CNS*2009
July 18th – 23rd 2009, Berlin, Germany
Local organizer: Dr. Udo Ernst (local@cnsorg.org),
Dr. John-Dylan Haynes, Dr. Andreas Herz

CNS*2009 will be held in Berlin, Germany July 18-23, 2009. CNS*2009 will consist of three days of main meeting (Sunday July 19th-Tuesday July 21st), preceded by a day of tutorials on July 18th and followed by two days of workshops and a Neuroinformatics mini-symposium on July 22nd and 23rd (Wednesday-Thursday). A welcome reception will be held on the evening of Saturday July 18th and the meeting banquet and cruise held on the evening of July 20th.

The main meeting will take place at the Hilton hotel in central Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt, in immediate vicinity of such famous landmarks as the Brandenburg Gate, the Parliament, the Museum Island, and remnants of the Berlin Wall with the notorious border station "Checkpoint Charlie". Pre-meeting “Bernstein tutorials” covering various topics in Computational Neurosciences will be held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) located on the opposite side of the Gendarmenmarkt. The workshops and Neuroinformatics mini-symposium will also be held at the BBAW. The meeting banquet will be held at the Palace of Charlottenburg.

Berlin hosts a large neuroscientific community within its “Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience” funded by the BMBF (the Ministry for Education and Research), which is also sponsoring the CNS*2009 meeting.

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