Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function - Spring 2013 in Arlington, VA

研讨会：“大脑结构和功能的物理和数学原理”将于2013年5月5日至5月7日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。了解人类大脑是如何工作的已经成为未来十年国际研究的主要焦点，奥巴马总统在2013年2月的国情咨文中确定了这一点，并在2013年4月2日宣布的奥巴马总统的大脑倡议中进一步发展。本次研讨会将汇集100多位科学家，讨论如何在理解大脑方面取得重大进展，这是21世纪的一个重要智力挑战。这次会议的主要神经科学家、数学家、物理学家、材料科学家等将确定未来几十年可以集中精力应对的具体智力挑战。具有不同实验方法和模型系统专业知识的神经科学家小组将确定重要的长期目标，这些目标将改变他们各自的领域并推动整个神经科学的进步。此外，神经科学中的许多重要问题无法用现有的工具来解决。将神经科学家和技术专家聚集在一起，将促进讨论，推动我们走向变革性的新科学见解。通过整合现有技术和设计新方法，系统神经科学的进步将提供一个智力基础。该研讨会还将包括许多年轻科学家以及该领域的知名领导人。该项目由数学和物理科学理事会物理部的生命系统物理学项目和生物科学理事会的综合有机体系统部门共同支持。

The Workshop: "Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function" will take place between May 5 and May 7, 2013 in Arlington, VA. Understanding how the human brain works has emerged as a major international focus of research in the coming decade, identified as such in President Obama's State of the Union Address in February 2013 and further developed in President Obama's BRAIN initiative announced on April 2, 2013. This workshop will bring together more than one hundred scientists to discuss how to enable major progress in understanding the brain, an important intellectual challenge of the 21st century. This conference of leading neuroscientists, mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists etc. will identify the specific intellectual challenges that can be met in the coming decades with focused effort. Panels of neuroscientists with expertise in different experimental approaches and model systems will identify important long-term goals that would transform their respective fields and drive progress across neuroscience. In addition, many important questions in neuroscience cannot be pursued with current tools. Bringing together neuroscientists and technologists will catalyze discussions that spur us towards transformative new scientific insights. Advances in systems neuroscience made by integrating existing technologies and devising new methods will provide an intellectual foundation. The workshop will also include many young scientists along with the established leaders in the field.This project is being jointly supported by the Physics of Living Systems program in the Division of Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and by the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.