CNS 2012 Atlanta/Decatur: Workshops Program

Workshops will take place on July 25 and 26 at the Agnes Scott College For Women located in Decatur.

List of workshops.

• Behavior Informatics: data bases, data mining and experiments in virtual worlds
• Ansgar Koene, RIKEN BSI, Tokyo, Japan
  

• Computational Neuroethological Approaches to Problems in Social Neuroscience

• Robert Liu and Elizabeth Buffalo, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  
• Examining the dynamic nature of neural representations with the olfactory system
• Christopher L Buckley and Taro Toyizumi (RIKEN BSI, Tokyo, Japan), Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex, Sussex, UK)
• Multi-Scale Modeling in Computational Neuroscience II:  Challenges and Opportunities
• James M Bower (UTSA, San Antonio, Texas, USA), Ilya A Rybak (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• Methods of Systems Identification for Studying Information Processing in Sensory Systems
• Aurel A Lazar (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA), Mikko Juusola (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
• Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
• Todd Coleman (UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA), Michael Gastpar (EPFL, Lausane, Switzerland), Conor Houghton (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland),  Aurel A Lazar (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA), Simon Schultz (ICL, London, UK), Tatyana Sharpee (The Salk Institute, San Diego, USA)
• Modern evolutionary algorithms in computational neuroscience : tools to parameterize, explore model properties & design model structures
• Benoît Girard, Denis Sheynikhovich, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stephane Doncieux, UPMC/CNRS, Paris, France
  
• Principles of motor pattern generation: experiments and modeling
• Carmen Canavier (LSU HSC, New Orleans, LA, USA) and Andrey Shilnikov (GSU, Atlanta, GA)
• Dynamics of rhythm generation
• Roman Borisyuk (University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK), Ronald Calabrese (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), Alan Roberts (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK), Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA)
• Disease dynamics: Computational modeling of neurological diseases
• Sharmila Venugopal (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA), Ranu Jung (FIU, Miami, FL, USA)
• Neuromechanical modeling of posture and locomotion
• Boris I. Prilutsky, and Alexander N. Klishko, GA Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
  
• Postdoc and Student Career Strategy Workshop
  
• Nathan W. Schultheiss, Emory Univeristy, Atlanta, GA, USA
  

Tentative schedule