[Neuro-2008-committee] Neuroinformatics congress abstracts

[Pontus Holm]

Dear Program Committee,

 

The deadline for abstract submissions is on Friday. As usual, most people
submit the last couple of days. So far, we have 23 abstracts, whereof 5 are
for demo presentations. With all likelihood, we will postpone the deadline
by a week. When announcing this on Monday, we will also take the opportunity
to inform people of some new features. Firstly, we have arranged so that
every accepted abstract will receive a DOI identification number through
Frontiers Journal series. Secondly, there are now travel grants available
for students from the EU. This is made possible by the INCF EU SSA grant. 

 

Those of you who are responsible for a workshop will shortly receive an
e-mail from our congress arranger, MCI. This letter will include a link to
the abstract review database, username, password, and some information on
how to handle the online abstract review module. You will only be directed
to abstracts of the topics that are relevant for your specific workshop.

 

We can accommodate up to 150 posters and 10 demos, i.e. no competition for
poster slots but probably stiff competition for the demo slots. 

 

Poster reviewers: Please review your allocated abstracts and submit the
following two judgments.

1.	Should abstract be accepted, i.e. is it relevant at all? Yes or No.

a.	If no, does it belong with another topic?

2.	Should abstract be one of three abstracts selected for 5 minute oral
presentation within the format of your workshop? Yes or No.

 

Demo reviewers: Please review the demo abstracts and submit the following
judgments.

1.	Should abstract be awarded one of the 10 demo slots? Yes or No.

a.	If no, would you like to encourage the submitter to instead present
a poster? 

2.	Would you like to recommend abstract for 5 minute oral presentation
within the format of a workshop? Yes or No.

a.	If yes, which workshop?

 

We expect the first round of abstract reviewing to be completed 10 days
after abstract submission deadline. Given that we most likely postpone the
deadline one week, this would mean review completion by May 19th. Then we
will need the following few days to finalize things. For instance, the 5
minute oral presentations selections needs to be agreed upon between the two
leaders of each workshop and possible additional suggestions by the demo
leaders must be considered. By the end of that week we want to send out
letters of acceptance (or rejection) to the submitters to allow them to
still register for the cheaper early fee (deadline June 2nd). 

 

Any technical questions you might have concerning the online review module
can be addressed to Marianne at MCI.

(Marianne.Damstroem at mci-group.com)

 

I will of course be happy to answer any other questions you may have.

 

Happy Walpurgis Night,

/Pontus

 

--
Pontus Holm, Ph.D.
Program Officer

International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Secretariat 
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

Email:  <mailto:pontus.holm at incf.org> pontus.holm at incf.org
Phone: +46 8 524 87016
Fax: +46 8 524 87150
web:  <http://www.incf.org> www.incf.org 

 

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