[Neuro-2008-committee] speaker status

[Erik De Schutter]

Dear all,

In response to Rodney's e-mail:

1) A motivation for the proposal to invite Chuck Stevens, which may seem a
bit of an unexpected choice:

I was at the Salk last week and Chuck  Stevens gave a great talk on a
theoretical analysis of the spatial distribution of dendritic and axonal
arborizations.  What makes this so special is that there was a big
data-mining aspect to the talk:  Chuck went into NeuroMorpho.org database
and used the neuronal reconstructions available in there to validate his
theoretical predictions. This is
what the field really needs: strong data-mining applications, especially,
as in this case, by high-profile scientists.  I am sure that, if he
accepts the invitation, we can ask Chuck to devote a bit
of time to comment on the data-sharing and data-mining aspects of his
work.  At present this work is unpublished.

2) Workshop A status: one of the speakers will be an American computer
scientist for which we have 2 potential candidates. I will hear both of
them speak next month in Okinawa and will then invite the best speaker of
the two.

Best,

Erik

> dear Commitee
>
> you have seen Pontus' prod...
> According to Pontus excel sheet at
> http://www.neuroinformatics2008.org/internal/
> we have yet to fill the following slots:
>
> Keynote speakers: 4 accepts 2 slots
>
> workshop A (anders/erik) 2 accepts 1 slot
> workshop B (rob/david) 3 slots
> workshop C (sten/rodney) 1 accept 2 slots
> workshop D (ulla/david) 2 accepts 2 slots
> workshop E (andrzej/david) 2 accepts 1 slot
>
> So, could each of the workshops please indicate
> a) whether the above numbers do in indeed reflect the current situation
> b) what actions are planned to improve the current situation?
>
>
> for additional keynote speakers we have the following nominations:
> Chuck Stevens (Salk Institute)  nominated by Erik
> David Tank (Princeton) nominated by Rodney
>
> please make additional suggestions for keynote speakers.
>
> regards, rodney
>
>
>
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