[UAI] 6th ICCNS: Final Invited Program and Call for Abstracts

From: Cynthia Bradford (cindy@cns.bu.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 15:16:54 PST

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    ***** FINAL INVITED SPEAKER PROGRAM AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS *****

    SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
    Tutorials: May 29, 2002
    Meeting: May 30 - June 1, 2002

    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 29, 2002

    Mark Gluck (Rutgers University)
    Neural networks in neurology and clinical neuropsychology:
    Alzheimer's disease, amnesia, and Parkinson's disease

    Gail A. Carpenter (Boston University)
    Adaptive resonance theory

    Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi (Northwestern University Medical School)
    Learning and adaptive control of arm movements

    Frank Guenther (Boston University)
    Neural modeling of speech

    INVITED SPEAKERS

    Thursday, May 30, 2002

    CELL AND CIRCUIT DYNAMICS:

    Daniel Johnston (Baylor College of Medicine)
    Information processing and storage by neuronal dendrites

    Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
    Learning at a slug's pace:
    The role of oscillations in odor learning in the Limax

    John Rinzel (New York University)
    Cellular dynamics involved in sound localization

    VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING:

    Rudiger von der Heydt (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
    Visual cortex: Global structure in local feature maps

    David J. Field (Cornell University)
    Visual systems and the statistics of natural scenes:
    How far can we go?

    Philip J. Kellman (UCLA)
    >From fragments to objects:
    Integration and interpolation processes in vision

    KEYNOTE LECTURE:

    Erkki Oja (Helsinki University of Technology)
    Independent component analysis: Recent advances

    Friday, May 31, 2002

    SYMPOSIUM ON LOCALIST AND DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATIONS
    IN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION

    Edward Callaway (The Salk Institute)
    Cell type specificity of neural circuits in visual cortex

    James L. McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Varieties of distributed representation:
    A complementary learning systems perspective

    Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
    Laminar cortical architecture in perception and cognition

    Jeffrey Bowers (University of Bristol)
    Localist coding in neural networks for visual word identification

    Randall O'Reilly (University of Colorado)
    Learning and memory in the hippocampus and neocortex:
    Principles and models

    Michael Page (University of Hertfordshire)
    Modeling memory for serial order

    Saturday, June 1, 2002

    CORTICAL CODING AND SENSORY-MOTOR CONTROL:

    Dana Ballard (University of Rochester)
    Distributed synchrony: A general model for cortical coding

    Stephen G. Lisberger (University of California School of Medicine)
    The inner workings of a cortical motor system

    Daniel Bullock (Boston University)
    Neural dynamics of ocular tracking, interceptive reaching,
    and reach/grasp coordination

    RECOGNITION, MEMORY, AND REWARD:

    Edmund Rolls (Oxford University)
    Neural mechanisms involved in invariant object recognition

    Lynn Nadel (University of Arizona)
    The role of the hippocampal complex in recent and remote episodic
    and semantic memory

    Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
    Multiple reward systems in the brain

    KEYNOTE LECTURE:

    Daniel Schacter (Harvard University)
    The seven sins of memory: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

    CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

    Session Topics:

    * vision * spatial mapping and navigation
    * object recognition * neural circuit models
    * image understanding * neural system models
    * audition * mathematics of neural systems
    * speech and language * robotics
    * unsupervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital)
    * supervised learning * neuromorphic VLSI
    * reinforcement and emotion * industrial applications
    * sensory-motor control * cognition, planning, and attention
                                  * other

    Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 31,
    2002. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February
    28, 2002. A meeting registration fee must accompany each Abstract. See
    Registration Information below for details. The fee will be returned if
    the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the
    meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted Abstracts will be
    returned on request only until April 19, 2002.

    Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins
    on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or
    similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page
    only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author
    name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin
    each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title
    of Abstract; corresponding author and presenting author name, address,
    telephone, fax, and email address; requested preference for oral or
    poster presentation; and a first and second choice from the topics
    above, including whether it is biological (B) or technological (T)
    work. Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice: neural system
    models (B). (Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a
    full day. Overhead, slide, VCR, and LCD projector facilities will be
    available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet these requirements
    or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. Accepted
    Abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings volume. No longer
    paper will be required. The original and 3 copies of each Abstract should
    be sent to: Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive
    and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215.

    REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended. To
    register, please fill out the registration form below. Student
    registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a
    department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by
    an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to the address above. If
    paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or
    email to cindy@cns.bu.edu. The registration fee will help to pay for a
    reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings.

    STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral
    fellows are available to help cover meeting travel and living costs. The
    deadline to apply for fellowship support is January 31, 2002. Applicants
    will be notified by email by February 28, 2002. Each application should
    include the applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email
    address; current student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name,
    address, and email address; relevant courses and other educational data;
    and a list of research articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD
    advisor on official institutional stationery should accompany the
    application and summarize how the candidate may benefit from the meeting.
    Fellowship applicants who also submit an Abstract need to include the
    registration fee with their Abstract submission. Those who are awarded
    fellowships are required to register for and attend both the conference
    and the day of tutorials. Fellowship checks will be distributed after
    the meeting.

    REGISTRATION FORM

    Sixth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems

    Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
    Boston University
    677 Beacon Street
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215
    Tutorials: May 29, 2002
    Meeting: May 30 - June 1, 2002
    FAX: (617) 353-7755
    http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/

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