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NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Neurobiology of Expertise
United States - TN - Tennessee - Knoxville

Hosted by: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
Venue: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Dates: Mar 11, 2015 through Mar 13, 2015

Description
 
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, "Neurobiology of Expertise," to be held March 11-13, 2015, at NIMBioS.

Objectives: Network sciences and complex systems theory provide exemplar mathematical formalisms to approach the analysis of multimodal and highly complicated neuroscience datasets. This investigative workshop aims to synthesize these and other state of the art applications of mathematics in order to systematize and unify multidisciplinary and multiscale work on expert human performance. The workshop will bring together researchers from multiple disciplines in order to better understand the existing mathematical challenges and explore new directions in modeling genomic to behavioral signatures of performance in humans and animal models for perceptual, motor and analytical expertise domains. Workshop goals are to identify challenges and frontiers in mechanistic modeling, prediction, signal processing and machine learning as well as novel neurotechnologies for data acquisition in order to facilitate uncovering the underlying neural mechanisms of expertise. This investigative workshop will bring together top researchers from diverse fields to share insights and methods and address long-standing and emerging conceptual problems.

Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-Organizers: Frederick Gregory (Neurophysiology of Cognition, U.S. Army Research Office) and Virginia Pasour (Biomathematics, U.S. Army Research Office)

For more information about the workshop and a link to the online application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_expertise

Participation in the workshop is by application only. Individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of the application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals, and lodging is available for workshop attendees.

Application deadline: December 15, 2014

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Additional Information
 
Event URL: http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_expertise
ISCB Member Discount: None
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