Upcoming Deadlines

Application deadline for German INCF Node Workshop

Thomas Wachtler — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:41:51 +0100

Graphics processing units (GPUs) offer a low-cost approach to parallel high-performance computing. Neuronal simulations can be parallelized efficiently and are particularly well suited for implementation on GPUs. There is also great potential for GPU-based high-throughput analysis of neuronal data. The field is progressing at rapid pace, and has reached a point where it may strongly benefit from some kind of convergence between the different approaches.
To facilitate communication and foster collaboration in the field, the German INCF Node (G-Node) organizes a one-day symposium on neuronal GPU computing with an adjoint two-day developer workshop.

Symposium

Invited Speakers (preliminary):
Romain Brette (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Andreas Fidjeland (Imperial College, London)
Dan Goodman (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex, Brighton-Falmer)
Pierre Yger (Imperial College, London)

Applications are encouraged for talks at the symposium. Topics may cover
one or more of the following:
- GPU-based neuronal simulation: development, applications, user reports
- GPU-based data analysis: software and use-cases
- Reports on GPU-powered neuronal research
- Comparison of GPU-based neuronal applications with other high-throughput technologies (e.g. clusters, neuromorphic hardware)

Participation in the symposium is free, but registration is required.

Developer workshop

We encourage applications for participation in the developer workshop. The workshop's aim is to bring together developers of GPU-based applications for neuroscience and to enable exchange of ideas, knowledge, and code. Enthusiastic users of GPU-based tools with programming skills are also warmly invited. The number of participants in the workshop is limited to 20.
Invited symposium speakers will also be present at the developer workshop.

Application and registration:

To apply for a presentation slot at the symposium, send us an abstract (approx. 500 words) of your presentation. A note with your name and affiliation is sufficient if you only want to register for the symposium. To apply for the developer workshop, please send a us a short letter of motivation stating your background, why you want to participate, and what you could contribute to the workshop.

Contact:

Direct your applications, registrations and any questions to gpu-computing@g-node.org .
Deadline for application: 28 Feb 2012
Workshop website: https://portal.g-node.org/gpu-workshop-2012/
Current information about speakers will be posted there.

Dates:

April 11, 2012 (Symposium)
April 12-13, 2012 (Developer Workshop)

Venue:

LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2
82152 Planegg-Martinsried

Hope to see you in Munich in April!

The organizers
Michael Schmuker, Freie Universität Berlin & BCCN Berlin
Christian Kellner and Thomas Wachtler, G-Node, LMU München

Early registration deadline for BIOMAG 2012

Olivier Bertrand — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:09:43 +0100

BIOMAG is covering all aspects of biomagnetism – a non-invasive technique for mapping the activity of the brain, the heart and other organs, with millisecond time accuracy. Every other year, BIOMAG attracts more than 500 researchers from 30 different countries interested in all aspects of brain and heart dynamics, from clinical and fundamental but also technical and methodological point of views.

The scientific program includes, but is not limited to, technological, methodological, clinical and fundamental research in biomagnetism. This year, we will highlight the quickly growing field of human brain dynamics, taking the MEG perspective but also taking advantage of the multiple methods (EEG, fMRI) and recording levels (intracranial EEG, LFP, unit activity) now available. Those issues will be developped in five keynote lectures, twenty symposia and poster sessions.

Abstract submission deadline for BIOMAG 2012

Olivier Bertrand — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:09:42 +0100

Paper submission deadline for PRNI 2012

Jonas Richiardi — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:28:15 +0100

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.

Registration deadline for LONI Pipeline Training Workshop

Ivo Dinov — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:00:10 +0100

The LONI Pipeline environment is a free distributed workflow application that enables users to quickly create computational processing protocols, execute these as graphical workflows, monitor the state of their analyses, and broadly disseminate the detailed provenance of data and processing protocols. This workshop will provide hands-on training on remote Pipeline server installation, client-server interfaces, utilization of Grid resources using the distributed Pipeline computational infrastructure, design of new and modification of existent heterogeneous data analysis protocols, sharing of data and pipeline workflows, integration of imaging, demographic and meta-data. The organizers will provide a detailed training handbook and supplementary electronic media with all of the necessary software and test data.

Application deadline for LONI Pipeline Training Workshop

Ivo Dinov — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:00:09 +0100

Early registration deadline for HealthGrid 2012

Janis Breeze — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:57:02 +0200

The Tenth HealthGrid Conference will take place at the Academic Medical Center of University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It will be organized in conjunction with the Fourth International Workshop on Science Gateways for LifeSciences (IWSG-Life) and the EGI workshop on Portals.

The conference will gather researchers, practicioners, developers and users of distributed infrastructures for biomedical research and clinical deployment. Besides the traditional scientific program and key note speakers, this year the conference will also feature special topics:

a restrospective, lookingback at the 10 years of healthgrid developments
highlights of achievements of the Life Science Grid Community (LSGC)
joint session on Scientific Gateways with IWSG-Life
tutorials and demos

Registration deadline for Biological Psychiatry 2012

Janis Breeze — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:39:56 +0200

Systems Neurosciences: Applications to Psychiatric Illnesses

Early registration deadline for 16th ISOT

Janis Breeze — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:18:25 +0200

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.

Registration deadline for 14th INWC

christiane riedl — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:03:54 +0200

This conference has been established as a high-quality meeting on contemporary neuroscience in the past years. For the 14th conference we aim at topping previous programs by inviting most distinguished neuroscientists as keynote speakers and select high-quality symposia. Soelden is an Alpine village about 1 hr drive from the city of Innsbruck in Austria. The venue is a 5-star Spa hotel in one of the largest ski resorts in Austria with a restaurant carrying prestigeous awards by international restaurant guides. Normally, 120-150 participants, among them a large number of recognized scientists share the opportunity to meet colleagues in a relaxed and cosy atmosphere. During the day, time for skiing in the high altitude ski resort is perfectly possible even in April.

Conference Structure

Keynote Lectures: Anne-Marie Craig (Canada), Martin Schwab (Switzerland), Edvard Moser (Norway), Idan Segev (Israel)
Symposia
Special Interest Sessions
Posters (contributions from all fields of basic neuroscience are welcome; abstracts and registration to be submitted before the deadline)

Committee

Tobias Bonhoeffer (Germany)
Nils Brose (Germany)
Stephan Schwarzacher (Germany)
Prof. Alois Saria (Chair)
Conference Secretary: Christiane Riedl, Center of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Department of General Psychiatry and Social Psychiatry, Experimental Psychiatry Unit, Innrain 66a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

alois.saria@i-med.ac.at or christiane.riedl@me.com