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.

Call for workshop proposals!

Tentative list of workshops.

More workshops will appear as they are approved.

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

• Computational Neuroethological Approaches to Problems in Social Neuroscience

• Robert Liu and Elizabeth Buffalo, Emory University
• Examining the dynamic nature of neural representations with the olfactory system
• Christopher L Buckley and Taro Toyizumi (RIKEN), Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
• Multi-Scale Modeling in Computational Neuroscience II:  Challenges and Opportunities
• James M Bower (UTSA), Ilya A Rybak (Drexel University)
• Methods of Systems Identification for Studying Information Processing in Sensory Systems
• Aurel A Lazar (Columbia University), Mikko Juusola (University of Sheffield)
• Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
• Todd Coleman (UCSD), Michael Gastpar (EPFL), Conor Houghton (Trinity College, Dublin),  Aurel A Lazar (Columbia University), Simon Schultz (ICL), Tatyana Sharpee (Salk Institute)
• 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
• Principles of motor pattern generation: experiments and modeling
• Carmen Canavier (LSU HSC) and Andrey Shilnikov (GSU)
• Dynamics of rhythm generation
• Roman Borisyuk (University of Plymouth), Ronald Calabrese (Emory University), Alan Roberts (University of Bristol), Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University)
• Disease dynamics: Computational modeling of neurological diseases
• Sharmila Venugopal (UCLA), Ranu Jung (FIU)
• Neuromechanical modeling of posture and locomotion
• Boris I. Prilutsky, and Alexander N. Klishko, GA Tech.
• Postdoc and Student Career Strategy Workshop
  
• Nathan w. Schultheiss
  

Tentative schedule