Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2011

Main meeting: February 24, 2011 - February 27, 2011

Marriott, Downtown, Salt Lake City, Utah

Workshops: February 28, 2011 - March 1, 2011

Snowbird Ski Resort, Snowbird, Utah CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (deadline is Sept. 15, 2010)

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 over 500 in 2010.

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.

Partners

The abstracts of the 2010 meeting will again 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.

Thanks to the generosity of The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, of Qualcomm Incorporated and of Brain Corporation, up to 40 travel grants will be available to support student and postdoc participation in the main Cosyne meeting.

Cosyne 2011 Invited Speakers

• David Anderson
• Alison Barth
• EJ Chichilnisky
• Tom Clandinin
• Stan Dehaene
• David Kleinfeld
• Peter Latham
• Roberto Malinow
• Tirin Moore
• Anna Nobre
• Murray Sherman
• Anthony Zador

Cosyne 2011 Committees

Organizing Committee:

• General Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California)
• Program Chairs: Rachel Wilson (Harvard), co-chair and Jim DICarlo (MIT), co-chair
• Workshop Chairs: Mark Laubach (Yale University) and Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh)
• Communications Chair: Ila Fiete (UT Austin)

Program Committee:

• Rachel Wilson (Harvard), co-chair
• Jim DiCarlo (MIT), co-chair

Executive Committee:

• Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• Alexandre Pouget (University of Rochester)
• Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme)

Advisory Board:

• Matteo Carandini (University College London)
• Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI)
• Peter Dayan (University College London)
• Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI)
• Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farm)
• Maneesh Sahani (University College London)