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

[Rodney Douglas]

dear Shiro (and others)

I believe you did receive a copy of the conference planning committee
meeting of thursday 4th October.
It was circulated to the GB on 5th October.
I attach another copy here.

Sten agreed to be in charge of the Policy Workshop (C)
As I understand our discussions, we agreed that there would be 
2-3 key note speakers (two were proposed Olsen and Sainsbury).

Rob suggested also Floyd Bloom as a third major speaker in this workshop.
That seems like a good idea to me (ie olsen, sainsbury & bloom). But as 
primary WS organizer, sten should give his lead on this

This wokshop will include a discssion panel of policy makers. We hoped to have 
a broad represenation, but there was no discussion of particular invitees for
 that panel. No doubt Sten would be happy to receive suggestions for 
the panel discussion. 

However, Whoever, we do finally nominate for that panel, I think we should be 
very careful  that the nominees are able to speak their own opinion, and not 
simply read a prepared document.

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Now the present planning situation is this:

I have recieved carefully prepared draft letters of invitation for KEYNOTE 
speakers from Jan et al. 

These letters will be sent to:
Vint Cerf (GOOGLE)
David van Essen
Mark Ellisman
Mary Kennedy
Mitsuo Kawato
Peter Dayan

These are the set that we discussed on the 4th, and again during my report to 
the GB on the 5th.  
We would should now move to invite these asap.
Although I originally suggested 19th (this friday) as deadline
I now ask you all for permission to go ahead sooner.
I propose that if there has been no objection by midnight CET tues 16th 
October, then we ask Jan to mail these invitations. 

No doubt there will be 20% refusals, and so we should prepare two reserves
by later this week.

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Eric and Anders (wokshop A) made their proposal, and since there was no 
objection,
the invistations for those speakers have now been sent (I suppose).

The other 3 (B, D, E) workshops have not yet announced their content or 
speakers.

Rob made a suggestion of another WS
"Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics"
This was raised on the thursday as a possible topic, but (probably because Rob 
wasnt there on thursday :-)  didnt make it through to the final cut. 

Personally, I think Rob's is a relevant topic, and more broadband than the 
spefic DB oriented workshop B. Maybe we should consider replacing / extending 
the more specific database oriented workshop B with this topic
under Rob's guidance??  

This is not an inivtation for us all to begin re-evaluating all the discisions 
already taken at the planning meeting!! But in this one instance, I propsoe 
that we consider modifying workshop B.  

Please give me your opinions as soon as possible.

Another point in passing: I think that we should avoid having members of the 
organizing commitee as speakers (ie, not Rob as speaker in the possible 
revisied workshop). Instead, the organizers should be ACTIVE chairpersons - 
encourgaing discussion and debate. In which case Rob could take over 
chairmanship of Workshop B. 

==r
 


On Monday 15 October 2007 14:28:20 usuishiro at riken.jp wrote:
> 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.
>
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