[Neuro-2008-committee] update

[Andrzej Wrobel]

We are waiting for the approval/new suggestions of the proposed program 
  and list of speakers for Workshop E. We shall start inviting the 
speakers after receiving approval from the C-tee.

andrzej

Rodney Douglas wrote:
> 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?) 
> 
> ==r
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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)
> 
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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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> 

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Prof. Andrzej Wróbel Ph.D., D.Sc.
Head of the Department of Neurophysiology
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
3 Pasteur St., 02-093 Warsaw
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Email: wrobel at nencki.gov.pl
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