From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 01 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!DIHT.COM.SG!luy50 From: luy50@DIHT.COM.SG (frezxery) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Reach your internet clients - before competition Date: 2 Nov 1998 07:09:01 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 32 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <19981102346XAA22469@frebrequaz.ghyis2.cdpc.org.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ___________________________________________________________ DIRECT EMAIL SERVICES - targeted & general prospects ! ___________________________________________________________ WEB SITE Submission - to the top search engines & hundreds ___________________________________________________________ Daily Lists - get FRESH NEW lists daily - great supplement ___________________________________________________________ FREE SOFTWARE DEMOS - prospect harvesters and mailers ! ___________________________________________________________ EMAIL LIST - MILLIONS: cleaned.....complete w/ software ___________________________________________________________ OPPORTUNITY $$ - software, books & internet services ___________________________________________________________ BOOKS & TAPES - Hundreds of selections - Dealers wanted ! ********************************************************* MORE INFO (24 hrs): 702-284-5074 Dist. Ref #: 254804GB This is a one time message - thank you ! ********************************************************* From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 01 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!EMAIL.PSU.EDU!nvf1 From: nvf1@EMAIL.PSU.EDU (Nina Fedoroff) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: NAS Symposium on Plants and Population Date: 2 Nov 1998 15:16:09 -0800 Organization: Penn State University Lines: 150 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <363DF602.15F1@email.psu.edu> Reply-To: nvf1@psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleague, We invite you to attend a colloquium entitled "Plants and Population: is there time?" sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6 of 1998 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The Colloquium coincides with the 200th anniversary of Malthus’ famous essay "On Population." For registration information, please refer to our website: www2.nas.edu/nas/2a96.html. We (co-organizers Nina Fedoroff, plant geneticist and molecular biologist, and Joel Cohen, population biologist) are bringing together an outstanding group of individuals ranging from biochemists and molecular biologists to ecologists, population biologists, and economists to discuss the steps that need to be taken now and in the immediate future to maintain and increase world food productivity while simultaneously decreasing the deleterious effects of human activity, including agriculture, on ecosystems. Please feel free to contact either of us (Fedoroff: tel. 814-863-5717, nvf1@psu.edu or Cohen: tel. 212-327-8883, cohen@rockvax.rockefeller.edu) for further information. The conference will have speakers and panelists engaged in active discussion. The meeting is small and there will be time for all participants to engage and challenge both speakers and panelists in efforts to evolve new approaches appropriate to the short timescale of the problems under discussion. Attendance at the colloquium is limited to 250 registered participants. Registration of $175 covers the meeting, breakfast, lunch and breaks and transportation to and from the Hyatt Regency Irvine. Graduate students may apply for assistance (see registration form for details.) Please forward this program to other interested individuals. PROGRAM NAS Colloquium "Plants and Population: is there time?" Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences, Irvine December 5-6, 1998 Session I: Demographic and economic projections of food demand and supply. Saturday, Dec 5, 1998 9:30 - 12:30 Session Chair: Joel Cohen, The Rockefeller University "World food & agriculture: the outlook for the medium & longer term." Nikos Alexandratos, UNFAO "The growth of demand will limit output growth for food over the next quarter century." D. Gale Johnson, Univ. of Chicago "Global and local implications of biotechnology and climate change for future food supplies." Robert Evenson, Yale University "World food trends and prospects to 2020." Tim Dyson, London School of Economics Panelists: Dennis Ahlburg, University of Minnesota; Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University; Bernard Gilland, Espergaerde, Denmark; Vaclav Smil, University of Manitoba Session II: Limits on agriculture: land, water, energy and biological resources. Saturday, Dec 5, 1998 2:00 - 5:00 Chair: Michael Clegg, UC, Riverside "Plant genetic resources: what can they contribute towards increased crop productivity?" David Hoisington, Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo, Int. "Ecological approaches and the development of 'truly' integrated pest management." Matthew Thomas, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College "Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: the challenge of increasing crop yield potential and precision agriculture." Kenneth Cassman, University of Nebraska "The transition to agricultural sustainability." Vernon Ruttan, University of Minnesota Panelists: Gretchen Daily, Stanford University; William Murdoch, University of California, Santa Barbara; Billie Lee Turner, Clark University; Catherine Woteki, US Dept. of Agriculture After Dinner Speaker: Ismail Serageldin, World Bank, "Plants and Population: is there time?" Session III: Plant and other biotechnologies. Sunday, Dec 6, 1998 9:00 - 12:00 Chair: Nina Fedoroff, The Pennsylvania State University "Biotechnology: enhancing human nutrition in developing and developed worlds." Ganesh Kishore, Monsanto "Use of plant roots for environmental remediation and biochemical manufacturing." Ilya Raskin, Rutgers University "The post-industrialized agricultural biotechnology era: what's rate limiting?" John Ryals, Paradigm Genetics, Inc. "Transgenic plants for the tropics: some strategies to develop them and reach the farmer." Luis Herrera-Estrella, Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, Irapuato, Mexico Panelists: Donald Roberts, Boyce Thompson Institute; Ron Sederoff, North Carolina State University; Roger Beachey; The Scripps Research Institute; Dennis Avery, Hudson Institute; Richard Meagher, University of Georgia; Brian Staskawicz, University of California, Berkeley. Session IV: Biodiversity and multiple land use demands. Sunday, Dec 6, 1998 1:30 - 4:30 Chair: Dr. Harold Mooney, Stanford University "From prehispanic to future conservation alternatives: lessons from Mexico." Arturo Gomez-Pompa, University of California, Riverside "Gardenification of tropical conserved wildlands: multitasking, multicropping and multiple users." Daniel Janzen, University of Pennsylvania "Plant biodiversity, land use, and the sustainability of essential ecosystem services." David Tilman, University of Minnesota "Food supply expansion and the sustainable global management of carbon and nitrogen: interacting challenges." Robert Socolow, Princeton University Panelists: Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University; Wes Jackson, The Land Institute; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Walter Reid, World Resources Institute. Concluding open discussion: 4:30-5:30 p.m. *****Poster Session***** In response to participant inquiries, we have added a poster session to the colloquium. A 4' x 4' display space will be available for those interested, but the display space is limited and we encourage you to notify us immediately if you are interested in displaying a poster. Pins will be available for mounting posters. If you are interested in displaying a poster, please contact sej1@psu.edu to reserve a space. 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Please contact me via email: hbking@fig.cox.miami.edu Cheers Harald Beck-King From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 09 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cas-cns From: cas-cns@CNS.BU.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 9 Nov 1998 20:57:50 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 650 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199811092000.PAA10937@cns.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ******************************************************************* Sender: cas-cns@cns.bu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: cas-cns@cns.bu.edu GRADUATE TRAINING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS) AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY ******************************************************************* The Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems offers comprehensive graduate training in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of technological problems. Applications for Fall, 1999, admission and financial aid are now being accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs. To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of application materials, write, telephone, or fax: DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 617/353-9481 (phone) 617/353-7755 (fax) or send via e-mail your full name and mailing address to the attention of Mr. Robin Amos at: inquiries@cns.bu.edu Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by the Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Late applications will be considered until May 1; after that date applications will be considered only as special cases. Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in the candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may be waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD candidates, but absence of these scores will decrease an applicant's chances for admission and financial aid. Non-degree students may also enroll in CNS courses on a part-time basis. Stephen Grossberg, Chairman Gail A. Carpenter, Director of Graduate Studies Description of the CNS Department: The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. Students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning cognitive and neural systems, including vision and image processing; speech and language understanding; adaptive pattern recognition; cognitive information processing; self-organization; associative learning and long-term memory; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement, motivation, and attention; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; and biological rhythms; as well as the mathematical and computational methods needed to support modeling research and applications. The CNS Department awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees. The CNS Department embodies a number of unique features. It has developed a curriculum that consists of interdisciplinary graduate courses, each of which integrates the psychological, neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information needed to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind and brain processes and the applications of neural networks to technology. Additional advanced courses, including research seminars, are also offered. Each course is typically taught once a week in the afternoon or evening to make the program available to qualified students, including working professionals, throughout the Boston area. Students develop a coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes courses in areas such as biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS curriculum. The CNS Department prepares students for thesis research with scientists in one of several Boston University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most closely linked to the department is the Center for Adaptive Systems. Students interested in neural network hardware work with researchers in CNS, at the College of Engineering, and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Other research resources include distinguished research groups in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology at the Medical School and the Charles River Campus; in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and neuromuscular research within the College of Engineering; in dynamical systems within the Mathematics Department; in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science Department; and in biophysics and computational physics within the Physics Department. In addition to its basic research and training program, the department conducts a seminar series, as well as conferences and symposia, which bring together distinguished scientists from both experimental and theoretical disciplines. The department is housed in its own new four-story building which includes ample space for faculty and student offices and laboratories, as well as an auditorium, classroom and seminar rooms, a library, and a faculty-student lounge. Below are listed departmental faculty, courses and labs. FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS AND CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS Thomas Anastasio Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (9/1/98 - 6/30/99) Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign PhD, McGill University Computational modeling of neurophysiological systems. Jelle Atema Professor of Biology Director, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) PhD, University of Michigan Sensory physiology and behavior. Aijaz Baloch Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Development Engineer, Nestor, Inc. PhD, Electrical Engineering, Boston University Visual motion perception, computational vision, adaptive control, and financial fraud detection. Helen Barbas Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston Univ. School of Medicine PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the neocortex. Jacob Beck Research Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Psychology, Cornell University Visual perception, psychophysics, computational models. Daniel H. Bullock Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, and Psychology PhD, Experimental Psychology, Stanford University Sensory-motor performance and learning, voluntary control of action, serial order and timing, cognitive development. Gail A. Carpenter Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Learning and memory, synaptic processes, pattern recognition, remote sensing, medical database analysis, machine learning, differential equations. Gert Cauwenberghs Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (6/1/98 - 8/31/99) Associate Professor of Electrical And Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ. PhD, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology VLSI circuits, systems and algorithms for parallel analog signal processing and adaptive neural computation. Laird Cermak Director, Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Medicine Professor of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College PhD, Ohio State University Memory disorders. Michael A. Cohen Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Computer Science PhD, Psychology, Harvard University Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural modeling, dynamical systems. H. Steven Colburn Professor of Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Audition, binaural interaction, signal processing models of hearing. Birgitta Dresp Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (10/1/98 - 12/31/98) Research Agent of the French Government (CNRS), Universite Louis Pasteur PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Universite Rene Descartes, Paris Visual Psychophysics (Form Perception, Spatial Contrast, Perceptual Learning). Howard Eichenbaum Professor of Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Michigan Neurophysiological studies of how the hippocampal system mediates declarative memory. William D. Eldred III Professor of Biology PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center Visual neuralbiology. Gil Engel Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Chief Engineer, Vision Applications, Inc. Senior Design Engineer, Analog Devices, CTS Division MS, Polytechnic University, New York Space-variant active vision systems for use in human-computer interactive control. Bruce Fischl Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Anisotropic diffusion and nonlinear image filtering, space-variant vision, computational models of early visual processing, and automated analysis of magnetic resonance images. Paolo Gaudiano Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Computational and neural models of robotics, vision, adaptive sensory-motor control, and behavioral neurobiology. Jean Berko Gleason Professor of Psychology PhD, Harvard University Psycholinguistics. Sucharita Gopal Associate Professor of Geography PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara Neural networks, computational modeling of behavior, geographical information systems, fuzzy sets, and spatial cognition. Stephen Grossberg Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Director, Center for Adaptive Systems PhD, Mathematics, Rockefeller University Theoretical biology, theoretical psychology, dynamical systems, and applied mathematics. Frank Guenther Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University MSE, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Speech production, speech perception, and biological sensory-motor control. Catherine L. Harris Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD, Cognitive Science and Psychology, University of California at San Diego Visual word recognition, psycholinguistics, cognitive semantics, second language acquisition, computational models of cognition. Michael E. Hasselmo Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Electrophysiological studies of neuromodulatory effects in cortical structures, network biophysical simulations of memory function in hippocampus and piriform cortex, behavioral studies of amnestic drugs. Thomas G. Kincaid Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Signal and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive testing. Mark Kon Professor of Mathematics PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Functional analysis, mathematical physics, partial differential equations. Nancy Kopell Professor of Mathematics PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Dynamical systems, mathematical physiology, pattern formation in biological/physical systems. Gregory Lesher Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Jacqueline A. Liederman Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Rochester Dynamics of interhemispheric cooperation; prenatal correlates of neuro- developmental disorders. Ennio Mingolla Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Connecticut Visual perception, mathematical modeling of visual processes. Joseph Perkell Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Research Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Motor control of speech production. Alan Peters Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine PhD, Zoology, Bristol University, United Kingdom Organization of neurons in the cerebral cortex; effects of aging on the primate brain; fine structure of the nervous system. Andrzej Przybyszewski Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School PhD, Warsaw Medical Academy Electrophysiology of the primate visual system, mathematical and computer modeling of the neuronal networks in the visual system. Adam Reeves Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University PhD, Psychology, City University of New York Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision. Mark Reinitz Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD, University of Washington Cognitive psychology, attention, explicit and implicit memory, memory-perception interactions. Mark Rubin Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Physics, University of Chicago Pattern recognition; artificial and biological vision. Elliot Saltzman Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action University of Connecticut, Storrs Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Minnesota Modeling and experimental studies of human sensorimotor control and coordination of the limbs and speech articulators, focusing on issues of timing in skilled activities. Robert Savoy Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science Experimental Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color, form, and motion perception. Teaching about functional MRI and other brain mapping methods. Eric Schwartz Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering; and Anatomy and Neurobiology PhD, High Energy Physics, Columbia University Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural modeling. Robert Sekuler Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center Jesse and Louis Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University PhD, Psychology, Brown University Visual motion, visual adaptation, relation of visual perception, memory, and movement. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Psychoacoustics, audition, auditory localization, binaural hearing, sensori- motor adaptation, mathematical models of human performance. Malvin Teich Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics PhD, Cornell University Quantum optics and imaging, photonics, wavelets and fractal stochastic processes, biological signal processing and information transmission. Lucia Vaina Professor of Biomedical Engineering Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine PhD, Sorbonne (France); Dres Science, National Politechnique Institute, Toulouse (France) Computational visual neuroscience, biological and computational learning, functional and structural neuroimaging. Takeo Watanabe Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Behavioral Sciences, University of Tokyo Perception of objects and motion and effects of attention on perception using psychophysics and brain imaging (f-MRI). Allen Waxman Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory PhD, Astrophysics, University of Chicago Visual system modeling, multisensor fusion, image mining, parallel computing, and advanced visualization. James Williamson Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Development of cortical receptive fields; perceptual grouping; pattern recognition. Jeremy Wolfe Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Dept. Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract Research PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visual attention, preattentive and attentive object representation. Curtis Woodcock Professor of Geography Director, Geographic Applications, Center for Remote Sensing PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara Biophysical remote sensing, particularly of forests and natural vegetation, canopy reflectance models and their inversion, spatial modeling, and change detection; biogeography; spatial analysis; geographic information systems; digital image processing. CNS DEPARTMENT COURSE OFFERINGS CAS CN500 Computational Methods in Cognitive and Neural Systems CAS CN510 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling I CAS CN520 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling II CAS CN530 Neural and Computational Models of Vision CAS CN540 Neural and Computational Models of Adaptive Movement Planning and Control CAS CN550 Neural and Computational Models of Recognition, Memory and Attention CAS CN560 Neural and Computational Models of Speech Perception and Production CAS CN570 Neural and Computational Models of Conditioning, Reinforcement, Motivation and Rhythm CAS CN580 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience GRS CN700 Computational and Mathematical Methods in Neural Modeling GRS CN710 Advanced Topics in Neural Modeling GRS CN720 Neural and Computational Models of Planning and Temporal Structure in Behavior GRS CN730 Models of Visual Perception GRS CN740 Topics in Sensory-Motor Control GRS CN760 Topics in Speech Perception and Recognition GRS CN780 Topics in Computational Neuroscience GRS CN810 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Event Perception GRS CN811 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Perception GRS CN911,912 Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Pattern Recognition GRS CN915,916 Research in Neural Networks for Vision and Image Processing GRS CN921,922 Research in Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing GRS CN925,926 Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning and Control GRS CN931,932 Research in Neural Networks for Conditioning and Reinforcement Learning GRS CN935,936 Research in Neural Networks for Cognitive Information Processing GRS CN941,942 Research in Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Networks GRS CN945,946 Research in Technological Applications of Neural Networks GRS CN951,952 Research in Hardware Implementations of Neural Networks CNS students also take a wide variety of courses in related departments. In addition, students participate in a weekly colloquium series, an informal lecture series, and a student-run Journal Club, and attend lectures and meetings throughout the Boston area; and advanced students work in small research groups. LABORATORY AND COMPUTER FACILITIES The department is funded by grants and contracts from federal agencies that support research in life sciences, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and engineering. Facilities include laboratories for experimental research and computational modeling in visual perception, speech and language processing, and sensory-motor control and robotics. Data analysis and numerical simulations are carried out on a state-of-the-art computer network comprised of Sun workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations, Macintoshes, and PCs. All students have access to X-terminals or UNIX workstation consoles, a selection of color systems and PCs, a network of SGI machines, and standard modeling and mathematical simulation packages such as Mathematica, VisSim, Khoros, and Matlab. The department maintains a core collection of books and journals, and has access both to the Boston University libraries and to the many other collections of the Boston Library Consortium. In addition, several specialized facilities and software are available for use. These include: Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Laboratory The Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Lab is comprised of an electronics workshop, including a surface-mount workstation, PCD fabrication tools, and an Alterra EPLD design system; a light machine shop; an active vision lab including actuators and video hardware; and systems for computer aided neuroanatomy and application of computer graphics and image processing to brain sections and MRI images. Neurobotics Laboratory The Neurobotics Lab utilizes wheeled mobile robots to study potential applications of neural networks in several areas, including adaptive dynamics and kinematics, obstacle avoidance, path planning and navigation, visual object recognition, and conditioning and motivation. The lab currently has three Pioneer robots equipped with sonar and visual sensors; one B-14 robot with a moveable camera, sonars, infrared, and bump sensors; and two Khepera miniature robots with infrared proximity detectors. Other platforms may be investigated in the future. Psychoacoustics Laboratory The Psychoacoustics Lab houses a newly installed, 8 ft. x 8 ft. sound-proof booth. The laboratory is extensively equipped to perform both traditional psychoacoustic experiments and experiments using interactive auditory virtual-reality stimuli. The major equipment dedicated to the psychoacoustics laboratory includes two Pentium-based personal computers; two Power-PC-based Macintosh computers; a 50-MHz array processor capable of generating auditory stimuli in real time; programmable attenuators; analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters; a real-time head tracking system; a special-purpose, signal-processing hardware system capable of generating "spatialized" stereo auditory signals in real time; a two-channel oscilloscope; a two-channel spectrum analyzer; various cables, headphones, and other miscellaneous electronics equipment; and software for signal generation, experimental control, data analysis, and word processing. Sensory-Motor Control Laboratory The Sensory-Motor Control Lab supports experimental studies of motor kinematics. An infrared WatSmart system allows measurement of large-scale movements, and a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet allows studies of handwriting and other fine-scale movements. Equipment includes a 40-inch monitor that allows computer display of animations generated by an SGI workstation or a Pentium Pro (Windows NT) workstation. A second major component is a helmet-mounted, video-based, eye-head tracking system (ISCAN Corp, 1997). The latter's camera samples eye position at 240Hz and also allows reconstruction of what subjects are attending to as they freely scan a scene under normal lighting. Thus the system affords a wide range of visuo-motor studies. Speech and Language Laboratory The Speech and Language Lab includes facilities for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog software conversion. Ariel equipment allows reliable synthesis and playback of speech waveforms. An Entropic signal processing package provides facilities for detailed analysis, filtering, spectral construction, and formant tracking of the speech waveform. Various large databases, such as TIMIT and TIdigits, are available for testing algorithms of speech recognition. For high speed processing, supercomputer facilities speed filtering and data analysis. Visual Psychophysics Laboratory The Visual Psychophysics Lab occupies an 800-square-foot suite, including three dedicated rooms for data collection, and houses a variety of computer controlled display platforms, including Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Onyx RE2, SGI Indigo2 High Impact, SGI Indigo2 Extreme, Power Computing (Macintosh compatible) PowerTower Pro 225, and Macintosh 7100/66 workstations. Ancillary resources for visual psychophysics include a computer-controlled video camera, stereo viewing glasses, prisms, a photometer, and a variety of display-generation, data-collection, and data-analysis software. Affiliated Laboratories Affiliated CAS/CNS faculty have additional laboratories ranging from visual and auditory psychophysics and neurophysiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology to engineering and chip design. These facilities are used in the context of faculty/student collaborations. ******************************************************************* DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS GRADUATE TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617/353-9481 Fax: 617/353-7755 Email: inquiries@cns.bu.edu Web: http://cns-web.bu.edu/ ******************************************************************* --- This was an announcement from the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University. If you would like to be removed from this mailing list and discontinue receiving these announcements, you may send an e-mail to "majordomo@cns.bu.edu" with the following line in the body of the message: unsubscribe announcements If you have any trouble in doing so, please do not hesitate to report problems to "owner-majordomo@cns.bu.edu". Thank you. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Nov 10 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Nov 1998 02:00:18 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199811111000.CAA06143@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. 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For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Nov 12 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.stanford.edu!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!netnews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!news.uow.edu.au!news.usyd.edu.au!unsw.edu.au!not-for-mail From: Russell Standish Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Complex '98 Conference Date: 13 Nov 1998 01:55:28 GMT Organization: University of New South Wales Lines: 28 Message-ID: <72g3ig$g10$2@mirv.unsw.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971224 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.5 (sun4c)) COMPLEX SYSTEMS '98 Call for Registration Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics November 30th-December 3rd 1998 University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Last circular and reminder: Please refer to the Complex Systems '98 Web site http://parallel.acsu.unsw.edu.au/complex/c98 for more details. Registration, Accomodation Details and a preliminary programme are now available on the above Web site. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, University of NSW Phone 9385 6967 Sydney 2052 Fax 9385 7123 Australia R.Standish@unsw.edu.au Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Nov 12 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Nick Goldman Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: One-day meeting, Cambridge UK, 18 Dec 1998 Date: 13 Nov 1998 09:12:06 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 123 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <72hp96$emk@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 20 Clarkson Road Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K. A Newton Institute One-day meeting BIOINFORMATICS, MATHEMATICS AND THE GENOME PROJECT: FUTURE CHALLENGES Friday 18 December 1998 2.00pm - 6.00pm Organisers: Prof. Peter Donnelly (Head of Department, Statistics, University of Oxford), Prof. Walter Fitch (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine) and Dr Nick Goldman (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) A one-day meeting has been arranged to coincide with the conclusion of the Newton Institute programme on Biomolecular Function and Evolution in the Context of the Genome Project (July - December 1998). This extended research programme has comprised a unique inter-disciplinary collaboration between mathematics and topics in molecular evolution, structure and function. The closing meeting on Friday 18 December 1998 will consist of four speakers giving their views on the future of the molecular biological sciences and the role that mathematics has to play in that future. Programme: 2.00 - 3.00 Prof. Sir Tom Blundell FRS (Head of Department, Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) ``Projections and Extrapolations in Protein Space'' 3.00 - 3.30 Dr Arthur Lesk (Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge) ``The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Molecular Biology'' 3.30 - 4.00 Tea 4.00 - 5.00 Prof. Sydney Brenner FRS (President and Director of Science, Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, USA) ``The True History of the Human Genome'' 5.00 - 6.00 Prof. Peter Donnelly (Head of Department, Statistics, University of Oxford) ``Evolution and the Genome Project'' 6.00 - 7.00 Wine Reception Attendance at the meeting is by ticket only as space is limited. To reserve your ticket, please contact Tracey Andrew at the address below, or via e-mail to t.andrew@newton.cam.ac.uk Lunch will be available (at a cost of UKP6 per person, payable on the day) at 12.45pm at Wolfson Court (1 min. walk from the Newton Institute). If you would like this lunch, please indicate this when you make your ticket request. Closing Date for the receipt of requests is 30 November This information on the WWW: http://ng-dec1.gen.cam.ac.uk/newton/future.html Programme information on the WWW: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/bfg.html Newton Institute information on the WWW: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk ************************************************************************ ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 20 Clarkson Road Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K. [Please complete] I should like to attend the Newton Institute one-day meeting - Bioinformatics, Mathematics and the Genome Project: Future Challenges on 18 December 1998. ************************************************************************ Last Name: Initials: Title: Sex: M / F Forename: [Please put the forename by which you are usually known in block capitals] Date of Birth: Nationality: [Required for statistical purposes only] Usual Country of Residence: ************************************************************************ Office Phone: Message Phone: email Address: Fax Number: Address of Home Institution: ************************************************************************ I will / will not require lunch at Wolfson Court (cost UKP6/person, payable on the day) ************************************************************************ Signature: Date: From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 13 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!ZSB.WLOC.IDS.PL!honesty From: honesty@ZSB.WLOC.IDS.PL (dorota zychlinska) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 14 Nov 1998 02:30:54 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19981114112358.0079ace0@zsb.wloc.ids.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 13 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!news-fra.maz.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!colt.net!Pollux.Teleglobe.net!server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!not-for-mail From: "alturedipolazzo" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: AGRITURISMO IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIUGLIA Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:26:36 +0100 Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness Lines: 8 Message-ID: <72jto7$lsg$9@fe1.cs.interbusiness.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.223.236.19 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 We are the Agrituristic farm PARCO RURALE "ALTURE DI POLAZZO" if you want make a good holiday in the green with the caws, the sheeps and the hourses you can look the website http://www.code.it/alturedipolazzo or can write on e-mail alturedipolazzo@code.it From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 15 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!B-MANGA.CETCOL.NET.CO!fvilla From: fvilla@B-MANGA.CETCOL.NET.CO ("Federico Villalobos") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Rostro humano Date: 16 Nov 1998 05:48:28 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 58 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <01be1167$fe7f1e80$370719c8@fvilla> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BE113E.15A91680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Estimados Lectores: Para realizar un estudio antropogenetico del rostro humano que = consideraciones debo tener presentes, en lo referente a la toma de = fotografias, para realizar mi estudio? 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------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BE113E.15A91680-- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 20 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!btnet-peer!btnet!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!colt.net!Pollux.Teleglobe.net!server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!not-for-mail From: "alturedipolazzo" Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: AGRITURISMO IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIUGLIA Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:01:17 +0100 Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness Lines: 11 Message-ID: <736vvb$k4u$22@fe2.cs.interbusiness.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.223.236.24 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 We are the Agrituristic farm PARCO RURALE "ALTURE DI POLAZZO" if you want make a good holiday in the green in an biologic-farm with wild and domestic animols, caws, sheeps, horses and bees, you can look the web page : http://www.code.it/alturedipolazzo or you can book in the our Agricamping writing on e-mail : alturedipolazzo@code.it yours faitfully From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 22 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Nick Goldman Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: one-day meeting, Cambridge UK, 18 Dec 1998 Date: 23 Nov 1998 08:29:59 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 131 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <73c2i7$ivq@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net A Newton Institute One-day meeting BIOINFORMATICS, MATHEMATICS AND THE GENOME PROJECT: FUTURE CHALLENGES Friday 18 December 1998 2.00pm - 6.00pm Organisers: Prof. Peter Donnelly (Head of Department, Statistics, University of Oxford), Prof. Walter Fitch (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine) and Dr Nick Goldman (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) A one-day meeting has been arranged to coincide with the conclusion of the Newton Institute programme on Biomolecular Function and Evolution in the Context of the Genome Project (July - December 1998). This extended research programme has comprised a unique inter-disciplinary collaboration between mathematics and topics in molecular evolution, structure and function. The closing meeting on Friday 18 December 1998 will consist of four speakers giving their views on the future of the molecular biological sciences and the role that mathematics has to play in that future. Programme: 2.00 - 3.00 Prof. Sir Tom Blundell FRS (Head of Department, Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) ``Projections and Extrapolations in Protein Space'' 3.00 - 3.30 Dr Arthur Lesk (Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge) ``The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Molecular Biology'' 3.30 - 4.00 Tea 4.00 - 5.00 Prof. Sydney Brenner FRS (President and Director of Science, Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, USA) ``The True History of the Human Genome'' 5.00 - 6.00 Prof. Peter Donnelly (Head of Department, Statistics, University of Oxford) ``Evolution and the Genome Project'' 6.00 - 7.00 Wine Reception Attendance at the meeting is by ticket only as space is limited. To reserve your ticket, please contact Tracey Andrew at the address below, or via e-mail to t.andrew@newton.cam.ac.uk Lunch will be available (at a cost of UKP6 per person, payable on the day) at 12.45pm at Wolfson Court (1 min. walk from the Newton Institute). If you would like this lunch, please indicate this when you make your ticket request. Closing Date for the receipt of requests is 30 November This information on the WWW: http://ng-dec1.gen.cam.ac.uk/newton/future.html Programme information on the WWW: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/bfg.html Newton Institute information on the WWW: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk ************************************************************************ ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 20 Clarkson Road Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K. [Please complete] I should like to attend the Newton Institute one-day meeting - Bioinformatics, Mathematics and the Genome Project: Future Challenges on 18 December 1998. ************************************************************************ Last Name: Initials: Title: Sex: M / F Forename: [Please put the forename by which you are usually known in block capitals] Date of Birth: Nationality: [Required for statistical purposes only] Usual Country of Residence: ************************************************************************ Office Phone: Message Phone: email Address: Fax Number: Address of Home Institution: ************************************************************************ I will / will not require lunch at Wolfson Court (cost UKP6/person, payable on the day) ************************************************************************ Signature: Date: -- Nick Goldman, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, U.K. N.Goldman@gen.cam.ac.uk From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 22 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!FIG.COX.MIAMI.EDU!djohnson From: djohnson@FIG.COX.MIAMI.EDU (Derek Johnson) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: research assistants in Costa Rica Date: 23 Nov 1998 07:41:25 -0800 Organization: University of Miami Lines: 35 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <36598173.D0AE3655@fig.cox.miami.edu> Reply-To: djohnson@fig.cox.miami.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am looking for field assistants for my research on metapopulation dynamics of a chrysomelid beetle in Costa Rica. Here's a rundown. 1) My research will run from January 1999 - January 2001. I'd like at least one month's commitment, preferably two months. 2) The research is at the Organization for Tropical Studies Field Station in Costa Rica. This is a well established field station which attracts many of the top tropical biologists, and top biologists in general. Facilities include a cafeteria, cabins for sleeping, and laboratories which include computers and even e-mail access. The forest is absolutely beautiful. Look up the Organization for Tropical Studies web site for more information. 3) This will entail alot of field work in the rainforest. I will map patches of the host plant, Pleiostachya pruinosa, and then periodically census the patches for the beetles. Also I will do a mark-recapture study on the beetles. Lastly, I will run experiments to estimate rates of colonization and extinction within the patches. 4) I would prefer someone who is interested in entering graduate school in biology in the future, however, will certainly talk to anyone. I'd like to give assistants some time to themselves, and encourage them to take the initiative to conduct their own project on the side. A latin person is preferred, but not a necessity. 5) Finances: You will need to pay your own travel to Costa Rica. I am currently applying for funding to pay for an assistant, so hopefully I will eventually be able to pay station fees. I particularly need someone from Jan. 20-Feb 20, more or less. Station fees are $27/day, including food. Maybe we can work something out financially. Hope to hear from you, Derek M. Johnson University of Miami From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Nov 24 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!B-MANGA.CETCOL.NET.CO!fvilla From: fvilla@B-MANGA.CETCOL.NET.CO ("Federico Villalobos") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: human face Date: 24 Nov 1998 20:42:47 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 70 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <01be182d$feb62f20$310719c8@fvilla> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01BE1804.15E02720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To the biologist: I have always been fascinated by the living world around me. I am especially interested in population genetic, particularity in human = face. My research is project need to have always parameters to take pictures, = but i need your opinion about that, becose i make a face to my population in my country; in other words, who i can say to this = person is the my country. I look forward to your reply Sincerely, FEDERICO VILLALOBOS(BIOLOGIA-GENETICA) Escuela de Biologia Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga-Santander-COLOMBIA E-mail: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01BE1804.15E02720 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
To the = biologist:
 
I have always been fascinated by the = living world=20 around me.
I am especially interested in = population genetic,=20 particularity in human face. 
My research is project need to have = always=20 parameters to take pictures, but i need your opinion about that, becose = i make a=20 face 
to my population in my country; in = other words, who=20 i can say to this person is the my country. 
I look forward to your = reply 
Sincerely, 
 
FEDERICO=20 VILLALOBOS(BIOLOGIA-GENETICA)
Escuela de Biologia
Universidad = Industrial=20 de Santander
Bucaramanga-Santander-COLOMBIA
E-mail: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co=
 
------=_NextPart_000_0021_01BE1804.15E02720-- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 27 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!B-MANGA.CETCOL.NET.CO!fvilla From: fvilla@B-MANGA.CETCOL.NET.CO ("Federico Villalobos") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: RV: Genetic_club BEAGLE Date: 27 Nov 1998 18:24:16 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 110 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <01be1a76$29acb4c0$3d0719c8@fvilla> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01BE1A4C.40D6ACC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FEDERICO VILLALOBOS(BIOLOGIA-GENETICA) Escuela de Biologia Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga-Santander-COLOMBIA E-mail: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co -----Original Message----- De: Federico Villalobos Para: bionet@net.bio.net Fecha: Thursday, November 26, 1998 7:31 AM Asunto: Genetic_club BEAGLE Dear : =20 The Genetic Club BEAGLE in Universidad Industrial de Santander, = Colombia is much interested in research about genetic, population = genetic, molecular biology and your contribution and membership is very = important to us. We have five laboratory (Molecular biology, Genetic laboratory, = Herbarium, Develomental biology and zoology laboratory).=20 You can write to genetic_club@hotmail.com =20 Thank you for considering my e-mail; i look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, =20 FEDERICO VILLALOBOS(BIOLOGIA-GENETICA) Escuela de Biologia Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga-Santander-COLOMBIA E-mail: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01BE1A4C.40D6ACC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
FEDERICO=20 VILLALOBOS(BIOLOGIA-GENETICA)
Escuela de Biologia
Universidad = Industrial=20 de Santander
Bucaramanga-Santander-COLOMBIA
E-mail: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co=
 
-----Original = Message-----
De:=20 Federico Villalobos <fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co= >
Para:=20 bionet@net.bio.net <bionet@net.bio.net>
Fecha= :=20 Thursday, November 26, 1998 7:31 AM
Asunto: Genetic_club=20 BEAGLE

Dear  = :
 
The Genetic Club BEAGLE  in = Universidad=20 Industrial de Santander, Colombia  is much interested in research = about=20 genetic, population genetic, molecular biology and your contribution and = membership is very important to us.
We have five laboratory (Molecular = biology, Genetic=20 laboratory, Herbarium, Develomental biology and zoology=20 laboratory). 
You can write to genetic_club@hotmail.com
 
Thank you for = considering my e-mail;=20 i look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
 
 
FEDERICO=20 VILLALOBOS(BIOLOGIA-GENETICA)
Escuela de Biologia
Universidad = Industrial=20 de Santander
Bucaramanga-Santander-COLOMBIA
E-mail: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co=
 
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Carlos Grüntechnik S.L gruntech@mx3.redestb.es From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 30 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cas-cns From: cas-cns@CNS.BU.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: (none) Date: 30 Nov 1998 16:29:38 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 272 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199811302039.PAA26137@cns.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ***** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ***** and ***** FINAL INVITED PROGRAM ***** Sender: cas-cns@cns.bu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: cas-cns@cns.bu.edu Contributed abstracts must be received by January 29, 1999 for the THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Tutorials: May 26, 1999 Meeting: May 27-29, 1999 Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/ Sponsored by Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems with financial support from DARPA and ONR How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? The conference will include invited tutorials and lectures, and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Abstract submissions encourage submissions of the latest results. Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of meeting handouts and social events. SEE BELOW FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND THE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM. SEE THE WEB SITE FOR HOTEL AND OTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS TUTORIALS Wednesday, May 26, 1999: Stephen Grossberg, Development, learning, attention, and grouping by the laminar circuits of visual cortex Daniel Schacter, True memories, false memories: A cognitive neuroscience perspective Gail Carpenter, Adaptive resonance theory and practice Tomaso Poggio, Supervised learning: Regularization and support vector machines Each tutorial is 90 minutes long. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Thursday, May 27 and Saturday, May 29, 1999: Rodney Brooks, Learning through social interaction: Robot implementations Shinsuke Shimojo, Visual surface filling-in assessed by psychophysics and TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) INVITED SPEAKERS Thursday, May 27, 1999: Joseph LeDoux, Learning about danger: Systems and synapses Joaquin Fuster, The frontal lobe in temporal aspects of cognition John Lisman, The role of theta-gamma oscillations in memory processes Michael Hasselmo, Neuromodulation and cortical memory function: Physiology and computational modeling Dario Floreano, Evolutionary cybernetics: Exploring the foundations of adaptive intelligence in biomimetic robots Paolo Gaudiano, Visually guided navigation with autonomous mobile robots Friday, May 28, 1999: Shihab Shamma, Encoding of timbre in the auditory system Nobuo Suga, Adjustment and improvement of auditory signal processing by the corticofugal feedback system Stephen Grossberg, Neural models of auditory and speech perception Steven Greenberg, From sound to meaning: A syllable-centric perspective on spoken language Larry Gillick, The state of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition Andreas Andreou, Neuromorphic VLSI microsystems for speech and vision processing Saturday, May 29, 1999: Charles Gilbert, Adult cortical dynamics David van Essen, Mapping and modeling of cortical structure and function Randolph Blake, What can be perceived in the absence of visual awareness? Steven Zucker, Complexity, confusion and computational vision Ennio Mingolla, Cortical computation for attentive visual navigation: Heading, time-to-contact, and pursuit movements Richard Shiffrin, A model for implicit and explicit memory There will be contributed oral and poster sessions on each day of the conference. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * spatial mapping and navigation * object recognition * neural circuit models * image understanding * neural system models * audition * mathematics of neural systems * speech and language * robotics * unsupervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * supervised learning * neuromorphic VLSI * reinforcement and emotion * industrial applications * sensory-motor control * other * cognition, planning, and attention Contributed Abstracts must be received, in English, by January 29, 1999. Notification of acceptance will be given by February 28, 1999. A meeting registration fee of $45 for regular attendees and $30 for students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted abstracts will be returned on request only until April 15, 1999. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. 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REGISTRATION FORM Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 26, 1999 Meeting: May 27-29, 1999 FAX: (617) 353-7755 http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/ (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: _____________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: __________________________________________ Phone and Fax: _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. 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