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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>COSYNE grew out of the Neural Information and Coding (NIC) meetings founded by <a href="/facts/Anthony_Zador/njzbqGkc">Anthony Zador</a> in 1996.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The first COSYNE was organized in 2004 by <a href="/facts/Michael_Shadlen/qlExMDGl">Michael Shadlen</a>, <a href="/facts/Alexandre_Pouget/sbxH8S5p">Alexandre Pouget</a>, <a href="/facts/Carlos_Brody/LgQULX3s">Carlos Brody</a> and <a href="/facts/Anthony_Zador/njzbqGkc">Anthony Zador</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The current Executive Committee consists of <a href="/facts/Alexandre_Pouget/sbxH8S5p">Alexandre Pouget</a>, <a href="/facts/Zachary_Mainen/dNwEtSja">Zachary Mainen</a>, Stephanie Palmer and <a href="/facts/Anthony_Zador/njzbqGkc">Anthony Zador</a>. </p> <h2 id="meetings">Meetings</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Location</th><th>General Chair(s)</th><th>Program Chair(s)</th><th>Workshop Chair(s)</th><th>Publicity/Communication Chair</th><th>Undergraduate Travel Chair(s)</th><th>Abstracts</th></tr><tr><td>2021</td><td>Virtual</td><td>Anne-Marie Oswald, Srdjan Ostojic</td><td>Anne-Marie Oswald, Srdjan Ostojic</td><td>-</td><td>Adam Calhoun</td><td>-</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2020</td><td>Denver</td><td>Eugenia Chiappe, Christian Machens</td><td>Anne-Marie Oswald, Srdjan Ostojic</td><td>Catherine Hartley, Blake Richards</td><td>Adam Calhoun, Xaq Pitkow</td><td>Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2019</td><td>Lisbon</td><td>Linda Wilbrecht, Brent Doiron</td><td>Eugenia Chiappe, Christian Machens</td><td>Catherine Hartley, Ralf Haefner</td><td>Xaq Pitkow</td><td>Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2018</td><td>Denver</td><td>Ilana Witten, Eric Shea-Brown</td><td>Linda Wilbrecht, Brent Doiron</td><td>Laura Busse, Ralf Haefner</td><td>Xaq Pitkow</td><td>Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2017</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><a href="/facts/Megan_Carey/rzApfJGG">Megan Carey</a>, Emilio Salinas</td><td>Ilana Witten, Eric Shea-Brown</td><td>Laura Busse, Alfonso Renart</td><td>Il Memming Park</td><td>Angela Langdon, Robert Wilson</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td>Maria Geffen, <a href="/facts/Konrad_K%C3%B6rding/I2oputAv">Konrad Körding</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Megan_Carey/rzApfJGG">Megan Carey</a>, Emilio Salinas</td><td><a href="/facts/Claudia_Clopath/lN8ut5XQ">Claudia Clopath</a>, Alfonso Renart</td><td>Xaq Pitkow</td><td>Jill O'Reilly, Robert Wilson</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2015</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td>Michael Long, Stephanie Palmer</td><td>Maria Geffen, <a href="/facts/Konrad_K%C3%B6rding/I2oputAv">Konrad Körding</a></td><td>Robert Froemke, <a href="/facts/Claudia_Clopath/lN8ut5XQ">Claudia Clopath</a></td><td>Xaq Pitkow</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2014</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><a href="/facts/Marlene_Cohen/fAerS3Xh">Marlene Cohen</a>, Peter Latham</td><td>Michael Long, Stephanie Palmer</td><td>Robert Froemke, <a href="/facts/Tatyana_Sharpee/8UoT6lqN">Tatyana Sharpee</a></td><td>Eugenia Chiappe</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><a href="/facts/Nicole_C._Rust/lw93WHFf">Nicole C. Rust</a>, Jonathan Pillow</td><td>Marlene Cohen, Peter Latham</td><td><a href="/facts/Jess_Cardin/AKS7YRpX">Jess Cardin</a>, <a href="/facts/Tatyana_Sharpee/8UoT6lqN">Tatyana Sharpee</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Kanaka_Rajan/HBycjLdy">Kanaka Rajan</a></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><a href="/facts/James_DiCarlo/kL16B661">James DiCarlo</a>, <a href="/facts/Rachel_Wilson_(neurobiologist)/K2MdsTz9">Rachel Wilson</a></td><td>Nicole Rust, Jonathan Pillow</td><td>Brent Doiron, <a href="/facts/Jess_Cardin/AKS7YRpX">Jess Cardin</a></td><td>Mark Histed</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><a href="/facts/Anne_Churchland/GRm3azQB">Anne Churchland</a>, Bartlett Mel</td><td><a href="/facts/James_DiCarlo/kL16B661">James DiCarlo</a>, <a href="/facts/Rachel_Wilson_(neurobiologist)/K2MdsTz9">Rachel Wilson</a></td><td>Mark Laubach, Brent Doiron</td><td>Ila Fiete</td><td></td><td><a href="http://precedings.nature.com/collections/COSYNE-11">Nature precedings</a></td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td>Maneesh Sahani</td><td><a href="/facts/Anne_Churchland/GRm3azQB">Anne Churchland</a>, Bartlett Mel</td><td>Adam Kohn, Mark Laubach</td><td>Byron Yu</td><td></td><td><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/events/computational_and_systems_neur/770/abstracts">Frontiers</a></td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td>Matteo Carandini</td><td>Maneesh Sahani</td><td>Adam Kohn, Alex Huk</td><td>Alex Wade</td><td></td><td><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/events/computational_and_systems%20%20neu/39/abstracts">Frontiers</a></td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><a href="/facts/Eero_Simoncelli/oXAaMe4R">Eero Simoncelli</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Matteo_Carandini/5wXrw9ML">Matteo Carandini</a></td><td>Fritz Sommer, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein</td><td>Alex Wade</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2007</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td>Zach Mainen</td><td><a href="/facts/Eero_Simoncelli/oXAaMe4R">Eero Simoncelli</a></td><td>Fritz Sommer</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td>Salt Lake City</td><td><p>Carlos Brody, Zach Mainen, Alex Pouget, <a href="/facts/Michael_Shadlen/qlExMDGl">Michael Shadlen</a>, <a href="/facts/Tony_Zador/njzbqGkc">Tony Zador</a></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Loren Frank, <a href="/facts/Michael_Hausser/wHwfsnQo">Michael Hausser</a>, Adam Kepecs, Zach Mainen, Stefan Treue, Flip Sabes, <a href="/facts/Eero_Simoncelli/oXAaMe4R">Eero Simoncelli</a></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td><a href="/facts/Salt_Lake_City/vDHXskTN">Salt Lake City</a></td><td><p>Carlos Brody, Alex Pouget, <a href="/facts/Michael_Shadlen/qlExMDGl">Michael Shadlen</a>, <a href="/facts/Tony_Zador/njzbqGkc">Tony Zador</a></p></td><td colspan="2">Pam Reinagel, Philip Sabes, Zach Mainen, <a href="/facts/Eero_Simoncelli/oXAaMe4R">Eero Simoncelli</a>, Stefan Treue</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2004</td><td><a href="/facts/Cold_Spring_Harbor_Laboratory/9FYeeoIw">CSHL</a></td><td colspan="3"><p>Carlos Brody, Alex Pouget, <a href="/facts/Michael_Shadlen/qlExMDGl">Michael Shadlen</a>, <a href="/facts/Tony_Zador/njzbqGkc">Tony Zador</a></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="related-meetings">Related Meetings</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Neural_Information_Processing_Systems/YlhI2Atl">Neural Information Processing Systems</a> (since 1987)</li> <li>Annual meeting of the <a href="http://www.cnsorg.org/">Organization for Computational Neuroscience</a> (since 1990/1992)</li> <li>Conference on <a href="https://ccneuro.org/2020/">Cognitive Computational Neuroscience</a> (since 2017)</li> <li><a href="http://bernstein-conference.de/">Bernstein Conference</a> (since 2005)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Marr, David (2010). Vision. MIT press. p. 365. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262514620.001.0001. ISBN 9780262290371. <a href="9780262290371" target="_blank">9780262290371</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Zador, Tony. "Neural Information and Coding workshops". Retrieved 26 December 2016. <a href="http://zadorlab.cshl.edu/NIC.html" target="_blank">http://zadorlab.cshl.edu/NIC.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Park, Il Memming. "Alex Pouget (#theoryMatters interview #04)". youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 26 December 2016. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZphn2IocwU&t=5m2s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZphn2IocwU&t=5m2s</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Computational and Systems Neuroscience". COSYNE.ORG. Retrieved 26 December 2016. <a href="http://cosyne.org/" target="_blank">http://cosyne.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>