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Neuron Digest Volume 13 Number 02
Neuron Digest Tuesday, 25 Jan 1994 Volume 13 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
Neurosci-interested PC programmer wanted
3 year studentship
Pre & Postdocs in neural processes in cognition in Pittsburgh
limited term faculty jobs at Toronto
AAAI-94 Special Notice
Course Announcement: Neurobiology
Course Announcement: Computation Neuroscience
Course Annoucement: Neural Systems and Behavior
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Subject: Neurosci-interested PC programmer wanted
From: samtech@netcom.com (SAM Technology)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 01:38:00 +0000
TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR PROGRAMMERS INTERESTED IN THE BRAIN!!
Fast paced SF neurotechnology co. needs fast and smart PC Programmers to
help create an integrated swr system for biomedical imaging and signal
analysis. 5 yrs min commercial PC swr design and development req'd. 2
yrs min expr. req'd with MS-Windows API: VXDs, OLE, DLLs, MS-FCL. Exper
w/ swr specification, Q/A, signal processing apps., 3-D graphics, data
acq. systems, video games, C++, and dbase programming also needed. Send
resume to: SAM Technology, 51 Federal St., SF, CA 94107, email:
jane@eeg.com, FAX 415-546-7122.
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From: austin@minster.york.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 13:14:33
Subject: 3 year studentship
Please post ...
3 Year Ph.D. studentship in Neural Networks.
In the department of Computer Science, University of York, UK in
collaboration with British Aerospace plc.
Applicants are invited for a Ph.D. studentship in the appli-
cation of neural networks to sensor management systems for
future generations of aircraft. The studentship is fully
funded for 3 years by British Aerospace and attracts the
normal CASE Ph.D. stipend. The work is aimed at research
into the use of neural networks for controlling the posi-
tioning of sensors and other data gathering systems in sys-
tems that supply pilots with information about there sur-
roundings. The post will involve the student working both at
York and at British Aerospace in Farnborough. Applicants
with a good degree in a numerate discipline, and an interest
in neural networks or artificial intelligence are invited to
apply to the address below for an application form (email
address maggie@minster.york.ac.uk). The post is available
immediately. The closing date for applications is Monday,
7th Febuary 1994.
Informal enquires can be made to Dr. Jim Austin at the
address below (or via email on austin@minster.york.ac.uk).
Mrs. Maggie Burton,
Department of Computer Science
University of York
York
Y01 5DD
UK.
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Subject: Pre & Postdocs in neural processes in cognition in Pittsburgh
From: SCHNEIDER@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 09:15:00 -0500
Pre- and Postdoctoral Training in Neural Processes in Cognition
at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
The Pittsburgh Neural Processes in Cognition program, now in its fourth
year, is providing interdisciplinary training in brain sciences. The
National Science Foundation has established an innovative program for
students investigating the neurobiology of cognition. The program's
focus is the interpretation of cognitive functions in terms of
neuroanatomical and neurophysiological data and computer simulations.
Such functions include perceiving, attending, learning, planning, and
remembering in humans and in animals. This is an interdisciplinary
program that prepares each student to perform original research
investigating cortical function at multiple levels of analysis. State of
the art facilities include: computerized microscopy, human and animal
electrophysiological instrumentation, behavioral assessment laboratories,
fMRI and PET brain scanners, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and a
regional medical center providing access to human clinical populations.
This is a joint program between the University of Pittsburgh, its School
of Medicine, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Each student receives full financial support, travel allowances and
workstation support.
Applications are encouraged from students with interest in biology,
psychology, engineering, physics, mathematics, or computer science. Last
year's class included mathematicians, psychologists, and neuroscience
researchers.
Pittsburgh is one of America's most exciting and affordable cities,
offering outstanding symphony, theater, professional sports, and outdoor
recreation in the surrounding Allegheny mountains. More than ten
thousand graduate students attend its universities.
Core Faculty and interests and affiliation
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Psychology- James McClelland, Marlene Behrmann, Jonathan Cohen,
Mark Johnson
Computer Science - David Touretzky
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Behavioral Neuroscience - German Barrinonuevo, Susan Sesack
Biology - Teresa Chay
Information Science - Paul Munro
Mathematics - Bard Ermentrout, Xiao-Jing Wang
Neurobiology - John Horn, Al Humphrey, Peter Land, Charles Scudder,
Dan Simons
Neurological Surgery - Don Krieger, Robert Sclabassi
Neurology - Steven Small, Robert Stowe
Otolaryngology & physiology - Robert Schor
Psychiatry - David Lewis, Lisa Morrow, Stuart Steinhauer
Psychology - Walter Schneider, Velma Dobson, Michael Pogue-Geile
Physiology - Dan Simons
Radiology - Mark Mintun
Applications:
To apply to the program contact the program office or one of the
affiliated departments. Students are admitted jointly to a home
department and the Neural Processes in Cognition Program. Postdoctoral
applicants MUST HAVE HAVE A SPONSOR AMONG THE TRAINING FACULTY. Most of
our funds are limited to United States residents although there may be an
option to consider some non-residents. To receive full consideration
applications SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY FEBRUARY 15. For information
contact:
Professor Walter Schneider
Program Director
Neural Processes in Cognition
University of Pittsburgh
3939 O'Hara St
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Or: call 412-624-7064 or Email to
NEUROCOG@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU
In Email requests for application materials, please provide your address
and an indication of which department(s) you might be interested in. We
can Email the research interests of the faculty.
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Subject: limited term faculty jobs at Toronto
From: Geoffrey Hinton <hinton@cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:36:50 -0500
LIMITED TERM FACULTY POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT TORONTO
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto has two
or three limited term faculty positions available. Appointments will be
for 2 or 3 years and will not be renewed as these are NOT tenure-track
jobs. The teaching load is approximately 4 hours of lectures per week
for both semesters. Applications are invited from all areas of Computer
Science. The needs of the Department would be well fitted by an applicant
who can teach numerical analysis and does research on neural networks,
especially learning algorithms, time series prediction, or image
interpretation.
The neural networks group in the department currently consists of Geoff
Hinton, Peter Dayan, Mike Revow, Drew van Camp and eight graduate students
(Tony Plate, Radford Neal, Chris Williams, Evan Steeg, Sid Fels, Ed Rasmussen,
Brendan Frey and Sageeve Oore). We have close ties with other researchers in
computer vision, statistics, and psychology. We have our own Silicon Graphics
multiprocessor containing four R4400 chips.
Applicants from the area of neural networks should send their
applications to
Geoffrey Hinton
Computer Science Department
University of Toronto
6 Kings College Road
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4
CANADA
Please include a CV, the names and addresses of 3 references, an outline
of your research interests and a description of your background in
numerical analysis and your teaching experience. Applications should be
received by Feb 10, 1994.
In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement
is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada, but
if there is no suitable Canadian applicant it may be possible to appoint
another applicant. In accordance with its Employment Equity Policy, the
University of Toronto encourages applications from qualified women or
men, members of visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with
disabilities.
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Subject: AAAI-94 Special Notice
From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@aaai.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 07:17:27 -0800
Due to the earthquake in Los Angeles, and the severe winter weather in
the North-Eastern U.S. and Canada, the deadline for the receipt of AAAI
papers is being extended to Friday, January 28, 1994, for those authors
that are severely impacted by these events. In order to minimize
disruption of the self-selection and review process, however, the title
pages, including paper title, authors, addresses, content areas, and
abstract, must still arrive at the AAAI office by Monday, January 24th.
These should be sent electronically, to abstract@aaai.org, in the format
specified in the call for papers. This extension applies only to those
individuals whose ability to complete their papers on time was severely
impacted by these events, and authors are requested and expected to be
honest in their use of it. If an electronic title page is submitted, but
a decision is later made not to submit the paper, please send a message
to abstract@aaai.org informing us of this fact as soon as possible.
Please forward this message to anyone you know who may have been impacted
by the storms or earthquake. Thank you very much.
Barbara Hayes-Roth (bhr@ksl.stanford.edu) and Richard Korf (korf@cs.ucla.edu)
Program Co-Chairs, AAAI-94
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Subject: Course Announcement: Neurobiology
From: dremsen@mbl.edu (David Remsen)
Organization: Marine Biological Laboratory
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 14:24:33 +0000
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA 02543
(508) 548-3705
contact: Dori Chrysler <dchrysle@mbl.edu>
For other course descriptions at the MBL:
gopher: crane.mbl.edu or...
WWW: http://alopias.mbl.edu/Default.html
- ------------------------- Neural Systems & Behavior
Neurobiology
June 12 - August 13, 1994
For pre- and postdoctoral students who intend to work in cellular and
molecular neurobiology. Postdoctorals and students at an advanced stage of
their graduate training are particularly encouraged to apply. Course
consists of lectures and laboratories in which all students participate.
Limited to 12 students.
The themes will be the functions of neural cells, the molecules involved in
these functions, and the organization of molecular components required to
generate cellular activity. These themes will be presented from different
perspectives in the three sections of the course:
(1) Neurophysiology will be concerned with impulse conduction, synaptic
transmission and the ion channels which participate in these phenomena. In
the laboratory, channel activity in whole cells, in isolated membrane
patches, and in artificial lipid membranes will be measured. Preparations
will include molluscan giant neurons, cultured cells, brain slices, and
Xenopus oocytes.
(2) Molecular neurobiology will be concerned with neurotransmitters,
intracellular second messengers, membrane receptors, and both ligand-gated
and voltage-dependent ion channel proteins. Methods of protein chemistry,
including affinity chromatography, labeling and peptide mapping, will be
discussed and used in the laboratory. Molecular topics and techniques will
include cloning, heterologous expression, and site-directed mutagenesis.
(3) Structural and developmental neurobiology will be concerned with
neuronal migration, neurite outgrowth, and the onset of excitability, as
well as the static and dynamic morphological features of neural cells
relevant to such functions as synaptic transmission and axonal transport.
Laboratory projects will use cell culture approaches to problems of
development, electron microscopy combined with rapid freezing techniques,
and video-enhanced light microscopy to follow structural changes in living
cells.
This course is supported in part by grants from the National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Grass Foundation.
Directors: Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Yale University; and Irwin Levitan,
Brandeis University.
Faculty: Gary Banker, University of Virginia; Judy Drazba, NINDS; Keith
Elmslie, Tulane University; Richard Horn, Jefferson Medical College;
Reinhard Jahn, Yale University; Stephen Jones, Case Western Reserve
University; Bechara Kachar, NIDCD; Julie Kauer, Duke University; Richard
Kramer, University of Miami; Diane Lipscombe, Brown University; John
Marshall, Yale University; Christopher Miller, Brandeis University; Sally
Moody, George Washington University; Angus Nairn, Rockefeller University;
Marina Picciotto, Pasteur Institute; Thomas Reese, NINDS; Peter Reinhart,
Duke University; Laura Roman, Yale University; Talvinder Sihra, University
of London; Carolyn Smith, NINDS; and others to be named.
Tuition: $3,000
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Subject: Course Announcement: Computation Neuroscience
From: dremsen@mbl.edu (David Remsen)
Organization: Marine Biological Laboratory
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 14:29:41 +0000
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA 02543
(508) 548-3705
contact: Dori Chrysler <dchrysle@mbl.edu>
For other course descriptions at the MBL:
gopher: crane.mbl.edu or...
WWW: http://alopias.mbl.edu/Default.html
- ----------------------- Methods in Computational Neuroscience
Methods in Computational Neuroscience
July 31- August 27, 1994; Application Deadline: April 15
This is an intensive, four-week lecture/laboratory course that addresses
issues relevant to computational neuroscience: the study of how the
biophysical and biochemical properties of neurons and synapses, together
with the architecture of neural circuits, produce animal behavior. The
course is designed to teach students to formulate questions about
computational aspects of a nervous system, to provide the analytical and
numerical simulation tools necessary to answer those questions, and to
allow students to interact with established investigators in this field.
The daily lectures provide a broad view of computational neuroscience,
while at the same time discussing in detail the interplay between models
and experiments for specific systems. One series of lectures focuses on
the chemical and electrical dynamics of individual neurons and synapses. A
second series addresses the use of exact models of single cells, versus
reduced neuronal models, in the analysis of networks. A third series of
lectures considers development of nervous systems. A final series addresses
the detection, coding, and processing of external stimuli within nervous
systems with an emphasis on cooperative phenomena in cortex. Reviews on
areas of applied mathematics and biophycsics relevant to the above topics
are also presented.
The laboratory section of the course provides students with a unique
opportunity to advance their analytical and numerical simulation skills in
modeling specific aspects of nervous systems through tutorial projects,
together with an individualized modeling project. Each student is supplied
with a UNIX graphic-color workstation and state-of-the-art software
designed for the analysis of both single-cell dynamics and large network
properties. The packages include GENESIS and NEURON as well as DSTOOL and
PHASEPLANE. In addition, the general mathematical analysis package
MATHEMATICA and the interactive graphics package IDL are available.
The course is designed for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows, and faculty members in a variety of disciplines, including
neurobiology, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, and
psychology. Familiarity with neurophysiology, basic mathematics i.e.,
calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, and computer
programming, is highly desirable. Admission is limited to 23 students.
This course is supported in part by a training grant from the National
Institute of Mental Health and by a grant from the Office of Naval
Research.
Directors: David Kleinfeld and David W. Tank, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Faculty: Lawrence Abbott, Brandeis University; Joseph J. Atick, Rockefeller
University; Mark Bear, Brown University; William Bialek, NEC Research
Institute; Ronald Calabrese, Emory University; Rodney James Douglas, MRC;
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh; Scott Fraser, California
Institute of Technology; Apostolos P.Georgopoulous, University of
Minnesota; Charles Gray, University of California, Davis; Michael Hines,
Yale University; Roderick Jensen, Texas A & M University; John J. Hopfield,
California Institute of Technology; Christof Koch, California Institute of
Technology; Nancy Kopell, Boston University; Stephen M. Kosslyn, Harvard
University; John E. Lisman, Brandeis University; Rodolfo R. Llins, New
York University Medical Center; John H. R. Maunsell, Baylor College of
Medicine; David A. McCormick, Yale University; Bruce L. McNaughton,
University of Arizona; John Rinzel, National Institutes of Health; Terrence
J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute; H. Sebastian Seung, AT&T Bell Laboratories;
Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland; Carla Shatz, University of
California, Berkeley; Gordon Shepherd, Yale University; Arthur Sherman,
National Institutes of Health; Karen Sigvardt, University of California,
Davis; Frederick Sigworth, Yale University; Haim Sompolinsky, Hebrew
University; and others to be named.
Tuition: $1550 (includes room & board)
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Subject: Course Annoucement: Neural Systems and Behavior
From: dremsen@mbl.edu (David Remsen)
Organization: Marine Biological Laboratory
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 14:29:55 +0000
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA 02543
(508) 548-3705
contact: Dori Chrysler <dchrysle@mbl.edu>
For other course descriptions at the MBL:
gopher: crane.mbl.edu or...
WWW: http://alopias.mbl.edu/Default.html
- ------------------------- Neural Systems & Behavior
June 12 - August 5, 1994
For graduate and postdoctoral students as well as established
investigators. Limited to 20 students.
The central theme of the course is the neural bases and ontogeny of
behaviors. Students participate in an intensive laboratory/lecture course
that combines state-of-the-art neurobiological techniques with behavioral
and developmental analyses. Lectures open with a consideration of
physiological and anatomical principles of neuronal function followed by a
discussion of how properties of individual neurons come together in simple
neural networks for such behaviors as locomotion, escape, and the
generation of rhythmic patterns of activity. Modulation of neural activity
and neural circuits by transmitter and hormone action and Long Term
Potentiation in the hippocampus as a model for learning are then covered.
The lecture series then moves on to molecular approaches for the study of
neural development and to the use of in vitro models for the study of
synapse formation. Finally, we consider complex behaviors such as animal
orientation and visual perception. Weekly seminars will be given by
distinguished participants in the ÒScholars-in-ResidenceÓ program.
The focus of the course is the laboratory where advanced techniques in
cellular neurobiology are brought to bear on neural systems that govern
behavioral expression and learning, and the experimental analyses of
developmental systems. Methods taught include intracellular recording,
single cell dye-injection, voltage clamp, analysis of synaptic plasticity,
pathway tracing, immunocytochemistry, tissue culture, patch clamp,
computational approaches to sensory perception, and in situ hybridization
and other molecular techniques, and behavioral techniques for assessing
spatial learning in mammals. A variety of terrestrial and aquatic
vertebrate and invertebrate animals serve as experimental systems.
This course is supported in part by a training grant from the National
Institute of Mental Health, and a grant from the Grass Foundation.
Directors: Ronald Calabrese, Emory University; and Martha
Constantine-Paton, Yale University.
Faculty: Alexander Borst, Max Planck Institute, Tbingen; Holly Cline,
University of Iowa; Patsy Dickinson, Bowdoin College; Robert Douglas,
University of British Columbia; Richard Levine, University of Arizona;
Christine Li, Boston University; Eduardo Macagno, Columbia University;
Robert Malinow, University of Iowa; P. Meyrand, CNRS, Arcachon; Michael
Nusbaum, University of Pennsylvania; Mu-Ming Poo, Columbia University;
Martin Shankland, Harvard Medical School; Janis Weeks, University of
Oregon; and Angela Wenning, University of Konstanz.
Scholars-in-Residence to be named.
Tuition: $2,750
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Subject: FREE E-Mag on Intelligent Computing
From: callewis@netcom.com (David Scott Lewis)
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 14:18:20 -0800
[[ Editor's Note: This submission is a bit unusual, but I thought many
readers might appreciate a pointer to other Internet resources. I do not
understand its basis for support, but I leave that subject to more
capable hands. -PM ]]
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