What:

An intensive, high quality, one day symposium on computational neuroscience, organized by the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory of Tsinghua University. It will feature presentations of theories, models, and theory/model- motivated experiments in neuroscience. Most presentations will be contributed posters, allowing extensive interactions and exchanges between participants. Additionally, there will be four invited oral presentations. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, computational theories and models of vision or other sensory processes, motor control, learning,  memory, and decision making; physiological and psychological experiments to test or develop computational theories, such as monkey electrophysiology to test theories of visual attention, and human psychophysics to explore models of visual adaptation, inference, and perceptual learning, and inter-disciplinary investigations in neural encoding and decoding, learning and plasticity, neural circuits and networks, etc. This symposium aims to encourage interaction between computational and experimental communities, between researchers in the regional and international communities of computational neuroscience, and to foster and encourage interest among students and young researchers in this field. 

          Information about last year's symposium  can be found here. 

When:

July 22, 2010.

Where:

Tsinghua University Medical school, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Who:

Invited Speakers are (in alphabetical order)

Larry Abbott (Columbia University, USA),

Peter Dayan (University College London, UK),

Dan Kersten (University of Minnesota, USA),

Li Wu (Beijing Normal University, China).

Some names of the participants and contributors are

Fang Fang (Peking University, China),

Tomoki Fukai (RIKEN, Japan),

Bo Hong  (Tsinghua University, China),

Pei-Ji Liang  (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN, Japan),

Ning Qian (Columbia University, US),

Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China),

Wei Wang (Institute of Neuroscience, China)

Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, China),

Cong Yu (Beijing Normal University, China),

Liqing Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China),

Mingsha Zhang (Institute of Neuroscience, China),

Li Zhaoping (University College London, UK/Tsinghua University, China).

Symposium committee:  Bo Hong, Ning Qian, Si Wu, and Li Zhaoping.

Call for contributions and participations:

Researchers and students are encouraged to contribute and participate in the symposium. Registration is required, early registration is recommended if you want to secure a place.  To contribute a poster presentation, please submit an abstract (max 200 words) together with a one to two A4 page summary of the work in a pdf file at the registration website. Submission deadline is June 10th, 2010.   The submissions will be reviewed by the symposium committee.  Limited travel funds are available to help students and young researchers to participate in the symposium. Preference will be given to those who present their work. Please contact the symposium secretary to apply for travel assistance if needed.

Registration:

Registration is required to participate in the symposium, early registration is recommended if you want to secure a place. It is free for participants who do not sign up for the symposium dinner, and costs 150 yuan otherwise. Receipts will be provided for all registration payments (payable when you arrive at the symposium) received. 

Submission:

Please go to Registration to submit poster contributions. Each submission requires an abstract (max 200 words) and a summary (1-2 A4 pages in a pdf file) of the work. Submission deadline is June 10th, 2010. The submissions will be reviewed by the symposium committee.

Enquiries:

Symposium organizer: Li Zhaoping (李兆平）, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , symposium secretary: Yao Yao （姚瑶）, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sponsorships:

Tsinghua University Medical school, Tsinghua University.