Call for abstract submission> Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009)]

Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009) http://bccn2009.org/ The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) strives to be the major European Conference on Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the annual Symposium of the German National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has been held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, it has been opened as an international conference. We expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be published in the Journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of computational neuroscience including, but not limited to: learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system, brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making, information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and recurrent networks, neurotechnology. This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision. MAIN MEETING: 30 September - 2 October, 2009 Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM: 3 October, 2009 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission open: 4 May 2009 Abstract submission deadline: 17 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline: 15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration closed: 15 August 2009 INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed): Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL) Gilles Laurent (Caltech) Klaus Obermayer (Bernstein Center Berlin) Bernstein Award 2009 winner ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Jochen Triesch Program Chairs: Jörg Lücke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finace Chair: Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair: Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Gordon Pipa - Email: gpipa(a)mit.edu & pipa(a)mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de Research fellow at Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Dep. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & Massachusetts General Hospital, Dep. of Anesthesia and Critical Care 77 Massachusetts Ave. , Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Building 46-6079 Room 6057 tel. +1-617-324-1881 (office) tel. +1-617-297-2274 (home) mobil +1 857-753-7177 Group leader at Max-Planck Inst. for Brain Research Dep. Neurophysiology & Junior fellow at Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Deutschordenstr. 46, 60528 Frankfurt/Main Germany tel. +49-69-96769-289 (office) tel. +49-69-96769-231 (lab) fax. +49-69-96769-327 mobil +49-172-2159944