Apologies if you receive this more than once. ***** FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ***** ***** AND ***** ***** FINAL INVITED PROGRAM ***** FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Tutorials: May 30, 2001; Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001 Boston University http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ This interdisciplinary conference focuses on two fundamental questions: How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Contributed talks will be presented on each of the three conference days. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. All posters will be up all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Ted Adelson: The perception of surface properties Yiannis Aloimonos: What geometry and statistics tell us about the motion pathway Gail A. Carpenter: Adaptive resonance theory Michael Jordan: Inference and learning in graphical models INVITED SPEAKERS Thursday, May 31, 2001 Larry Abbott: Spike-timing effects in Hebbian synaptic plasticity Wulfram Gerstner: Rapid signal transmission by populations of spiking neurons Wolfgang Maass: Towards a computational theory for spiking neurons Nancy Kopell: Rhythms and cell assemblies in the nervous system Henry Markram: The complete functional and anatomical microstructure of neocortical layers 2-3 Victor Lamme: The role of recurrent processing in visual awareness Wolf Singer: Neuronal synchrony in cerebral cortex and its functional implications (keynote lecture) Friday, June 1, 2001 Ralph D. Freeman: Organization of receptive fields of neurons in the primary visual cortex Nikos Logothetis: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the monkey brain David J. Heeger: Linking visual perception with human brain activity Maggie Shiffrar: The visual analysis of moving bodies Stephen Grossberg: What and where fusion: Motion, number, and object recognition Allen Waxman: Multi-sensor image fusion technologies Saturday, June 2, 2001 Peter L. Strick: Basal ganglia and cerebellar "loops" with the cerebral cortex: Motor and cognitive circuits Richard Ivry: Timing, temporal coupling, and response selection Daniel Bullock: Action selection and reinforcement learning in a model of laminar frontal cortex and the basal ganglia Christoph Schreiner: Spectro-temporal receptive field transformation in auditory thalamo-cortical system Rochel Gelman: Continuity and discontinuity in cognitive development: Numerical cognition as a case Maja Mataric: From what you see to what you do: Imitation in humans and humanoid robots Leon Cooper: Bi-directionally modifiable synapses: From theoretical fantasy to experimental fact (keynote lecture) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * object recognition * image understanding * audition * speech and language * unsupervised learning * supervised learning * reinforcement and emotion * sensory-motor control * spatial mapping and navigation * neural circuit models * neural system models * mathematics of neural systems * robotics * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * neuromorphic VLSI * industrial applications * cognition, planning, and attention * other Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 31, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 28, 2001. A meeting registration fee of $50 for regular attendees and $35 for students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information 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 20, 2001. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax 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; and a first and second choice from among 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, and VCR 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 longer 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, MA 02215. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to the address above. If paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The registration fee will help to pay for a reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the 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, 2001. Applicants will be notified by email by February 28, 2001. 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 should 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 with their submission. Fellowship checks will be distributed after the meeting. REGISTRATION FORM Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 30, 2001 Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001 FAX: (617) 353-7755 http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: _____________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: __________________________________________ Phone and Fax: _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. CHECK ONE: ( ) $75 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular) ( ) $50 Conference plus Tutorial (Student) ( ) $50 Conference Only (Regular) ( ) $35 Conference Only (Student) ( ) $25 Tutorial Only (Regular) ( ) $15 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 my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). Name as it appears on the card: _____________________________________ Type of card: _______________________________________________________ Account number: _____________________________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________________________________ Signature: __________________________________________________________
