CNS*94 Additional information on post meeting workshops The Post-meeting workshops will be held over two full days at Asilomar Conference Center at Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, California. The workshops are intended to provide an opportunity for conference participants to informally discuss results presented at the main meeting as well as important issues in computational neuroscience. The organizer of the workshops this year is Mike Hasselmo, who can be reached at: hasselmo@katla.harvard.edu Workshop Topics Workshop topics will be established in one of two ways: 1) Meeting participants interested in particular subjects can submit those subjects prior to the meeting to Mike Hasselmo, via email. Suggestions should include the title of the workshop, a brief abstract describing the issue(s) involved, and any other meeting attendees known to be interested in participating. Information about these workshops will be posted on the CNS*94 ftp site. 2) Workshop subjects can also be suggested during the main meeting. We are particularly interested in topics that arise as a result of meeting presentations. A bulletin board at the meeting will be used for participant sign-up. The bulletin board will list all suggested workshops as well as the current list of participants. Workshop Structure The workshops themselves will be conducted as informal discussions. Large paper tablets will be available. The use of slides or overheads, however, is discouraged. Each workshop group will be asked to appoint a secretary to keep track of the relevant questions and discussion points. Particular attention should be paid to the relevant "open" questions on the particular issue being discussed. Evening sessions will be organized in which each workshop will report their results to the entire group. Workshop Location All workshops and lodging for participants will be at the Asilomar Conference Center. This state run conference facility is located on the beautiful Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove California. The facilities include multiple cabins and lodges as well as many opportunities for walks and nature study. Logistical Arrangements All workshop participants will be housed at the conference center. Meals and lodging are included in the workshop registration costs. Transportation will be arranged to and from the main meeting location in downtown Monterey. The weather can be expected to be warm and sunny. Suggestions for Workshop Topics Please send suggestions to Mike Hasselmo at the following address: hasselmo@katla.harvard.edu Include the following material: 1) a title 2) a brief (300 word) abstract 3) a list of any known interested participants For further information on the workshops, or other CNS*94 related events send email to: CNS94@smaug.bbb.caltech.edu -------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Topic: Using HPC in CNS Some areas of research which the researchers involved in CNS are not sufficiently leveraging, probably due to lack of familiarity, are parallel computing, optimization and automatic differentiation (AD), areas which fall under High Performance Computing (HPC). The purpose of this workshop will be for the participants to familiarize each other with modeling efforts -- be they from within their own areas of research or others -- which utilize HPC techniques and technologies. Discussions could be general, for example, how come over the years at CNS conferences, the computational work presented hasn't utilized optimization techniques, despite the fact that a lot of what we do is model to data correlation? We could also talk specific, e.g. where, how reliable, and how efficient are the HPC software packages which we could utilize today to enhace our models? If you have any questions or suggestions about this workshop, send mail to Peyvand Khademi at Argonne National Lab (khademi@mcs.anl.gov).