Friday, April 27, 2012

[Comp-neuro] [CNS2012] Early registration now open

Early registration for CNS*2012 is now open at http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-atlantadecatur and will remain open until May 31, 2012 (11 PM Pacific Time, USA).

Note that at least one author of your submission must register for the conference by May 31 in order for the submission to be included in the program book and for publication in BMC Neuroscience.

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MEETING INFORMATION:

Main conference: July 22-24, 2012
Tutorials: July 21, 2012
Workshops: July 25-26, 2012

Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia, USA

http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-atlantadecatur

Conference theme: "Computational Neuroethology"

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WEBSITE:
http://cns.confmaster.net

NOTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE:  April 25, 2012
REGISTRATION OPENS: April 1, 2012
EARLY MEETING REGISTRATION CLOSED: May 31, 2012 (11 PM Pacific Time, USA)

CNS*2012 will be held in Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia, USA, on July 21-26, 2012. The meeting will kick off with a day of tutorials and an evening welcome reception on Saturday, July 21.  The main meeting of CNS*2012 will follow on July 22-24, after which will come two days of workshops on July 25-26.

The tutorials, main meeting and workshops will be held at Agnes Scott College located in Decatur, a small town with a lot of American charm connected by metro to Atlanta and its international airport.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Don Edwards, Georgia State University, USA
Malcolm MacIver, Northwestern University, USA
Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK

TUTORIALS:
See http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-tutorials

WORKSHOPS: See http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-workshops-program

OPEN ACCESS, CITABLE ABSTRACT PUBLICATION:
The formatted abstracts will again be published as a Supplement to the online journal BMC Neuroscience. The supplement is citable, indexed by PubMed, and open access.
At least one author must register for CNS*2012 by the early registration deadline of May 31, 2012 for the abstract to be published and included in the program book.  Abstracts from previous CNS meetings are available at http://www.cnsorg.org/publications

AWARDS:
A limited number of merit based travel grants, awarded based on review of abstracts and 1-3 page summaries by the program committee, will be available to students and postdocs.  Recipients of travel grants will be notified by May 5, 2012.

Student posters presented at CNS*2012 will also be judged for prizes awarded at the meeting.

The CNS*2012 meeting is organized by the Organization for Computational Neurosciences, Inc.
President:  Erik De Schutter (OIST, Japan and U Antwerp, Belgium)
Program chair: Astrid Prinz (Emory U, USA)
Local organizers: Ronald L. Calabrese (Emory University), Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University), Robert Butera (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Workshop Organizers: Alex Dimitrov (Washington State University, USA) and Volker Steuber (U Hertfordshire, UK)
Tutorials Organizers: Markus Diesmann (Research Center Jülich, Germany) and Bruce Graham (University of Stirling, UK)
Travel Awards administrator: Jeanette Kotaleski (Royal Inst of Tech, Stockholm, Sweden) and Maurice Chacron (McGill University, Canada)

Program Committee:
Astrid Prinz (Emory University, USA, Chair)
Jean-Marc Fellous (University Arizona, USA, Publication Chair)
Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Romain Brette (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Netta Cohen (University Leeds, UK)
Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University, USA)
Andrew Davison (UNIC, France)
Thomas Nowotny (University Sussex, UK)
Duane Nykamp (University Minnesota, USA)
Leonid Rubchinsky (Indiana University, USA)
Simon Schultz (Imperial College, UK)
Peggy Series (University Edinburgh, UK)
Benjamin Torben-Nielsen (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)


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