The 2019 Neural Computation and Engineering Connection (NCEC) will be held on the afternoon of Thursday, January 24, 2019 and all day Friday, January 25, 2019. NCEC brings together the University of Washington neuroengineering and computational neuroscience communities in an exciting and stimulating event! It is sponsored by the UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN), the UW Computational Neuroscience Center, and the Center for Neurotechnology.
Keynote speakers for NCEC 2019 are: Mitra Hartmann (Northwestern), Abby Person (University of Colorado Denver), Andrea Behrman (University of Louisville), and Maryam Shanechi (University of Southern California).
Local speakers include: Andre Berndt (UW Bioengineering), Kat Steele (UW Mechanical Engineering), Nick Steinmetz (UW Biological Structure), and Mari Ostendorf (UW Electrical & Computer Engineering). UWIN and Computational Neuroscience graduate and postdoctoral fellows will also be giving talks.
Registration is free but required.
Please register at: https://goo.gl/forms/6ImItt7dvukz2P3n2
Registration closes on Friday, January 11, 2019.
Thursday’s events will be at the Center for Neurotechnology (Russell Hall Suite 204, 1414 NE 42nd St.), starting with a poster session during lunch, followed by student talks, a keynote lecture by Andrea Behrman, and a panel discussion on ethics in neuroscience.
Friday’s events will be all-day at the Husky Union Building (HUB) room 334, including keynote talks by Mitra Hartmann, Abby Person, and Maryam Shanechi, talks by UW faculty Andre Berndt, Kat Steele, Nick Steinmetz, and Mari Ostendorf, and talks by senior UWIN and Swartz postdoctoral fellows. NCEC will end with a late afternoon reception on Friday in HUB 332.