On February 1-4, 2006, the "Japan-Germany Symposium on Computational Neuroscience" is being held in Tokio. Here, the German Bernstein Centers present themselves within the Initiative "Germany in Japan 2005/2006".

The workshop is jointly organized by the four Bernstein Centers for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, Freiburg, Göttingen and Munich and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Tokio, as well as three Japanese funding organizations. The workshop's aim is to identify the most important future challenges in the field of Computational Neuroscience and to initiate cooperative research projects between German and Pajanese laboratories.

Organizing Committee:
• Bernstein Centers for Computational Neuroscience
Klaus-Robert Müller (Berlin)
Andreas Herz (Berlin)
Stefan Rotter (Freiburg)
Ulrich Büttner (München)
Michael Hermann (Göttingen)
Klaus Pawelzik (Bremen)

• RIKEN BSI
Shun-ichi Amari
Tomoki Fukai
Shiro Usui

• ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
Mitsuo Kawato

• Okinawa Institute of Science andTechnology
Kenji Doya

• Aihara Complexity Modelling Project, ERATO, JST
Kazuyuki Aihara

• COE program of Tamagawa University
Minoru Tsukada