SAND Workshop

2002年，第一次国际会议“神经元数据统计分析（SAND）”汇集了一个 少数实验神经科学家和理论家（统计学家，计算机科学家，物理学家） 和应用数学家），他们对神经数据的定量分析感兴趣。第二 2004年，SAND 2会议召开。两人都在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的卡内基梅隆大学， 匹兹堡大学认知神经基础中心。第三和第四次沙与发展问题研讨会将 在2006年和2008年的春季举行。 讲习班的具体目标是确定神经元数据分析中的重要问题， 攻击它们的有用策略;促进实验神经科学家之间的沟通， 受过统计和计算方法培训的人员;鼓励年轻研究人员，包括研究生 学生，介绍他们的工作;暴露年轻的研究人员在重要的挑战和机遇， 这一跨学科领域，同时提供一个小型会议的气氛，以促进互动， 年轻研究人员与资深同事;包括妇女、代表人数不足的少数群体和 可能受益于小型讲习班环境的残疾人;鼓励传播 通过一组同行评审的文章在研讨会上介绍了调查结果。

In 2002, the first international conference ""Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND)" brought together a small number of experimental neuroscientists, and theoreticians (statisticians, computer scientists, physicists and applied mathematicians) who were interested in quantitative analysis of neural data. The second conference, SAND2, was held in 2004. Both were in Pittsburgh, PA, at the joint Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. The third and fourth SAND workshops will take place during the Spring of 2006 and 2008. The specific objectives of the workshops are to define important problems in neuronal data analysis and useful strategies for attacking them; foster communication between experimental neuroscientists and those trained in statistical and computational methods; encourage young researchers, including graduate students, to present their work; expose young researchers to important challenges and opportunities in this interdisciplinary domain, while providing a small meeting atmosphere to facilitate the interaction of young researchers with senior colleagues; include as participants women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities who might benefit from the small workshop environment; encourage dissemination of the findings presented at the workshop via a set of peer-reviewed articles.