Upcoming Events http://www.incf.org Neuroinformatics-related events. daily 1 2008-09-30T12:16:55Z Canadian Neuroinformatics Workshop http://www.incf.org/community/events/canadian-neuroinformatics-workshop INCF Canadian Neuroinformatics Workshop - A satellite symposium of the CAN 2012 meeting

Calling Canadian researchers interested in discussing the future of neuroinformatics in Canada and participation in international efforts with INCF...

INCF and NeuroDevNet (www.neurodevnet.ca) will jointly host a workshop on the topic of Canadian Neuroinformatics on May 24th, immediately following this year's Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting at the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

The workshop will include a diverse scientific agenda, and will close with a discussion of Canada's potential future involvement in INCF. The currently confirmed speakers are:

Dr. Sean Hill, INCF Executive Director, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Dr. Maryann Martone, INCF US Node, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Dr. Rob Williams, INCF US Node, UTHSC, Memphis, TN

Dr. Dan Goldowitz, CMMT, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Paul Pavlidis, CHiBi, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Alan Evans, MNI, McGill, Montreal, QC

Dr. Todd Woodward, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Dr. John Tsotsos, CVR, York U., Toronto, ON

Dr. Gunnar Blohm, Queen’s U., Kingston, ON

Dr. Matthijs van der Meer, CTN, U. Waterloo, ON

 

The workshop is free to register and includes lunch. For more information and to register go to:

http://www.can-acn.org/meeting2012/satellite.htm

 

For accommodation, you can take advantage of the CAN preferential rates at the Sheraton through the CAN meeting website:

http://www.can-acn.org/meeting2012/registration.htm#accomodations

]]> No publisher Linda Lanyon 2012-04-05T16:05:18Z Event Neurogenetics http://www.incf.org/community/events/neurogenetics No publisher Pontus Holm 2012-01-31T12:05:00Z Event 2012 Kavli Prize laureates announcements, May 31st, 8:15-10:00am EDT http://www.incf.org/community/events/2012-kavli-prize-laureates-announcements Live webcast of the 2012 Kavli Prize laureate announcements by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway, and the World Science Festival in New York City. On May the 31st, follow the live webcast of the 2012 Kavli Prize laureate announcements by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway, and the World Science Festival in New York City. The program includes opening remarks by Dr. John P. Holdren, announcement of the 2012 Kavli Prize Laureates moderated by scientist and science writer Adam Rutherford (Oslo) and a panel discussion about the Prizes, led by ABC news journalist Elizabeth Vargas with Claire Max (2012 Kavli Prize Committee for Astrophysics; UC Santa Cruz),  Angela Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Thomas Jessell (2008 Kavli Prize Laureate; Columbia University).

]]> No publisher Beatriz Martin Villalba 2012-05-14T13:20:00Z Event Indian Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience Summer Course http://www.incf.org/about/who-we-are/nodes/india/events/indian-neuroinformatics-and-computational-neuroscience-summer-course Indian Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience Summer Course The school will target interdisciplinary students (including medicine, biology and psychology with demonstrated quantitative abilities) from undergraduate to PhD level. For the undergrads, potentiality for graduate studies in neuroscience will be assessed. A one page statement of purpose "Why I want to participate in the school," will be required of all applicants. Since some of the software for hands on demo (SPM, EEGLAB etc) are based on MATLAB, knowledge in MATLAB should have priority. There will be no fee and everything will be provided free of cost, but selection will be based on back ground. Students with work experience in neuroscience and related areas will be given preference, as will students with a clear academic career track in mind.

The following resource persons will participate in teaching and tutorials.

1) Dr. Ramesh Venkatesan (GE, Health Care) - From MRI physics to fMRI acquisition and basics of the processing.

2) Dr. Pravat Mandal (NBRC) -  Biomarkers for brain neurochemicals using non-invasive imaging.

3) Dr. Jitender Saini (NIMHANS) - Clinical applications of fMRI.

4) Dr. Sumitra Purakayastha (ISI Kolkata) - Statistical aspects of fMRI.

5) Dr. Phaneendra Yalavarthy(IISc) - Medical imaging.

6) Dr. Supratim Ray (IISc) - Local field potential.

7) Dr. Christoph Herrmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany) - Trancranial electrical and magnetic stimulation under EEG.

8) Dr. Kaushik Majumdar (ISI Bangalore) - Scalp and depth EEG processing.

In addition, there will be hands on demo on real neural data sets. Students will also be provided with computer peripherals for online lessons. The course lab space and institutional accommodation can accommodate up to 30 students.

The school will be from 4th to 12th June 2012 in the ISI Bangalore Center. Each tutorial lecture will be three hour long interspersed by a coffee break in the middle. There will be an introductory lecture on Neuroinformatics on the morning of the first day (4th June).

The course will have a strong component of neuroimaging and data analysis.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-04-16T07:12:17Z Event OCCAM 2012 http://www.incf.org/community/events/occam-2012 Osnabrueck Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting (OCCAM 2012) on "The Brain as an Information Processing System" Registration is open until April 9th, 2012 (first come first served). The registration fee is 100,- Euros. This fee covers the workshop attendance incl. coffee, buffet on the first day, and the conference dinner.

The goal of the OCCAM workshop series is to foster our understanding of mechanisms and principles of information processing in self-organized hierarchical and recurrent systems. Our knowledge of such systems is still very limited despite being a focus of research for many years. The OCCAM workshop series aims at understanding the principles of information processing with a particular focus on 3 major topics:

1. Neural coding and representation in hierarchical systems

2. Self-organisation in dynamic systems

3. Mechanisms for probabilistic inference

The OCCAM 2012 theme is: "The Brain as an Information Processing System"

 

Matthias Bethge, Tuebingen* Andreas Engel, Hamburg* Marc Ernst, Bielefeld* Rainer Goebel, Maastricht* Judith Hirsch, Los Angeles Siegrid Loewel, Goettingen* Klaus Obermayer, Berlin* Gordon Pipa, Osnabrueck* Stefano Panzeri, Genova* Natasha Sigala, Brighton* Gasper Tkacik, Klosterneuburg* Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Paris* Julia Trommershaeuser, New York* Eilon Vaadia, Jerusalem* Felix Wichmann, Tuebingen*

(* confirmed)

 

There will also be a poster session where conference participants will have the opportunity to present their work.

 

Best regards,

Frank Jaekel, Peter König, Gordon Pipa (Organizing committee)

 

]]> No publisher Gordon Pipa 2012-03-21T08:13:57Z Event OHBM 2012 http://www.incf.org/community/events/ohbm-2012 Organization for Human Brain Mapping’s 18th Annual Meeting The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is the primary international organization dedicated to neuroimaging research. The organization was created in 1995 and has since evolved in response to the explosion in the field of human functional neuroimaging and its movement into the scientific mainstream. One of the primary functions of the organization is to provide an educational forum for the exchange of up-to-the-minute and groundbreaking research across modalities exploring Human Brain Mapping. It does this through a growing membership and an annual conference, held in different locations throughout the world.

]]> No publisher Janis Breeze 2011-09-17T01:46:09Z Event 16th ISOT http://www.incf.org/community/events/16th-isot 16th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste The 16th meeting of ISOT celebrates 50 years of cutting edge research in taste and olfaction. ECRO welcomes you all to Stockholm!

The International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) brings together scientists working on chemosensory sciences from all over the world. It has convened every 3-4 years since its inaugural meeting in Stockholm 1962. The meeting rotates locations between Europe, the United States and Japan reflecting the co-operation of the three large regional societies for investigators of the chemical senses; the European ECRO, the American AChemS, and the Japanese JASTS. The 16th ISOT will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-27, 2012 under the umbrella of ECRO and in combination with the XXII meeting of ECRO. Participants from all over the world typically make ISOT a very lively forum and an excellent arena for collecting and dispersing information in the area.

]]> No publisher Janis Breeze 2011-09-09T18:18:58Z Event Neuroinflammation http://www.incf.org/community/events/neuroinflammation No publisher Pontus Holm 2012-01-31T12:07:29Z Event 2012 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience http://www.incf.org/community/events/2012-summer-institute-in-cognitive-neuroscience The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience (SI) advances the cognitive neurosciences by training the next generation of researchers in emerging information, methods and theoretical perspectives in mind-brain science, including how this knowledge is applied in translational research that addresses major mental health challenges.

The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience has been conducted each summer since its inception in 1988. Hundreds of trainees and faculty lecturers have participated in the Summer Institute over the past two decades as it has evolved into its current form. Its origination and continuation is premised on an appreciation that cognitive neuroscience was and is a rapidly emerging discipline that is intrinsically interdisciplinary, and that has a significant impact on our understanding of cognitive brain mechanisms in health and disease. If the field is to progress successfully, current investigators from disparate fields must be brought together on a regular basis and young scientists being trained in the field require exposure to a broad base of methods, approaches, and bodies of knowledge. Each year, the Summer Institute has assembled a faculty of distinguished investigators and a group of young, promising scholars (fellows) that represent the many disciplines that bear on the mind-brain sciences, including neuroscience, medicine, psychology, linguistics, computer science, engineering and philosophy.

The Summer Institute has become one of the most prized opportunities for promising graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young professors and research scientists with basic and translational science interests, and increasingly, for clinical practitioner-scientists as well. At the Institute, these young scientists have the opportunity to meet current leaders in the field and to forge links with the people that will be their colleagues for years to come. The Summer Institute has always had a focus on keeping pace with the field.  Students are exposed to topics that are at the field’s frontier and are trained in rapidly emerging techniques. The regular publication of The Cognitive Neurosciences (MIT Press) makes the work of the Summer Institute available worldwide. For all of these reasons, the Summer Institute has become a major institution for training and exchange of ideas within the field.

]]> No publisher Janis Breeze 2011-10-14T12:32:51Z Event PRNI 2012 http://www.incf.org/community/events/prni-2012 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging After Istanbul (Workshop on Brain Decoding 2010) and Seoul (PRNI 2011), the 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging aims to continue facilitating exchange of ideas between scientific communities, with a particular interest in the link between mass-univariate, post-hoc modelling and multivariate predictive models.

]]> No publisher Jonas Richiardi 2012-01-26T08:58:54Z Event