abstracts is the property of their respective authors.
