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Subject: SMB Digest v12i21
SMB Digest May 23, 2012 Volume 12 Issue 21
ISSN 1086-6566
Editor: Richard Schugart richard(dot)schugart(at)gmail(dot)com
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Issue's Topics:
Conference: BIOCOMP 2012, Jun 4-8, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
Conference: Computational Neuroscience, Jul 21-26, Atlanta, GA
Conference: Multiscale Modelling in..., Sep 3-5, U Nottingham
Workshop: Mathematics for Life Sciences, Sep 3-14, Kiev
PhD Positions: Marie Curie in Comp Neuro, U Nottingham
PhD Positions: Neural Eng Trans Tech, U Nijmegen, Netherlands
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From: pc@eecs.oregonstate.edu <pc@eecs.oregonstate.edu>
Date: May 22, 2012 12:53:33 AM
Subject: Conference: BIOCOMP 2012, Jun 4-8, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
BIOCOMP 2012 will be held at:
June 4-8, 2012
Hotel Lloyd's Baia, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
This conference is dedicated to the Memory of Professor
Luigi M. Ricciardi (1942 - 2011)
The confference will consist of a program of invited lectures, selected
contributed papers and round table discussions. Topics are centered on
mathematical models, stochastic approaches and computational tools in
information processing and neuronal coding, in ecology and population
dynamics. Some invited talks will also focus on current problems in
various other areas of applications of mathematics, probability and
statistics to biosciences, and on related computational problems.
Details are at: http://biocomp.unina.it/2012/index.html
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From: Alla Borisyuk <alla.borisyuk@gmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2012 11:49:54 PM
Conference: Computational Neuroscience, Jul 21-26, Atlanta, GA
Early registration for CNS*2012 is now open at
http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-atlantadecatur and will remain open until
May 31, 2012 (11 PM Pacific Time, USA).
Note that at least one author of your submission must register for the
conference by May 31 in order for the submission to be included in the
program book and for publication in BMC Neuroscience.
MEETING INFORMATION:
Main conference: July 22-24, 2012
Tutorials: July 21, 2012
Workshops: July 25-26, 2012
Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia, USA
http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-atlantadecatur
Conference theme: "Computational Neuroethology"
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WEBSITE:
http://cns.confmaster.net
NOTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE: April 25, 2012
REGISTRATION OPENS: April 1, 2012
EARLY MEETING REGISTRATION CLOSED: May 31, 2012 (11 PM Pacific Time,
USA)
CNS*2012 will be held in Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia, USA, on July 21-26,
2012. The meeting will kick off with a day of tutorials and an evening
welcome reception on Saturday, July 21. The main meeting of CNS*2012
will follow on July 22-24, after which will come two days of workshops
on July 25-26.
The tutorials, main meeting and workshops will be held at Agnes Scott
College located in Decatur, a small town with a lot of American charm
connected by metro to Atlanta and its international airport.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Don Edwards, Georgia State University, USA
Malcolm MacIver, Northwestern University, USA
Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK
TUTORIALS:
See http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-tutorials
WORKSHOPS: See http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2012-workshops-program
OPEN ACCESS, CITABLE ABSTRACT PUBLICATION:
The formatted abstracts will again be published as a Supplement to the
online journal BMC Neuroscience. The supplement is citable, indexed by
PubMed, and open access.
At least one author must register for CNS*2012 by the early registration
deadline of May 31, 2012 for the abstract to be published and included
in the program book. Abstracts from previous CNS meetings are available
at http://www.cnsorg.org/publications
AWARDS:
A limited number of merit based travel grants, awarded based on review
of abstracts and 1-3 page summaries by the program committee, will be
available to students and postdocs. Recipients of travel grants will be
notified by May 5, 2012.
Student posters presented at CNS*2012 will also be judged for prizes
awarded at the meeting.
The CNS*2012 meeting is organized by the Organization for Computational
Neurosciences, Inc.
President: Erik De Schutter (OIST, Japan and U Antwerp, Belgium)
Program chair: Astrid Prinz (Emory U, USA)
Local organizers: Ronald L. Calabrese (Emory University), Gennady
Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University), Robert Butera (Georgia Institute
of Technology)
Workshop Organizers: Alex Dimitrov (Washington State University, USA)
and Volker Steuber (U Hertfordshire, UK)
Tutorials Organizers: Markus Diesmann (Research Center Jülich, Germany)
and Bruce Graham (University of Stirling, UK)
Travel Awards administrator: Jeanette Kotaleski (Royal Inst of Tech,
Stockholm, Sweden) and Maurice Chacron (McGill University, Canada)
Program Committee:
Astrid Prinz (Emory University, USA, Chair)
Jean-Marc Fellous (University Arizona, USA, Publication Chair)
Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Romain Brette (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Netta Cohen (University Leeds, UK)
Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University, USA)
Andrew Davison (UNIC, France)
Thomas Nowotny (University Sussex, UK)
Duane Nykamp (University Minnesota, USA)
Leonid Rubchinsky (Indiana University, USA)
Simon Schultz (Imperial College, UK)
Peggy Series (University Edinburgh, UK)
Benjamin Torben-Nielsen (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)
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From: Markus Owen <Markus.Owen@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: May 23, 2012 6:01:24 AM
Subject: Conference: Multiscale Modelling in..., Sep 3-5, U Nottingham
Multiscale Modelling in Medicine and Biology
Nottingham, UK, 3-5 September 2012
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cmmb/seminars/cmmb2012.aspx
This conference, run by the Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology
(CMMB, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cmmb/), in partnership with the
Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI, Ohio, http://mbi.osu.edu/) will
bring together scientists using mathematical modelling across a range of
applications in medicine and biology, and crossing spatial scales from
molecules to tissues and populations of organisms. It will bring
together experts working at different scales on particular systems, and
include mathematical approaches to derive macroscale models from
microscale, as well as computational approaches to link submodels at
multiple scales. By bringing together these sometimes disparate groups,
we will disseminate state-of-the-art approaches and facilitate the
cross-fertilisation of ideas. For example, techniques of modelling at
the (sub-) cellular scale may be applicable to the study of population
interactions, dispersal and epidemics, and vice-versa.
We have a great line-up of confirmed speakers:
Steven Altschuler (UT Southwestern)
Sharon Crook (Arizona State)
Thomas Eissing (Systems Biology, Bayer)
Ursula Klingmuller (German Cancer Research Center)
Peter Kohl (Imperial)
Roeland Merks (Netherlands Institute for Sytems Biology)
Ramit Mehr (Bar-Ilan University))
Tim Secomb (Arizona)
James Sneyd (Auckland)
Michael Stumpf (Imperial)
Kirsten ten Tusscher (Utrecht)
The meeting will begin with Registration 10:00-11:00am on Mon 3 Sept,
and end at 16:00 on Wed 5 Sept. We will include 12 plenary talks over
this period, and invite contributed talks and poster presentations. This
schedule will allow for plenty of time for discussion and interaction
between attendees.
There is no registration fee, and meals and accommodation will be
provided. Participants will be selected from applications based upon
their proposed contribution to the meeting and stated reasons for
participation.
Some financial support for travel costs will be available. Preference
will be given to PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and young
faculty.
Please complete the registration form by 31 May 2012 if you wish to
apply for travel support.
best wishes,
Markus Owen, Bindi Brook, Stephen Coombes, Oliver Jensen, Theo Kypraios,
Simon Preston, Rudiger Thul
(Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology, University of Nottingham)
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From: Juergen Prestin <prestin@math.uni-luebeck.de>
Date: May 23, 2012 4:15:12 AM
Subject: Workshop: Mathematics for Life Sciences, Sep 3-14, Kiev
Workshop on Mathematics for Life Sciences
Kiev, September 3 - 14, 2012
You are cordially invited to attend this meeting which is an event of
the EC-funded project EU-Ukrainian Mathematicians for Life Sciences
"EUMLS", yet it is open to all interested scientists with a mathematics
or life science background, especially those at the early stages of
their careers. The core program of this workshop consists of six series
of lectures given by
J. Bjaalie (Oslo)
K. Keller (Luebeck)
D. Langemann (Braunschweig)
T. Mel'nik (Kiev)
S. V. Pereverzyev (Linz)
A. Redaelli (Milano)
Organizing Committee
Alexandra Antoniouk (Kiev)
Juergen Prestin (Luebeck)
Ewald Quak (Oslo)
For further information on this conference, please visit the conference
webpage: www.math.uni-luebeck.de/EUMLS/2012.php
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From: Stephen Coombes <stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: May 18, 2012 10:03:38 AM
Subject: PhD Positions: Marie Curie in Comp Neuro, U Nottingham
Marie Curie Actions Early Stage Researcher (PhD fellowship)
Computational Neuroscience ? Synthetic cognition in spiking neural
networks
From 35622 - 41567 pounds depending on circumstance per annum
Applications are invited for the above post to work with Professor S
Coombes and Dr Noah Russell on a Marie Curie Initial Training Network
funded project in Computational Neuroscience to underpin work at
Nottingham on Synthetic Cognition. The successful candidate will
register for a 3 year PhD in the School of Mathematical Sciences.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a joint venture between
Mathematical Sciences and the Neurophotonics Research Laboratory on an
EU funded project in Neural Engineering with a focus on theoretical work
to understand neural computation. The Nottingham Neurophotonics
Laboratory is developing cutting edge technology to study small networks
of living neurons connected to a virtual environment programmed on a
real-time computer. This is a proxy for a human brain that can learn
about the statistical structure of its environment by continuously
interacting with it. This research project will use models of
biological neural networks, interacting with a virtual environment, to
help inform experimental design and to investigate how networks of
neurons can generate rich and complicated spiking activity that performs
behaviourally useful computations in a closed loop sensory environment.
The project will involve modelling techniques from computational
neuroscience as well as the use of ideas and concepts from dynamical
systems theory, neuroscience and reinforcement learning.
The fellowship includes a three-month secondment in the second year
working with either Dr Simon Schultz in the Department of Bioengineering
at Imperial College London, UK or with Dr Alessandro Torcini in the
Institute of Complex Systems at Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche in
Italy. It also includes a three-month internship in the third year with
the project industrial partner, Multichannel Systems GmbH in Reutlingen,
Germany. Candidates must be therefore be able to move between countries
as necessary.
Candidates must be in the first 4 years of their research careers and
not been awarded a doctorate degree. Preference will be given to
candidates with experience in mathematical and computational
neuroscience. As part of our commitment to promoting diversity we
encourage applications from women. To comply with the Marie Curie
Actions rule for mobility applicants must not have resided, worked or
studied in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to Sept
2012.
This full-time post is available from the 3 September 2012 or as soon as
possible thereafter and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a
period of 36 months.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof S Coombes email:
stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent
directly to this email address will not be accepted. For information
about the School of Mathematical Sciences, one of the most active in the
UK, see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/index.aspx
Applications will be received online at
https://my.nottingham.ac.uk/pgapps/welcome/. Please indicate clearly
in your application that you are applying for the Early Stage Researcher
position in Computational Neuroscience - Synthetic cognition in
spiking neural networks.
Closing date: 29 June 2012.
Marie Curie Actions Early Stage Researcher (PhD fellowship)
Computational Neuroscience - Artificial recognition of sounds in
complex scenes from auditory neuronal activity
From 35622 - 41567 pounds depending on circumstance per annum
Applications are invited for the above post to work with Dr Chris Sumner
and Professor S Coombes on a Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded
project in Computational Neuroscience to underpin work at Nottingham on
the coding of complex sound scenes in the auditory system. The
successful candidate will register for a 3 year PhD in the School of
Mathematical Sciences.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a joint venture between
Mathematical Sciences and the MRC Institute of Hearing Research, on an
EU funded project in Neural Engineering with a focus on theoretical work
to understand neural computation. The MRC Institute of Hearing Research
is a world leading research institute conducting basic and applied work
in hearing (www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk). This project will develop algorithms for
recognising complex sounds (e.g. speech, music) and mixtures of sounds
from neural activity in the brain. It will use computer models of the
auditory system, recordings of brain activity, pattern recognition and
machine learning techniques to help design better recognition algorithms
for recognising sounds from neural activity. The developed algorithms
will be used to probe how the brain itself separates sound sources.
Applications are encouraged from highly numerate students with degrees
in engineering, maths and physics.
The fellowship includes a flexible secondment, most likely in the second
year, working with Dr Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis at Athens Information
Technology in Greece. It also includes a three-month visit to
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain to work with Professor
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo. Candidates must therefore be able to move between
countries as necessary.
Candidates must be in the first 4 years of their research careers and
not been awarded a doctorate degree. Preference will be given to
candidates with experience in mathematical and computational
neuroscience. As part of our commitment to promoting diversity we
encourage applications from women. To comply with the Marie Curie
Actions rule for mobility, applicants must not have resided, worked, or
studied in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to Sept
2012.
This full-time post is available from the 3rd of September 2012 or as
soon as possible thereafter and will be offered on a fixed-term contract
for a period of 36 months.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Chris Sumner
(chris@ihr.mrc.ac.uk), Prof S Coombes
(stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk), or Dr Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis
(apne@ait.edu.gr). Please note that applications sent directly to these
email addresses will not be accepted. For information about the School
of Mathematical Sciences, one of the most active in the UK, see:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/index.aspx
Applications will be received online at
https://my.nottingham.ac.uk/pgapps/welcome/. Please indicate clearly in
your application that you are applying for the Early Stage Researcher
position in Computational Neuroscience - Artificial recognition of
sounds in complex scenes from auditory neuronal activity.
Closing date: 29 June 2012.
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From: SNN Adaptive Intelligence <snn@science.ru.nl>
Date: May 20, 2012 1:52:47 AM
Subject: PhD Positions: Neural Eng Trans Tech, U Nijmegen, Netherlands
Two PhD positions available on neural networks for stochastic optimal
control theory on project nr 626810.
The project Neural Engineering Transformative Technologie (NETT) is a
Initial Training Network funded under the EU FP7 program. The project
coalesces engineering, physics and neuroscience for the design and
development of brain-computer interface systems, cognitive computers and
neural prosthetics. The project consists of 7 partners and 11 associated
partners.
The NETT work package on adaptive control methods is coordinated by
Prof. Bert Kappen at the SNN research group on Machine Learning. The aim
of the work package is to build neural architectures for stochastic
optimal control and learning. The research is motivated by the recent
work on path integral control methods. For this class of control
methods, the optimal control can be computed using sampling. This
approach has been shown very effective for robotics and for learning.
The current project will address the question how such control
computations can be implemented in neural networks.
SNN Machine Learning is a research group dedicated to fundamental
research in the areas of machine learning and computational
neuroscience. Specific topics are Bayesian networks, approximate
inference methods, bio-informatics, expert systems, stochastic control
and collaborative decision making. The group consists currently of 11
researchers. See www.snn.ru.nl.
SNN Machine Learning is part of the Donders Institute for Brain,
Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen. In the joint
effort of approximately 400 researchers with backgrounds in physics,
biology, medicine, genetics, psychology and the social sciences, the
Donders Institute studies the relationships between brain, cognitive
processes and behavior. See www.ru.nl/donders. and www.snn.ru.nl.
The fellowship includes a three month secondment in the second year. It
also includes a three month internship in the third year with the
project industrial partner. Candidates must therefore be flexible and
able to move between countries as necessary. This full-time post is
available from the 3 September 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter
and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of 4 years.
The maximum gross salary is 2.379 euros.
Requirements.
Candidates must be in the first 4 years of their research careers in
physics, mathematics, engineering or computer science and not been
awarded a doctorate degree. Preference will be given to candidates with
experience in mathematical and computational neuroscience. As part of
our commitment to promoting diversity we encourage applications from
women. To comply with the Marie Curie Actions rule for mobility
applicants must not have resided, worked or studied in the Netherlands
for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to Sept 2012.
The candidates will be selected on the basis of excellence, a strong
theoretical background, willingness and enthusiasm to engage in
multidisciplinary research; possession of relevant academic background
and training; strong academic references and/or prior publications.
Application:
Applications should contain a complete CV, a brief description of your
research interests and a copy of a recent publication or dissertation
(optional). Applications should be sent before August 1 2012 to
Personnel department, Science Faculty, University of Nijmegen,
Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with reference number
626810. Electronic submission to vacancies@science.ru.nl This e-mail
address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled
to view it is acceptable.
For further information contact Prof. dr. H.J. Kappen
( b.kappen@science.ru.nl) This e-mail address is being protected from
spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , +31 24 3614241).
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From: Bernard Beauzamy <bernard.beauzamy@scmsa.com>
Date: May 22, 2012 at 7:17:00 AM
Subject: Scientific Report: Connections between presence of ulvae in...
A scientific report about the possible connections between the presence
of ulvae in Britany and the productions of agriculture is available
here:
http://scmsa.eu/archives/SCM_ISTE_rapport_nitrates_ulves_2012_05_07.pdf
The report itself is in French, but has an English summary.
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