[Neuro-2008-committee] status at 22 October

[David Willshaw]

Hi, Rodney.

I believe that we have sent in an agreed title and abstract for both
workshops D & E and that in both cases we are discussing the list of
speakers.

Best wishes,

David

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:11 +0200, Rodney Douglas wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen
> 
> Here are the dealines that we agreed to:
> >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 27th we have provisional program, suitable for composing 
> >announcement flyer for Neuroscience.
> 
> Listed below is the information that I (and I believe Pontus)
> currently have concerning Keynote speakers / workshops / and demos.
> 
> Clearly, the situation needs some effort please!
> If you have information that improves the outlook below,
> please send it to me...
> 
> We will need to move _very_ swiftly now to provide some material
> for the INCF team trying to prepare a flyer for Neuroscience.
> 
> ==rodney
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Keynote speakers:  status:  50% acceptance 
> Accepted: Kennedy, Ellisman and van Essen
> No reply: Kawato, Cerf, and Sejnowski.
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Workshop A:   status: OK
> (Anders / Erik)
> "Future hardware  challenges to scientific computing" 
> 
> The goal of this workshop is summarized as:
> The recent move of the computer industry towards multi-core  
> technology will cause parallel programming to spread through all  
> levels of society. Although many neuroscientific computing  
> applications are already parallel they are often not optimized for  
> multicore configurations. We will consider these challenges both from  
> a computer science, scientific computing, and a neuroinformatics  
> perspective. In addition we will consider some of the opportunities  
> massive parallelism offer in how we model neuronal networks.
> 
> Invited workshop speakers get to speak for 20 min + 5 min  
> discussion.  We will have 3 invited speakers, one of whom will be a  
> computer scientists who will cover multicore computing from a  
> computer science perspective.  In addition two contributions will be  
> selected from submitted abstracts for 10 min + 5 min discussion each.  
> The session will end with a 15 min panel discussion and you are  
> invited to be part of this panel.
> 
> Gewaltig and Wittum have accepted.
> Erik and Anders wait with third invitation 'till they have heard candidates 
> speak in december
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Workshop B   status:  NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
> (Rob)
>  Rob's proposal is as follows 
> "Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics 
> meets neuroinformatics" is a hot topic that I would be willing to 
> assign to myself. Rusty Gage would be a contender . He does not know 
> much about neuroinformatics per se, but would still be a strong and 
> interesting speaker. There are several other contenders for a keynote 
> on this topic (Alan Jones from the ABA, Ed Lein of the ABA, Pierre 
> Cambon (?), Seth Grant, ....)
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Workshop C  status: NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
> (Sten)
> Political / Policy Workshop
> Speakers: Kathy Olsen, David Sainsbury, Floyd Bloom
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Workshop D  status: NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
> Ulla / David
> 
> Extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
> 
> data integration from multimodal imaging sources
> multi-level data integration between microscopic and macroscopic imaging
> integration and extraction of data from large data-bases
> 
> Invited speakers proposal:	
> prof. Alan Evans McGill University Montreal (multimodal image data, 
> data-bases)
> prof. Stephen Smith Oxford University (fMRI and MRI analysis tools (FSL), 
> young person but published a lot already)
> in addition I would like to have here somebody from the microscopy imaging 
> groups like MacKenzie-Graham (LONI) or Atlas groups like Amunts (Juelich) 
> RJD proposed also Winfred Denk (serial blockface Electron microscopy)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Workshop E  status: NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT 
> (Andrzej)
> Extraction of information from large electrophysiological data sets 
> Computational theory of information processing by neuronal systems (coding)
> Human machine interface
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Demo Track  status:NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
> (Shiro)
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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