[vslist] 9th ICCNS: Call for Abstracts and Confirmed Invited Speakers

Wed Oct 6 14:22:47 GMT 2004

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***** Call for Abstracts and Confirmed Invited Speakers ***** 

NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 

ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

May 18 - 21, 2005

Boston University

677 Beacon Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA

http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ 

Sponsored by Boston University's 

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/) 

and 

the Office of Naval Research 

This interdisciplinary conference is attended each year by approximately 300
people from 30 countries around the world. As in previous years, the
conference will focus on solutions to the questions: 

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 tutorial and 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. 

CONFIRMED INVITED AND PLENARY SPEAKERS 

Andreas Andreou (Johns Hopkins University)

"Synthetic cortical architectures: From networked systems on a chip to
distributed processing in wireless networks"

Mark Bear (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

"How monocular deprivation shifts ocular dominance in visual cortex"

Dan Bullock (Boston University)

"Learning processes in motivated selection of goal objects"

Gail A. Carpenter (Boston University)

"Adaptive resonance theory"

Mark D'Esposito (University of California, Berkeley) 

"Neural mechanisms underlying cognitive control"

Apostolos Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota Medical School) "Brain
mechanisms of spatial cognition"

Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)

"Cortical architecture and dynamics of 3D vision and figure-ground
perception"

Nancy Kopell (Boston University)

"Rhythms in the nervous system: Where do they come from and what are they
good for?"

Markus Lappe (Westfalische Wilhelms University)

"Perception of visual space and object features during eye movements"

Christoph von der Malsburg (University of Southern California and
Ruhr-University Bochum) "Learning in visual perception"

Douglas Munoz (Queen's University)

"Neural correlates of bottom-up and top-down biases in orienting attention"

Elisabeth A. Murray (National Institutes of Mental Health) "Neural
substrates of stimulus-reward association, emotion, and response selection"

Dr. Bruno Olshausen (University of California and Redwood Neuroscience

Institute)

"Natural image statistics and efficient coding"

David Pisoni (Indiana University)

"Perceptual learning and adaptation in speech perception and spoken word
recognition"

Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California)

"Planning, control, and learning with motor primitives in humans and
humanoids"

Erik de Schutter (University of Antwerp)

"Interaction between excitability and synaptic plasticity in cerebellar
Purkinje cells"

Robert Shapley (New York University)

"Network models and ensemble activity of primary visual (V1) cortex"

David Sheinberg (Brown University)

"From seeing to knowing: The role of inferotemporal cortex in vision"

Ann Treisman (Princeton University)

"What can we see with global attention?"

Leslie Ungerleider (National Institutes of Mental Health) "Investigating the
role of attention and awareness in the processing of fearful faces"

Takeo Watanabe (Boston University)

"Perceptual learning without perception is active"

Matt Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Hippocampal-neocortical
interactions in the formation of memory"

Robert Wurtz (National Institutes of Mental Health)

"Brain circuits for perception of a stable visual world"

Robert J. Zatorre (McGill University and Montreal Neurological Institute)
"Structure and function of the human auditory cortex: Speech and music"

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Session Topics:

* vision

* image understanding   

* audition              

* speech and language   

* unsupervised learning 

* supervised learning   

* reinforcement and emotion 

* sensory-motor control 

* cognition, planning, and attention

* spatial mapping and navigation                                  

* object recognition

* neural circuit models

* neural system models

* mathematics of neural systems

* robotics

* hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital)

* neuromorphic VLSI

* industrial applications

* other

Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 31, 2005.
Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 28, 2005. A
meeting registration fee must accompany each Abstract. See Registration
Information below for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is
not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings.
Registration fees of accepted Abstracts will be returned on request only
until April 15, 2005.

Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all
sides in a single-spaced, single-column format with a font of 10 points or
larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax or electronic submissions
will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s),
mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying
cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract; corresponding author
and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address;
requested preference for oral or poster presentation; and a first and second
choice from the topics above, including whether it is biological (B) or
technological (T) work [Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice:
neural system models (B)]. 

Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead,
slide, VCR, and LCD projector facilities will be available for talks.  

Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with
insufficient funds will be returned. Accepted Abstracts will be printed in
the conference proceedings volume. No extended paper will be required. The
original and 3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: Cynthia Bradford,
Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended using the
registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a
letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research
advisor. The registration fee will help to pay for a conference reception, 3
daily coffee breaks, and the tutorial and meeting proceedings.

STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows
are available to help cover meeting travel and living costs. The deadline to
apply for fellowship support is January 31, 2005. Applicants will be
notified by email by February 28, 2005. Each application should include the
applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email address; current
student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name, address, and email
address; relevant courses and other educational data; and a list of research
articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD advisor on official
institutional stationery must accompany the application and summarize how
the candidate may benefit from the meeting. Fellowship applicants who also
submit an Abstract need to include the registration fee payment with their
Abstract submission. Fellowship checks will be distributed after the
meeting.

REGISTRATION FORM

Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems 

Boston University 

Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems 

677 Beacon Street 

Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA

May 18-21, 2005 

Fax: +1 617 353 7755

http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/

Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof:_____________________________________________________

Affiliation:_________________________________________________________

Address:__________________________________________________________

City, State, Postal Code:______________________________________________

Phone and Fax:_____________________________________________________

Email:____________________________________________________________

The registration fee includes the proceedings, a reception, and 3 coffee
breaks each day. 

CHECK ONE:

(  ) $95 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular)     

(  ) $65 Conference plus Tutorial (Student)     

(  ) $70 Conference Only (Regular)        

(  ) $50 Conference Only (Student)

(  ) $35 Tutorial Only (Regular)                

(  ) $25 Tutorial Only (Student)

METHOD OF PAYMENT (please fax or mail):

[   ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University" 

Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent
bank. 

Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges.

[   ] I wish to pay by credit card 

      (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only)

Name as it appears on the card:___________________________________________

Type of card: _____________________________ Expiration date:________________

Account number:_______________________________________________________ 

Signature:____________________________________________________________

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