[Neuro-2008-committee] update

[Rodney Douglas]

Here is an update, now incorporating description
and potential speakers for Workshop E.

** Andrzej - have you invitied the speakers yet?

** Ulla for description of workshop  D, I have only the
three sentence below. Do you have a paragraph of more
descriptive text (suitable for incorporation in the flyer?) 

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Keynote speakers:  status:  50% acceptance 
Accepted: Kennedy, Ellisman and van Essen
No reply: Kawato, Cerf, and Sejnowski.


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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

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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, ....)

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Workshop C  status: NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
(Sten)
Political / Policy Workshop
Speakers: Kathy Olsen, David Sainsbury, Floyd Bloom


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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)

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Workshop E.   
(Andrzej Wrobel, David Willshaw)
Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology


Advances in techniques for electrophysiological recording as well as in
analytical tools are enabling fascinating conceptual and engineering
developments in present-day electrophysiological studies of the brain.
This workshop will gather together  the scientists contributing to new
experimental, theoretical and engineering approaches to this branch of
systems neuroscience.

(Suggested speakers – two options - to be invited for delivering 
lectures in each subject proposed by the C-tee in Stockholm)

1. Extraction of information from large electrophysiological data sets
Gyorgi Buzsaki (MD,PhD; buzsaki at andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Ehud Ahissar (Prof. Dr.; ehud.ahissar at weizmann.ac.il)

2. Computational theory of information processing by neuronal systems 
(coding)
Michael Shadlen (MD, PhD; shadlen at u.washington.edu)
Alex Pouget (Prof., alex at bcs.rochester.edu)

3. Human machine interface:
Miguel Nicolelis (MD, PhD; nicoleli at neuro.duke.edu)
Niels Birbaumer (Prof. Dr phil; niels.birbaumer at uni-tuebingen.de)

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Demo Track  status:NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
(Shiro)


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