[Comp-neuro] reminder -- submission deadline June 10th for 2nd Beijing International symposium on computational neuroscience July 22nd.

[Li Zhaoping]

Dear All,

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting a contribution is in 
9 days!!! Also, please register
as soon as possible even if you do not submit, to ensure a place at the 
symposium.

The original call for contribution and participation is enclosed below:
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The 2nd Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience is 
an intensive, high quality, one day symposium taking place on July 22, 
2010, in Tsinghua University. It will feature presentations of theories, 
models, and theory/model- motivated experiments in neuroscience. Most 
presentations will be contributed posters, allowing extensive 
interactions and exchanges between participants. Additionally, there 
will be four invited oral presentations. The topics of interests 
include, but are not limited to, computational theories and models of 
vision or other sensory processes, motor control, learning,  memory, and 
decision making; physiological and psychological experiments to test or 
develop computational theories, such as monkey electrophysiology to test 
theories of visual attention, and human psychophysics to explore models 
of visual adaptation, inference, and perceptual learning, and 
inter-disciplinary investigations in neural encoding and decoding, 
learning and plasticity, neural circuits and networks, etc. This 
symposium aims to encourage interaction between computational and 
experimental communities, between researchers in the regional and 
international communities of computational neuroscience, and to foster 
and encourage interest among students and young researchers in this field.


The symposium website is http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/home


Invited Speakers are (in alphabetical order)
Larry Abbott (Columbia University, USA),
Peter Dayan (University College London, UK),
Dan Kersten (University of Minnesota, USA),
Li Wu (Beijing Normal University, China).

Some names of the participants and contributors are
Fang Fang (Peking University, China),
Tomoki Fukai (RIKEN, Japan),
Bo Hong  (Tsinghua University, China),
Pei-Ji Liang  (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Zach Mainen (Institute Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal)
Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN, Japan),
Ning Qian (Columbia University, US),
Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China),
Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, China),
Cong Yu (Beijing Normal University, China),
Liqing Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China),
Mingsha Zhang (Institute of Neuroscience, China),
Li Zhaoping (University College London, UK/Tsinghua University, China).

Call for contributions and participations:

Researchers and students are encouraged to contribute and participate in 
the symposium. Registration is required, early registration is 
recommended if you want to secure a place. Registration is free if you 
do not sign up for symposium dinner, and costs 150 yuan otherwise.  To 
contribute a poster presentation, please submit an abstract (max 200 
words) together with a one to two A4 page summary of the work in a pdf 
file at the registration website. Submission deadline is June 10th, 
2010.   The submissions will be reviewed by the symposium committee. 
Limited travel funds are available to help students and young 
researchers to participate in the symposium. Preference will be given to 
those who present their work. Please contact the symposium secretary to 
apply for travel assistance if needed.

To register or to submit a contribution, please go to the website

http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/registration

Submission deadline is June 10, 2010.
More details about the symposium organization, travel/accommodation, 
program schedule,  contact details, and information about the
symposium in 2009,  can be found at the symposium website 
http://cns.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/biscon10/home