Cosyne 2009 - Abstract deadline Dec 6th

[Cosyne Announce]

Due to the proximity of the Society for Neuroscience conference, the
deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2009 Cosyne meeting has been
extended.

The new (and final) abstract deadline is 11.59PST on Saturday Decmber 6th.

You may begin the submission process here:
http://cosyne2009.confmaster.net/pages/login.php?Conf=COSYNE2009
 
Conference registration is available here
http://cosyne.org/wiki/Cosyne_09_registration
 

Dates and location

The 2009 Cosyne Meeting will be held in the Marriott, Downtown, Salt
Lake City, Utah from the 26 February - 1 March 2009.

The main meeting will be followed by a series of workshops at the
Snowbird Ski Resort, Snowbird, Utah on the 2nd and 3rd March 2009.

About Cosyne

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange
of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems
in systems neuroscience.

The first Cosyne meeting, held in 2004 at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, drew over 350 participants. Since 2005, the meeting has
been held in Salt Lake City, Utah. It has attracted a growing number
of participants, from nearly 400 in 2005 to almost 500 in 2008.

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 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.

The abstracts of the 2009 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.

Cosyne 2009 Invited Speakers (confirmed):

  * Keynote: Richard Axel (Columbia University and HHMI, USA)
  * Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University and HHMI, USA)
  * Alexander Borst (MPI, Germany)
  * Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley, USA)
  * Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
  * Henry Markram (EPFL, Switzerland)
  * Earl Miller (MIT, USA)
  * Carl Petersen (EPFL, Lausanne)
  * Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
  * Stephen Scott (Queens University, Canada)
  * Shihab Shamma (U Maryland, USA)
  * Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT, USA)
  * Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel)