CALL FOR MINI-SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) -- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2009 Mini-symposia December 10, 2009 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
http://nips.cc/ Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, up to four mini-symposia will be held in parallel during the afternoon of December 10, 2009, in the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing a mini-symposium to submit proposals. The goal of the mini-symposia is to present topical material on a single theme, well suited to the main conference audience. Controversial issues, emerging topics, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as symposium topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints are also particularly encouraged. Possible topics for symposia include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control and Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, Game Theory, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Independent Component Analysis, Information Theory, Kernel Methods, Large Scale Implementations and Software, Learning Theory, Mean-Field Methods, Mechanism Design, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, Nonparametric Models, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Randomized Algorithms, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Statistical Inference, Unsupervised Learning and Information Extraction, Time Series, Vision and Scene Understanding. Each of the four mini-symposia will run for three hours in the afternoon of December 10 after the end of the main conference. Organizers may consider proposing a mini-symposium in conjunction with a one- or two-day workshop proposed to be held subsequently in Whistler. In such a case proposers should take into account the more polished nature of the symposium, and, as the attendees might differ, should ensure that each stands alone programmatically. Detailed descriptions of previous symposia and workshops can be found at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/. We encourage neuroscience-related proposals, and are especially interested in those bridging areas of neuroscience and machine learning. Selected mini-symposia may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. More details and instructions for submission of proposals may be found online at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/CallForMiniSymposia. Proposals must be received by August 28, 2009. Richard Zemel (University of Toronto) Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) NIPS*2009 Symposia Co-Chairs PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 28, 2009 ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l