[Neuro-2008-committee] INCF congress abstract submission recap

[Daniel Wójcik]

Dear Pontus,

Given M. Nicolelis at workshop E I would see
8	Brain machine interface
also at E (well, it's 1 abstract), perhaps also
7	Neuromorphic engineering
- a slight reduction in the load of workshop A reviewers.

All the best,
	Daniel

Pontus Holm pisze:
> Dear Erik and the rest of the program committee,
> 
>  
> 
> There was indeed some confusion regarding this. Multiple workshops were 
> by mistake assigned to the same topics. Sorry about that. This is now 
> sorted out. Thank you for making me aware, Erik.
> 
>  
> 
> Attached you find an excel-file of the abstract division. This division 
> is now also implemented in the MCI review module (i.e. you may now have 
> fewer allocated abstracts than last time you logged in). The idea is 
> that Rodney and Sten should look at the abstracts of the topics that do 
> not come within the scope of a certain workshop, i.e. General 
> Neuroinformatics, Clinical Neuroinformatics and Sustainability.
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> /Pontus
> 
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> *From:* Erik De Schutter [mailto:erik at oist.jp]
> *Sent:* den 13 maj 2008 04:11
> *To:* Pontus Holm
> *Cc:* neuro-2008-committee at incf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Neuro-2008-committee] INCF congress abstract submission 
> recap
> 
>  
> 
> Dear all,
> 
>  
> 
> I am a bit unclear on who gets to review what...
> Pontus, can you clearly link the workshop topics to the topic categories 
> listed?  When I log in I receive 6 categories and that is way too many...
> Also, who handles the general neuroinformatics (#1) and computational 
> neuroscience (#2) categories?There is no way that I can score 72 
> abstracts (#1+#2+#6) before the end of the week, which would be the case 
> if I was required to also score those general categories.
> Best regards,
> Erik
> 
> On May 12, 2008, at 23:11 , Pontus Holm wrote:
> 
> Dear program committee,
> 
>  
> 
> Abstract submission is completed and it is time to focus on reviewing 
> and program planning.
> 
>  
> 
> *Abstract submission result recap:*
> 
> I am very happy to announce that we collected 130 abstracts! 104 for 
> posters and 26 for demos. We will make arrangements for hosting more 
> than the 10 demo slots originally planned. The added extra week before 
> deadline, and some late reminders, gave a substantial increase of 
> abstracts fromNetherlands and Sweden, as well as for the 
> “Electrophysiology” topic. It also gave us participation from two more 
> countries, France and Brazil.
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> Abstracts distribution per country:
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> <image001.gif>
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> Abstracts distribution per topic:
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> <image002.gif>
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> As you can see, we attract scientists from a large number of countries, 
> but naturally INCF member states dominate. Regarding topics, it is clear 
> that the people of some categories have embraced the neuroinformatics 
> concept more than others. This places us in a situation where the 
> leaders of Workshop 1 (Erik and Anders) will have a lot of abstracts to 
> review, whereas other workshop leaders will have considerably less. So, 
> Erik and Anders, if you come across abstracts that you think borders to 
> another topic you may consider changing its topic. Of course it goes for 
> all of you that if you think an abstract is in the wrong topic group, 
> then just change its topic.
> 
>  
> 
> So now begins review phase 1 where we ask you to grade all the abstracts 
> of your topics 1-5, where 1 means not accepted and 5 means strong 
> candidate for oral presentation. At this stage you will be able to grade 
> and comment also the demo abstracts of your topics. Please do this by 
> Thursday or Friday so that we will have sufficient time for review stage 
> 2 (accepting, rejecting, allocating 5 minute oral presentation slots).
> 
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> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pontus
> 
> PS. Due to a recently decided INCF task force workshop in conjunction to 
> the congress, there may be a few late abstract additions from task force 
> participants this week. /P
> 
> --
> Pontus Holm, Ph.D.
> Program Officer
> 
> International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Secretariat 
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