Organization

The school is organized by Drs Gunnar Blohm and Konrad Körding, the Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet), the Queen's University Centre for Neuroscience Studies and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (USA). It receives funding from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) via an NSERC-CREATE training grant on the Computational Approaches to Sensorimotor Transformations for the Control of Actions, from MITACS through CAMBAM, from NeuroDevNet and from NSF through the CRCNS data and model sharing grant on Collaborative Database for Reaching Experiments (CaDRE).



The organizing committee of this summer school is composed of sensory-motor experts from the Northwestern University Chicago, University of Western Ontario, York University, McGill University, University of Montreal and Queen's University and Washington University (St. Louis). Our goal is to provide hands-on training in computational techniques relevant to sensory processing and the control of movement. We have designed this summer school to be unique in its kind with a stong emphasis on the link between theory, experiments and the clinics. Through this summer school, we will also promote model and data sharing. This multi-disciplinary approach reflects our research philosophy and corresponds to the ideal training environment from which we would like our own students and postdocs to benefit.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Centre for Neuroscience Studies for administrative support, the Northwestern University for providing the lecture halls, affordable housing and computer laboratories and the Neural Control of Movement society for helping with the advertisement.

Please join NCM for the 2012 Meeting in Venice, Italy!

Contact

Yolanda A. Bender, MA (administrative support)
Associate Research Administrator
Research Administration Services
Northwestern University
300 East Superior Street, Tarry 7-766
Chicago, Illinois 60611
y-bender@northwestern.edu
Phone: 312-503-6575

Dr Gunnar Blohm (organizer)
Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience
Centre for Neuroscience Studies
Departments of Physiology and Mathematics & Statistics and School of Computing
Queen's University
Botterell Hall, Rm 229
18, Stuart Street
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca
Phone: +1-613-533-3385
Fax: +1-613-533-6840

Dr Konrad Körding (co-organizer)
Associate Professor in Computational Neuroscience
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
345 East Superior, Room 1483
Chicago, Illinois, 60611
Department: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Northwestern University
kk@northwestern.edu
Phone: +1-312-238-6966
Fax: +1-312-238-7605