Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010
Main meeting: 25 Feb 2010 - 28 Feb 2010
Marriott, Downtown, Salt Lake City, Utah
Workshops: 1-2 Mar 2010
Snowbird Ski Resort, Snowbird, Utah
Registration is now open.
Information about fellowships is available.
Abstract submission is now closed.
Submission instructions are still available for reference.
Workshop proposal submission is now closed.
The list of accepted workshops can be found here.
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 2009.
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 2010 Invited Speakers
- Keynote: Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School)
- Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester)
- Howard Berg (Harvard University)
- Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington)
- John Lisman (Brandeis University)
- Eve Marder (Brandeis University)
- Tirin Moore (Stanford University)
- Michael Platt (Duke University)
- Nicholas Schiff (Cornell Medical School)
- Jackie Schiller (Technion)
- Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cosyne 2010 will include a special symposium in honour of Horace Barlow, featuring talks by:
- Honorary Lecturer: Horace Barlow (Cambridge University)
- David Field (Cornell University)
- Wilson Geisler (University of Texas)
- Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto)
- Simon Laughlin (Cambridge University)
Cosyne 2010 Committees
Organizing Committee:
- General Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London)
- Program Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California)
- Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Mark Laubach (Yale University)
- Communications Chair: Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University)
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)
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)




