Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Spring 2006 Principal Investigators' Meeting

INVITED SPEAKERS

	Kathie Olsen Deputy Director National Science Foundation
"Neuroscience at the Frontiers" I have long been interested in computational approaches to the understanding of brain and behavior. In this talk, I will discuss what I see as some of the exciting advances in this field, and the types of collaborations and innovations that we need to make progress at the frontiers.

Andrew Barto University of Massachusetts

"The reward-prediction- error theory of dopamine neuron activity: A case study of computational thinking" The reward-prediction-error theory of the dopamine neuron activity is the result of a mostly accidental correspondence between neural data and a computational theory that was developed earlier. My hope is that by examining aspects of this accident, we can gain some insight into how it might be possible to encourage other ways for purely computational thinking to make an impact on neuroscience.

Dane Skow Argonne National Laboratory

"The TeraGrid: Advancing Scientific Discovery With High-Performance Cyberinfrastructure" TeraGrid is the NSF Office of CyberInfrastructure project providing a coherent Grid framework for high performance computational resources to be used by US researchers and their collaborators. Currently over 100 TeraFlops of computational power and 30 PetaBytes of data storage is integrated along with other specialized resources. This talk will provide an overview of the facility and examples of successful use cases.