# Computational and Systems Neuroscience

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE or CoSyNe) is an annual scientific conference for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. It is an important meeting for computational neuroscientists where many levels of approaches are discussed. It is a single track-meeting with oral and poster sessions and attracts about 800-900 participants from a variety of disciplines, including neuroscience, computer science and machine learning. Until 2018, the 3-day long main meeting was held in Salt Lake City, followed by two days of workshops at Snowbird, Utah. In 2018, COSYNE moved to Denver (3 days) and Breckenridge (2 days).

## History

COSYNE grew out of the Neural Information and Coding (NIC) meetings founded by Anthony Zador in 1996. The first COSYNE was organized in 2004 by Michael Shadlen, Alexandre Pouget, Carlos Brody and Anthony Zador. The current Executive Committee consists of Alexandre Pouget, Zachary Mainen, Stephanie Palmer and Anthony Zador.

## Meetings

| Year | Location | General Chair(s) | Program Chair(s) | Workshop Chair(s) | Publicity/Communication Chair | Undergraduate Travel Chair(s) | Abstracts |
| 2021 | Virtual | Anne-Marie Oswald, Srdjan Ostojic | Anne-Marie Oswald, Srdjan Ostojic | - | Adam Calhoun | - | |
| 2020 | Denver | Eugenia Chiappe, Christian Machens | Anne-Marie Oswald, Srdjan Ostojic | Catherine Hartley, Blake Richards | Adam Calhoun, Xaq Pitkow | Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson | |
| 2019 | Lisbon | Linda Wilbrecht, Brent Doiron | Eugenia Chiappe, Christian Machens | Catherine Hartley, Ralf Haefner | Xaq Pitkow | Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson | |
| 2018 | Denver | Ilana Witten, Eric Shea-Brown | Linda Wilbrecht, Brent Doiron | Laura Busse, Ralf Haefner | Xaq Pitkow | Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson | |
| 2017 | Salt Lake City | Megan Carey, Emilio Salinas | Ilana Witten, Eric Shea-Brown | Laura Busse, Alfonso Renart | Il Memming Park | Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson | |
| 2016 | Salt Lake City | Maria Geffen, Konrad Körding | Megan Carey, Emilio Salinas | Claudia Clopath, Alfonso Renart | Xaq Pitkow | Jill O'Reilly, Robert Wilson | |
| 2015 | Salt Lake City | Michael Long, Stephanie Palmer | Maria Geffen, Konrad Körding | Robert Froemke, Claudia Clopath | Xaq Pitkow | | |
| 2014 | Salt Lake City | Marlene Cohen, Peter Latham | Michael Long, Stephanie Palmer | Robert Froemke, Tatyana Sharpee | Eugenia Chiappe | | |
| 2013 | Salt Lake City | Nicole C. Rust, Jonathan Pillow | Marlene Cohen, Peter Latham | Jess Cardin, Tatyana Sharpee | Kanaka Rajan | | |
| 2012 | Salt Lake City | James DiCarlo, Rachel Wilson | Nicole Rust, Jonathan Pillow | Brent Doiron, Jess Cardin | Mark Histed | | |
| 2011 | Salt Lake City | Anne Churchland, Bartlett Mel | James DiCarlo, Rachel Wilson | Mark Laubach, Brent Doiron | Ila Fiete | | Nature precedings |
| 2010 | Salt Lake City | Maneesh Sahani | Anne Churchland, Bartlett Mel | Adam Kohn, Mark Laubach | Byron Yu | | Frontiers |
| 2009 | Salt Lake City | Matteo Carandini | Maneesh Sahani | Adam Kohn, Alex Huk | Alex Wade | | Frontiers |
| 2008 | Salt Lake City | Eero Simoncelli | Matteo Carandini | Fritz Sommer, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein | Alex Wade | | |
| 2007 | Salt Lake City | Zach Mainen | Eero Simoncelli | Fritz Sommer | | | |
| 2006 | Salt Lake City | Carlos Brody, Zach Mainen, Alex Pouget, Michael Shadlen, Tony Zador | Loren Frank, Michael Hausser, Adam Kepecs, Zach Mainen, Stefan Treue, Flip Sabes, Eero Simoncelli | Loren Frank, Michael Hausser, Adam Kepecs, Zach Mainen, Stefan Treue, Flip Sabes, Eero Simoncelli | | | |
| 2005 | Salt Lake City | Carlos Brody, Alex Pouget, Michael Shadlen, Tony Zador | Pam Reinagel, Philip Sabes, Zach Mainen, Eero Simoncelli, Stefan Treue | Pam Reinagel, Philip Sabes, Zach Mainen, Eero Simoncelli, Stefan Treue | | | |
| 2004 | CSHL | Carlos Brody, Alex Pouget, Michael Shadlen, Tony Zador | Carlos Brody, Alex Pouget, Michael Shadlen, Tony Zador | Carlos Brody, Alex Pouget, Michael Shadlen, Tony Zador | | | |

## Related Meetings

* Neural Information Processing Systems (since 1987)
* Annual meeting of the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (since 1990/1992)
* Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (since 2017)
* Bernstein Conference (since 2005)