[visionlist] Call for abstracts: Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009)

[Constantin Rothkopf]

Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009)
http://bccn2009.org/

The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) strives
to be the major European Conference on Computational Neuroscience and
Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the annual Symposium of the German
National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has
been held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt
Institute for Advanced Studies, it has been opened as an international
conference. We expect around 300 international participants from the
areas of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics,
Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected
abstracts will be published in the Journal Frontiers in Computational
Neuroscience.

The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of
computational neuroscience including, but not limited to:
learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system,
brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making,
information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and
recurrent networks, neurotechnology.
This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision.

MAIN MEETING:
30 September - 2 October, 2009
Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM:
3 October, 2009
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission open: 4 May 2009
Abstract submission deadline: 17 May 2009
Demonstration proposals deadline: 15 June 2009
Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009
Early registration closed: 15 August 2009

INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed):
Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis)
Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL)
Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann)
Gilles Laurent (Caltech)
Klaus Obermayer (Bernstein Center Berlin)
Bernstein Award 2009 winner

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair:  Jochen Triesch
Program Chairs: Jörg Lücke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf
Demonstrations Chair: Cornelius Weber
Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu
Finace Chair: Cornelius Weber
Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi
PhD Student-Symposium Chair: Cristina Savin
Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz