Barcelona, Spain,  March 9-11, 2011

Organized by the University of Barcelona (UB)  and the Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia (IBEC).

The main goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of the ability of bioinspired signal processing methods to target real-world problems.

The focus of the workshop will be on signal processing techniques inspired on the olfactory system and on the computational models of the biological olfactory pathway.

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline	January 31, 2011
Notification of acceptance	February 28, 2011

Invited Speakers

• Title to be confirmed
  Paul Rhodes (Evolved Machines)
• Title to be confirmed
  JC Principe (University of Florida)
• Olfactory systems theory: three biomimetic algorithms for effective chemosensation
  Thom Cleland (Cornell University)
• Neural networks for odor coding in the insect brain: from synapse to behavior
  Giovanni Galizia (University of Konstanz)
• Ratio Coding and Dynamic Range: Lessons from the Moth Pheromone System
  Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
• Olfaction in fruit fly larvae: smelling the world with a handful of odorant receptors
  Mathieu Louis (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• Title to be confirmed
  Corrado Di Natale (University of Rome)
• Title to be confirmed
  Josep Samitier (University of Barcelona – Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia)
• Active Flow Generation to Manipulate Chemical Signal Reception
  Hiroshi Ishida (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

Poster / Oral session for participants:

Submit a 300 words abstracts by January 31, 2011

neurochem@el.ub.es