COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE ORGANIZATION

Executive Committee:

• President: Christiane Linster (Cornell) (http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/linster)
• Vice-President: Todd Troyer (U. Maryland)
• Secretary: Erik DeSchutter (U. Antwerp) (http://www.bbf.uia.ac.be/)
• Treasurer: Linda Larson-Prior (Touro U.)
• Chair of the Program Committee: Erik DeSchutter (U. Antwerp)
• Chair of the Grants Committee: Phil Ulinski (U. Chicago)
• Chair of the local organization Committee (Alicante, Spain): Albert Compte

Program Committee:

• Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
• Victoria Booth (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
• Alain Destexhe (CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
• John Hertz (Nordita, Denmark)
• Hidetoshi Ikeno (Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Barry Richmond (NIMH, USA)
• Eytan Ruppin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
• Frances Skinner (Toronto Western Research Institute, Canada)

Board of directors:

Larry Abbott (Brandeis Univ., USA), Ad Aertsen (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany), Albert Compte (University Miguel Hernández, Spain), Jack Cowan (Univ. of Chicago, USA), Sharon Crook (Univ. of Maine, USA), Udo Ernst (Univ. of Bremen, Germany), Mark Goldman (MIT, USA), Michael Hasselmo (Boston Univ., USA), Ranu Jung (Arizona State Univ., USA), Zhaoping Li (Univ. College London, UK), Philip Low (UCSD/Salk, USA), Mark Nelson (Univ. of Illinois, USA), Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Inst., UK), Ko Sakai (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan), Fernanda Saraga (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), Ex-officio Jim Bower (Univ. of Texas, US).

This years meeting: Alicante, Spain, July 5-7 2003, Workshops July 8-9, 2003. Call for papers and meeting information can be found at http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS.shtml.

The Story: 

Before the 10th annual Computational Neuroscience (CNS; http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS.shtml) meeting 2001 in Asilomar, CA, Jim Bower announced that he would resign as the organizer of the CNS. During the 2002 CNS meeting in Chicago it was decided to form a non-profit organization to run future meetings.  [More history here. (link)]

Current state of affairs:

The newly appointed executive committee, together with the existing program committee, are currently planning the next CNS meeting (Alacante, Spain, July 2003). The two committees are also discussing incorporation, appointments of board members and other details. The immediate goals of the Executive committee include:

(a) appoint a board in a joint effort with the existing program committee (as of January 2003, a Board of Directors has been appointed, see above)

(b) incorporate the Computational Neuroscience (CNS) Organization.

(c) Participate, with the local organizer and the existing program committee in the organization of the CNS 2003 in Spain

(d) Discuss and create budgetary goals for the next 5 years.

(e) Secure grant money for the continuation of the meeting (grant has been submitted to NIH by Phil Ulinski, Chair of the Finance Committee).

The following additional information can be found on this webpage:

* Summary of state of affairs

* Minutes of the organizational meetings held during the CNS meeting in Chicago, IL (July 2002)

* Proposed bylaws

* Solicitation for proposals to organize CNS 2004

* Solicitations to propose members for the Board of Directors to be formed.

New information and decisions will be posted as soon as available!