Upcoming Events http://incf.org/Events/upcoming Neuroinformatics-related events. daily 1 Upcoming Events http://incf.org/Events/upcoming http://incf.org/logo.png Ontologies for evolutionary biology http://incf.org/community/events/ontologies-for-evolutionary-biology-1 Durham, United States; Start: 2013/07/29 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/08/03 00:00:00 GMT+2; Evolutionary research has been revolutionized by the explosion of genetic information available, and ontologies must play a central crucial in relating this knowledge to observable diversity. Ontologies provide scaffolding that interconnects many ki... Evolutionary research has been revolutionized by the explosion of genetic information available, and ontologies must play a central crucial in relating this knowledge to observable diversity. Ontologies provide scaffolding that interconnects many kinds of observations; across species, they provide evolutionary, developmental, and mechanistic insights. The theme for this year’s course is “enrichment”. We aim to help participants enrich their research through the use of ontologies, to enrich existing ontologies with new content, and to bring new domain expertise to the ontology community.

The course will start with introduction to ontology development and design (using OWL, Protege), including best practices for community interoperability. We will explore, explain, and demonstrate how ontologies are being used within the field of evolutionary biology. We will then focus on providing new material for and conceptual links between key existing ontologies and biodiversity informatics. Specifics will include strategies for ontology integration, mash-up of data using different ontologies, visualization tools, data stores leveraging ontologies, limits to ontological expression, and ontology manipulation tools and tricks. Following the introductory materials, we will apply what we have learned in the context of individual research projects and participants should come prepared with a research problem that they would like to use ontologies to help address.

This course seeks to promote community growth and adoption of ontology-based methods and tools. The subsequent benefit is in the form of shared access to the unique data store of each community (e.g. genetic, genomic, developmental, and evolutionary data).

Students will be required to complete some software installation and preliminary online exercises prior to the course.

Instructors

Melissa Haendel is currently lead ontologist for the eagle-i project, designed to collect and disseminate information about scientific resources. Dr. Haendel has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, where she studied early development in mouse, chick and zebrafish. Dr. Haendel has co-lead several anatomy ontology workshops and has participated in development of development of standards for anatomy ontologies. She has participated in development of the Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO) and taxonspecific anatomy ontologies such as the zebrafish anatomy ontology (ZFA), the the teleost ontology (TAO), and the vertebrate skeletal ontology (VAO). Most recently, she has been working to facilitate cross-species anatomy interoperability (Uberon). Her interest is in using anatomy ontologies as a nexus for linking many types of data - genomic, biomedical, evolutionary - using Semantic Web standards.

Matt Yoder is a lead researcher on the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology and a biodiversity informatician at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Matt contributes to the curation of the HAO and seeks to develop user-friendly tools that enable domain experts, who are not usually ontology experts as well, to employ phenotype ontologies as part of their descriptive work. Trained in Hymenoptera systematics and biodiversity informatics Matt has broad experience in phylogenetic reconstruction, with specific background in rRNA multiple sequence alignment analysis. He has worked on implementing informatics solutions across a wide range of taxa.

Guest instructors

  • Jim Balhoff - Working on the Phenoscape and Hymenoptera Anatomy ontologies Jim is an expert in semantic phenotype and ontology meta-data modelling, inference, and ontology-based application development.
  • Erik Segerdell - Erik is the course assistant and help with the hands-on exercises. He is also particularly familiar with multi-species amphibian ontologies.

Costs

Tuition is $250. Participants are responsible for their own travel costs, including transportation and accommodation. A limited number of travel scholarships from NESCent and the Phenotype RCN are available for US-based participants. Preference will be given to participants from under-represented minorities. To apply for a travel award, check the box on the application form.

]]> 2013-06-03T07:37:36+02:00 2013-06-03T07:37:36+02:00 Beatriz Martin Villalba Type: Course Topic: General neuroinformatics Topic: Digital atlasing ISMRM Workshop on Multiple Sclerosis as a Whole-Brain Disease http://incf.org/community/events/ismrm-workshop-on-multiple-sclerosis-as-a-whole-brain-disease London EC2A 4JE., United Kingdom; Start: 2013/06/26 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/06/28 00:00:00 GMT+2; OVERVIEW The workshop will focus on multiple sclerosis (MS). The central theme is how to use MRI to characterise and model a disease that affects the entire CNS in a unique way (white matter & grey matter, causing demyelination & damage of various ... OVERVIEW

The workshop will focus on multiple sclerosis (MS). The central theme is how to use MRI to characterise and model a disease that affects the entire CNS in a unique way (white matter & grey matter, causing demyelination & damage of various cell types over and above oligodendrocytes and affecting not only the brain, but also the optic nerves and the spinal cord.

As an ISMRM workshop, the majority of the program will focus on MRI and its use to accurately detect and quantify changes in the CNS of people with MS with an emphasis on the ‘whole brain perspective’. Under this headline, contributions on advanced image analysis as well as multimodal quantitative MR, will be of particular – though by no means exclusive – interest.

A better understanding of how MS causes symptoms and chronic disability will benefit from an approach linking information from MRI with other sources such as pathology, immunology, genetics and infectious diseases. Thus, the workshop will also explore where MRI would be best placed to help further elucidate MS pathogenesis.

The workshop will feature invited presentations, proffered papers, a poster session, a debate, and one keynote lecture. A Young Investigator Award for students and early post-doctoral researchers will be awarded based on the quality of the presented work and presentation.


TARGET AUDIENCE

Physicians and neurologists with an interest in multiple sclerosis (MS) and related diseases. Scientists and medical professionals with an interest in quantitative MR methods applied to study CNS diseases. MR Physicists will be interested in cutting edge modalities to elucidate a disease, while computer scientists will be interested in multi-modal and image analysis methods applied to the complex pathology of MS.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Understand the role of MRI in an inter‐disciplinary environment to explore disease pathogenesis;
Recognize multiple sclerosis as a disease affecting the entire central nervous system and its associated symptoms;
Assess the role of quantitative MRI in cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies;
Demonstrate insight into the a large variety of imaging methodologies;
Illustrate the specificity (and limitations thereof) of quantitative MRI techniques for pathological substrates;
Select appropriate image analysis tools, especially when dealing with multi‐modal analysis; and
Develop a critical view of the field and where the future leads.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE



Co-Chair: Klaus Schmierer, Ph.D., F.R.C.P., Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, England, UK
Co-Chair: Claudia A. Wheeler-Kingshott, Ph.D., University College London, London, England, UK

Marie Braisher, Ph.D., National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London, England, UK
Olga Ciccarelli, Ph.D., University College London, London, England, UK
Rebecca S. Samson, Ph.D., University College London, London, England, UK

]]> 2013-05-14T07:55:00+02:00 2013-05-14T08:05:23+02:00 Beatriz Martin Villalba Type: Workshop Topic: Clinical neuroscience Brainstorm course at HBM http://incf.org/community/events/brainstorm-course-at-hbm Seattle, United States; Start: 2013/06/21 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/06/21 00:00:00 GMT+2; The next Brainstorm course will take place after the HBM conference in Seattle, on June 21st. It will be a full-day hands-on training session accessible to beginners, illustrating the complete analysis of a MEG recording session: from co-registrat... The next Brainstorm course will take place after the HBM conference in Seattle, on June 21st.
It will be a full-day hands-on training session accessible to beginners, illustrating the complete analysis of a MEG recording session:
from co-registration and artifact cleaning to time-frequency and connectivity analysis.

Program and registration:
http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/WorkshopSeattle2013

More information about the software:
http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm

]]> 2013-05-06T13:55:26+02:00 2013-05-06T13:55:26+02:00 Francois Tadel Type: Course Type: Workshop Topic: Computational neuroscience Topic: Neuroimaging Topic: Infrastructural and portal services Topic: Clinical neuroscience Data Assimilation & Inverse Problems http://incf.org/community/events/data-assimilation-inverse-problems Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; Start: 2013/07/22 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/07/26 00:00:00 GMT+2; Data Assimilation (DA) is concerned with the reconstruction of the state of a dynamical system from measured data. It is a key ingredient in weather prediction, but is also increasingly employed in other applications. This workshop features introduc... Data Assimilation (DA) is concerned with the reconstruction of the state of a dynamical system from measured data. It is a key ingredient in weather prediction, but is also increasingly employed in other applications. This workshop features introductory lectures by selected experts and provides ample time for discussions. Fee: GBP 50,-.

]]> 2013-03-08T13:24:17+01:00 2013-03-08T13:24:17+01:00 Ingo Bojak Type: Course Type: Workshop Topic: General neuroinformatics Topic: Computational neuroscience Topic: Large scale modeling Topic: Brain machine interface SciPy 2013 Conference http://incf.org/community/events/scipy-2013-conference Austin, United States; Start: 2013/06/24 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/06/29 00:00:00 GMT+2; SciPy 2013 Conference Announcement SciPy 2013, the twelfth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference [1], will be held this June 24th-29th in Austin, Texas. SciPy is a community dedicated to the advancement of scientific computing ...

SciPy 2013 Conference Announcement

SciPy 2013, the twelfth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference [1], will be held this June 24th-29th in Austin, Texas. SciPy is a community dedicated to the advancement of scientific computing through open source Python software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The annual SciPy Conference allows participants from academic, commercial, and governmental organizations to showcase their latest projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code development.

The conference consists of two days of tutorials by followed by two days of presentations, and concludes with two days of developer sprints on projects of interest to attendees.

Specialized Tracks

This year we are happy to announce two specialized tracks that run in parallel to the general conference:

Machine Learning

In recent years, Python's machine learning libraries rapidly matured with a flurry of new libraries and cutting-edge algorithm implement and development occurring within Python. As Python makes these algorithms more accessible, machine learning algorithm application has spread across disciplines. Showcase your favorite machine learning library or how it has been used as an effective tool in your work!

Reproducible Science

Over recent years, the Open Science movement has stoked a renewed acknowledgement of the importance of reproducible research. The goals of this movement include improving the dissemination of progress, prevent fraud through transparency, and enable deeper/wider development and collaboration. This track is to discuss the tools and methods used to achieve reproducible scientific computing.

Domain-specific Mini-symposia

Introduced in 2012, mini-symposia are held to discuss scientific computing applied to a specific scientific domain/industry during a half afternoon after the general conference. Their goal is to promote industry specific libraries and tools, and gather people with similar interests for discussions.

Mini-symposia on the following topics will take place this year:

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Medical imaging
  • Meteorology, climatology, and atmospheric and oceanic science

Tutorials

Multiple interactive half-day tutorials will be taught by community experts. The tutorials provide conceptual and practical coverage of tools that have broad interest at both an introductory or advanced level. This year, a third track will be added, which target specifically programmers with no prior knowledge of scientific python.

Developer Sprints

A hackathon environment is setup for attendees to work on the core SciPy packages or their own personal projects. The conference is an opportunity for developers that are usually physically separated to come together and engage in highly productive sessions. It is also an occasion for new community members to introduce themselves and recieve tips from community experts. This year, some of the sprints will be scheduled and announced ahead of the conference.

Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Sessions

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are self-organized discussions that run parallel to the main conference. The BOFs sessions cover primary, tangential, or unrelated topics in an interactive, discussion setting. This year, some of the BOF sessions will be scheduled and announced ahead of the conference.

Important Dates

  • March 20th: Presentation abstracts, poster, tutorial submission deadline. Application for sponsorship deadline.
  • April 15th: Speakers selected
  • April 22nd: Sponsorship acceptance deadline
  • May 1st: Speaker schedule announced
  • May 6th: Early-bird registration ends
  • June 24th-29th: 2 days of tutorials, 2 days of conference, 2 days of sprints

We look forward to a very exciting conference and hope to see you all at the conference.

The SciPy2013 organization team:

  • Andy Terrel, Co-chair
  • Jonathan Rocher, Co-chair
  • Katy Huff, Program Committee co-chair
  • Matt McCormick, Program Committee co-chair
  • Dharhas Pothina, Tutorial co-chair
  • Francesc Alted, Tutorial co-chair
  • Corran Webster, Sprint co-chair
  • Peter Wang, Sprint co-chair
  • Matthew Turk, BoF co-chair
  • Jarrod Millman, Proceeding co-chair
  • Stéfan van der Walt, Proceeding co-chair
  • Anthony Scopatz, Communications co-chair
  • Majken Tranby, Communications co-chair
  • Jeff Daily, Financial Aid co-chair
  • John Wiggins, Financial Aid co-chair
  • Leah Jones, Operations chair
  • Brett Murphy, Sponsor chair
  • Bill Cowan, Financial chair

[1] http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/

]]> 2013-02-21T14:48:32+01:00 2013-02-21T14:48:32+01:00 Matthew McCormick Type: Conference Type: Course Type: Symposium Type: Workshop Topic: General neuroinformatics Topic: Computational neuroscience Topic: Neuroimaging SSTiC 2013 http://incf.org/community/events/sstic-2013 Tarragona, Spain; Start: 2013/07/22 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/07/26 00:00:00 GMT+2; AIM:   SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers. ... AIM:

 

SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers.

 

SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science by means of more than 70 six-hour courses dealing with hot topics at the frontiers of the field. By actively participating, lecturers and attendees will share the idea of scientific excellence as the main motto of their research work.

 

ADDRESSED TO:

 

Graduate students from around the world. There are no pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, in the description of some of them reference may be made to specific knowledge background.

 

SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

 

Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful to listen and discuss with people who are main references of the diverse branches of computing nowadays.

 

REGIME:

 

At least 8 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

 

FEES:

 

They are the same (a flat rate) for all people by the corresponding deadline. They give the right to attend all courses.

 

ACCOMMODATION:

 

Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School.

 

CERTIFICATE:

 

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.


IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013

Six registration deadlines: February 26, March 26, April 26, May 26, June 26, July 26, 2013


COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

 

Divyakant Agrawal (Santa Barbara) [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Shun-ichi Amari (Riken) [introductory] Information Geometry and Its Applications

James Anderson (Chapel Hill) [intermediate] Scheduling and Synchronization in Real-Time Multicore Systems

Pierre Baldi (Irvine) [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal) [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning of Representations

Stephen Brewster (Glasgow) [advanced] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction

Bruno Buchberger (Linz) [introductory] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method for Multivariate Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications

Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) [intermediate] Cloud Computing

Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich) [intermediate] Cryptography for Privacy

John M. Carroll (Penn State) [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke) [intermediate] Trust Logic as an Enabler for Secure Federated Systems

Larry S. Davis (College Park) [intermediate] Video Analysis of Human Activities

Paul De Bra (Eindhoven) [intermediate] Adaptive Systems

Marco Dorigo (Brussels) [introductory] An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics

Max J. Egenhofer (Maine) [introductory/intermediate] Qualitative Spatial Relations: Formalizations and Inferences

Matthias Felleisen (Northeastern) [introductory] Programming with Contracts

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation

David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon) [advanced] Software Architecture: Past, Present and Future

Mario Gerla (Los Angeles) [intermediate] Vehicle Cloud Computing

Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnesota) [advanced] Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Data Analytics and Networking

Ralph Grishman (New York) [intermediate] Information Extraction from Natural Language

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

Francisco Herrera (Granada) [intermediate] Imbalanced Classification: Current Approaches and Open Problems

Paul Hudak (Yale) [introductory] Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using Haskell

Syed Ali Jafar (Irvine) [intermediate] Interference Alignment

Niraj K. Jha (Princeton) [intermediate] FinFET Circuit Design

George Karypis (Minnesota) [introductory] Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern) [intermediate/advanced] Sparsity-based Advances in Image Processing

Arie E. Kaufman (Stony Brook) [advanced] Advances in Visualization

Carl Kesselman (Southern California) [intermediate] Biomedical Informatics and Big Data

Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) [intermediate] An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols

Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montréal) [intermediate] Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Simulation: Theory and Practice

Laks Lakshmanan (British Columbia) [intermediate/advanced] Information and Influence Spread in Social Networks

Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) [introductory] DNS-based Monitoring of Malware Activities

Maurizio Lenzerini (Roma La Sapienza) [intermediate] Ontology-based Data Integration

Ming C. Lin (Chapel Hill) [introductory/intermediate] Physically-based Modeling and Simulation

Jane W.S. Liu (Academia Sinica) [intermediate] Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Nanyang Tech) [introductory] Modelling and Animating Virtual Humans

Satoru Miyano (Tokyo) [intermediate] How to Hack Cancer Systems with Computational Methods

Aloysius K. Mok (Austin) [introductory/advanced] From Real-time Systems to Cyber-physical Systems

Daniel Mossé (Pittsburgh) [intermediate] Asymmetric Multicore Management

Hermann Ney (Aachen) [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Modelling for Natural Language Processing - with Applications to Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation

David M. Nicol (Urbana) [intermediate] Cyber-security and Privacy in the Power Grid

Jeff Offutt (George Mason) [intermediate] Cutting Edge Research in Engineering of Web Applications

David Padua (Urbana) [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming

Bijan Parsia (Manchester) [introductory] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and Technical Foundations

Massoud Pedram (Southern California) [intermediate] Energy Efficient Architectures and Information Processing Systems

Jian Pei (Simon Fraser) [intermediate/advanced] Mining Uncertain and Probabilistic Data

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei) [intermediate/advanced] Beyond 4G

Prabhakar Raghavan (Google) [introductory/intermediate] Web Search and Advertising

Sudhakar M. Reddy (Iowa) [introductory] Design for Test and Test of Digital VLSI Circuits

Gustavo Rossi (La Plata) [intermediate] Topics in Model Driven Web Engineering

Kaushik Roy (Purdue) [introductory/intermediate] Low-energy Computing

Yousef Saad (Minnesota) [intermediate] Projection Methods and Their Applications

Robert Sargent (Syracuse) [introductory] Validating Models

Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt) [intermediate] Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent and Networked Software

Bart Selman (Cornell) [intermediate] Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and Logical Inference Methods

Mubarak Shah (Central Florida) [advanced] Visual Crowd Surveillance

Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv) [introductory] Revealing Structure in Disease Regulation and Networks

Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv) [introductory/intermediate] Geometric Arrangements and Incidences: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Algebra

Satinder Singh (Ann Arbor) [introductory/advanced] Reinforcement Learning: On Machines Learning to Act from Experience

Elliot Soloway (Ann Arbor) [introductory] Primary & Secondary Educational Computing in the Age of Mobilism

Dawn Xiaodong Song (Berkeley) [advanced] Selected Topics in Computer Security

Daniel Thalmann (Nanyang Tech) [intermediate] Simulation of Individuals, Groups and Crowds and Their Interaction with the User

Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton) [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web

Julita Vassileva (Saskatchewan) [intermediate] Engaging Users in Social Computing Systems

Yao Wang (Polytechnic New York) [introductory/advanced] Video Compression: Fundamentals and Recent Development

Gio Wiederhold (Stanford) [introductory] Software Economics: How Do the Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the Global Market Place

Ian H. Witten (Waikato) [introductory] Data Mining Using Weka

Limsoon Wong (National Singapore) [introductory/intermediate] The Use of Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis

Michael Wooldridge (Oxford) [introductory] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Philip S. Yu (Illinois Chicago) [advanced] Mining Big Data

Yuanyuan Zhou (San Diego) [intermediate] Building Robust Software

Justin Zobel (Melbourne) [introductory/intermediate] Writing and Research Skills for Computer

]]> 2013-01-28T08:10:00+01:00 2013-05-20T08:00:52+02:00 Beatriz Martin Villalba Type: Course Topic: General neuroinformatics Topic: Computational neuroscience Topic: Digital atlasing Topic: Neuroimaging Topic: Genomics and genetics Topic: Large scale modeling Topic: Neuromorphic engineering Topic: Brain machine interface Topic: Electrophysiology Topic: Infrastructural and portal services Topic: Clinical neuroscience NSAS 2013 http://incf.org/community/events/nsas-2013-2 52044 Cortona, Italy; Start: 2013/07/20 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/07/28 00:00:00 GMT+2; Coordinators: Susumu Tonegawa Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA   Alcino J. Silva University of California Los Angeles, USA   Other Faculties: Nicolas Bazan, LSU Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, New Orle... Coordinators: Susumu Tonegawa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA

 

Alcino J. Silva

University of California Los Angeles, USA

 

Other Faculties:

Nicolas Bazan, LSU Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA

Yadin Dudai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Howard Eichenbaum, Boston University, USA

Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, USA

Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh, UK

]]> 2013-01-14T13:07:51+01:00 2013-01-14T13:07:51+01:00 Beatriz Martin Villalba Type: Course Topic: General neuroinformatics Topic: Brain machine interface Topic: Clinical neuroscience SLSP 2013 http://incf.org/community/events/slsp-2013 Tarragona, Spain; Start: 2013/07/29 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/07/31 00:00:00 GMT+2; AIMS:  . SLSP is the first event in a series to host and promote research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions f... AIMS:

 .

SLSP is the first event in a series to host and promote research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences including papers in any of these fields, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between areas and people will hopefully happen. SLSP will reserve significant space for young scholars at the beginning of their careers.

 

VENUE:

 

SLSP 2013 will take place in Tarragona, 100 km. to the south of Barcelona.

 

SCOPE:

 

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

 

- phonology, morphology

- syntax, semantics

- discourse, dialogue, pragmatics

- statistical models for natural language processing

- supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech

- statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods

- similarity

- alignment

- language resources

- part-of-speech tagging

- parsing

- semantic role labelling

- natural language generation

- anaphora and coreference resolution

- speech recognition

- speaker identification/verification

- speech transcription

- text-to-speech synthesis

- machine translation

- translation technology

- text summarisation

- information retrieval

- text categorisation

- information extraction

- term extraction

- spelling correction

- text and web mining

- opinion mining and sentiment analysis

- spoken dialogue systems

- author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

 

STRUCTURE:

 

SLSP 2013 will consist of:

 

‐ invited talks

‐ invited tutorials

‐ peer-reviewed contributions

 

INVITED SPEAKERS:

 

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal), tutorial Learning Deep Representations

Christof Monz (Amsterdam), Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access

Tanja Schultz (Karlsruhe Tech), Multilingual Speech Processing with a special emphasis on Rapid Language Adaptation

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

 

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

 

Jerome Bellegarda (Apple Inc., Cupertino)

Robert C. Berwick (MIT)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble)

Bill Byrne (Cambridge)

Jen-Tzung Chien (National Chiao Tung U, Hsinchu)

Kenneth Church (IBM Research)

Koby Crammer (Technion)

Renato De Mori (McGill & Avignon)

Thierry Dutoit (U Mons)

Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)

Katherine Forbes-Riley (Pittsburgh)

Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Tech)

Yuqing Gao (IBM Thomas J. Watson)

Ralp Grishman (New York U)

Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research, Mountain View)

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton)

Dietrich Klakow (Saarbrücken)

Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh)

Mikko Kurimo (Aalto)

Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)

Philippe Langlais (Montréal)

Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Qun Liu (Dublin City)

Daniel Marcu (SDL)

Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (INAOEP, Puebla)

Masaaki Nagata (NTT, Kyoto)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Doha)

Miles Osborne (Edinburgh)

Manny Rayner (Geneva)

Giuseppe Riccardi (U Trento)

José A. Rodríguez Fonollosa (Technical U Catalonia, Barcelona)

Paolo Rosso (Technical U Valencia)

Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)

Tomek Strzalkowski (Albany)

Gökhan Tür (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha)

Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)

Min Zhang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Yunxin Zhao (U Missouri, Columbia)

 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

 

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

 

SLSP 2013

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

 

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

University of Wolverhampton

 

]]> 2013-01-07T09:50:00+01:00 2013-03-15T08:27:20+01:00 Beatriz Martin Villalba Type: Conference Topic: General neuroinformatics Topic: Clinical neuroscience XI European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease http://incf.org/community/events/xi-european-meeting-on-glial-cells-in-health-and-disease Berlin, Germany; Start: 2013/07/03 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/07/06 00:00:00 GMT+2; The XI European Meeting on Glial Cell Function in Health and Disease invites participation from glia researchers from all over the world to Berlin. The Glial Meeting series has a long tradition. In 1994, glial researchers gathered for the first t... The XI European Meeting on Glial Cell Function in Health and Disease invites participation from glia researchers from all over the world to Berlin.

The Glial Meeting series has a long tradition. In 1994, glial researchers gathered for the first time at their “own” meeting at the University of Heidelberg. The interest was overwhelming with more than 600 participants. The Glial Meeting series was born. Meetings in Archachon (1996), Athens (1998), Barcelona (2000), Rome (2002), Berlin (2003), Amsterdam (2005), London (2007), Paris (2009) and finally Prague (2011) followed. Now, in 2013, ten years after the Berlin Meeting in 2003, the conference returns to Berlin. The participants will meet the large community of Berlin scientists with an interest in glial cells.

Scientific Organizer:

Prof. Dr. Helmut Kettenmann
Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10
13125 Berlin, Germany
Email: kettenmann@mdc-berlin.de

Scientific Secretariat:

VI European Glial Meeting
Meino Alexandra Gibson
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10
D-13092 Berlin, Germany
EMail: gibson@mdc-berlin.de
 
Meeting Secretariat:

Stéphane Talboom
K.I.T. Group GmbH (http://www.kit.de/)
Director of Operations and Sales
Kurfürstendamm 71
10709 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 24603 301
Fax: +49 30 24603 310
eMail: stalboom@kit-group.org

]]> 2012-08-16T10:54:25+02:00 2012-08-16T10:54:25+02:00 Beatriz Martin Villalba Type: Conference Topic: Neuroimaging Topic: Clinical neuroscience CNS 2013 http://incf.org/community/events/cns2013 Paris, France; Start: 2013/07/13 00:00:00 GMT+2, End: 2013/07/18 00:00:00 GMT+2; ... 2011-12-13T10:15:00+01:00 2011-12-13T10:13:11+01:00 Pontus Holm Type: Conference Topic: Computational neuroscience Topic: Large scale modeling