[Neuro-2008-committee] Week of 15th to 19th

[usuishiro at riken.jp]

Dear Pontus:

Thank you for coordinating the 20008 Congress. I have some comments as following.
Regarding the workshop topic C (Political policy), as I said during the last GB 
meeting, if the organizer ask to Japanese government for attending some person 
who is in charge with the subject, they might ask to us the details and how they 
could  present at the WS. It will be similar to what Christine said at the very 
end of the GB meeting. Could you tell me the main point of the WS? I wish I could
have a minutes of the last GB meeting even for the draft so I can understand more 
details of our discussions.

Concernign to the demo track, I just talked to Raphael at INCF and we will
have a draft in shortly.   Thank you your kind undesttanding.

Cordial regards,    shiro


> Dear Program Committee members,
> 
> In the week following the Program Committee meeting, we have had two
> additional inputs. Firstly, Rob offered some suggestions regarding workshop
> topic C (Political policy), and secondly, Erik and Anders suggested a final
> version of title and speakers for workshop topic A (Future hardware
> challenges to scientific computing). 
> 
> Do we consider the proposed keynote speakers list set? We hope to have a
> list of invited and confirmed keynote speakers by Friday, so we need to
> contact the candidates shortly.
> 
> Workshop leaders: In order to be able to print informative congress-posters
> for the SfN meeting, we really need to have information on workshop topic
> names and workshop participants as soon as possible. The deadline is set to
> this Friday.
> 
> Time schedule:
> 
> On 12th October we will freeze the list of proposed keynote speakers, and
> the list will be invited. So we hope to have finalized the keynote speakers
> by about the 19th.    
> 
> By 19th, the workshop (and demotrack) organizers should provide: one
> paragraph description of workshops – title – problem domain – list of 3
> speakers – brief schedule speakers – poster invitees -and panel discussion. 
> 
> We will circulate this list, and collectively edit it during the week of
> 22th, so that by 26th we have provisional program, suitable for composing
> announcement flyer for Neuroscience.