At the most recent Computational and Systems Neuroscience Conference ("Cosyne"), held in Denver, we collected some interviews from attendees. The goal was to get people talking about work outside of their own immediate research area. Cosyne is a great conference to get exposed to ideas from other areas, particularly across the experiment-theory boundary.
In total we collected 11 interviews from grad students, postdocs, and professors. We prompted people by asking them to first give their name, position, and describe a bit about their own work. We then asked them to tell us about a finding or research method (not necessarily from the conference, though that was common) that is outside their own area of work that they thought was cool/exciting/interesting. Listen to all these interviews here:
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Based on these interviews and the general Cosyne experience, Grace wrote a column for the Simons Foundation blog on how small, single-track conferences can foster scientific creativity. You can check that out here: Cross-Pollination at Cosyne 2018
These interviews will also be incorporated into our upcoming episode, where we'll have an informal chat about the difficulties and benefits of keeping up with the broad scientific literature.
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