[Neuro-2008-committee] Neuroinformatics congress abstracts

[usuishiro at riken.jp]

Dear Pontus:

Thank you for your kind arrangements and message. We are delighted to hear
that the deadline will be extended for another week! We, as a J-node, will 
submit 4 posters from J-node PFs: NIMG, Visiome and Invertebrate and NI tools 
from my team. 

I all understood what we should workout as a demo session. But didn't we have
10 demos per a day and since we have 2 days congress which means that we can 
have 20 demos during the congress? If you change the way for the demo session, 
please correct me.  kind regards of all,    shiro

> 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 v臠 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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Shiro USUI, Ph.D  usuishiro at riken.jp 
Neuroinformatics Lab.  RIKEN BSI 
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