2nd Provence Summer Workshop: Molecules & Networks

   

 

Dear friends and colleagues

It is my pleasure to announce details for the 2^nd Provence Summer Workshop (Sat 1^st September – Tues 4^th September 2012), with this year’s theme ‘Molecules & Networks’.

Following on from the great success of our first Workshop, we will once again meet at the beautiful Domaine des Escaunes set in the heart of Provence, France.

We are also delighted to highlight the involvement of our two international guest speakers – Professor Ed Bullmore from Cambridge University (UK) and Professor Mirjana Maletic-Savatic from Baylor Medical College (USA).

This year’s Workshop is certain to be over-subscribed, so register now and take advantage of our early-bird rates. Even better, get involved by presenting your work – submit an abstract for consideration by our scientific committee.

Abstract deadline and Early Bird Registration deadline is 1^st May 2012.

Please visit http://rng.org.au/2nd_provance_workshop.html for more information or to register.

I look forward to seeing you in Provence this summer! And feel free to pass this message on to anyone who may be interested.

Regards

Michael Valenzuela

HHMI Investigator National Competition

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) seeks to appoint up to 30 new biomedical researchers through a national open competition. The initiative represents an investment of approximately $200 million in basic biomedical research by the Institute.

This HHMI investigator competition is open to scientists at more than 200 eligible institutions who study significant biological problems in all of the biomedical disciplines, as well as in adjacent fields such as biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology. Plant scientists, experimental evolutionary biologists, and patient-oriented researchers are welcome to apply. Those selected in this competition will receive a five-year appointment to HHMI, which is renewable pending favorable scientific review.

http://www.hhmi.org/news/HHMI20120315.html

32th MaxEnt 2012

 

the 32th Workshop on Bayesian Inference and
Maximum Entropy methods in science and engineering
at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics in Garching/Munich (15.July-20.July 2012)
welcomes the submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

Abstracts (limited to one page) of proposed contributions
should be submitted following the guidelines provided on the
website

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/maxent2012

by ***  May, 01, 2012. ***

Especially encouraged are
papers whose content is novel, either conceptually or as innovative application of Bayesian Inference.
Abstracts are designated for either platform or poster sessions; awards are presented to the best poster.
Notification of the decision of the program committee will be
by May 15, 2012.

The workshop includes tutorials, state-of-the-art lectures, poster presentations and contributed papers. Selected papers will be edited and published in a book.
Topics addressed include

     * Bayesian graphical models
     * Experimental design
     * ICA/Blind source separation
     * Image reconstruction
     * Machine Learning
     * Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods
     * Neural nets
     * Quantum mechanics
     * Philosophy of science
     * Real world applications in various fields of science (e.g.
       astrophysics, plasma physics, material science, metrology,
       meteorology, biology, robotics,...)

On behalf of the organizing committee
Udo von Toussaint

Neural interactions and affect: basic & clinical perspectives Conference

Neural interactions and affect: basic & clinical perspectives
Conference at the University of Reading, United Kingdom
16-17th April, 2012

The last decade has seen an unprecedented expansion in research on the
neural basis of human emotions and affective disorders. Distinct brain
regions have been linked to reward, motivation, threat and aversion,
largely through neuroimaging studies building on knowledge gained from
studies of other animals. Changes in the functioning of these regions
have been linked to a number of mood and affective disorders.
Recently, scientists have become interested in how the dynamic
interactions between multiple neural systems give rise to our
emotions, and motivate and modulate our behaviours and decisions. Such
time-dependent processes occur on scales ranging from milliseconds in
the case of neuronal interactions, through seconds in learning,
conditioning and habituation, through to years in the case of the
lifetime development and decline.

This symposium brings together basic and clinical scientists from a
variety of fields who approach the topic from different perspectives.
The objective is to provide a richly interactive environment for
scientific interchange between biological, medical, psychological and
physical scientists interested in new perspectives and techniques to
push forward research in the field.

Over the two days, a mix of keynote lectures, workshops and poster
sessions will encourage interaction between senior and junior
researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds. A large amount of
time dedicated to discussion will be a feature of all the symposium
sessions.

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Sonia Bishop, UC Berkeley/ University of Oxford
Gilles Pourtois, Ghent University, Belgium
Rudi de Raedt, Ghent University, Belgium
Henrik Walter, Medical University Charité, Berlin, Germany
Martin Walter, Medical University Magdeburg, Germany
Paul Whalen, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

News of further speakers will be forthcoming.

Registration
Registration is free for research staff and postgraduate students of
non-profit/academic research institutions
To register, please send an email with the subject line "April Neural
Interactions Conference" to CINN@reading.ac.uk with the following
information:

Name
Affiliation
Position (PhD, Postdoc, Ass. Prof. etc)
Topic of Research

In addition, there will be a poster session and a limited number of
places for spoken presentations. If you wish to present either a
poster or a talk, please include a title, authors, preference for
poster or talk, and 250 word abstract. Those who request a talk who
can't be accommodated will be allocated to a poster session.

Travel and accommodation will need to be arranged by attendees.
Reading is well served by train (25 minutes from central London, 35
minutes from Oxford) and is a 35 minute bus ride from Heathrow
Airport. Reading has a variety of hotel accommodation available - more
information will be circulated in the coming days. The University
campus is a short taxi ride from the centre of town. Regular buses
also serve the university, or for those who enjoy some exercise, it is
a pleasant 40 minute walk.

This conference is made possible with the support of the EPSRC, BBSRC & CINN.