Program

We are very pleased to announce the preliminary program below. Lectures will be organized in  themed modules with two or three interacting lecturers. Morning (9am-12:30pm) and afternoon (1:30-5pm) sessions will be a mixture of lectures and related Matlab simulation laboratories. In addition, there will be professional development lectures and an introduction to data / model sharing. There will also be a 2-week long project where attendants in small groups can readily apply the newly acquired computational tools to a research project (e.g. re-analyze data from the data base, build your own models, etc...). Attendants will work on those projects during the late afternoons and evenings and will make use of the data / model sharing initiative.

Dates	Lecturers	Theme
Jul 30 - Aug 4	Gunnar Blohm Konrad Körding Paul Schrater and special guest: Luigi Acerbi	Introduction (1) Overview of sensory-motor computations (2) Bayesian approaches (3) Linear systems (4) Optimal control theory (5) Optimality and data analyses (6) Data Neuroscience
Aug 5	n/a	day off
Aug 6-7	Reza Shadmehr Alaa Ahmed Frederic Crevecoeur	Motor control & learning
Aug 8-9	Megan Peters Laurence Maloney	The Bayesian Brain
Aug 10-11	n/a	2-week project wrap-up
Other activities
Jul 30 (evening)	Konrad Körding	Paper writing 101
Jul 31 (evening)	Gunnar Blohm Konrad Körding Paul Schrater	How-to-model tutorial
Aug 1 (evening)	Konrad Körding	Grant writing 101
Aug 2 (evening)	Konrad Körding Paul Schrater	Data / model sharing

All CoSMo lecture material is available here.

Social activities

Aside from lectures and laboratory tutorials, there will also be social and professional events. Those will permit the participants to do social networking, discuss potential collaborations, exchange experiences and - most importantly - have informal contact with the lecturers and organizers. These events will include an opening (evening of Jul 29) and closing reception (evening of Aug 11), a weekend outing (Aug 5), as well as daily group breakfasts, lunches and dinners. There will also be organized on-on-one meetings of participants with lecturers of their choice. Details about these activities will be provided in the final program sent to all participants prior to the start of the summer school.