[Comp-neuro] Summer school in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo 2014)

Fourth Annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School (CoSMo 2014)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
August 3-17, 2014

We would like to invite you to join us for the third annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School. The course is about experimental, computational and medical aspects of sensory-motor neuroscience with a focus on data/model sharing. Covered topics include Bayesian approaches, motor control, computational neuroimaging, sensory-motor transformations and prosthetics.

An important focus is on doing research as opposed to just hearing about it. Each teaching module will take up two days with morning lecture sessions. Afternoon sessions involve hands-on Matlab programming, simulation and data-analysis. Newly acquired computational tools can also be applied in 2-week evening group research projects.

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

Application deadline: April 27, 2014
For more information and to apply, please go to http://www.compneurosci.com/CoSMo/

The school is co-organized by Drs Gunnar Blohm, Paul Schrater and Konrad Körding. It receives funding from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) via an NSERC-CREATE training grant on "Computational Approaches in Neuroscience – Action, Control & Transformations", and from the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA).

--   -------------------------------------------------------  Dr. Gunnar BLOHM  Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience    Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Departments of Biomedical  and Molecular Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, and   Psychology, 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/