Dear all, We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience, at CNS*2017, Antwerp, Belgium. The workshop will be held over the final two days of the main conference, July 19 and 20. Our confirmed invited speakers include the following (schedule available soon): * Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University -- "Directed Information: Application to EEG during cognitive control" * Lionel Barnett, University of Sussex -- "Information Transfer in Continuous and Discrete Time" * Karl Friston, University College London -- "Active inference and artificial curiosity" * Renaud Jolivet, University of Geneva -- "Energy-efficient information transfer at synapses" * Lubomir Kostal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic -- "Reference frame independence as a constraint on the mutual information decomposition" * Joseph T. Lizier, The University of Sydney -- "Estimating information transfer between spike trains" * Daniele Marinazzo, University of Ghent -- "Synergetic and redundant information flow detected by unnormalized Granger causality: application to resting state fMRI" * Jil Meier, Delft University of Technology -- "The epidemic spreading model and the direction of information flow in brain networks" * Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization, Goettingen -- TBA * Adrià Tauste, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -- TBA * Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt -- TBA * Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute -- "A Local Learning Rule for Independent Component Analysis" * Raul Vicente, University of Tartu -- TBA Also, we would like to call for contributions of talks (25 min + 5 min Q&A). If you are interested in contributing such a talk, please send a title and abstract to Joseph Lizier (joseph.lizier@sydney.edu.au) by Friday June 2, 2017. Please see our website http://bit.ly/cns2017itw for more details. We hope you will join us there! Organising Committee: Joseph Lizier Viola Priesemann Justin Dauwels Taro Toyoizumi Alexander Dimitrov Lubomir Kostal Michael Wibral