5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, April 27-May 1, 2011, Cancun, Mexico

1005984AkayNeural engineering是一门将电子与光子技术、计算机科学、物理、化学、数学等多个工程学科与细胞、分子、认知和行为神经科学相结合的新兴学科，旨在了解神经系统生物学的组织原理和潜在机制，研究自然界神经系统的行为动力学和复杂性。为了突出这一新兴学科，第五届国际IEEE EMBS神经工程会议将于2011年4月27日至5月1日在墨西哥坎昆举行。本项目将支持研究生和博士后参加本次会议的旅费。本次会议的目的是强调神经和认知工程的进展，这是一个新兴领域，将分子、细胞、系统、认知和行为神经科学与工程、物理、化学、数学和计算机科学联系起来。神经工程会议进一步刺激神经科学家、化学家、工程师、计算机科学家和数学家之间的神经工程研究和教育。除了主题演讲、全体会议、平台和海报会议之外，会议还将有一个小组，重点讨论在快速发展的跨学科神经工程领域中从事职业的挑战，从被聘为团队的一员到寻找令人兴奋的新研究机会，一直到成为团队负责人，以及在组织团队和选择成员时要寻找什么。将讨论国际研究生学习和研究以及美国国内的职业选择，以及国际研究人员和学生之间的合作。

1005984AkayNeural engineering is an emerging discipline which coalesces multiple engineering disciplines including electronic and photonic technologies, computer science, physics, chemistry, mathematics with cellular, molecular, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience to understand the organizational principles and underlying mechanisms of the biology of neural systems and to study the behavior dynamics and complexity of neural systems in nature. To highlight this emerging discipline, the 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering will be held in Cancun, Mexico from April 27 through May 1, 2011. This project will support the travel of graduate students and postdocs to this meeting.The objective of this conference is to highlight progress in Neural and Cognitive Engineering, an emerging field bridging molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience with engineering, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science. The neural engineering conference further stimulates neural engineering research and education among neuroscientists, chemists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians.In addition to the keynote, plenary, platform and poster sessions at the conference, there will be a panel to focus on the challenges of making a career in the rapidly growing, interdisciplinary fields of neural engineering, from being hired as part of a team and finding exciting new research opportunities, all the way up to becoming a team leader and what to look for when organizing that team and choosing its members. Career options will be discussed for graduate studies and research internationally as well as within the U.S. and for collaboration among researchers and students internationally.