Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics: abstract deadline extension

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Due to the impending NIPS deadline, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to May 26!


             Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD)
                      September 17 - 20, 2017
                          Capbreton, France

                   https://nccd2017.sciencesconf.org/

           Towards a mechanistic interpretation of neural data


NCCD17 is the third in a series of meetings focusing on topics in theoretical and experimental neuroscience.

Techniques for recording and manipulating large-scale neural activity in awake behaving animals are developing at an accelerating pace. Identifying the principles of neural processing requires a mechanistic interpretation of the large amounts of collected data. The aim of this workshop is to make progress in that direction by bringing together three different communities: (i) experimentalists performing large-scale recordings in behaving animals; (ii) modelers specialized in statistical data-analysis; (iii) theorists working with mechanistic network models. We are looking for talks that build bridges across these different approaches.

As with previous workshops, our goal is to foster the strong interactions we believe are so important for this field. So the meeting will be small (~70 people).


Venue:
Casino de Capbreton, Capbreton, France.

Important dates:
May 26: abstract submission deadline
June 9: early registration deadline

Confirmed speakers:
Mark Churchland (Columbia)
Tatiana Engel (Stanford)
Adrienne Fairhall (Seattle)
Julijana Gjorgjieva (Frankfurt)
Jakob Macke (Bonn)
Alfonso Renart (Lisbon)
Dmitry Rinberg (NYU)
Ilana Witten (Princeton)
Byron Yu (Pittsburgh)

Organizers:
Peter Latham (UCL)
Srdjan Ostojic (ENS Paris)
Maneesh Sahani (UCL)

Previous meetings: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/nccd/