''Computational and Systems Neuroscience'' (COSYNE or CoSyNe) is an annual

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for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in

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. It is an important meeting for

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where many levels of approaches are discussed. It is a single track-meeting with oral and

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s and attracts about 800-900 participants from a variety of disciplines, including neuroscience, computer science and machine learning. Until 2018, the 3-day long main meeting was held in

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, followed by two days of workshops at

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. In 2018, COSYNE moved to Denver (3 days) and Breckenridge (2 days).

History

COSYNE grew out of the Neural Information and Coding (NIC) meetings founded by Anthony Zador in 1996. The first COSYNE was organized in 2004 by Michael Shadlen, Alexandre Pouget, Carlos Brody and Anthony Zador. The current Executive Committee consists of Alexandre Pouget, Zachary Mainen, Stephanie Palmer and Anthony Zador.

Meetings

Related Meetings

Neural Information Processing Systems The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is currently a double-track meet ...

(since 1987) * Annual meeting of th
Organization for Computational Neuroscience
(since 1990/1992) * Conference o
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
(since 2017)
Berstein Conference
(since 2005)

References

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