[Murg] Call for participation in UK neuroinformatics workshop (fwd from david@anc.ed.ac.uk)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: David Willshaw <david at anc.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Apr 2005 10:21:40 +0100
To: comp-neuro at neuroinf.org
Subject: Call for participation in UK neuroinformatics workshop
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              'A Forward Strategy for UK Neuroinformatics'

Under funding provided by the EPSRC, MRC and BBSRC, a UK
Neuroinformatics Network has been established as a UK neuroinformatics
forum (http://www.neuroinformatics.org.uk). Following several planning
meetings, the purpose of this message is to announce the first open
meeting, 'A Forward Strategy for UK Neuroinformatics'. This will be
held in Edinburgh, on June 27th and 28th 2005. The meeting will be
spread over two half days and will be in a workshop format, with
discussion sessions stimulated by talks from invited speakers.

The aim of the workshop will be to 

1. Characterise the flavour of UK neuroinformatics and discuss how it
relates to other newly emerging disciplines, such as systems biology
and cognitive systems.

2. Out of these discussions, establish a set of questions about UK
neuroinformatics that can be investigated by members of the Network,
for which funding will be available. These projects will be reviewed
in subsequent meetings. Examples of such questions might be: To what
aspects of neuroinformatics could the UK community contribute? Would
neuroinformatics benefit through links with industry? What is the best
way of funding neuroinformatics?

3. Explore how UK neuroinformatics can benefit from neuroinformatics
activities on the international stage.

More details of the workshop will be available soon, together with the
list of invited speakers.

The workshop is open to all UK-based people with an interest in
neuroinformatics. If you are interested in attending please will you
contact Fiona Jamieson, Network Coordinator (fiona at anc.ed.ac.uk). It
would be helpful to include a one-page account of your particular
interest in neuroinformatics and what you can bring to the workshop.

More background information about neuroinformatics is given below.



David Willshaw

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Professor David Willshaw
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
5 Forrest Hill
Edinburgh EH1 2QL
Scotland, UK

Tel: (+44) 131 650 4404/5
Fax: (+44) 131 650 4406

Email: david at anc.ed.ac.uk

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                Neuroinformatics - Background Information

Understanding the human nervous system is one of the greatest
challenges for 21st century science. Its abilities dwarf any man-made
system in respect of its powers of perception, decision-making,
cognition and reasoning. Whilst much is known about the elements of
the nervous system, we are still at the very start of understanding
how it functions and responds to disease. Understanding such a complex
system requires the joint efforts of many different types of
scientist, including basic and clinical neuroscientists,
psychologists, cognitive scientists, physicists, mathematicians,
computer scientists and engineers.

The new research discipline of neuroinformatics integrates these
endeavours through the application of computational methods and ideas
in modelling and analysis to understanding the development and
functioning of the nervous system. The UK is strong in many aspects of
neuroinformatics, with several funding schemes supporting work in this
general area.

Over the past years, in many countries there have been discussions
about how neuroinformatics can be taken forward. The importance of
neuroinformatics has been recognised internationally and has been the
subject of much discussion within the Global Science Forum of the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In early
2004, the Foreign Ministers of many Govts agreed to a declaration
(http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html)
providing for

(1) coordination of neuroinformatics at the international level

(2) linking together national neuroinformatics activity as nodes of a
neuroinformatics network

(3) the establishment of an international secretariat

(4) ultimately an international funding scheme for neuroinformatics.



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