Full agenda is available here. Speakers are mostly a mix of neurotech CEOs and VCs (and Rep. Patrick Kennedy).
I’ve heard that there are no more free passes for students. (sadly) If anyone attends and would be willing to write-up something about the conference, please let me know and I’d be glad to put it on neurodudes.
Abstracts for the Fourth International Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND4) are due Saturday, March 1. The meeting will take place May 29-31 in Pittsburgh, PA. Contact Lisa Bopp at lbopp (domain pitt.edu) for further information.
In this paper at arXiv, Yin et al. report on an analysis of the abstracts from the SfN meetings from 2001 to 2006. It sounds like their analysis uncovered several interesting trends: Two they mention in their abstract are that 60% of authors appear in only one year’s abstracts over the studied period, and that systems neuroscience seems to be on the rise relative to cellular and molecular neuroscience.
-John O’Leary
Workshop: Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience. September 16-19, 2007. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, Canada.
Includes focus sessions on (1) audition and (2) parkinsonian tremor and deep brain stimulation.
Workshop: Coherent behavior in neural networks. October 17th to October 20th, 2007. Mallorca, Spain.
The MIT Media Lab is holding a conference on May 9th, “Human 2.0: New Minds, New Bodies, New Identites” which will launch a number of new initiatives centered around the goal of inventing a better future via direct engineering of the human. Amongst these things will be the initiation of the MIT Center for Human Augmentation, and the launch of a number of novel applied Neurotechnology Projects.
Guest speakers on May 9th will include MIT professors (Roz Picard, Hugh Herr, myself, etc.) and many acclaimed speakers such as Oliver Sacks and John Donoghue. Registration may be close to being full, but it will be webcast.
More information at:
http://h20.media.mit.edu
- Ed
Videos have been posted from the Conference on Brain Network Dynamics held at the University of California at Berkeley on January 26-27, 2007.
“The conference will explore the dynamics of distributed brain function from multidisciplinary perspectives. It is being organized at Berkeley in honor of Walter Freeman for his contributions to brain dynamics over the past five decades on the occasion of his 80th birthday. ”
Lots of Interesting talks.
— posted by Charles Cadieu —
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2007)
9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal
See http://www.icann2007.org/call_papers.php for more.
HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR?
HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE?
The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. It includes invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is particularly interested in exploring how the brain and biologically-inspired algorithms and systems in engineering and technology can learn. Single-track oral and poster sessions enable all presented work to be highly visible. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. Posters will be up all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule.
ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
May 16 – 19, 2007
Boston University
677 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA
http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/
Sponsored by the Boston University
Center for Adaptive Systems and
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (http://www.cns.bu.edu/)
with financial support from the National Science Foundation (http://cns.bu.edu/CELEST/)