Program

We are very pleased to announce the preliminary program below. Lectures will be organized in 1-day or 2-day themed modules with two or three interacting lecturers. Lectures will take place in the morning (8:30am-12pm) and related Matlab simulation laboratories will take place in the afternoon (1:30-4:30pm). 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
Jun 28 (afternoon)	-	Arrival at De Poort, Groesbeek and Social/Beers @ Malden Glider Airfield
Jun 29-30	Gunnar Blohm Konrad Körding Pieter Medendorp John Van Opstal Paul Schrater	Introduction - overview of sensory-motor control
Jun 29 (evening)	Paul Schrater Gunnar Blohm	How to model - a practical guide
Jul 1	Jörn Dietrichsen Nikolaus Kriegeskorte	Brain coding and decoding
Jul 2	Stefan Glasauer John Van Opstal	Motor learning and control
Jul 3-4	Kathy Cullen Bart Krekelberg	Multisensory processing
Jul 6-7	Sophie Denève Robert van Beers	Computational Methods in Neuroscience
Jul 8	Hans Scherberger Pieter Medendorp	Reach and grasp mechanism
Jul 9-10	-	2-week project wrap-up and presentations
Jul 7 (evening)	Bastiaan Bloem	Keynote lecture - Parkinson's disease
Jul 11 (morning)	-	Departure

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 Jun 28) and closing reception (evening of Jul 10), a weekend outing (Jul 5 - Biking in Veluwe National Park & visit Kröller-Möller Museum of Modern Art), as well as daily group breakfasts, lunches and dinners. There will also be organized one-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.