CALL FOR PAPERS Third Annual Computation and Neural Systems Meeting CNS*94 July 21 - 25, 1994 Monterey, California DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 26, 1993 This is the third annual meeting of an interdisciplinary conference intended to address the broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the field of computational neuroscience. The last two year's meetings, in San Francisco (CNS*92) and Washington DC (CNS*93), brought experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians together to consider the functioning of biological nervous systems. Peer reviewed papers were presented at the meeting on a range of subjects related to understanding how biological neural systems compute. As in previous years, the meeting is intended to equally emphasize experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. The main body of the meeting will take place at the Monterey Doubletree hotel and include plenary, contributed and poster sessions. There will be no parallel sessions and the full text of presented papers will be published in a proceedings volume. Following the regular session, there will be two days of focused workshops at the natural ocean side setting of the Asilomar Conference Center on the Monterey Peninsula. With this announcement we solicit the submission of presented papers to the meeting. All papers will be refereed. Authors should send original research contributions in the form of a 1000-word (or less) summary and a separate single page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results. Summaries are for program committee use only. Abstracts will be published in the conference program. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page, indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify at least one appropriate category and theme from the following list: Presentation categories: A. Theory and Analysis B. Modeling and Simulation C. Experimental D. Tools and Techniques Themes: A. Development B. Cell Biology C. Excitable Membranes and Synaptic Mechanisms D. Neurotransmitters, Modulators, Receptors E. Sensory Systems 1. Somatosensory 2. Visual 3. Auditory 4. Olfactory 5. Other systems F. Motor Systems and Sensory Motor Integration G. Learning and Memory H. Behavior I. Cognitive J. Disease Include addresses of all authors on the front of the summary and the abstract including the E-mail address for EACH author. Indicate on the front of the summary to which author correspondence should be addressed. Program committee decisions will be sent to the correspondence author only. Submissions will not be considered if they lack category information, separate abstract sheets, author addresses, or are late. Submissions can be made by surface mail ONLY by sending 6 copies of the abstract and summary to: CNS*94 Submissions Division of Biology 216-76 Caltech Pasadena, CA. 91125 Submissions must be postmarked by January 26th, 1993. Registration information: All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically. Others interested in obtaining registration material once they become available should surface mail to the above address or email to: cp@smaug.cns.caltech.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CNS*94 Organizing Committee: Co-meeting chair logistics - John Miller, UC Berkeley Co-meeting chair program - Jim Bower, Caltech Program committee John Rinzel, NIDDK/NIH Gwen Jacobs, UC Berkeley Catherine Carr, University of Maryland, College Park Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH Charles Wilson, University of Tennessee, Memphis Proceedings - Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Workshops - Mike Hasselmo, Harvard University European organizer - Erik DeSchutter (Belgium) Middle Eastern organizer - Idan Segev, Jerusalem Down under organizer - Mike Paulin (New Zealand) South American organizer - Renato Sabbatini (Brazil) ============================================================ In each of the past two years, the meeting has been able to offer travel grants to students presenting papers with support from the National Science Foundation. Potential participants interested in the content of last year's meeting can ftp last year's agenda as follows (you enter text in quotes): yourhost% "ftp 131.215.137.69" Connected to 131.215.137.69. 220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. Name (131.215.137.69:): "ftp" 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: "yourname@yourhost.yourside.yourdomain" 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> "cd cns94" 250 CWD command successful. ftp> "get.agenda93" 200 PORT command successful. 150 ASCII data connection for agenda93 (131.215.137.60,2916) (12761 bytes). 226 ASCII Transfer complete. local: agenda93 remote: agenda93 13145 bytes received in 0.26 seconds (49 Kbytes/s) ftp> "quit" 221 Goodbye. yourhost% (use any editor to look at the file) ======================================================= DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 26, 1994 please post