[visionlist] conference announcement--SAND3

[Heather Wainer]

The third workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND3)
will take place May 12-13, 2006, at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA.  A pair of short courses will also be given on May 11,
in conjunction with the workshop.

Travel funds are available, to provide partial support for participants.
Participants are encouraged to present posters, and submit papers, 
reporting research involving new methodology, investigation of 
existing methods, or application of state-of-the-art analytical 
techniques. We expect papers to be published in a special issue of 
"Statistics in Medicine."

The short courses on May 11 will be "An overview of statistical
methods  for neuroscience" (morning) and 
"Problems in neurophysiology, for quantitative analysts" (afternoon).
Confirmed speakers and participants include

    * Bruno Averbeck (Rochester)
    * Steve Bressler (Florida Atlantic)
    * Emery Brown (Harvard Medical School/MIT)
    * Elizabeth Buffalo (Emory)
    * Zhiyi Chi (Connecticut)
    * Yang Dan (Berkeley)
    * Uri Eden (Harvard)
    * Loren Frank (UCSF)
    * Stuart Geman (Brown)
    * Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minnesota)
    * Hiroyuki Ito (Kyoto Sangyo)
    * Rob Kass (Carnegie Mellon)
    * Mark Laubach (Yale)
    * Sri Natarajan (UCSF)
    * Sheila Nirenberg (UCLA)
    * Liam Paninski (Columbia)
    * Patrick Purdon (MGH)
    * Andrew Schwartz (Pittsburgh)
    * Tatanya Sharpee (UCSF)
    * Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto)
    * Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
    * Bin Yu (Berkeley)
    * Jonathan Victor (Cornell)

The organizers are Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo,
Apostolos Georgopoulos, Rob  Kass, Jonathan Victor, and Bin Yu.
For further information see http://sand.stat.cmu.edu.