International Autumn School on Computati

We are pleased to announce that an international school on Computational Neuroscience will be held
from October 12 to 18, in Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
The school lasts for seven days, including lectures, projects, and poster presentations. Lectures will be
given by distinguished leading scientists in the morning sections, and will cover a wide-range of hot
topics in the field. Each student will be assigned to a tutor and a project, depending on research
interest and background. In the afternoon and evening sections, students will have opportunity to carry
out chosen projects, supervised by their tutors. At the end of the school, students are expected to
submit a report of five pages, and to present their results in form of a poster and/or seminar talk to all
participants (poster and discussion sections will be organized).
The level of the courses is designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in related
disciplines. Students are expected to have a solid background in either neuroscience, mathematics, or
in computer science, and to have strong interests in Computational Neuroscience.
A maximum number of 30 participants will be accepted. The course is free, but students need to pay
costs for lodging and meals which can be kept reasonably low in Shanghai. To apply for registration, a
candidate needs to submit a CV, a short description of research interest, and two reference letters
through the electronic mail of the school: snsa@fudan.edu.cn . All applications will be assessed by the
scientific committee, based on the following criteria: 1) the scientific quality of the candidate (CV), 2) the
reference letters, and 3) the evidences showing that the school will benefit the candidate's future career
substantially.
We have a small amount of travelling grant available for students coming from overseas. Applicants
who need this support may specify that in the application.
Application DEADLINE: August 1st, 2008.
Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN, Japan)
Guo-qiang Bi (UST, China; Pittsburgh, USA)
Zhaoping Li (UCL, UK)
John Rinzel (New York, USA) [ partially confirmed at present ]
Hugh Robinson (Cambridge, UK)
Kechen Zhang (John Hopkins, USA)
Andreas Dress (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai)
Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Jianfeng Feng (University of Warwick, UK; Fudan University, China)
Wei Lin (Fudan University, China)
Mu-Ming Poo (Berkeley, USA; Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai)
Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai)
Note: There is also a pre-school, run by Fudan University, in the week before the Autumn school (Oct.7-12).
This pre-school aims at building up basic knowledge of neuroscience and mathematics for those who have
no experience in these fields. The lectures in the pre-school will be given by Jürgen Jost (MPI for
Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, http://ww.mis.mpg.de ), Jianfeng Feng (Univiersity of
Warwick, UK), Si Wu (Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai, China) and an experimental biologist (to be
confirmed). If you are interested in the pre-school, please contact us via snsa@fudan.edu.cn
Announcement & Call for Participation
International Autumn School on Computational Neuroscience
October 12-18, Fudan University, Shanghai, CHINA
Confirmed speakers in the Autumn School
Scientific Committee (责任编辑：泉水)

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