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6th Annual GCC Conference on
Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008
Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Location: Rice University / Sid Richardson College
Deadline: November 3 for both Registration and Abstract Submission
Pre-register for free lunch
Submit poster titles and abstracts
Program
9:00-9:30 Registration and Poster Setup
9:30-10:20 Wei Ji Ma, Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
The neural basis of Bayes-optimal visual search
10:20-11:10 Ila Fiete, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Austin
Network dynamics and the position code in grid cells
11:10-11:20 Break
11:20-12:10 Wei Chen, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at Houston
Computing through Propagating: Functional Complexity of Olfactory Bulb Mitral Cell
Dendrites
12:10-1:30 Lunch and Posters
1:30-2:20 Brent Doiron, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
Spatial keys to unlock temporal rhythms
2:30-2:50 Peter Jones, Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Spatiotemporal receptive field micro-structure of a looming sensitive neuron
2:50-3:10 Keith Kelleher, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston
Spatio-temporal integration of synaptic inputs in live neurons and neurons models
3:10-3:30 Anthony Kellems, Computational and Applied Math, Rice University
Radical Dimension Reduction of Morphologically Accurate Neuronal Models
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Online Registration - Deadline November 3, 2008
Sponsors: NIBIB, UH Mathematics, GCC
Lunch will be provided free to online registrants. Posters must not exceed 4 feet in width.
For directions, visit the Rice Campus map at http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html and select Richardson (#60) from the drop down menu. For parking, from the Parking Menu, select "Free Parking" or "Paid Parking."
Organizing Committee
Kreso Josic, University of Houston
Steve Cox, Rice University
Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine
Harel Shouval, UT Health Science Center at Houston
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