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。了解人类大脑如何工作已成为未来十年的主要国际研究焦点，在奥巴马总统2013年2月的国情咨文中得到确认，并在奥巴马总统2013年4月2日宣布的BRAIN计划中得到进一步发展。这次研讨会将汇集100多名科学家，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具体的智力挑战，可以在未来几十年内集中精力。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，这些目标将改变各自的领域并推动神经科学的进步。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，激励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而取得的系统神经科学的进步将提供知识基础。研讨会还将包括许多年轻科学家沿着在该领域确立的领导者。该项目由数学和物理科学理事会物理司的生命系统物理学计划和生物科学理事会综合有机系统司共同支持。

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.