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

[Erik De Schutter]

Dear all,

1) I agree with Rodney's suggestions, including the proposal to use  
Rob's "Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics"  
proposal for workshop B.

2) I will invite the speakers for workshop A asap.

Best,


Erik

On 16 Oct 2007, at 05:31, Rodney Douglas wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ---------------------------
> 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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