Organization

The school is organized by Drs Gunnar Blohm, Paul Schrater and Konrad Körding, the Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet), the Queen's University Centre for Neuroscience Studies (Kingston, ON, Canada), the Psychology Department of University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA) and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (USA). It receives funding from the NIH through an R25 grant within the Brain Initiative and matching funds from the Brain Canada Foundation.



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, Queen's University, University of Minnesota 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 strong 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 University of Minnesota for administrative support and for providing the lecture halls, affordable housing and computer laboratories. In particular, we would like to thank Windy Torgerud for her tremendous help with organizing CoSMo!!!

Contact

Windy Torgerud (administrative support)
University of Minnesota
windy.torgerud@gmail.com

Kelly Moore (CNS manager & administrative support)
Queen's University
Centre for Neuroscience Studies
Botterell Hall, Rm 227
18, Stuart Street
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
kmm@queensu.ca
Phone: +1-613-533-6360
Fax: +1-613-533-6840

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 Paul Schrater
Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Departments of Psychology and Computer Science
N218 Elliott Hall
75 E. River Rd
Minneapolis, MN 55455
schrater@umn.edu
Phone: +1-612-626-8638
Fax: +1-612-626-2079

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