INNS – SIGCOM: Financial subcommittee

The INNS – SIGCOM Financial subcommittee is set up to manage the financial aspects of activities of the Special Interest Groups Committee (SIGCOM), including the financial support provided for events related to the SIGCOM.

Members of the committee: Soo-Young Lee (KAIST, Korea), Peter Andras (University of Newcastle, UK)

Call For INNS SIG Support Applications

The International Neural Network Society (INNS) Special Interest Groups Committee (SIGCOM) has limited funds to promote and support topical and regional SIG activities. Such activities may include, but are not limited to: invitation of leading experts to workshops, symposia or conferences; travel fellowships for postdocs and PhD students; support for meetings aimed to develop joint research projects.

Applications should be sent to an INNS SIGCOM Financial Sub-Committee member (Soo-Young Lee at sylee@kaist.ac.kr; Peter Andras at peter.andras@ncl.ac.uk).

Each application should include: (1) a brief description of the event, (2) the requested amount (at most $1000 per application), (3) justification of the amount, (4) a budget detailing how the support will be used, (5) and indication how the event will facilitate INNS SIG activity. For more information on INNS SIG, please visit our web page at: cnd.memphis.edu/sig/.

Receipt of applications will be acknowledged. Applications are evaluated as they arrive. Decisions will be communicated to applicants within 4 months after the receipt of the application has been acknowledged.

Decision making procedure (please see linked document)

Applications received (until July 12, 2006)

Conference on Goal-Directed Neural Systems, Dallas-Fort Worth Area. Applicant: Daniel S Levine.

NSF Workshop on Random Graph Methods for Modeling Mesoscopic Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems, August 28-Sept 4, 2006, Budapest, Hungary http://cnd.memphis.edu/~nsfworkshop06/. Applicant: Robert Kozma.

Mark Gerstein invited to IJCNN 06 special session on Neural Network application to Bioinformatics. Applicant: Roberto Tagliaferi.

Scott Kelso and Emanuelle Tognoli invited to IJCNN 06 special session on intentional dynamics. Applicant: Robert Kozma.

Steve Bressler invited to IJCNN 06 special session on Mental Function and Dysfunction and Neurodynamics. Applicant: Robert Kozma.

ISABEL 2006 International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning - Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware for Brain-like Intelligent Functions - August 24-25, 2006, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, http://cnsl.kaist.ac.kr/ISABEL2006/down/CFPs_ISABEL2006.pdf . Applicant: Soo-Young Lee.