[visionlist] PICCS Summer School 2011, Program in Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience

[rauscheckerlab at georgetown.edu]

http://pire-georgetown-howard.org/summer-school
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PICCS Summer School 2011
Program in Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience
Frauenwörth Monastery
Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany
September 3-10, 2011
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Join us for a week of seminars, scientific discussion, networking and recreation with some of the world’s leading neuroscientists at an island monastery in Bavaria, 
Germany. 30 lectures and seminars over 6 days, with ample recreation time and cultural excursions, providing the ideal environment to learn from and network with 
world-class researchers. The Summer School is hosted at an island monastery on Chiemsee, a mountain lake in the Bavarian Alps, providing an intimate environment 
for conversation and collaboration.

Organized By:
NSF PIRE Program in Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience
Georgetown University, Howard University		

Organizing Committee:
Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown University)
Werner Graf (Howard University)
Rhonda Dzakpasu (Georgetown University)

Conference Topics:
Sensory Systems
Cortical Plasticity
Computational Neuroscience
Functional Neuroimaging

Invited Speakers:
(*keynote speakers)
Helmut Adelsberger (TU Munich)
Amir Amedi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Mark Burke (Howard U)
Rhonda Dzakpasu (Georgetown U)
Werner Graf (Howard U)
Uwe Ilg (U Tübingen)
Iiro Jääskeläinen (Helsinki UT)
Sonja Kotz (MPI Leipzig)
*Rodolfo Llinás (New York U)
*Nikos Logothetis (MPI Tübingen)
Kebreten Manaye (Howard U)
*Bill Newsome (Stanford U)
*Dietmar Plenz (NIH)
Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown U)
Max Riesenhuber (Georgetown U)
Mikko Sams (Helsinki UT)
Hans Straka (LMU Munich)
Simon Thorpe (CNRS Toulouse)
Stefano Vicini (Georgetown U)
Pierre-Paul Vidal (CNRS Paris)
Jian-Young Wu (Georgetown U)
*Robert Zatorre (McGill U)
Michal Zochowski (U Michigan)

Poster Presentations:
Attendees are asked to bring a poster to present at the Summer School.

Fees:
The registration fee for the Summer School is $500. Students receive a $100 discount. For more information see the registration information page.

Accommodations:
The Benedictine abbey of Frauenwörth is situated in a beautiful, unspoiled landscape at the edge of the Bavarian Alps on the Fraueninsel (island of women) in Lake 
Chiemsee. Conference attendees will be housed at the abbey, with dormitory-style rooms and private suites available. For more information see the venue and 
registration information pages.

Planning your travel:
MUC (Munich) and SZG (Salzburg) are the closest airports. The first scheduled event is at 6:00pm on September 3. Please arrive at Prien Stock by 1:30pm to catch the 
1:55pm ferry to Frauenchiemsee. A bus will take participants to Munich airport on September 10, arriving by 9:00am. More information is available on the venue and 
travel page.

For more information and to register, visit:
http://pire-georgetown-howard.org/summer-school
or email: rauscheckerlab at georgetown.edu