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CNS*1998

The Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting

July 26 - 30, 1998 Santa Barbara, California

CNS*1998 Call for Papers

This is the seventh annual meeting of an interdisciplinary conference addressing a broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the field of computational neuroscience. These meetings bring together experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in the functioning of biological nervous systems. Peer reviewed papers are presented all related to understanding how nervous systems compute. As in previous years, CNS*98 will equally emphasize experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. This is the seventh annual meeting of an interdisciplinary conference addressing a broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the field of computational neuroscience. These meetings bring together experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in the functioning of biological nervous systems. Peer reviewed papers are presented all related to understanding how nervous systems compute. As in previous years, CNS*98 will equally emphasize experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.

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The meeting in 1998 will take place at the Fess Parker's Double Tree Resort in Santa Barbara, California, and include plenary, contributed, and poster sessions. The first session starts at 9 am, Sunday, July 26th and ends with the annual banquet on Thursday evening, July 30th. There will be no parallel sessions. The meeting will include time for informal workshops focused on current issues in computational neuroscience. Travel funds will be available for students and postdoctoral fellows presenting papers. Child day care will also be available.

Santa Barbara, California is approximately 1-1/2 hours by car from the Los Angeles International airport (LAX). Airport shuttles from the airport to Santa Barbara run regularly. In addition, Santa Barbara has its own small airport. The hotel itself is located on the ocean and within walking distance from distinctive downtown Santa Barbara.

With this announcement we solicit the submission of presented papers. All papers will be refereed. Peer review will be conducted based on a 1000-word (or less) summary describing the methods, nature, and importance of your results. Authors will be notified of acceptance by the second week of May, 1998.

Submission Instructions

This year, for the first, time, submission of papers will be performed electronically using a custom designed JAVA/HTML interface. Full instructions for submission can be found at the meeting's submission page.

In brief, authors should cut and paste text from their own word processors into the forms available on the web site. It is important that all requested information be provided, including a 100 word abstract for publication in the conference program, all author information, and selection of the appropriate category and theme from the list provided. Authors should especially note the mechanisms used for handling figures and mathematical equations. All submissions will be acknowledged immediately by email. Program committee decisions will be sent to the designated correspondence author only. Submissions will not be considered if they lack category information, abstracts, author addresses, or are late.

Presentation categories:

  1. Theory and Analysis
  2. Modeling and Simulation
  3. Experimental
  4. Tools and Techniques

Themes:

  1. Development
  2. Cell Biology
  3. Excitable Membranes and Synaptic Mechanisms
  4. Neurotransmitters, Modulators, Receptors
  5. Sensory Systems
    1. Somatosensory
    2. Visual
    3. Auditory
    4. Olfactory
    5. Other systems
  6. Motor Systems and Sensory Motor Integration
  7. Learning and Memory
  8. Behavior
  9. Cognition
  10. Disease

Further Meeting Correspondence

We would like to strongly encourage authors to make their submissions electronically. However, if you do not have ready access to the internet or a web server (would you be reading this?), we will send you instructions for paper submission if you contact us either by email or at the following address:

CNS*98
Division of Biology, 216-76
Caltech
Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.

Registration and Additional Information

All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically. Others may acquire registration as well as other information about the conference though any of the methods listed below.

CNS*98 Organizing Committee

Program Committee:

Regional Organizers: