From: IN%"jbower%smaug.cns.caltech.edu@CARNEGIE.BITNET" "Jim Bower" 13-MAY-1993 06:14:39.81 To: IN%"connectionists%q.cs.cmu.edu@CARNEGIE.BITNET" CC: Subj: CNS*93 Registration information for the Second Annual Computation and Neural Systems Meeting CNS*93 July 31 through August 6,1993 Washington DC This posting announces registration for this year's Computation and Neural Systems meeting (CNS*93). This is the second in a series of annual inter-disciplinary conferences intended to address the broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the general field of computational neuroscience. As last year, this meeting will bring together experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in understanding how biological neural systems compute. The meeting will equally emphasize experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. Meeting Structure The meeting will be composed of three parts: a day of tutorials, three and a half days of research presentations, and two and a half days of follow up workshops. The first day of the meeting (July 30) will be devoted to tutorial presentations and workshops focused on particular technical issues confronting computational neurobiology as well as general issues related to computational neurobiology. Introductory tutorials will also be given. The next three and a half days will include the main technical program consisting of plenary, contributed and poster sessions. Oral presentations will be made in one continuous session. Posters will be presented each evening. Following the main meeting, there will be two and a half days of focused workshops at a resort in West Virginia. Workshop topics will be established via email communication prior to the meeting as well as during the main meeting based on papers presented and issues raised. Location The tutorial day and the main meeting itself will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda. This modern hotel is located at One Bethesda Metro Center in downtown Bethesda with easy access to the DC metro system. Following the main meeting, two days of postmeeting workshops will be held at the Coolfont resort which is set within 1350 mountainous acres in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Accommodations Main Meeting. We have reserved a block of rooms at special rates in the conference hotel. Regular registrants (i.e. non students) $89 single, $125 double, and full time students $79 single or double. Registering for the meeting, WILL NOT result in an automatic room reservation. Instead you must make your own reservations by contacting: The Hyatt Regency Bethesda One Bethesda Metro Center Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 657-1234 or 1-800-233-1234 NOTE: IN ORDER TO GET THE REDUCED RATES, YOU MUST INDICATE THAT YOU ARE REGISTERING FOR THE CNS*93 MEETING. STUDENTS WILL BE ASKED TO VERIFY STATUS. Workshops. Accommodations for the workshops will be provided onsite at Coolfont resort and are included in the price of registration. All meals are also included in the registration fee. Acknowledgment of registration for the workshops and payment of fees WILL constitute a guarantee of accommodations at Coolfont. However, the total accommodations available for the workshops are limited, so please register early. Registering for the meeting We would recommend registering for the meeting as soon as possible as space for some meeting events is limited. Participants can register for the meeting in several different ways. 1) electronically, 2) via email, 3) via regular surface mail. Each different method is described below. Please only register using one method. You will receive a confirmation of registration within two weeks. 1) Interactive electronic registration: For those of you with internet connectivity who would like to register electronically for CNS*93 we have provided an internet account through which you may submit your registration information. To use this service you need only "telnet" to "mordor.cns.caltech.edu" and login as "cns93". No password is required. For example: yourhost% telnet mordor.cns.caltech.edu Trying 131.215.137.69 ... Connected to mordor.cns.caltech.edu. Escape character is '^]'. SunOS UNIX (mordor) login: cns93 Now answer all questions Note that all registration through this electronic service is subject to verification of payment. 2) For those with easy access to electronic mail, simply fill in the attached registration form and email it to: cp@smaug.cns.caltech.edu 3) Finally, for those who elect neither of the above options, please print out the attached registration form and send with payment via surface mail to the address indicated. In each case, registration will not be accepted as final until all fees are paid. Those registering by 1 or 2 above, but paying with check or money order should send payment to the following address as with your name and institution clearly marked. CNS*93 Registrations Division of Biology 216-76 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 ================================================== ************************ REGISTRATION FORM CNS*93 WASHINGTON D.C. July 31 - August 8 1993 ************************ Name : Title : Organization : Address : City : State : Zip : Country : Telephone : email address : Registration Fees : Tutorial (July 31) _____ $ 25 (includes lunch) Technical Program (August 1-4) _____ $ 300 Regular _____ $ 125 Full-time Student (Include verification of status) _____ $ 50 Banquet (for each additional banquet ticket) (main registration includes one banquet ticket and book of abstracts) Post-meeting Workshop (August 4-7) _____ $ 300 (includes round-trip transportation, meals and lodging) $ ______ Total Payment Please indicate method of payment : ____ Check or Money Order (Payable in US. dollars to CNS*92 - Caltech) will be sent to CNS*92 Registrations Division of Biology 216-76 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 ___ Visa ___ Mastercard ___ American Express Charge my card number ________________________________________ Expiration date ____________ Name of cardholder ___________________ Signature as appears on card : _________________________ Date ____________ Please make sure to indicate CNS*93 and YOUR name on all money transfers Did you submit an abstract & summary ? ( ) yes ( ) no title : Do you have special dietary preferences or restrictions (e.g., diabetic, low sodium, kosher, vegetarian)? If so, please note: Some grants to cover partial travel expenses may become available. Do you wish further information ? ( ) yes ( ) no ================================================== On-line access to additional meeting information Additional information about the meeting is available via FTP over the internet (address: 131.215.135.69 ). To obtain information about the agenda, currently registered attendees, or paper abstracts, the initial sequence is the same (Things you type are in ""): > yourhost% "ftp 131.215.137.69" > 220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. Name (131.215.139.69:): "ftp" > 331 Guest login OK, send ident as password. Password: "yourname@yourhost.yourside.yourdomain" > 230 Guest login OK, access restrictions apply. ftp> "cd cns93" > 250 CWD command successful. ftp> At this point you can do one of several things: 1) To examine what is available type: "ls" 2) To download the meeting registration form type: "get registration" 3) To download the meeting agenda type: "get agenda" 4) To download a list of attendees type: "get attendees" 5) To download meeting abstracts first type: "cd cns93/abstracts" a) to view the list of abstracts type: "ls" b) to download specific abstracts type: "get " c) to download all abstracts type: "mget *" Once you have obtained what you want type: "quit" Return-path: Received: from fpsp.fapesp.br by ccvax.unicamp.br (PMDF #2801 ) id <01GY460NMTFK8WWMHC@ccvax.unicamp.br>; Thu, 13 May 1993 06:08:00 BSC (-0300 C) Received: from CARNEGIE.BITNET (MAILER@CARNEGIE) by brfapesp.bitnet with PMDF#10108; Thu, 13 May 1993 05:14 BSC (-0300 C) Received: from Q.CS.CMU.EDU by BITNET.CC.CMU.EDU (PMDF #2869 ) id <01GY3RRZ4WZ4000KNT@BITNET.CC.CMU.EDU>; Wed, 12 May 1993 22:43:21 EDT Received: from Q.CS.CMU.EDU by Q.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27852; 12 May 93 18:49:52 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by Q.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27723; 12 May 93 18:09:46 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16641; 12 May 93 18:08:22 EDT Received: from Q.CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21986; 12 May 93 17:08:52 EDT Received: from smaug-gw.caltech.edu by Q.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27315; 12 May 93 17:07:33 EDT Received: from mordor.cns.caltech.edu by smaug.cns.caltech.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA11014; Wed, 12 May 93 14:10:17 PDT Date: 12 May 1993 14:10:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Bower Subject: CNS*93 To: connectionists%q.cs.cmu.edu@CARNEGIE.BITNET Message-id: <9305122110.AA11014@smaug.cns.caltech.edu> X-Envelope-to: SABBATINI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT