Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2009
Main meeting: 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2009
Marriott, Downtown, Salt Lake City, Utah
Workshops: 2-3 Mar 2009
Snowbird Ski Resort, Snowbird, Utah
News
- 5 Jan 2009: A generous gift from the Swartz Foundation will help support registration costs for deserving students/postdocs.
- 20 Dec 2008: A partnership with Neuron will help support registration costs for deserving students/postdocs.
- 7 Dec 2008: Record number of submissions (410); acceptance rate will be ~78% (vs. 91% for 2008).
- 7 Dec 2008: Abstract submission is now closed.
- 24 Nov 2008: Exhibitor information is available here
- 13 Nov 2008: Information on accommodation and transportation is available.
- 7 Nov 2008: Registration is open (early online registration ends January 31, 2009).
- 28 Oct 2008: Announcing the list of workshops.
- 20 Sep 2008: Announcing partnership with Frontiers in Neuroscience
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)
- 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)
Organizing Committee:
- General Chair: Matteo Carandini (University College London)
- Program Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London)
- Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Alex Huk (UT Austin)
- Publications Chair: Alex Wade (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute)
Executive Committee:
- Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Alex Pouget (University of Rochester)
- Zach Mainen (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia)
Advisory Board:
- Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI)
- Peter Dayan (University College London)
- Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI)
- Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farms)
