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

[usuishiro at riken.jp]

Dear Rodney:

I appreciate to your kind and quick reply and summary message.

> 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.

Yes, I got and read it, thanks.

> 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).

Thank you for your kind summary so far on the Policy Workshop (C). 
I now somehow understood the objectives and rough concepts of the WS.

> 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

I agree to you that Floyd to be a good candidate.

> 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. 

Yes, we need to make panel-ists but I haven't thought yet. How about
could be think of Torsten Wiesel, Masao Ito or someone like them?

> 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.

It is the most important issue what I was trying to say. We should look for
someone who has clear and creative opinion on INCF/neuroinformatics in general.

By the way, it might be a good occasion to ask (so-called I mean) governmental 
scientific officers from each member countries for just auditting the WS as 
observers if they like to attend. 

Thanks again Rodney for your great efforts in coordinating the plan!
Please just forgive me if I am still saying not along with our concepts!

Cordial regards,   shiro

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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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