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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:43:12 EST
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From:         sayegh@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU
Subject:      CNS INDY 92

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
SYMPOSIUM 1992 (CNS '92)


                             October 17, 1992
                    University Place Conference Center
                   Indiana University-Purdue University
                         at Indianapolis, Indiana

                   In cooperation with the IEEE Systems,
                        Man and Cybernetics Society

The Computational Neuroscience Symposium (CNS '92) will highlight the
interactions among engineering, science, and neuroscience.  Computational
neuroscience is the study of the interconnection of neuron-like
elements in computing devices which leads to the discovery of the algorithms
of the brain.  Such algorithms may prove useful in finding optimum solutions
to practical engineering problems.  The focus of the symposium will be
forty-five minute special lectures by eight leading international experts.

KEYNOTE LECTURE: "Challenges and Promises of Networks with Neural-type
Architectures"

NICHOLAS DeCLARIS, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering,
Pathology, Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine; Director, Division of Medical
Informatics, University of Maryland.

SPECIAL LECTURES:

"Teaching the Multiplication Tables to a Neural Network: Flexibility vs.
Accuracy" JAMES ANDERSON, Professor of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences,
Brown University.

"Supervised Learning for Adaptive Radar Detection" SIMON HAYKIN,
Director of Communication Research Laboratory, McMaster University.

"Neural Network Applications in Waveform Analysis and Pattern Recognition"
EVANGELIA MICHELI-TZANAKOU, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Rutgers University.

"Signal Processing by Neural Networks in the Control of Eye Movements"
DAVID ROBINSON, Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering &
Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University.

"Nonlinear Properties of the Hippocampal Formation"
ROBERT SCLABASSI, Professor of Neurosurgery, Electrical Engineering,
Behavioral Neuroscience & Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh.

"Acoustic Images in Bar Sonar and the Mechanisms Which Form Them"
JAMES SIMMONS, Professor of Biology & Psychology, Brown University.

"Understanding the Brain as a Neurocontroller: New Hypotheses and Experimental
Possibilities"
PAUL WERBOS, Program Director, National Science Foundation and President,
International Neural Network Society.




The conference registration fee, which includes symposium proceedings and
lunch, is $50 prior to October 1, 1992 and may be paid by either check or
credit card.  After October 1, 1992 and for on-site registration, the
fee is $75.  Please contact the Conference Secretary for registration.

             Ms. Nancy Brockman # CNS '92 Conference Secretary
       799 West Michigan Street, Room 1211 ] Indianapolis, IN 46202
                  tel: (317)274-2761 # fax: (317)274-0832

For overnight stay before or after the symposium, reservations may be made at
the University Place Conference Center and Hotel at IUPUI.  Special room rates
for CNS '92 participants are $76 for one person and $90 for two.
Please call (317)231-5150 or fax (317)231-5168.



                       CNS '92 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

H. Oner Yurtseven, General Co-Chair # Sidney Ochs, General Co-Chair #
P.G. Madhavan, Program Chair # Michael Penna, Publication Chair

                            SPONSORS OF CNS '92

Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Indiana University School of Medicine

                        National Science Foundation

                     IUPUI Faculty Development Office

   Purdue University School of Engineering & Technology at Indianapolis

  Indiana University-Purdue University School of Science at Indianapolis

                           Eli Lilly and Company

    Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine
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