[UAI] 5th ICCNS: Call for Registration

From: Cynthia Bradford (cindy@cns.bu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 09:16:50 PDT

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    ***** CALL FOR REGISTRATION *****
    ***** AND *****
    ***** FINAL INVITED PROGRAM *****

    FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
    Tutorials: May 30, 2001
    Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001

    Boston University
    http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/

    This interdisciplinary conference focuses on two fundamental questions:
    How Does the Brain Control Behavior?
    How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence?

    A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be
    highly visible.

    Contributed talks will be presented on each of the three conference days.

    Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on
    two of the conference days. All posters will be up all day, and can also
    be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule.

    CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

    TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Wednesday, May 30, 2001

    Ted Adelson: The perception of surface properties

    Yiannis Aloimonos: What geometry and statistics tell us about the
    motion pathway

    Gail A. Carpenter: Adaptive resonance theory

    Michael Jordan: Inference and learning in graphical models

    INVITED SPEAKERS

    Thursday, May 31, 2001

    Larry Abbott: Spike-timing effects in Hebbian synaptic plasticity

    Wulfram Gerstner: Rapid signal transmission by populations of spiking neurons

    Nancy Kopell: Rhythms and cell assemblies in the nervous system

    Wolfgang Maass: Liquid state machines: A new framework for understanding
    neural computation on spike trains

    Henry Markram: Neocortical microcircuits of perception, attention,
    and memory

    Victor Lamme: The role of recurrent processing in visual awareness

    Wolf Singer: Neuronal synchrony in cerebral cortex and its functional
    implications (keynote lecture)

    Friday, June 1, 2001

    Ralph D. Freeman: Organization of receptive fields of neurons in the
    primary visual cortex

    Nikos Logothetis: On bistable perception

    David J. Heeger: Attention and sensory signals in primary visual cortex

    Maggie Shiffrar: The visual analysis of moving bodies

    Stephen Grossberg: The complementary brain: Unifying brain dynamics
    and modularity

    Allen Waxman: Multi-sensor 3D image fusion technologies

    Saturday, June 2, 2001

    Peter L. Strick: Basal ganglia and cerebellar "loops" with the cerebral
    cortex: Motor and cognitive circuits

    Richard Ivry: Timing, temporal coupling, and response selection

    Daniel Bullock: Action selection and reinforcement learning in a model
    of laminar frontal cortex and the basal ganglia

    Christoph Schreiner: Temporal correlation and information transfer in
    the auditory thalamo-cortical system

    Rochel Gelman: Continuity and discontinuity in cognitive development:
    Numerical cognition as a case

    Maja Mataric: From what you see to what you do: Imitation in humans
    and humanoid robots

    Leon Cooper: Bi-directionally modifiable synapses: From theoretical
    fantasy to experimental fact (keynote lecture)

    REGISTRATION FORM

    Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems

    Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
    Boston University
    677 Beacon Street
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215
    Tutorials: May 30, 2001
    Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001
    FAX: (617) 353-7755
    http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/

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    The conference registration fee includes the meeting program,
    reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings.
    The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two
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