Presentation IV LAWCN - Colombia

1. IV LATIN AMERICAN
WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL
NEUROSCIENCE –LAWCN
2023 – NOV 28-30
Prof. M.D. Jaime A. Riascos
University Institution of Envigado
2023
General Chair Committee
https://lawcn.co/

2. GENERAL INFORMATION
The human brain is considered the most complex object in the known universe and the least understood
organ in the human body. Neuroscientists with different backgrounds- medicine, psychology, electrical
engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics and
so on – gather aiming to understand the brain.
Keeping the tradition of our previous edition, IV LAWCN has the next four main topics:
• Computational Neuroscience;
• Neuroscience;
• Neuroengineering;
• Artificial Intelligence and related topics.

3. CONFERENCE TOPICS
•Biophysically realistic models
•Single-neuron modeling
•Models of brain networks and circuits
•Sensory processing
•Development, axonal patterning, and
guidance
•Memory and synaptic plasticity
•Consciousness
•Computational clinical neuroscience
•Neuroinformatics
•Educational issues
•Neural coding
•Neural statistics
•Dendritic computation
•Neural basis of persistent activity
•Nonlinear receptive field mapping
•Representations of time and sequence
•Reward systems, decision-making
simulation
•Synaptic plasticity
•Population coding
•Spiking neural networks and applications
•Complex systems and network conectivity
•Neural Information Theory
•Neurocomputational systems
Computational Neuroscience

4. CONFERENCE TOPICS
• Sensory processing
• Nervous system development and
related disorders
• Emotion, Memory and Cognition
• Aging and Neurodegenerative
Disorders
• Network dynamics
• Neuroimmunology
• Neural Excitability, Synapses and
Plasticity
• Motivation and decision making
• Statistical approaches
• Social neuroscience
Neuroscience
• Developmental
and behavioral disorders
• Learning and memory
• Attention and arousal
• Structural and functional connectomes
• Imaging techniques
• Sensory-motor systems
• Embodied Cognition
• Learning in networks
• COVID-19 related cognitive issues
• Educational ant ethical issues

5. CONFERENCE TOPICS
• Neural signal processing
• Neuromodulation
• Neuroprosthetics
• Bioengineering
• Rehabilitation
• Large-scale recordings
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Haptics
• Human augmentation
Neuroengineering
• Robotics
• Neurorobotics
• Data fusion for robotics
• Exoskeletons
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Human Factors
• Hardware and software implementations
in neuroscience
• Educational and ethical issues

6. CONFERENCE TOPICS
• Reinforcement learning
• Big Data Neuroscience
applications
• Bioinformatics
• Clustering
• Computer vision
• Data mining and knowledge-
based systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Deep Learning
• Pattern recognition
Artificial Intelligence
• Fuzzy and hybrid techniques
• High-performance computing
• hierarchical models
• Kernel machines
• Neural coding
• Probabilistic models
• Neural Networks
• Signal processing and analysis
• Spatiotemporal analysis
• Educational and ethical issues

7. PREVIOUS VERSIONS
LAWCN I – PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL. 2017
https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/lawcn/
• Eight Keynote speakers
• Mexico
• France
• Germany
• USA
• Brazil (4)
• >100 participants (graduate,
undergraduate, professors,
scientist, general public)
• 15 Research paper published in
Springer (12k Accesses, 48
Citations)

8. https://lawcn.com.br/2019/
• Eight Keynote speakers
• Ecuador
• Norway
• Italy
• Brazil (5)
• >200 participants (graduate, under
graduate, professors, scientist,
general public)
• 20 Research paper published in Spr
inger (8252 Accesses, 11 Citations)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D
Mr3H8QMeQQ&feature=emb_title
PREVIOUS VERSIONS
LAWCN II – SAO JOAO DO REI, BRAZIL. 2019.

9. https://www.lawcn.com.br/
• Six Keynote speakers
• Argentina
• USA (2)
• Brazil (3)
• >100 participants (graduate, unde
rgraduate, professors, scientist, g
eneral public)
• 16 Research paper published in Sp
ringer (896 Accesses)
PREVIOUS VERSIONS
LAWCN III – SÃO LUIS DE MARANHAO, BRAZIL. 2021

10. LAWCN IV
IV LAWCN will be held at Institución
Universitaria de Envigado (Envigado,
Colombia) during 28, 29 and 30 November .
The event will be the launch of our new
building for teaching and research.
Previous versions were supported by
international organization and technological
companies

11. LAWCN IV
Eight Keynote speakers
• 4 International
• 2 LATAM
• 2 Colombia
Research paper presentation
• Springer proceedings (English)
• Colombian journal (Spanish)
Research poster sesión
Technical Presentation
Roundtable diversity
https://link.springer.com/conference/lawcn

12. LAWCN IV – KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Norberto García Caraisco.
USP (Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Salvador Dura-Bernal.
SUNY (USA)
Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal
NSF IUCRC BRAIN Center (USA)
In conversation:
• Prof. Dr. Fabian Lotte (France)
• Prof. Dra. Marta Molinas (Norway)
Prof. Dr. Jose M. Azorin
Universidad Miguel Hernández de
Elche(Spain)

13. LAWCN IV - COMMITTEES
• General Chair Committee
Prof. Dra. Lina Becerra – UniValle (Colombia) - COLNE
Prof. MD. Jaime A. Riascos – IUE (Colombia)
Prof. Dr. Dante Barone – UFRGS (Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Vinicius Cota – UFSJR (Brazil)
• Research papers and poster presentation Committee
• Technical presentation Committee
• Diversity Committee
• Financial Committee
• Publicity and web Committee
• Logistic Committee

14. THANK YOU!!!
See you soon in IV LAWCN
Contact:
lawcn.co
lawcn_2023@iue.edu.co