Neural Engineering Conference; Cancun, Mexico; September 17-21, 2003

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH

Investigators

Abstract

0333131 Durand Support is provided for the Neural Systems and Engineering track of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology annual meeting and conference in Cancun, Mexico, September 17-21, 2003. Neural Engineering is a relatively new field at the interface between neuroscience and engineering. It encompasses neural sensing, coding, neural prostheses, neural modeling, neurotechnology, and neural networks. A goal of the conference is to give junior professors an opportunity to participate in the organization of a technical meeting early in their careers. By bringing new blood in the organizational process it is expected that the conference will benefit in the short run and the junior faculty will benefit in the long run. A second goal is to promote excellence in the field of neural Engineering. This will be accomplished by providing travel support for students, junior faculty, and post-doctoral researchers, and by having an outstanding key-note note speaker. The third goal is to promote close interaction between engineers and scientists. Neuroscientists do not normally attend engineering meetings and yet work on similar problems. Limited travel support is to be provided for such scientists to attend the conference. Neural Engineering is a new field with a great potential for new scientific discoveries and depends for its future on the careers of bright scientists and engineers. The conference will contribute to the development of excellence in the research associated with this emerging field.