Program

We are very pleased to announce the preliminary program below. Lectures will be organized in  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
Aug 1-4	Gunnar Blohm Konrad Körding Paul Schrater	Introduction (1) Overview of sensory-motor computations (2) Bayesian approaches (3) Linear systems (4) Optimality and data analyses
Aug 5-6	Dagmar Sternad Francisco Valero-Cuevas	Modelling movement disorders
Aug 8	Adam Johnson	The Bayesian Brain
Aug 9	Scott Grafton Jörn Diedrichsen	Computational neuroimaging
Aug 10-11	Reza Shadmehr John Krakauer Alaa Ahmed	Motor control & learning
Aug 12-13	n/a	2-week project wrap-up
Aug 1 (evening)	Konrad Körding	Grant writing 101
Aug 2 (evening)	Gunnar Blohm Konrad Körding Paul Schrater	How-to-model tutorial
Aug 3 (evening)	Konrad Körding	Paper writing 101

All CoSMo lecture material will be 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 31) and closing reception (evening of Aug 13), a weekend outing (Aug 7), 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.