IJCNN 2009 Activities: Social Local and Family

In order to foster interactions between theoretical scientists and experimental biologists, we are organizing a "field trip" to Emory University, one of the leading academic institutions in the United States.

The excursion will be in connection with the special Workshop on the Advances in Neurodynamic Systems, but is not limited to the participants of that workshop.

Sponsored by the Comprehensive Neuroscience Initiative at Emory University
The tour and reception are free - just pay your own taxi fare. Share a taxi - cheap!

Sponsoring Organizations

International
Neural
Network
Society

IEEE
Computational
Intelligence
Society

Important Dates

Tutorials Proposals
Oct. 15, 2008

Competitions Proposals
Oct. 30, 2008

Session Proposals
Nov. 7, 2008

Paper Submission
Workshop Proposals
Panel Proposals
Jan. 5, 2009

Decision Notification
Jan. 30, 2009

Final Submission
Mar. 10, 2009

visit neuroscience laboratories working on:

Central pattern generators in invertebrates

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Cell viewer courtesy Robert Cannon.)

Figures courtesy of Dirk Bucher.

Calabrese Lab and Prinz Lab

Electrophysiology of slice preparations of mouse and rat brains

Jaeger Lab

Hippocampus and Memory

Manns Lab
neural coding for communication sound processing in mice

Fluorescent labeling of nuclei in the auditory cortex.
Liu Lab

and possibly more.

followed by food and discussion ...

The lab visits will be followed by an informal social.

Buffet-style food and refreshments will be provided,

Theoreticians and the experimentalists can discuss topics related to neurodynamic systems and possibly open ways for future collaborations.

The tour group will depart from the Westin Peachtree shortly after 4 P.M. on Thursday, June 18,and travel by shared taxis to Emory University.

The laboratory tours and the social are sponsored by the Emory University Comprehensive Neurosciences Initiative and the participants are only expected to cover the cost of transportation to and from Emory University, which will roughly be $10 per person, assuming three passengers per taxi. The payments will be made directly to the taxi drivers, and no fees will be collected by the organizers.

Please contact the organizers to reserve one of the 60 places or ask questions (tomasz.smolinski.at.emory.edu). Formal registration will take place at the IJCNN conference.

Thanks to the Principal Investigators, Drs. Dieter Jaeger, Astrid Prinz, Ron Calabrese, Joe Manns and Robert Liu for opening their labs for the tour and to Drs. Tomasz Smolinski, Cengiz Gunay and Dennis Choi, the Executive Director of the Neuroscience Initiative at Emory, for organizing this event.

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Page last updated by Mary Lou Padgett: May 27, 2009

Additional Sponsors

	Georgia Institute of Technology		Fedex Institute of Technology Univ. of Memphis		Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology		Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory
	Real-Time Power & Intelligent Systems		Northrop Grumman		Florida Institute of Technology		Information Processing Laboratory FL Inst. of Technology