[Comp-neuro] CoSMo 2012 summer school - Chicago

Second Annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School (CoSMo 2012)
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
August 5-19, 2012

We want to invite you to join us for the second annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School. The course is about experimental, computational and medical aspects of movement science with a focus on data/model sharing. Covered topics include decision making, brain-machine interfaces, cue combination, sensory-motor transformations and learning.

An important focus is on doing research as opposed to just hearing about it. Each teaching module will take up two days with morning sessions involving lectures. Afternoon sessions involve hands-on Matlab programming, simulation and data-analysis sessions. 

The course is aimed at student and post-doctoral fellows from diverse backgrounds including Life Sciences, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering. Basic knowledge in calculus, linear algebra and Matlab is expected. Enrollment will be limited to 40 trainees.

For more information and to apply, please go to http://www.compneurosci.com/CoSMo2012/
Further information will become available during the next month.

The school is co-organized by Drs Gunnar Blohm and Konrad Körding, with contributions from the Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet), the Queen's University Centre for Neuroscience Studies (Kingston, ON, Canada) and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (USA). It receives funding from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) via an NSERC-CREATE training grant on "Computational Approaches to Sensorimotor Transformations for the Control of Actions", from and from the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA).

--  ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Gunnar BLOHM Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience  Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Department Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Department of Mathematics  & Statistics, School of Computing,   and Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet)  Queen’s University 18, Stuart Street Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6 Tel: (613) 533-3385 Fax: (613) 533-6840 Email: Gunnar.Blohm@QueensU.ca Web: http://www.compneurosci.com/