[Comp-neuro] Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies: NETT 2013

Conference Title: Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies: NETT 2013

Venue: Nottingham, UK

Date: July 1-6 2013

Scientific Organisers:
Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham
Wolfram Erlhagen, University of Minho
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen

Neural Engineering is an inherently new discipline that brings together engineering, physics, neuroscience and mathematics to design and develop brain-computer interface systems, cognitive computers and neural prosthetics.  This one week conference will bring together international experts in these key areas to discuss the state of the art in the field of Neural Engineering.  It will also include a number of tutorial presentations for those new to the field as well as presentations from industrial companies including National Instruments, Brain Products and BitBrain.

For further details about this event see http://www.neural-engineering.eu/summerschool2013/index.html

Invited speakers:

Michele Chiappalone (Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
Jan Danckhaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Dominique Durand (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Chris Eliasmith (University of Waterloo, Canada)
David Grayden (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Antonio Hurtado (University of New Mexico, USA)
Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth, UK)
Steve Schiff (Penn State University, USA)
Marc Timme (MPI Göttingen, Germany)

The meeting will consist of talks from invited speakers and existing members of NETT [www.neural-engineering.eu].  There is space to accommodate a further 50 participants and the schedule will allow for a number of poster presentations.

The deadline for application to attend by non NETT members is June 14 2013.

The registration fee for non NETT members is 100.00 GBP.

The online registration procedure can be found at http://store.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=222&deptid=9&catid=60
For help with accommodation, or to obtain reduced rates for the University's Orchard Hotel, please contact david.hawker@nottingham.ac.uk

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Stephen Coombes
Professor of Applied Mathematics

School of Mathematical Sciences
Nottingham, UK

Tel:  0115 846 7836
Fax: 0115 951 3837

http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/~sc/
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