Giacomo Indiveri wrote:
> Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop call for applications (*last call*)
> http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride/announcement.html
>
> (apologies for multiple recipients)
>
> please post and distribute this call for applications.
>
> N.B.
> The application deadline is Friday, March 19
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> Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
> call for applications
>
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> Sunday, JUNE 27 - Saturday, JULY 17, 2004
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> TELLURIDE, COLORADO
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> *Avis COHEN* (University of Maryland)
> *Rodney DOUGLAS* (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
> Switzerland)
> *Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS *(Johns Hopkins University)
> *Timmer HORIUCHI *(University of Maryland)
> *Giacomo INDIVERI* (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
> Switzerland)
> *Christof KOCH* (California Institute of Technology)
> *Terrence SEJNOWSKI* (Salk Institute and UCSD)
> *Shihab SHAMMA* (University of Maryland)
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> We invite applications for a three week summer workshop that will be
> held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday, June 27 to Saturday, July 17,
> 2004. The application deadline is *Friday, March 19*, and application
> instructions are described at the bottom of this document.
> The 2003 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering,
> sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation,
> the Office of Naval Research, the Defence Advanced Research Projects
> Agency, and by the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at the
> California Institute of Technology, was an exciting event and a great
> success.
> We strongly encourage interested parties to browse through the
> previous workshop web pages <http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride/>.
>
>
> GOALS:
>
> Carver Mead introduced the term "/Neuromorphic Engineering/" for a new
> field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural
> systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots,
> whose architecture and design principles are based on those of
> biological nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring
> together young investigators and more established researchers from
> academia with their counterparts in industry and national
> laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering
> aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The focus of
> the workshop will be on active participation, with demonstration
> systems and hands on experience for all participants. Neuromorphic
> engineering has a wide range of applications from nonlinear adaptive
> control of complex systems to the design of smart sensors. Many of the
> fundamental principles in this field, such as the use of learning
> methods and the design of parallel hardware (with an emphasis on
> analog and asynchronous digital VLSI), are inspired by biological
> systems. However, existing applications are modest and the challenge
> of scaling up from small artificial neural networks and designing
> completely autonomous systems at the levels achieved by biological
> systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying this three week workshop
> is that the next generation of neuromorphic systems would benefit from
> closer attention to the principles found through experimental and
> theoretical studies of real biological nervous systems as whole systems.
>
>
> FORMAT:
>
> The three week summer workshop will include /background lectures/ on
> systems neuroscience (in particular learning, oculo-motor and other
> motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on analog VLSI
> design, small mobile robots (Koalas, Kheperas, LEGO robots), /hands-on
> projects/, and /special interest groups/. Participants are required to
> take part and possibly complete at least one of the projects proposed.
> They are furthermore encouraged to become involved in as many of the
> other activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be
> two lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to
> the community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds
> among the participants, the majority of these lectures will be
> tutorials, rather than detailed reports of current research. These
> lectures will be given by invited speakers. Participants will be free
> to explore and play with whatever they choose in the afternoon.
> Projects and interest groups meet in the late afternoons, and after
> dinner. In the early afternoon there will be tutorial on a wide
> spectrum of topics, including analog VLSI, mobile robotics, auditory
> systems, central-pattern-generators, selective attention mechanisms, etc.
> Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in
> a number of working groups, including:
>
> * active vision
> * audition
> * motor control
> * central pattern generator
> * robotics
> * multichip communication
> * analog VLSI
> * learning
>
> The active perception project group will emphasize vision and human
> sensory-motor coordination. Issues to be covered will include spatial
> localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements,
> and the use of visual motion information for motor control.
> The central pattern generator group will focus on small walking and
> undulating robots. It will look at characteristics and sources of
> parts for building robots, play with working examples of legged and
> segmented robots, and discuss CPG's and theories of nonlinear
> oscillators for locomotion. It will also explore the use of simple
> analog VLSI sensors for autonomous robots.
> The robotics group will use rovers and working digital vision boards
> as well as other possible sensors to investigate issues of
> sensorimotor integration, navigation and learning.
> The audition group aims to develop biologically plausible algorithms
> and aVLSI implementations of specific auditory tasks such as source
> localization and tracking, and sound pattern recognition. Projects
> will be integrated with visual and motor tasks in the context of a
> robot platform.
> The multichip communication project group will use existing interchip
> communication interfaces to program small networks of artificial
> neurons to exhibit particular behaviors such as amplification,
> oscillation, and associative memory. Issues in multichip
> communicationwill be discussed.
> This year we will also have some new robots kindly donated by the
> WowWee Toys division of Hasbro in Hong Kong. This will permit us to
> carry out experiments with WooWee/Hasboro hardware through Mark Tilden.
>
>
> LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS:
>
> The summer school will take place in the small town of *Telluride*,
> 9000 feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from
> Denver (350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express
> airlines provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities
> within the beautifully renovated public school building are fully
> accessible to participants with disabilities. Participants will be
> housed in ski condominiums, within walking distance of the school.
> Participants are expected to share condominiums.
> The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on.
> Participants are not required to have had previous experience in
> analog VLSI circuit design, computational or machine vision, systems
> level neurophysiology or modeling the brain at the systems level.
> However, we strongly encourage active researchers with relevant
> backgrounds from academia, industry and national laboratories to
> apply, in particular if they are prepared to work on specific
> projects, talk about their own work or bring demonstrations to
> Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software). Internet access will be
> provided. Technical staff present throughout the workshops will assist
> with software and hardware issues. We will have a network of PCs
> running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop projects. We also
> plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage participants to
> bring along their personal laptop.
> No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we recommend
> that you do *not* rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain
> gear, and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful
> mountains. Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we
> expect participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week
> workshop.
>
>
> FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:
>
> Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around mid April 2004.
> Participants are expected to pay a $275.00 workshop fee at that time
> in order to reserve a place in the workshop. The cost of a shared
> condominium will be covered for all academic participants but upgrades
> to a private room will cost extra. Participants from National
> Laboratories and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums.
> Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for US domestic travel and up to
> $800 for overseas travel will be possible if financial help is needed
> (please specify on the application).
>
>
> HOW TO APPLY:
>
> Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above
> (i.e.postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and
> the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We
> actively encourage qualified women and minority candidates to apply.
> Application should include:
>
> * First name, Last name, Affiliation, valid e-mail address.
> * Curriculum Vitae.
> * One page summary of background and interests relevant to the
> workshop.
> * Two letters of recommendation.
>
> Complete applications should be sent to:
>
> Terrence Sejnowski
> The Salk Institute
> 10010 North Torrey Pines Road
> San Diego, CA 92037
> e-mail: telluride@salk.edu <mailto:telluride@salk.edu>
> FAX: (858) 587 0417
>
> *The application deadline is **March 19, 2004*.
> Applicants will be notified by e-mail around mid April.
>
>
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> Main <index.html> | 2003 Workshop <current/index.html> | About
> Telluride <about.html> | Previous Workshops <previous/index.html> |
> Acknowledgements <acknow.html>
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