From m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 1 16:24:55 2010 From: m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1t=E9_Lengyel?=) Date: Mon Feb 1 16:56:18 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Summer School on "Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines" Message-ID: <1512511A-F036-48DE-980C-C965052C77E3@eng.cam.ac.uk> We invite applications for the Summer School on "Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines" that will be held in Budapest, Hungary between 5-9 July 2010. http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/beliefs/index-beliefs.php Application deadline: 15 February 2010 The aim of the course is to demonstrate that some basic principles of decision making can provide a unifying framework for constructing intelligently behaving artefacts on one hand, and for explaining human and animal cognition both in simple as well as in the most complex domains of behaviour on the other hand. To achieve this, lectures will progress via domains of gradually increasing abstraction that machine learning algorithms and humans deal with starting from representing uncertainty and beliefs about unobserved quantities, through learning internal models of the environment, to making adaptive and successful decisions. The course is aimed at students, post docs, and junior faculty working in machine learning, cognitive science, neuroscience, or related fields, and especially those who are interested in a combination of these approaches. Faculty: - J?zsef Fiser, Brandeis University, Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program, USA - Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK - M?t? Lengyel, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK - Michael N. Shadlen, University of Washington, Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA - Daniel Wolpert, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK (Apologies for crossposting.) From y.timofeeva at warwick.ac.uk Wed Feb 3 18:37:33 2010 From: y.timofeeva at warwick.ac.uk (Yulia Timofeeva) Date: Thu Feb 4 11:56:27 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Dendrites, Neurones and Networks (Warwick, June 2010) Message-ID: <4B69B45D.60105@warwick.ac.uk> EPSRC Symposium Workshop on Dendrites, Neurones and Networks 7-10 June 2010 University of Warwick, UK Registration open The conference will bring together leading researchers in the area of theoretical neuroscience working at different scales in neural tissue. The workshop is part of a year-long symposium on the Mathematics of Complexity Science and Systems Biology, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and held at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick. The meeting will consist of invited speakers and registered participants with an option for poster presentation. Those interested in presenting a poster should send a title and abstract to magnus.richardson@warwick.ac.uk for consideration by the scientific committee. Early list of invited speakers: Alla Borisyuk - University of Utah, USA Paul Bressloff - University of Oxford, UK Nicolas Brunel - University Paris Descartes, France Caroline Geisler - Rutgers University, USA Carson Chow - NIH, USA Stephen Coombes - University of Nottingham, UK Steven Cox - Rice University, USA Brent Doiron - University of Pittsburgh, USA Wulfram Gerstner - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Bruce Graham - University of Stirling, UK Ila Fiete - University of Texas at Austin, USA Vincent Hakim - ENS, Paris, France David Hansel - University Paris Descartes, France Benjamin Lindner - MPI for Complex Systems, Germany Mark van Rossum - University of Edinburgh, UK Arnd Roth - UCL, London, UK Frances Skinner - University of Toronto, Canada Misha Tsodyks - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel The conference website with a link for registration can be found at the link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2009_2010/symposium/dnnwks There is no registration fee and most meals during the conference will be provided. However, you must register with the Mathematics Institute if you wish to attend. (Please note that travel support for registered participants cannot be promised at this stage.) Scientific Organisers: Magnus Richardson (Warwick) Yulia Timofeeva (Warwick) Nicolas Brunel (Paris) Paul Bressloff (Oxford) From sabah.boumaza at paris-neuroscience.com Tue Feb 2 11:53:35 2010 From: sabah.boumaza at paris-neuroscience.com (Sabah Boumaza) Date: Thu Feb 4 11:58:33 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Spring School 2010, "Optical imaging and electrophysiological recording in neuroscience" - Paris - Tuesday 20th to Friday 30th April 2010. Message-ID: <4B68042F.1030006@paris-neuroscience.com> * * /* Paris School of Neuroscience Spring School 2010*/ /*"Optical imaging and electrophysiological recording in neuroscience"*/ /**/ *Paris, Tuesday 20th to Friday 30th April 2010.* The Paris School of Neuroscience aims to give intensive tuition in the technical basis and practical implementation of optical imaging and electrophysiological recording in the Neurosciences. The topics covered in lecture and practical work are: - Photophysics and photochemistry of fluorophores - Light sources and lasers for fluorescence excitation - Conventional and confocal microscopy - CCD cameras - Patch clamp and extracellular recording. Multi-electrode arrays. In vivo electrical recording - Data analysis and image analysis - Two-photon confocal and other non-linear microscopy - Fluorescent indicators for calcium and other ions and membrane potential - Adaptive optics in microscopy - Photolysis - Brain slice and In vivo imaging - Viral transfection of genetically encoded markers and indicators. The lectures are at 9-00 and 6-00 each day before and after daily practical classes. Practical work will be 1-3 day experiments in one of the above topics. *The School fee is 800 Euros:* Accommodation (for 12 nights) is close to the University and includes breakfast, lunch is provided in the lab each day. The fee of 800 EUR includes accommodation. Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements. *Attendance to lectures only (no fee) or to lectures and practical work (400 Euros) is open upon registration.* *How to apply? http://www.paris-neuroscience.fr/enp-uk/calls-for-proposals/index.php *There are 18 places. Applications should be made on the website and must include a brief (1-2 page) CV, description of the current research project and A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION FROM ADVISOR, lab head or a senior colleague. Some bursary support as a half fee will be available. Attendance to lectures only (no fee) or to lectures and practical work (400 euros) *is open upon registration.* *Deadline March 2010, 1st* *Where? *Universit? Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints P?res, 75006 Paris, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Especially encouraged are papers whose content is novel, either as to approach or area of application. Abstracts (one page of about 400 words) of the proposed papers should be submitted via this Web site by April 11, 2010 (midnight, GMT). List of provisional topics and organizers: -------------------------------------------------------------- History and axiomatic foundation of probability and Information theory (K.H. Knuth, A. Caticha, J. Skilling, ...) Bayesian inference in astronomy and astrophsics (T. Loredo, S. Gull, ...) Information geometry and information theory (F. Barbaresco, H. Snoussi, P. Gibilisco, C. Rodriguez, ) Algorithms for Bayesian computation. (A. Quinn, R. Fischer, ...) Bayesian Computed Tomography: medical imaging (Ch. Bouman, K. Sauer, E. Miller, J.M. Lina, ...) Non parametric Bayesian methods and experimental design (F. Bac, M. Jordan, Z. Ghahramani, E. Barat, ...) Bayesian classification, clustering, pattern recognition, image segmentation (J. Center, M. Jordan, ...) Time series, spectral estimation. deconvolution and source separation. (P.O. Amblard, Ch. Jutten, ...) Information theory and quantum tomography. (Ch. Benjaballah, C. Caves, A. Vourdas, ...) Bayesian and maximum entropy inference in action: Industrial applications (E. Mazer, P. Cheesman, J. Skilling, M. Modares, ...) Non-Extensive Statistics (C. Tsallis, J.S. Dehesa, ...) Bayesian Cognitive and Neuroscience (P.O. Amblard, Pierre Bessi?re ...) Bayesian Robotics (K.H. Knuth, P. Bessi?re, ...) http://maxent2010.inrialpes.fr/ _______________________________ Dr Pierre Bessi?re - CNRS ***************************** LIG Lab INRIA 655 avenue de l'Europe 38334 Montbonnot FRANCE Mail: Pierre.Bessiere@imag.fr Http://www.Bayesian-Programming.org Tel: +33 4 76 61 55 09 Skype: Pierre.Bessiere _______________________________ http://Bayesian-Programming.org/spip.php?rubrique8 -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From wsenn at cns.unibe.ch Wed Feb 3 16:03:17 2010 From: wsenn at cns.unibe.ch (Walter Senn) Date: Thu Feb 4 12:16:14 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Biological Cybernetics: vol 102, issue 2 --- Table of Content Message-ID: <4B699035.7030105@cns.unibe.ch> Biological Cybernetics: vol 102, issue 2 --- Table of Content Original papers: "Independence of the unimodal tuning of firing rate from theta phase precession in hippocampal place cells" Zhihua Wu & Yoko Yamaguchi http://www.springerlink.com/content/e0t125kn11hw4117/ "Bistable dynamics of cardiac cell models coupled by dynamic gap junctions linked to Cardiac Memory" Gairik Sachdeva, Kanakapriya Kalyanasundaram, J. Krishnan & V. S. Chakravarthy http://www.springerlink.com/content/jh4541r224462329/ "A comparative study of pattern synchronization detection between neural signals using different cross-entropy measures" Hong-Bo Xie, Jing-Yi Guo & Yong-Ping Zheng http://www.springerlink.com/content/k54h8nq727601v53/ "Four-component power spectral density model of steady-state isometric force" Joseph P. Stitt & Karl M. Newell http://www.springerlink.com/content/k54h8nq727601v53/ "A method for detecting false bifurcations in dynamical systems: application to neural-field models" Serafim Rodrigues, David Barton, Frank Marten, Moses Kibuuka, Gonzalo Alarcon, Mark P. Richardson & John R. Terry http://www.springerlink.com/content/e53230057320v1h3/ "A population level computational model of the basal ganglia that generates parkinsonian local field potential activity" George L. Tsirogiannis, George A. Tagaris, Damianos Sakas & Konstantina S. Nikita http://www.springerlink.com/content/744v2865674vk11k/ ---- Biological Cybernetics, all issues: http://www.springerlink.com/content/100465/ From bschrauw at elis.UGent.be Thu Feb 4 15:51:51 2010 From: bschrauw at elis.UGent.be (Benjamin Schrauwen) Date: Thu Feb 4 16:16:32 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CFP for workshop on "Cognitive and Neural Models for Automated Processing of Speech and Text" Message-ID: <0149D3DD-091E-4653-BAE3-665BCB40E035@elis.ugent.be> Call for Papers for the workshop on "Cognitive and Neural Models for Automated Processing of Speech and Text" (CONAS 2010) 2 day workshop, held in Ghent, Belgium on July 9 - 10th 2010. ------------------------------------- We would like to kindly invite you to submit papers to the workshop on "Cognitive and Neural Models for Automated Processing of Speech and Text" (CONAS 2010). This is a 2-day workshop on the role of cognitive, neural and deep models in speech recognition and language understanding, held in Ghent (Belgium) on July 9-10th, 2010. More information can be found on the website http://conas.elis.ugent.be *Background and Scope* Speech recognition and language understanding is one of the prime fields where application engineering meets -- or should meet -- with cognitive neuroscience. However, the interdisciplinary connections are not as tight as one might wish. On the application engineering side, as we go up the linguistic hierarchy, we find a diversity of computational methods, ranging from signal processing over statistical pattern recognition to grammar and logic-based semantic representation formalisms - with a remarkably limited use of artificial neural networks. On the cognitive neuroscience side, we find a diversity of human performance phenomena that are studied, from acoustic perception over various memory competences to the temporal structure of syntactic and semantic parsing, repair processes and the planning and execution of oral communications. It is fair to say that engineers do not care too much how their computational methods can be realized by brains, nor do neuroscientists, as a rule, ground their models in executable algorithms. In this situation, computational models based on recurrent and/or deep neural networks may serve as an interface between application engineering and brain/cognition modeling. On the one hand, these models can, in principle, model complex spatio-temporal data and thus should eventually be capable to acquire (and possibly exceed) the functionalities which are today realized by a diversity of other formalisms. On the other hand, these deep and recurrent models appear intrinsically suited to be mapped to biological neural systems, although there is still a large complexity gap between formal and artificial vs. biological neural networks. While neural models are currently not much used in speech and language applications, it may be time to reconsider their role in the light of recent developments of novel, powerful RNN based and deep learning architectures. The aim of this workshop is to elucidate this potential role of deep and recurrent models as an intermediary between the engineering and the empirical aspects of speech and language processing. We thus solicit contributions on topics of the following kind (list is indicative, not exclusive): - novel deep or recurrent NN architectures for multi-scale temporal data processing (e.g. based on reservoir computing, multidirectional RNNs, temporal deep belief networks) - implementations of complex statistical data processing in RNNs (e.g. Bayesian or dynamical Bayesian networks) - short-term, working, and long-term memory mechanisms in RNNs - implementing grammar in deep and recurrent NNs - learning and adaptation in deep or recurrent NNs - beyond supervised training - technological solutions for speech / handwriting / language processing - implementation and parallelization aspects During the workshop there will be invited talks by the following leading scientists in these areas: - Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal - Tomaso Poggio, MIT - Stefan Kiebel, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences - Alex Graves, Technical University of M?nchen - Peter Tino, University of Birmingham - Gordon Pipa, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research *Deadlines* The deadline for paper submissions is April 23th 2010 with a notice of acceptance on June 1st 2010. More information on formatting guidelines and the submission procedure can be found on the website http://conas.elis.ugent.be. The best papers will be invited for an oral presentation while regular papers will be presented as posters (with a short poster spotlight). *Organizers* The workshop is organized by the consortium of the European FP7 project ORGANIC (www.reservoir-computing.org), and is funded through this project. The objective of ORGANIC is to establish RNN models as a viable alternative to the mainstream statistical models in speech recognition, using the principles of reservoir computing as a starting point. *Program Board* Benjamin Schrauwen, University of Ghent (chair) Herbert Jaeger, Jacobs University Bremen Wolfgang Maass, Technical University Graz Peter F. Dominey, INSERM Lyon Jean-Pierre Martens, University of Ghent Welf Wustlich, Planet intelligent systems GmbH ---------------------------- - Prof. dr. ir. Benjamin Schrauwen - - Reservoir Lab, Electronics and Information Systems Department - Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ghent University - - St. Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium - work phone: +32-9-264.95.26 - website: http://www.elis.ugent.be/~bschrauw ---------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100204/34026781/attachment.html From flieder at uos.de Thu Feb 4 19:00:38 2010 From: flieder at uos.de (Falk Lieder) Date: Fri Feb 5 10:01:31 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] [Job Offer] Full Professor of Neuroinformatics Message-ID: <64a453261002041000l57a5fd61lbc313582e059e92b@mail.gmail.com> The Institute of Cognitive Science of the University of Osnabr?ck invites applications for the position of a Full Professor of Neuroinformatics * (salary level W3) * to be filled at the earliest practicable date. The Institute of Cognitive Science is seeking to appoint an internationally recognized researcher contributing to an enduring enhancement of its international collaborative network. In research and education the successful applicant will represent the field of information processing in neural systems. Relevant sub-disciplines are learning methods (involving supervised learning, reinforcement techniques and unsupervised learning), as well as pattern recognition. Working on these subjects should contribute to an understanding of artificial and biological cognitive systems. Candidates are particularly expected to collaborate with those existing work groups of the Institute that are closely related to the field of learning in cognitive systems, as well as to the work groups of the Institute of Informatics and the Institute of Psychology that are cooperating with the Postgraduate Colleges (Biologically oriented Computer Vision, Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Neurobiopsychology, Neurocybernetics, Knowledge-based Systems, Computational Linguistics, and Philosophy of Mind and Cognition). Moreover, candidates are expected to take active part in teaching at all levels of the Cognitive Science study programs (BSc, MSc, PhD), as well as in the Informatics study programs, in particular the compulsory module "Theoretical Neuroscience. Legal requirements for the position include evidence of an academic degree, proven pedagogic and didactical skills acquired from practical experience, outstanding ability of autonomously pursuing scientific work, usually proven by an excellent PhD thesis together with additional academic achievements according to ?25 NHG (e.g. habilitation). International experience acquired from employments at universities and scientific institutions abroad as well as international collaborations are highly appreciated. The University of Osnabr?ck strives for an increase in the number of women in academic employment. Women are therefore especially encouraged to apply and will be preferentially considered provided they are equally qualified. Disabled candidates will also be considered preferentially, equal qualification provided. < The option for parttime employment will be dealt with on an individual basis. Candidates are invited to send their applications with the usual documents no later than *28.02.2010* to the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabr?ck, Albrechtstra?e 28, 49076 Osnabr?ck, Germany. Inquiries may be directed to Professor Peter K?nig: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100204/70a9898d/attachment.html From fairhall at u.washington.edu Thu Feb 4 22:45:21 2010 From: fairhall at u.washington.edu (Adrienne L. Fairhall) Date: Fri Feb 5 10:03:11 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Gordon Research Conference: Sensory Coding in the Natural Environment Message-ID: The biennial GRC, Sensory Coding in the Natural Environment, will be held July 25-29 at Bates College, Maine (less than 100 miles from Boston). Session topics include sensory coding in vision, audition and olfaction; adaptation; active sensing; multimodal integration; virtual reality; neural prosthetics. Gordon conferences are relatively small and intense meetings with dedicated time for discussion and interaction. This interdisciplinary meeting has traditionally brought together experimentalists working in the forefront of sensory coding in a wide range of model systems and sensory modalities with physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, psychologists and computer scientists interested in understanding the complexity of natural stimuli and the specialised mechanisms employed by the brain for handling this complexity. Applications are now open. The speaker program and application is available at http://grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=senscoding . We strongly encourage junior applicants and poster presentations. Travel assistance may be available subject to funding. Please join us for what promises to be an interesting and forward-looking meeting. Yours, Adrienne Fairhall Frederic Theunissen From jeedward at yahoo.com Thu Feb 4 19:14:41 2010 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri Feb 5 10:18:08 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Draft paper submission deadline is extended: computational neuroscience and neural computation Message-ID: <293969.3611.qm@web45915.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Draft paper submission deadline is extended: computational neuroscience and neural computation There is a special session on computational neuroscience and neural computation at the 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10) (website: http://www.promoteresearch.org) that will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields.The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. * International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) * International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) * International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) * International Conference on Computer Networks (CN-10) * International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) * International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) * International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) * International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) * International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) * International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.promoteresearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100204/8cfb520f/attachment.html From lech.s.borkowski at gmail.com Fri Feb 5 10:20:29 2010 From: lech.s.borkowski at gmail.com (Lech Borkowski) Date: Fri Feb 5 10:47:28 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Monograph "Nonlinear dynamics of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons" Message-ID: <40c330891002050120kf306e40o8897c37d15f7c45d@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce the availability of my monograph on the dynamics of the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Two important new ideas are the multimodal transition and the stochastic anti-resonance. I can send a limited number of printed copies to those interested. The entire text is also available on the web: Cover Table of contents pages 1-70 pages 71-78 L. S. Borkowski Nonlinear dynamics of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons Adam Mickiewicz University Press Poznan (2010) ISBN 978-83-232-2106-7 The abstract: This monograph describes the dynamics of the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron stimulated by period and stochastic stimuli. In the high frequency regime there is a multimodal transition between the odd-only modes and the state with both odd and even modes. This singularity appears in the presence of noise as a stochastic anti-resonance. The competition of different parity modes is reflected also in the structure of the resonances, where even and odd phase-locked states are separated by crossover regimes. The boundaries between various mode-locked state form complicated patterns. The relation between the output frequency and stimulus amplitude near the excitation threshold is often continuous even in the absence of noise. Models of regular spiking excitatory and inhibitory cells of mammalian cortex are also studied within this framework. The obtained high variability of response agrees with experiments in vivo. Comments are welcome. Best regards, Lech --- Lech Borkowski Faculty of Physics Adam Mickiewicz University Umultowska 85 61-614 Poznan Poland phone +48 792357033 fax +48 618295070 http://sites.google.com/site/lechsborkowski/Home/research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100205/6717ebbb/attachment.html From pprodrigues at liaad.up.pt Thu Feb 4 23:40:23 2010 From: pprodrigues at liaad.up.pt (Pedro Pereira Rodrigues) Date: Fri Feb 5 12:44:22 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CFP: Ubiquitous Data Mining (UDM) - ECAI 2010 Workshop Message-ID: <4B6B4CD7.5080804@liaad.up.pt> ** Apologies for cross-posting ** Ubiquitous Data Mining (UDM) Workshop Lisbon, Portugal, August 16/17, 2010 http://www.liaad.up.pt/udm/ in conjunction with ECAI 2010 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-20, 2010 http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ == Call for Papers == Ubiquitous Data Mining (UDM) uses Data Mining techniques to extract useful knowledge from data, namely when its characteristics reflect a World in Movement. The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers (from both academia and industry) who deal with techniques such as: decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, learning classifier systems neural networks, support vector machines, preprocessing, postprocessing, feature selection, visualization techniques, etc. for UDM of distributed and heterogeneous sources in the form of a continuous stream with mobile and/or embedded devices and related themes. Authors are invited to submit original papers in all topics related to Ubiquitous Data Mining. Selected papers will have to be presented during the workshop. The workshop will include extra time for audience discussion of the presentation allowing the group to have a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. The workshop organizers are in contact with international journals to have a special issue including works in "ubiquitous knowledge discovery" for the best workshop papers. -- Important Dates -- Paper submission: 7 May, 2010 Author notification: 7 Jun, 2010 Camera-ready copy: 22 Jun, 2010 -- Topics -- Topics include but are not restricted to: - Adaptive Data Mining - Distributed Data Mining - Distributed Data Streams - Grid Data Mining - Learning in Ubiquitous environments - Learning from Sensor Networks - Learning from Social Networks - Visualization Techniques for UDM - Incremental On-line Learning Algorithms - Single-Pass and Scalable Algorithms - Learning in distributed neural network systems; - Real-Time and Real-World Applications - Resource-aware UDM - Theoretical frameworks for UDM -- Submission -- All papers should be submitted in ECAI 2010 camera ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The maximum length of papers should not exceed 5 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 2 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, bibliography and appendices). Submission guidelines must be strictly followed. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the EasyChair conference system available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=udm2010 All workshop participants are required to register for both the workshop and the main conference. ECAI, is the leading Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Europe, and is a biennial organization of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence ECCAI. -- Workshop Chairs -- Jo?o Gama, Manuel Filipe Santos, Nuno Marques and Paulo Cortez -- Publicity Chairs -- Pedro Pereira Rodrigues and Carlos Abreu Ferreira -- Program Committee -- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Andre Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil Antoine Cornuejols, LRI, France Eduardo Spinosa, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil Elaine Sousa, Univ. S. Paulo, Brasil Florent Masseglia, INRIA, France Geoff Holmes, Univ. Waikato, New Zealand Jesus Aguilar, Univ. Pablo Olavide, Spain Jiong,Yang,Case Western Reserve University,United States Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal Jose Avila, Univ. Malaga, Spain Josep Roure, CMU, US Manuel Santos, University Minho, Portugal Mark Last, Ben Gurion University, Israel Michael May, Fraunhofer Bonn, Germany Min,Wang,IBM,United States Mirek Kubat, Univ. Miami, US Mohamed Gaber, Tasmanian ICT Centre, Australia Nuno Marques, Univ. Nova Lisboa, Portugal Paulo Cortez, Univ. Minho, Portugal Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, University Porto, Portugal Philip Yu, IBM Watson, USA Ricard Gavalda, Univ. Barcelona, Spain Sean Wang, University Vermont, US Ying Yang, Monash University, Australia Looking forward to meeting you in Lisbon! The Workshop Chairs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Each student will be supervised by two investigators with complementary expertise and will be associated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, http://www.bccn-berlin.de/, a well-known research center dedicated to the theoretical study of neural processing. Candidates are expected to hold a Masters degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g., neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, physics, etc.) and have the required advanced mathematical background. The deadline for application is March 15, 2010. Successful applicants will be invited for a short presentation and an interview, expected to take place in April 2010. The fellowships of approximately 1500 EUR / month will be granted for up to three years. For further information concerning the program and the application procedure, see http://www.bccn-berlin.de/Jobs/job/?contentId=2284 or e-mail Robert Martin, rm@cs.tu-berlin.de. From triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Feb 8 17:57:42 2010 From: triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jochen Triesch) Date: Mon Feb 8 19:28:34 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Submission is now open Message-ID: <4B704286.7010207@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> 2nd Call for Papers, Submission is now open 9th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA http://www.icdl-2010.org August 18-21, 2010 ICDL is the premiere venue for interdisciplinary research that blends the boundaries between robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, motor, behavioral, emotional and other related capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. While most other conferences focus on either mechanisms or organisms, ICDL focuses on both! The papers presented at the conference are split approximately 50-50 between the "natural intelligence side," such as neuroscience and psychology, and the "artificial intelligence side," such as machine intelligence and robotics. This diversity is mirrored in the composition of the organizing committee and the ICDL governing board. Please join us in 2010 when we celebrate our 10-th anniversary. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * General principles of development * Cognitive and perceptual development * Developmental learning: schedules and architectures * New methodologies to study natural and artificial intelligence. * Statistical learning in humans and machines * Embodied cognition * Play and exploration in animals, infants and robots * Interactive learning * Cultural learning * Social and emotional development * Theory of mind * Language acquisition * Skill acquisition * Intrinsic motivation * Dynamic systems * Attention mechanisms and their role in development * Philosophical issues of development and learning * Differences between learning and development * Interactions of learning and development with evolution * Grounding of knowledge and representations * Studies and models of developmental disorders, e.g., autism * Using robots to study development and learning * Human-Robot interaction * Visual, auditory, and tactile systems and their development * Motor systems and their development * Biological and biologically inspired developmental architectures * Neural plasticity during development. ICDL 2010 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. 2) Two-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 2-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: Feb 20, 2010 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 20, 2010 Notification of accept/reject for papers May 27, 2010 2-page poster abstracts due June 10, 2010 Notification of accept/reject for abstracts June 20, 2010 Camera-Ready Copy due July 20, 2010 Early Registration Deadline Aug. 18-21, 2010 Conference General Chairs: * Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan * Thomas Shultz, McGill University Program Chairs: * Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University * Chen Yu, Indiana University, Bloomington Publicity chairs: * Ian Fasel, University of Arizona, USA (for North America) * Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (for Europe) * Jun Tani, RIKEN, Japan (for Asia). Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl-2010.org/ From pwilken at gmail.com Tue Feb 9 12:55:10 2010 From: pwilken at gmail.com (Patrick Wilken) Date: Tue Feb 9 16:29:03 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Visiting scholar and student program Message-ID: <4B714D1E.5070907@googlemail.com> VISITING SCHOLAR AND STUDENT PROGRAM: BERLIN SCHOOL OF MIND AND BRAIN Application deadline: 1st May 2010. Enquiries: admissions@mind-and-brain.de Web: http://www.mind-and-brain.de/overview/visitors The Berlin School of Mind and Brain invites applications for visiting scholars and students. The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is an international research school, located in the vibrant heart of Berlin. Founded in 2006 as part of Germany's Excellence Initiative, it offers a unique three-year interdisciplinary doctoral program in English in the mind/brain sciences. Research within the School focuses on the interface between the humanities and the neurosciences. Of particular interest are research areas that fall on the borders between the mind sciences (e.g., philosophy, linguistics, behavioral and cognitive science, economics), and the brain sciences (e.g., neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, neurology, and neurobiology). Major topics of research within the program include: 'conscious and unconscious perception', 'decision-making', 'language', 'brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny', 'mental disorders and brain dysfunction', and the 'philosophy of mind'. However, research is not limited to these areas, and students are strongly encouraged to develop and work at their own initiative on any projects that are relevant to interdisciplinary questions relating to mind and brain. Visiting scholars will have a doctoral degree, and be working in an area of research relevant to the School. Visiting student status is available to qualified doctoral students currently enrolled in programs not affiliated with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. In rare circumstances students with a master's degree may also be granted visiting student status. Visiting scholars are provided a desk and computer in a shared office space. Both visiting scholars and students will be provided with access to the internet and university libraries. In addition, visiting students are allowed by prior arrangement to participate in relevant aspects of the School?s teaching program during their visit. It is anticipated that visiting scholars and students will participate actively in the academic life of the School. The School would be delighted, for instance, to hear suggestions from visiting scholars regarding potential seminars or journal clubs that they might organize during their stay. Further details can be found: http://www.mind-and-brain.de/overview/visitors -- Patrick Wilken, PhD Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Berlin School of Mind and Brain Luisenstra?e 56 D-10099 Berlin www.mind-and-brain.de My new book: The Oxford Companion to Consciousness http://tinyurl.com/oq7tzr Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. From erik at tnb.ua.ac.be Thu Feb 11 10:05:28 2010 From: erik at tnb.ua.ac.be (Erik De Schutter) Date: Thu Feb 11 11:08:13 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2010: Application deadline next Monday Message-ID: OKINAWA COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2010 Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors June 13 - July 2, 2010. Okinawa, Japan http://www.irp.oist.jp/ocnc/2010 The aim of the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds to have hands-on experience in computational modeling. We invite graduate students and postgraduate researchers to participate in the course, held from June 13th through July 2nd, 2010 at an oceanfront seminar house of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Applications are through the course web page only; they will close February 15th, 2010. Applicants are required to propose a project at the time of application. Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance in March. Like in preceding years, OCNC will be a comprehensive three-week course covering single neurons, networks, and behaviors with ample time for student projects. The first week will focus exclusively on methods with hands-on tutorials during the afternoons, while the second and third weeks will have lectures by international experts. We invite those who are interested in integrating experimental and computational approaches at each level, as well as in bridging different levels of complexity. The sponsor will provide lodging and meals during the course and support travel for those without funding. We hope that this course will be a good opportunity for theoretical and experimental neuroscientists to meet each other and to explore the attractive nature and culture of Okinawa, the southernmost island prefecture of Japan. Invited faculty: ? Amari, Shun-Ichi ? Arbuthnott, Gordon ? Brette, Romain ? Dayan, Peter ? De Schutter, Erik ? Doya, Kenji ? Gutkin, Boris ? Izhikevich, Eugene ? Kawato, Mitsuo ? Kn?pfel, Thomas ? Kotaleski, Jeanette ? Obermayer, Klaus ? Sharpee, Tatyana ? Spruston, Nelson ? Stiefel, Klaus From filip.ponulak at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 15:20:48 2010 From: filip.ponulak at gmail.com (Filip Ponulak) Date: Thu Feb 11 11:09:50 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] New paper about supervised learning in spiking neural networks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the following paper: 'Supervised Learning in Spiking Neural Networks with ReSuMe: Sequence Learning, Classification, and Spike Shifting', Neural Computation, Vol. 22, No. 2, Pages 467-510, 2010 (doi:10.1162/neco.2009.11-08-901) by Filip Ponulak and Andrzej Kasinski The paper can be viewed and downloaded from the following location: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/neco.2009.11-08-901 Abstract: --------- Learning from instructions or demonstrations is a fundamental property of our brain necessary to acquire new knowledge and develop novel skills or behavioral patterns. This type of learning is thought to be involved in most of our daily routines. Although the concept of instruction-based learning has been studied for several decades, the exact neural mechanisms implementing this process remain unrevealed. One of the central questions in this regard is, How do neurons learn to reproduce template signals (instructions) encoded in precisely timed sequences of spikes? Here we present a model of supervised learning for biologically plausible neurons that addresses this question. In a set of experiments, we demonstrate that our approach enables us to train spiking neurons to reproduce arbitrary template spike patterns in response to given synaptic stimuli even in the presence of various sources of noise. We show that the learning rule can also be used for decision-making tasks. Neurons can be trained to classify categories of input signals based on only a temporal configuration of spikes. The decision is communicated by emitting precisely timed spike trains associated with given input categories. Trained neurons can perform the classification task correctly even if stimuli and corresponding decision times are temporally separated and the relevant information is consequently highly overlapped by the ongoing neural activity. Finally, we demonstrate that neurons can be trained to reproduce sequences of spikes with a controllable time shift with respect to target templates. A reproduced signal can follow or even precede the targets. This surprising result points out that spiking neurons can potentially be applied to forecast the behavior (firing times) of other reference neurons or networks. ------- Any comments and ideas regarding the results presented in the paper will be highly appreciated. Best regards, Filip Ponulak (Apologies for crossposting) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neuroscience Institute & Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton ?NJ ?08544, USA --- Institute of Control and Information Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, 60965 Poznan, Poland --- Phone: +1-609-258-7316 Email: fponulak@princeton.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pillow at mail.utexas.edu Thu Feb 11 06:35:46 2010 From: pillow at mail.utexas.edu (Jonathan Pillow) Date: Thu Feb 11 11:10:54 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience at UT Austin Message-ID: <1f89d9fc1002102135oa0ea9dcvd2dac84fee230037@mail.gmail.com> Please forward to any and all colleagues who might be interested. Thanks! best regards, Jonathan Pillow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience is available in the Neural Coding and Computation Lab, at the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Pillow. Our research focuses on the information-processing capabilities of neural populations and the adaptive perceptual abilities of human observers. Current research projects include: - encoding and decoding of sensory information in neural populations - modeling of single-neuron response properties from intracellular data - point process models of extracellularly recorded neural populations - unsupervised learning in spiking neural models - development of statistical and machine-learning tools for the analysis of neural and imaging data - Bayesian ideal observer models of human psychophysical performance - theoretical models of neural & perceptual adaptation We conduct psychophysical experiments on adaptation and visual motion perception, and collaborate with several electrophysiology labs on the modeling and analysis of neural data. For more information, please visit: http://pillowlab.cps.utexas.edu/ Environment -------------- The NCC lab, at the University of Texas at Austin, is affiliated with the Center for Perceptual Systems, the Institute for Neuroscience, the Department of Psychology, the Section of Neurobiology, and the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation. UT Austin has a vigorous and rapidly growing neuroscience community, with an energetic mix of junior and senior faculty who use imaging, electrophysiology, molecular biology and biochemistry, genetics, psychology, statistics, and computer science techniques to study the brain. UT Austin has excellent programs in engineering, mathematics, and the sciences. In 2009, Austin was ranked #3 among big cities on the "Best Places to Live" list from Money Magazine, and was awarded "Greenest City in America" by MSN. Known as the "Live Music Capital of the World", Austin is the 15th-largest and 3rd-fastest-growing US city, and is home to many hi-tech and Fortune 500 corporations. To Apply ------------ Applicants should have a PhD in a biological or quantitative discipline (eg, Neuroscience, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics) by the time they start the position. Desired (but not essential) qualifications include familiarity with Bayesian statistical methods and/or probabilistic models of neural data, and experience with programming in Matlab. Above all, applicants should possess creativity, independence, mathematical expertise, and a demonstrated enthusiasm for research. Applicants should submit: (1) a statement of research interests (2) a current CV (3) the names and contact details of three references. Inquiries and applications may be addressed by email to Dr. Jonathan Pillow (pillow@mail.utexas.edu), or by post to: Dr. Jonathan Pillow Center for Perceptual Systems 1 University Station, #A8000 Austin, TX 78712-0187 U.S.A. Application review will begin immediately, and continue until the position is filled. From martijn at brainclinics.com Mon Feb 8 21:04:04 2010 From: martijn at brainclinics.com (Martijn Arns) Date: Thu Feb 11 11:23:25 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for Papers - Journal of Neurotherapy References: <63C352DA75B344DABCF9D653F1911FA2@Brainclinics.local> Message-ID: <5E4AEF0F-C0DE-4440-A1F5-A8E395A8B212@brainclinics.com> > > > Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > ON POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD), > MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (mTBI), > COMBAT OPERATIONAL STRESS (COS), > AND TERRORISM TRAUMA SYNDROME (TTS). > > The Journal of Neurotherapy is seeking articles on neurotherapies used for soldiers and veterans. This population is in dire need of help and we can provide it but we need to organize data to establish proof of efficacy. If you see any patients for these or related diagnoses, please consider contributing to this special issue of the JN. > > Articles should relate to neurotherapy theories and practice and may consist of original research, reviews, individual case reviews or case series and tutorials. Non-military uses of neurotherapies for these disorders are also welcomed, such as PTSD in civilian populations, EMTs, police and veterans. Potential contributors are welcome to contact Dr. Dan Kirsch, special editor for this issue of the JN which will be 14(4). > > Please feel free to look at our submission guidelines HERE prior to submitting manuscripts. Submissions are due May 30, 2010. > > We look forward to hearing from you. > > Sincerely, > Daniel L. Kirsch, PhD, DAAPM, FAIS > dan@epii.com > Direct: (817) 458-3280 > The Editors of the Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience > > (415) 485-1344 | journal@isnr.org > Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neurosciences > > Submission Information > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100208/38ea1306/attachment.html From benoit.girard at isir.fr Wed Feb 10 11:29:18 2010 From: benoit.girard at isir.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt_Girard?=) Date: Thu Feb 11 11:23:57 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] SAB2010: PAPERS & WORKSHOPS CALLS - INVITED SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED Message-ID: <4B728A7E.8010001@isir.fr> FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 11 The 11th International Conference on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB2010) 24-28 August 2010, Paris, France http://sab2010.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chairs: Jean-Arcady Meyer, Agn?s Guillot, John Hallam Local Organizers : St?phane Doncieux, Beno?t Girard, Jean-Baptiste Mouret VENUE AND INVITED SPEAKERS To celebrate the 20th birthday of the Animat Approach, the last day of the conference will be dedicated to invited talks dealing with "The past and future of the animat (and related) approach(es)", held (on a round trip) at Clos Luc?, last home of Leonardo Da Vinci. Confirmed invited speakers: Michael A. ARBIB Rodney BROOKS IMPORTANT DATES - PAPER & WORKSHOP CALLS STILL OPENED Paper submission deadline, February 22, 2010 http://www.sab2010.org/wiki/Papers Call for workshop deadline, April 1, 2010 http://www.sab2010.org/wiki/Workshops Conference dates, August 25-28, 2010 Workshops date, August 24, 201 The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models---robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models---designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats. Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis: The Animat Approach Motor control Body and brain co-evolution Self-assembling and self-replication Sensory-motor coordination Action selection and behavioral sequencing Navigation and mapping Internal models and representation Evolution, development and learning Motivation and emotion Collective and social behavior Communication and language Emergent structures and behaviors Neural correlates of behavior Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches Autonomous, bio-inspired, and hybrid robotics Autonomous robotics Humanoid robotics Cognitive developmental robotics Software agents and virtual creatures Applied adaptive behavior Animats in education Philosophical and psychological issues Authors should make every effort to suggest implications of their work for both natural and artificial animals, and to distinguish the portions of their work which use simulation from those using a physical agent. Papers that do not deal explicitly with adaptive behavior will be rejected. CONFERENCE FORMAT: Following the tradition of SAB conferences, the conference will be single track, with additional poster sessions. Each poster session will start with poster spotlights giving presenters the opportunity to orally present their main results. PUBLISHER: Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence. Both oral and poster presentations will be published in conference proceedings. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages.Detailed submission instructions are available from the conference Web site. CONTACT US: Please contact us at sab2010 [ at ] isab.org Jean-Arcady Meyer, Agn?s Guillot, John Hallam -- Beno?t Girard, ISIR, UPMC/CNRS Pyramide T55/65, CC 173 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex http://www.isir.upmc.fr/?op=view_profil&lang=fr&id=109 http://www.isir.fr/EvoNeuro/ http://www.sab2010.org/ From weifeng at ieee.org Fri Feb 12 10:02:36 2010 From: weifeng at ieee.org (Weifeng (Aaron) Liu) Date: Fri Feb 12 10:36:08 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] [new book announcement] Kernel Adaptive Filtering: A Comprehensive Introduction (2010) Message-ID: *I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Dear Colleagues, I'm very happy to announce that the following book has been published. Kernel Adaptive Filtering: A Comprehensive Introduction (2010) By Weifeng Liu, Jose C. Principe, and Simon Haykin, Wiley 2010 Description from the publisher: There is increased interest in kernel learning algorithms in neural networks and a growing need for nonlinear adaptive algorithms in advanced signal processing, communications, and controls. Kernel Adaptive Filtering is the first book to present a comprehensive, unifying introduction to online learning algorithms in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Based on research being conducted in the Computational Neural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Florida and in the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, this unique resource elevates the adaptive filtering theory to a new level, presenting a new designing methodology of nonlinear adaptive filters. Kernel Adaptive Filtering is ideal for engineers, computer scientists, and graduate students interested in nonlinear adaptive systems for online applications (applications where the data stream arrives one sample at a time and incremental optimal solutions are desirable). It is also a useful guide for those who look for nonlinear adaptive filtering methodologies to solve practical problems. Please visit the book?s website (http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/~weifeng/publication.htm) for table of contents and more information. -- -------------------------------------------- http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/~weifeng -------------------------------------------- From x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com Thu Feb 11 20:20:09 2010 From: x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com (Xoana G Troncoso) Date: Fri Feb 12 10:36:24 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Final call for Illusion Submissions: 6th annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest Message-ID: <5099dbe71002111120v481a68bche5aca5e61c21a835@mail.gmail.com> ****FINAL CALL FOR ILLUSION SUBMISSIONS: THE 6TH ANNUAL BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST**** http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com ***We are happy to announce the world's 6th annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!*** The deadline for illusion submissions is February 15th, 2010! The 2010 contest will be held in Naples, Florida (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org/) on Monday, May 10th, 2010, as an official satellite of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. The Naples Philharmonic Center is an 8-minute walk from the main VSS headquarters hotel in Naples, and is thus central to the VSS conference. Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***FOUR MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 2009 contest were Arthur Shapiro, Zhong-Lin Lu, Emily Knight, & Robert Ennis (American University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, SUNY College of Optometry, USA), Yuval Barkan & Hedva Spitzer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), and Richard Russel (Harvard University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2009 and previous contests, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Illusion submissions can be novel visual, cognitive, or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2009) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are also admissible. An international panel of impartial judges will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the Contest Gala in Naples, the TOP TEN illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2010 contest, so long as they meet the above requirements and were not among the TOP THREE winners in previous years. Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the authors/creators will retain full copyright. No illusions will be posted on the illusion contest's website without the creators' explicit permission. As with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in to the Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication elsewhere. Submissions can be made to Dr. Xoana Troncoso (Illusion Contest Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (x.troncoso@neuralcorrelate.com) until February 15, 2010. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings (if known). Illusions will be rated according to: . Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award! Xoana Troncoso (Illusion Contest Coordinator) Susana Martinez-Conde (President, Neural Correlate Society) On behalf of the Executive Board of the Neural Correlate Society: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Luis Martinez, Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse The Neural Correlate Society is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote the public awareness of vision research. -- Xoana G Troncoso, PhD Illusion Contest Coordinator http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/ Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience Andersen Laboratory California Institute of Technology 1200 E California Blvd. M/C 216-76 Pasadena, California 91125, USA phone: +1-626-395-8337 email: x.troncoso@neuralcorrelate.com website: www.vis.caltech.edu/~xoana/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Completion of the PhD degree in neuroscience, physics, or a related field is required before the start date. The initial appointment will be for 1 year, and is renewable. Rutgers University offers a highly collaborative first-class training and research environment in computational and systems neuroscience. To apply, please send a cv, brief statement of research interests by email to axon@cortex.rutgers.edu. Please also arrange for two to three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. 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Applicants should have a Master degree (or equivalent) in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Strong analytical skills and sufficient programming experiences are required. An interest in computational and biological vision as well as in neuroscience is desirable. We are interested in applicants with experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision as well as in applicants who graduated in other areas. Good communication skills in English are essential. The concrete PhD project will be defined depending on the applicant's background knowledge and research interests. The offered position is a fully funded research position with a very limited amount of teaching requirements. We are looking for highly qualified candidates and offer internationally competitive salaries. In our research we investigate new advances in modern Bayesian and dynamic approaches to study computational and neural learning. We aim at high-profile research, publish in leading journals and conferences of the field, and offer and encourage collaborations with leading international research groups. Please send applications by March 18, 2010, to Johanna Dilley . Please follow the application procedure described on: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~luecke/OpenPositions/OpenPosition_PhD.html Applications received after March 18 may not be considered. After the submission deadline, the position can and will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found. For further information about the group's research see: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~luecke/ For further information about neuroscience at the FIAS see: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro -- Dr. J?rg L?cke Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~luecke Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt Germany From sean.hill at epfl.ch Fri Feb 12 13:06:38 2010 From: sean.hill at epfl.ch (Sean Hill) Date: Sat Feb 13 04:13:27 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Blue Brain is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuron Modeling Message-ID: Job Description: Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuron Modeling The Blue Brain Project, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, is an international research venture to reverse-engineer the brain and enable next-generation fundamental and medical research through simulation. BBP is now seeking for immediate hire a Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuron Modeling, for immediate hire, to strengthen the project?s computational neuroscience team and to prepare it for the next steps of growth. The primary objective for this position is to contribute to the ongoing large-scale detailed neuron modeling and validation efforts and to advance the model generation and validation of the full diversity of neuron electrical properties and dendritic integration. Scientific leadership is expected to cosupervise computational neuroscience students and the software expertise to interface with the technical teams. The position will involve a close interaction between the electrophysiology lab and computer simulations. Detailed Requirements: ? PhD in the field of computational neuroscience ? expert knowledge in NEURON and multi-compartment conductance-based modeling ? expert knowledge in whole cell electrophysiology, ion channel experiments and models ? expert knowledge in Python and Matlab ? profound knowledge of model specification languages such as NeuroML ? profound knowledge in other programming languages (C++) and parallel computing is of advantage ? ?can-do? attitude for pragmatic prototypes that accompany the global model building and validation strategy ? co-supervision of PhD students ? fluent written and spoken English What we offer: ? An internationally visible and rising project successfully connecting the demanding challenges of research with industry-strength solutions ? Supervision of research projects and publication opportunities ? 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URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100212/398ead38/attachment-0001.html From T.Nowotny at sussex.ac.uk Fri Feb 12 17:43:56 2010 From: T.Nowotny at sussex.ac.uk (Thomas Nowotny) Date: Sat Feb 13 04:13:58 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Dynamical Olfaction, 30-06 to 02-07-2010, Brighton, UK Message-ID: First call for Abstracts, International Workshop on Dynamical Olfaction, 30 June - 2 July, 2010, Brighton, UK Animals are able to experience complexly structured plumes of different combinations of chemicals as individual olfactory percepts. It appears that the olfactory system utilizes rich temporal dynamics to achieve this goal but exactly how is still an open challenge for modern neuroscience. In the last few years rapid progress has been made in our understanding of olfactory information processing. In this focused workshop on Dynamical Olfaction we will share recent developments, both experimental and theoretical, between the active researchers in the field. Confirmed keynote speakers include Maxim Bazhenov, University of California Riverside, USA C. Giovanni Galizia, University of Konstanz, Germany Hong Lei, The University of Arizona, USA Johannes Reisert, Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA Mark Stopfer, National Institutes of Health, USA Massimo Vergassola, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France The programme committee is formed by Jean-Pierre Rospars, INRA Versailles Dominique Martinez, LORIA Nancy & INRA Versailles Thomas Nowotny, University of Sussex Sylvia Anton, INRA Versailles The workshop is financed by the BBSRC in the framework of the PheroSys project, part of the ANR-BBSRC SysBio initiative. Registration IS FREE OF CHARGE but mandatory for our planning. Important Dates: February 12, 2010: First call for abstracts (this call) March 15, 2010: Registration opens April 15, 2010: Deadline for abstract submissions April 30, 2010: Abstract acceptance notifications June 30, 2010: The workshop starts Participation is limited to 100 participants. Contributors will have preferential treatment over other participants. To submit an abstract, direct your browser to http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/users/tn41/signupPhero2010/abstract Further information is available and will be updated regularly on the workshop website http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/tn41/PheroSys2010/index.html If you have additional questions, please contact the local organiser, Chris Buckley at C.L.Buckley@sussex.ac.uk . -- Dr. Thomas Nowotny RCUK Academic Fellow Phone: +44-1273-678593 CCNR, Informatics, Fax: +44-1273-877873 University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ http://sussex.ac.uk/informatics/tnowotny From vcut at bu.edu Fri Feb 12 19:52:19 2010 From: vcut at bu.edu (Vassilis Cutsuridis) Date: Sat Feb 13 04:14:25 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Hippocampal Microcircuits: A Computational Modeller's Resource Book (2010) Message-ID: <4FCA5F376FFA4521BFA919996C09C765@Zeus> Dear Colleagues, we are very happy to announce the publication of our book: Hippocampal Microcircuits: A Computational Modeller's Resource Book (2010) By Vassilis Cutsuridis, Bruce P. Graham, Stuart Cobb, Imre Vida, Springer 2010 Description from the publisher ------------------------------ The hippocampus plays an indispensible role in the formation of new memories in the mammalian brain. It is the focus of intense research and our understanding of its physiology, anatomy, and molecular structure has rapidly expanded in recent years. Yet, still much needs to be done to decipher how hippocampal microcircuits are built and function. Here, we present an overview of our current knowledge and a snapshot of ongoing research into these microcircuits. Rich in detail, Hippocampal Microcircuits: A Computational Modeler?s Resource Book provides focused and easily accessible reviews on various aspects of the theme. It is an unparalleled resource of information, including both data and techniques that will be an invaluable companion to all those wishing to develop computational models of hippocampal neurons and neuronal networks. The book is divided into two main parts. In the first part, leading experimental neuroscientists discuss data on the electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and molecular characteristics of hippocampal circuits. The various types of excitatory and inhibitory neurons are reviewed along with their connectivity and synaptic properties. Single cell and ensemble activity patterns are presented from in vitro models, as well as anesthetized and freely moving animals. In the second part, computational neuroscientists describe models of hippocampal microcircuits at various levels of complexity, from single neurons to large-scale networks. Additionally, a chapter is devoted to simulation environments currently used by computational neuroscientists in developing their models. In addition to providing concise reviews and a wealth of data, the chapters also identify central questions and unexplored areas that will define future research in computational neuroscience. Please visit the book?s website for more information and pricing http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/book/978-1-4419-0995-4 http://www.amazon.com/Hippocampal-Microcircuits-Computational-Modelers-Neuroscience/dp/1441909958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249473984&sr=1-1 From tatiana.engel at yale.edu Fri Feb 12 18:10:57 2010 From: tatiana.engel at yale.edu (Tatiana Engel) Date: Sat Feb 13 04:15:11 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Gordon Research Conference on Neurobiology of Cognition Message-ID: <4B758BA1.9070406@yale.edu> *GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON NEUROBIOLOGY OF COGNITION * Chairs: Xiao-Jing Wang and Robert Desimone; Vice chairs: Nancy Kanwisher and Yang Dan August 1 - 6, 2010, Waterville Valley Resort, NH http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=neurocog Recent advances have ushered in a new era for neurobiological studies of complex cognitive functions beyond early sensory processing. Human studies using fMRI and electrophysiological measures have identified brain systems important for memory, attention, decision making, emotion regulation, and other aspects of cognition. At the same time, neurophysiological studies in behaving animals have discovered neural correlates of many of these same cognitive functions, and computational models have been developed to elucidate the dynamics and cellular properties of the underlying neural networks. Studies of selective attention, for example, extend from systems-level descriptions, neural circuit identification, to computational modeling of "attention-control networks". There is accelerated progress in neuronal recording studies of higher level processes such as decision making, task rules, and executive control, which were previously rarely investigated in animals. Novel experimental techniques and theoretical models hold the promise for uncovering general computational principles and neuronal mechanisms of cognitive behavior at a fundamental level, thereby bringing together circuit neurobiology and cognitive neurosciences. This new Gordon conference series provides a forum for researchers and students to exchange data and discuss ideas on cutting-edge issues in the neurobiology of cognition. Given the broad field, we envision that each meeting will have a somewhat different focus, to facilitate in-depth discussions and at the same time preserve the breadth. A list of session topics and speakers is currently being developed. The program and format of the meeting will be designed to foster intense interactions among investigators from different fields (e.g. between cognitive neuroscientists using human fMRI and neurophysiologists working with behaving animals) or across levels (from cellular and subcellular physiology, microcircuits, to large-scale brain systems), as well as between experimentalists and theorists. The first meeting will take place at Waterville Valley Resort, NH, a beautiful site in the summer with lots of outdoor activity offerings. List of confirmed speakers and discussion leaders: *Session 1. Neuronal activity and fMRI:* Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck, Tubingen) Aniruddha Das (Columbia) *Session 2. Working Memory:* Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) EK Vogel (University of Oregon) Ranulfo Romo (University of Mexico) Albert Compte (IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain) David McCormick (Yale) *Session 3. Decision making:* Ann Graybiel (MIT) Michael Shadlen (University of Washington) Paul Glimcher (New York University) Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford) *Session 4. Selective attention:* Christof Koch (Caltech) Sabine Kastner (Princeton Univ.) John Reynolds (Salk Institute) Tirin Moore (Stanford) Michael Goldberg (Columbia) David Heeger (NYU) *Session 5. Memory networks:* Carol Barnes (University of Arizona) Matt Wilson (MIT) Gyorgy Buzsaki (Rutgers) Ila Fiete (UT Austin) John O'Keefe (University College London) Elisabeth Buffalo (Emory) *Session 6. Task rules and rule switching:* Earl K Miller (MIT) Katsuyuki Sakai (University of Tokyo) Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley) Stefano Fusi (Columbia University) Okihide Hikosaka (NIH) *Session 7. Large-scale brain dynamics:* Carl Petersen (EPFL, Switzerland) Steven Petersen (Washington Univ, Saint Louis) Robert Knight (UC Berkeley) Stanislas Dehaene (College de France, Paris) *Session 8. 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To foster this field in China and other Asian countries, and to help attract young talented students and postdocs to the field, we have developed a new summer school program to be held at a purpose-built academic center in Suzhou, China. This summer course will provide an introduction to theoretical concepts and computational methods in neuroscience. The course will cover the basics of computational neuroscience, ranging from models of single neurons, dendritic processing, subcellular signaling dynamics, short-term and long-term plasticity, neural population coding and variability, to feedforward and recurrent networks, sensory processing and motor behavior, and higher cognitive functions such as working memory, selective attention and decision making. Lectures from top-notch computational and systems neuroscientists will provide an opportunity for students to learn about cutting-edge issues. 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We are also pleased to extend the paper deadline to allow researchers an opportunity to combine papers with the demonstrations to represent and explain their approaches in the best light. Demonstrations should be either live computer simulations or physical demonstrations. Methods will be evaluated based on: (1) extent and coverage of learning compared to (2) the number of scenarios the methods are applicable. Discussions will follow to form a consensus on what constitutes the most promising strategies. Demonstration application forms are attached and due on Feb 15, 2010. Please join the AGI community in our quest for general intelligence. 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Name: AGI-2010-Call-For-Demonstrations-Form.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 70909 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100214/ed1869b4/AGI-2010-Call-For-Demonstrations-Form-0001.pdf From jonrubin at pitt.edu Mon Feb 15 21:21:15 2010 From: jonrubin at pitt.edu (Jonathan Rubin) Date: Tue Feb 16 11:52:42 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CNS*2010 Call for Abstracts, Deadline Extended to Feb 26th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B79ACBB.7070105@pitt.edu> CNS*2010 Annual International Computational Neuroscience Conference July 24 - July 30, 2010 San Antonio, Texas, USA http://www.cnsorg.org CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - CNS*2010 EARLY MEETING REGISTRATION OPEN: January 15, 2010 EARLY MEETING REGISTRATION CLOSED: May 15, 2010 (11 PM Pacific Time, USA) REGISTRATION WEBSITE: http://www.cnsorg.org/2010 or https://www.regonline.com/CNS2010 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN: January 18, 2010 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 26, 2010 (11 PM Pacific Time, USA) NOTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE: April 16, 2010 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WEBSITE: http://www.cnsorg.org/2010/submission.shtml CNS*2010 will be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA July 24-30th, 2010. The meeting will kick off with a day of tutorials and an evening welcome reception on July 24th. The main meeting of CNS*2010 will take place from Sunday July 25th-Wednesday July 28th, including a special Symposium, "Computational Neuroscience: What have we learned in 20 years and what do we still need to know?", on the afternoons of July 26th-27th. These events will be followed by two days of workshops on July 29-30th (Thursday-Friday). The main meeting will be held in the historic Sheraton Gunter Hotel in central San Antonio, one block from San Antonio's Famous River Walk. San Antonio is home to several universities including the University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio and the University of Texas San Antonio, which are both sponsoring CNS*2010. As is traditional, the CNS banquet will be an interesting and culturally themed event, hosted at Sundance Ranch on July 28th. Submissions can include experimental, model-based, as well as more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. We especially encourage research that mixes experimental and theoretical studies. We also accept papers that describe new technical approaches to theoretical and experimental issues in computational neuroscience or relevant software packages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Miguel Nicolelis, Duke University, USA, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Lecturer Vivian Mushahwar, University of Alberta, Canada Jonathan Wolpaw, Wadsworth Center and SUNY, USA SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS: John Miller, Montana State University, "Analysis of invertebrate nervous systems as models for understanding complex function" Ron Calabrese, Emory University, "The more we look, the more biological variation we see: How has and should this influence modeling of small networks? Alain Destexhe, CNRS - France, "The Nervous System, still noisy after all these years?" Upinder Bhalla, NCBS- Bangalor India, "Still looking for the memories: molecules and synaptic plasticity." John Rinzel, NYU, ?Modeling neuronal dynamics - our trajectory?? Bruno Olshausen, University of California Berkeley, "Learning about vision: questions we've answered, questions we haven't answered, and questions we haven't yet asked.? Sharon Crook, Arizona State University, ?Learning from the past: Approaches for Reproducibility in Computational Neuroscience? Avrama Blackwell, George Mason University, "Calcium: the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything" Christiane Linster, Cornell University, ?The olfactory system, still computing, but how??? Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, ?20 years of oscillations and memory: The long and winding road linking cellular mechanisms to behavior.? TUTORIALS: Emery N. Brown, MIT: Neural Signal Processing Algorithms Astrid Prinz, Emory: Brute force exploration of high-dimensional conductance spaces Steven Schiff, Penn State: Neural control engineering Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins: Computational Motor Control & OTHERS TBA WORKSHOPS: see www.cns.org/2010 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Submissions to the meeting will take the form of a formatted abstract. Submission instructions, submission website, and a full description of the review process are at http://www.cnsorg.org/2010/submission.shtml. Authors wanting an oral presentation are required to also submit a 1-3-page summary (for the OCNS reviewers only) describing the nature, scope and main results of the work in more detail. The summaries will be reviewed to construct the oral program. All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. OPEN ACCESS, CITABLE ABSTRACT PUBLICATION: The formatted abstracts will again be published as a Supplement to the online journal BMC Neuroscience. The supplement is citable, indexed by PubMed, and open access. At least one author must register for CNS*2010 by the early registration deadline of May 15, 2010 for the abstract to be published and included in the program book. Last year's abstracts are available at the URLs: --http://www.cnsorg.org/meetings/archives/CNS2009.shtml --http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/10?issue=S. AWARDS: A limited number of travel grant awards, based on abstract review, will be available to students. Travel awards are also available for students and postdoctoral fellows attending Tutorials and for postdoctoral fellows presenting at Workshops through a National Science Foundation grant to Ranu Jung at the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, Arizona State University. Women and underrepresented minorities in STEM are particularly encouraged to apply. See instructions for requesting travel awards at www.cnsorg.org. Recipients of travel grants will be notified by May 5, 2010. Student posters presented at CNS*2010 will also be judged for cash prizes awarded at the meeting. Please check www.cnsorg.org periodically for announcement of additional categories of awards for postdoctoral fellows. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: The CNS*2010 meeting is organized by the Organization for Computational Neurosciences, Inc. President: Erik De Schutter (U Antwerp, Belgium and OIST, Japan) Past President: Ranu Jung (Arizona State U, USA) Program chair: Don H. Johnson (Rice U, USA) Local organizers: James Bower, Charles Wilson, and Todd Troyer (U Texas, San Antonio, USA) Program Committee: Victoria Booth (U Michigan, USA) Hide Cateau (RIKEN, Japan) Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State U, USA) Andrew Davison (UNIC, France) Jean-Marc Fellous (U Arizona, USA; Publication Chair) Boris Gutkin, (ENS, France) Jeanette Hellgren-Kotaleski (Royal Institute of Technology & Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Simon Schultz (Imperial College, UK) Harel Shouval (U Texas Medical School, USA) Volker Steuber (U Hertfordshire, UK) Miriam Zacksenhouse (Technion, Israel) ___________________________________________________________________________ OCNS - Organization for Computational Neurosciences, Inc. http://www.cnsorg.org From kp at it.uu.se Wed Feb 17 11:15:54 2010 From: kp at it.uu.se (Kristiaan Pelckmans) Date: Wed Feb 17 11:31:33 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] call for Ph.D: Systems and Signals Tools for Estimation and Analysis of Mathematical Models in Endocrinology and Neurology Message-ID: <4B7BC1DA.4070104@it.uu.se> ** Call for a Ph.D. project on 'Identification of Medical Endocrine Systems' ** The research group Syscon in the department of Information Technology of Uppsala University (Sweden) (http://www.it.uu.se/research/syscon) invites applications for a Ph.D. studentship (4-5 years). The succesful applicant will work in the context of the ERC project on engineering for endocrine systems, entitled "Systems and Signals Tools for Estimation and Analysis of Mathematical Models in Endocrinology and Neurology". Especially motivated students with a strong background in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics or alike are encouraged to apply. This research will be conducted under supervision of Kristiaan Pelckmans, Alexander Medvedev and Petre Stoica. In this Ph.D. project we will explore different approaches to unravell complex interaction networks as observed in hormonal, dynamical systems of the human body. The study of such endocinous systems is important in order to understand cause and consequence of different diseases, notably Parkinsons' and type II Diabetes. The key point is that such systems use complex interaction strategies, typically taking the form of pulsatile signals of concentration of hormones in the blood stream. As classical modeling tools are often not satifactoy for such signals, ample room for improvement and further exploration of either theoretical or applied research remains in this area. The applicant will work in the framework of a larger cooperation with different medical teams, and work towards a practical solution based on a sound theoretical foundation. In order to obtain this, we will combine the best of such exciting research areas as system identification, machine learning, signal processing, theoretical computer science, flavoured with a healthy engineering perspective. The closing date for applications is at the end of februari. The official anoucement will follow in due time. If you are interested or have any question, contact Kristiaan Pelckmans (kp@it.uu.se). From fairhall at u.washington.edu Wed Feb 17 00:58:21 2010 From: fairhall at u.washington.edu (Adrienne Fairhall) Date: Wed Feb 17 11:54:06 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Methods in Computational Neuroscience course, MBL, MA: Applications due Mar 8 Message-ID: Announcing the 2010 Methods in Computational Neuroscience course, to be held at MBL, Woods Hole, MA from Aug 1 to 19. The goal of this intensive course is to develop an understanding of mathematical and computational methods applied to neurobiology by seeing these tools at work in particular systems. Pairings of experimentalists and theorists show how collaborative mathematical approaches have eludicated the computational principles at work at all levels of neural systems, from single cells to cognition. The course covers neural coding, dynamical systems applied to single neurons, dendritic arbors and networks, and learning and memory. 2010 speakers include: Larry Abbott Bill Bialek Mitya Chklovskii Rava da Silveira Winfried Denk Bard Ermentrout Michale Fee Ila Fiete Michael Hausser Dan Johnston Roozbeh Kiani Nancy Kopell David Kleinfeld Eve Marder Kevan Martin Mayank Mehta Jonathan Pillow Elad Schneidmann Reza Shadmehr Sara Solla Haim Sompolinsky Karel Svoboda Miles Whittington Directed by Adrienne Fairhall and Michael Berry. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE MARCH 8! From x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com Wed Feb 17 01:48:43 2010 From: x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com (Xoana G Troncoso) Date: Wed Feb 17 11:57:08 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Illusion submission EXTENSION: 6th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest! Message-ID: <5099dbe71002161648xc7c904fqbf1ffe2476a2757c@mail.gmail.com> ***DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND*** --The deadline for the 6th annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest has been extended. FINAL (no exceptions) submission date is now ***March 5th***! http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Many of the most outstanding illusion creators in the world have asked us to extend the deadline so as to perfect their contributions for the Contest! The 2010 contest will be held in Naples, Florida (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org/) on Monday, May 10th, 2010, as an official satellite of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. The Naples Philharmonic Center is an 8-minute walk from the main VSS headquarters hotel in Naples, and is thus central to the VSS conference. The voters at the 6th Annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest gala, in Naples, Florida, will certainly see the Best and Most Exciting New Illusions of the Year. This award is chosen by the community, and not by a committee, so please come and make your vote! James Randi (aka The Amaz!ng Randi) the renowned magician, escapologist, and skeptic, will give a presentation/magic performance during the vote counting! Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***FOUR MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 2009 contest were Arthur Shapiro, Zhong-Lin Lu, Emily Knight, & Robert Ennis (American University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, SUNY College of Optometry, USA), Yuval Barkan & Hedva Spitzer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), and Richard Russel (Harvard University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2009 and previous contests, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Illusion submissions can be novel visual, cognitive, or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2009) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are also admissible. An international panel of impartial judges ( http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/judges/) will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the Contest Gala in Naples, the TOP TEN illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2010 contest, so long as they meet the above requirements and were not among the TOP THREE winners in previous years. Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the authors/creators will retain full copyright. No illusions will be posted on the illusion contest's website without the creators' explicit permission. As with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in to the Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication elsewhere. Submissions can be made to Dr. Xoana Troncoso (Illusion Contest Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (x.troncoso@neuralcorrelate.com) until March 5, 2010. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings (if known). Illusions will be rated according to: . Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award! 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MLSP 2010 is the twentieth workshop in the series of workshops sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society. It will present the most recent and exciting contributions in machine learning for signal processing through keynote talks as well as special and regular single-track sessions. INVITED SPEAKERS: - Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge - Prof. Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University - Dr. Henry Tirri, Head of Nokia Research Center ORGANIZATION: General chair: Erkki Oja Program chairs: Samuel Kaski, David Miller Special session chairs: Samy Bengio, Mikko Kurimo Publicity chairs: Marc Van Hulle, Jaakko Peltonen Web and publication chairs: Antti Honkela, Jan Larsen Data competition chairs: Vince Calhoun, Kenneth Hild, Mikko Kurimo Local arrangements: Tapani Raiko (chair), Francesco Corona, Ali Faisal, Mari-Sanna Paukkeri VENUE: MLSP 2010 will be held in the Levi Summit conference and exhibition centre in Kittila, Finland. Levi is one of the largest resorts in Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle. In the summer, Levi offers many sports activities as well as lots of wild northern nature. The conference centre is located high on the hillside of the Levi fell, accessible by gondola from the main village. CONFERENCE TOPICS: Machine learning in signal processing is concerned with tasks such as detection, estimation, prediction, classification, and optimization, with a wide range of applications. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for MLSP 2010: - Bayesian learning and signal processing - Cognitive information processing - Graphical and kernel methods - Information-theoretic learning - Learning theory and algorithms, including bounds on performance - Supervised learning, including signal detection, pattern recognition and classification - Unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning - Source separation and component analysis - Data fusion and integration - Feature extraction, information visualization - Sparse and structured representations - Neural network learning - Time-series analysis - Adaptive filtering - Data mining, information retrieval - Sequential learning and sequential decision methods - Hardware implementation of machine learning in signal processing - Applications of machine learning: Bioinformatics, Biomedical and neural signal processing, Neuroinformatics, Speech and audio processing, Image and video processing, Computer vision, Sensor networks, Robot control, Communications, Cognitive radio, Multimodal interfaces and context modeling, Intelligent multimedia and web processing SPECIAL SESSION: A special session "Towards multimodal proactive interfaces using large-scale machine learning" is being organized. For more information see http://mlsp2010.conwiz.dk . DATA COMPETITION: In conjunction with the workshop, a data and signal analysis competition "Mind Reading" is being organized. Winners will present their works and receive their award during the Workshop. For more information see http://mlsp2010.conwiz.dk . PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure described at http://mlsp2010.conwiz.dk . Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press; electronic proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and included in IEEE Xplore. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of an international journal. SPONSORS: MLSP 2010 is supported by IEEE, by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, by the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence, and by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. The data competition is sponsored by Nokia and the PASCAL2 Challenge Program. ========= See http://mlsp2010.conwiz.dk for more details! ========= From thomas.wennekers at plymouth.ac.uk Wed Feb 17 20:05:36 2010 From: thomas.wennekers at plymouth.ac.uk (Thomas Wennekers) Date: Wed Feb 17 20:23:28 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] STM2010 -- Spike Train Analysis Workshop, 2/3 June 2010 - registration open Message-ID: <201002171905.36194.thomas.wennekers@plymouth.ac.uk> Dear All The following call may be of interest to members of this list. Regards Thomas ============================================== Workshop on Spike Train Measures and Their Applications to Neural Coding 2/3 June 2010 in Plymouth/UK http://helen.pion.ac.uk/stm2010 This workshop addresses the central question in Computational Neuroscience which aspects of neural firing patterns matter functionally and which may be of less importance. In the past, various heuristic measures have been used to characterise spike train data such as firing rates, interspike intervals, pair-correlations, and so on. More recently, advanced tools have been proposed that more systematically explore coding properties of neurons and neural ensembles. These comprise, for example, higher-order statistics, information-based interaction and complexity measures, spike-train metrics, or detailed computational models which allow to understand and predict spike-timing in neurons faithfully. The workshop aims at reviewing some of these recent advances, especially progress on spike train metrics and complementary measures to characterise and predict neural firing patterns. Experimental studies, modelling, data-analysis, and theoretical contributions are equally welcome. Possible topics comprise but are not restricted to - progress on single and multiple-unit spike train metrics - information-theoretic approaches addressing spike patterns - statistical characterisation of multiple unit firing patterns - heuristic measures to characterise neural coding properties - fitting of computational models from spike trains - spike train prediction - applications in data analysis and neural coding The workshop will consist of invited talks, discussions, and a poster session. Invited Speakers (70% confirmed) Matthias Bethge (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany) Christian Borgelt (European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain) Bruno Cessac (Institute Non Lineare, Nice, France) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Peter Latham (UCL, UK) Marcello Montemurro (University of Manchester, UK) Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga (University of Leicester, UK) Stefan Rotter (University of Freiburg, Germany) Simon Schultz (Imperial College, UK) Jonathan Victor (Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA) Date and time: 2.June 2010 9:30 to 3.June 13:00 Venue: The University of Plymouth, UK Participation is free, but registration *is* required. Limited travel funds for students will be available. For further information regarding registration, location, travel information, please visit the workshop webpage at http://helen.pion.ac.uk/stm2010 Organisers: Thomas Wennekers (University of Plymouth, UK) Sonja Gruen (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan) Roman Borisyuk (University of Plymouth, UK) Leslie Smith (University of Stirling, UK) This workshop is generously funded by the UK Spike Train Network and the UK Neuroinformatics Node. ___________________________________________________________ Thomas Wennekers, Dr rer-nat Dipl Phys, Reader Centre for Robotic and Neural Systems Drake Circus, Portland Square Bldg, Room A218 University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom Phone: +44(0)1752-584917 Email: Thomas.Wennekers@plymouth.ac.uk http://www.pion.ac.uk/~thomas ___________________________________________________________ From horwitzlab at gmail.com Wed Feb 17 19:22:53 2010 From: horwitzlab at gmail.com (Horwitz Lab) Date: Wed Feb 17 20:24:03 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Computational Neuroscience: Vision Message-ID: <70d81c7b1002171022y67d7b3h22991104f3d5a1e8@mail.gmail.com> *Summer course* *COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE: VISION* June 18 ? July 1, 2010 COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY *Application Deadline: March 15, 2010* Arranged by Geoffrey Boynton, Gregory Horwitz, and Stefan Treue The course is offered every two years and gives 24 graduate students and postdocs switching into this field of research the chance for intensive interchange with a diverse faculty in an intellectually stimulating environment. The goal of the course is to introduce students (usually in the middle of their thesis project) to the processing of visual information as a model for general issues in systems neuroscience. The emphasis is on approaches with strong theoretical bases. In addition to talks by an international faculty, the course offers ample opportunity to interact with the speakers and to apply the knowledge gained in the course through hands-on projects. Please see *http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-visi10.shtml*for more information about the course, the faculty, and the application procedure. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100217/57a8c1b4/attachment.html From dorney at cnbc.cmu.edu Wed Feb 17 21:20:07 2010 From: dorney at cnbc.cmu.edu (Barbara Dorney) Date: Thu Feb 18 10:09:27 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] SAND5 Second Announcement Message-ID: <4B7C4F77.904@cnbc.cmu.edu> The fifth international workshop on Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND5) will take place May 20-22, 2010, in Pittsburgh, PA. Partial travel support is available. Requests for support should be made by MARCH 15. There will be talks by senior investigators and junior investigators. The talks by young investigators (graduate student or postdoc/faculty within 5 years of Ph.D.) will be selected on a competitive basis. Any young investigator interested in presenting their work as a talk should submit an abstract by MARCH 15. Please see our website: http://sand.stat.cmu.edu There will also be a poster session, to which all participants are invited to contribute. This workshop series is concerned with analysis of neural signals from various sources, including EEG, fMRI, MEG, 2-Photon, and extracellular recordings. It aims to * define important problems in neuronal data analysis and useful strategies for attacking them; * foster communication between experimental neuroscientists and those trained in statistical and computational methods * encourage young researchers, including graduate students, to present their work; * expose young researchers to important challenges and opportunities in this interdisciplinary domain, while providing a small meeting atmosphere to facilitate the interaction of young researchers with senior colleagues. Talks and posters may involve new methodology, investigation of existing methods, or application of state-of-the-art analytical techniques. We expect there to be a special issue of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience devoted to analysis of neural data, including many papers from this workshop. Here are the confirmed speakers: Stu Geman (Brown) Sonja Gruen (Riken) Nancy Kopeell (Boston U.) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon) Partha Mitra (Cold Spring Harbor) Tirin Moore (Stanford) Clay Reid (Harvard) Walt Schneider (Pittsburgh) Matt Smith (Pittsburgh) Garrett Stanley (Georgia Tech) Mriganka Sur (MIT) The organizers are Emery Brown, Elizabeth Buffalo, Rob Kass, Liam Paninski, and Jonathan Victor. From ted.carnevale at yale.edu Thu Feb 18 19:26:42 2010 From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale) Date: Thu Feb 18 19:41:29 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] NEURON Meeting and Parallellizing Network Models course deadline approaching Message-ID: <4B7D8662.7080203@yale.edu> There is still time to sign up for the 2010 NEURON Simulator Meeting and/or the Course on Parallelizing Network Models with NEURON, but you'll have to act quickly because registration closes on Friday, February 26--just a week from tomorrow. The NEURON Simulator Meeting will take place on March 22 and 23 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. The agenda includes talks, symposia, and workshops on topics that are listed here https://www.neuron.yale.edu/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1863 In addition, there will be special presentations by Michael Hines on the following topics: * NEURON + Python * Parallel NEURON * Multithreaded simulations A couple of seats are still available for the Course on Parallelizing Network Models with NEURON. This course will run from March 24-26, immediately following the NEURON Simulator Meeting. It is intended for individuals who have already developed their own network models with NEURON that run on "serial" computers, which they now want to port to parallel hardware. Each day will include a mix of didactic presentations and discussions interspersed with hands-on coding sessions in which participants put what they have learned to practical use on their own problems. For more information about the Meeting and Course, and for the on-line registration form, see http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/static/meetings/nsm2010.html --Ted From g.akmayeva at i-society.eu Mon Feb 15 17:34:15 2010 From: g.akmayeva at i-society.eu (i-Society 2010) Date: Fri Feb 19 13:22:03 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on E-Learning Security (ELS-2010) Message-ID: <1191354329.143340.1266251655567.JavaMail.open-xchange@oxltgw02.schlund.de> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. Thanks! The Second Workshop on E-Learning Security (ELS-2010) in conjunction with The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter June 28-30, 2010, London, UK (www.i-society.eu) Objectives The aim of the ELS-2010 Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in E-Learning Security and to discuss the latest advanced technologies in this area. This workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, and tools for building E-Learning Security. Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: ? Security and Privacy in E-Learning ? Security Issues on E-Learning Assessments ? E-Learning Security Auditing ? Biometrics in E-Learning ? Secure E-Learning Development and Application ? Digital Rights Management (DRM) for E-Learning ? Emerging E-Learning Markets Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: March 15, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2010 Conference Dates: June 28-30, 2010 Paper Submission The style file and templates is available at Paper Submission. Please submit your full paper(s) in PDF format via email to els-2010@i-society.eu For further details, please visit http://www.i-society.eu/Workshops.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics: - Neuronal Morphological Modeling - Neuronal Morphological Simulators - Neuronal Morphology: Form-Function relationships - Neuronal Reconstruction - Neuroinformatics of Neuronal Morphology: databasing, standardization, etc Confirmed speakers: Giorgio Ascoli (George Mason University) Luciano da Fontoura Costa (Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina) Hermann Cuntz (University College London) Rodney Douglas (Institute of neuroinformatics) Boris Gutkin (Ecole Normale Superieure) Christiaan de Kock (VU University Amsterdam) Marcel Oberlaender (Max Planck Florida Institute) Arjen van Ooyen (VU University Amsterdam) Jaap van Pelt (VU University Amsterdam) Imad Riachi (Blue Brain Project) Arnd Roth (University College London) Klaus Stiefel (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Volker Steuber (University of Hertfordshire) Ben Torben-Nielsen (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Gabriel Wittum (Universitat Frankfurt) Registration for this workshop is free but required. Lunches and coffee/tea will be provided for registered participants. For more information please visit the workshop website: http://www.irp.oist.jp/tenu/btn/neurons2010/main.php Organizers: Ben Torben-Nielsen (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) Jaap van Pelt (VU University Amsterdam) Arjen van Ooyen (VU University Amsterdam) Klaus M. Stiefel (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) This workshop is financed by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and, the VU University Amsterdam. --- Dr. Ben Torben-Nielsen Theoretical and Experimental Neuroscience Unit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology --- Dr. Ben Torben-Nielsen Theoretical and Experimental Neuroscience Unit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology From claussen at inb.uni-luebeck.de Fri Feb 19 13:40:04 2010 From: claussen at inb.uni-luebeck.de (Jens Christian Claussen) Date: Fri Feb 19 16:15:58 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] PhD / postdoc position in theoretical sleep modeling Message-ID: <4B7E86A4.2040304@inb.uni-luebeck.de> Applications are invited for two PhD (or postdoc) position(s) in theoretical and computational neuroscience of sleep, located within the project SFB 654-A8 "Thalamocortical modeling" (project leaders PD Dr. Jens Christian Claussen and Prof. Dr. Thomas Martinetz), embedded in the research collaboration SFB 654 "Plasticity and Sleep". The applicants are expected to contribute to the theoretical and numerical modeling of the thalamocortical system, modeling of plasticity in sleep, and to the development and application of nonlinear data analysis methods. We are eager to fill one PhD position (in the modeling direction) immediately, and a second PhD position with starting date 1. of July (nonlinear data analysis applied to EEG data and to simulated time series). For position 1 (E13/2) a strong background in computational neuroscience and/or nonlinear dynamics / statistical physics is reqired. For position 2 (E13/2) a solid background in physics or applied mathematics with working experience in complex systems or interdisciplinary physics would suit ideally. For both positions, additional background in nonlinear control theory, neuroinformatics, neurobiology or systems biology would be a plus. Alternatively, we would consider applications from an experienced postdoc (salary E13) who can strongly contribute to both directions and to co-supervise master and/or bachelor students. Interested candidates on the postdoc level are encouraged to enquire and apply as soon as possible. The positions are located within the project A8 "Modeling the thalamocortical system in sleep" (PD Dr. Jens Christian Claussen and Prof. Dr. Thomas Martinetz) in the collaborative research cluster (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB-654 "Plasticity and Sleep". We expect the ability to interdisciplinary research and collaboration with medical research groups. In addition, high motivation and dedication, the ability to work in a team as well as the capability to independent and creative research, excellent programming skills, and well-grounded (written and oral) research presentation skills (in english language) are required. The positions are initially for one year (postdoc) or two years (for PhD students), an extension of one year is possible. The positions can be filled on a full-time (E13, for a postdoc) or part-time basis (E13/2, for PhD students). The level of salary will be adjusted according to the qualifications of the candidate and can be up to E13 level of the TV-L public salary scale (subject to alterations). The university aims for a balance of female and male employees. Equally suitable, qualified and performing women are preferentially considered. The university is committed to employment of disabled persons. Therefore disabled candidates are preferentially considered. Applicants are asked to send (at earliest possibility) their application (pdf, including cv, publications, exam results, and adresses of academic references who could be contacted for a recommendation letter) to claussen@inb.uni-luebeck.de and martinetz@inb.uni-luebeck.de -- PD Dr. Jens Christian Claussen claussen@inb.uni-luebeck.de Institut f. Neuro- und Bioinformatik Univ. Luebeck +49-451-5005412 http://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/staff/claussen/ From triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Fri Feb 19 17:01:07 2010 From: triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jochen Triesch) Date: Fri Feb 19 17:36:58 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] ICDL (deadline EXTENDED): 9th International Conference on Development and Learning Message-ID: <57F0D54B-C190-41D6-88B9-014E504B66AA@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> Submission deadline EXTENDED to March 6 9th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA http://www.icdl-2010.org August 18-21, 2010 ICDL is the premiere venue for interdisciplinary research that blends the boundaries between robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, motor, behavioral, emotional and other related capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. While most other conferences focus on either mechanisms or organisms, ICDL focuses on both! The papers presented at the conference are split approximately 50-50 between the "natural intelligence side," such as neuroscience and psychology, and the "artificial intelligence side," such as machine intelligence and robotics. This diversity is mirrored in the composition of the organizing committee and the ICDL governing board. Please join us in 2010 when we celebrate our 10-th anniversary. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * General principles of development * Cognitive and perceptual development * Developmental learning: schedules and architectures * New methodologies to study natural and artificial intelligence. * Statistical learning in humans and machines * Embodied cognition * Play and exploration in animals, infants and robots * Interactive learning * Cultural learning * Social and emotional development * Theory of mind * Language acquisition * Skill acquisition * Intrinsic motivation * Dynamic systems * Attention mechanisms and their role in development * Philosophical issues of development and learning * Differences between learning and development * Interactions of learning and development with evolution * Grounding of knowledge and representations * Studies and models of developmental disorders, e.g., autism * Using robots to study development and learning * Human-Robot interaction * Visual, auditory, and tactile systems and their development * Motor systems and their development * Biological and biologically inspired developmental architectures * Neural plasticity during development. ICDL 2010 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. 2) Two-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 2-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: ** Mar 06, 2010 Full 6-page paper submissions due ** Changed from Feb 20 May 20, 2010 Notification of accept/reject for papers May 27, 2010 2-page poster abstracts due June 10, 2010 Notification of accept/reject for abstracts June 20, 2010 Camera-Ready Copy due July 20, 2010 Early Registration Deadline Aug. 18-21, 2010 Conference General Chairs: * Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan * Thomas Shultz, McGill University Program Chairs: * Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University * Chen Yu, Indiana University, Bloomington Publicity chairs: * Ian Fasel, University of Arizona, USA (for North America) * Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (for Europe) * Jun Tani, RIKEN, Japan (for Asia). Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl-2010.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100219/fab35c51/attachment.html From erik at oist.jp Mon Feb 22 07:17:37 2010 From: erik at oist.jp (Erik De Schutter) Date: Mon Feb 22 10:20:03 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoctoral position in network modeling of the cerebellum Message-ID: <3D0025D1-17CA-4D79-9F88-74D69FC1284C@oist.jp> A postdoctoral position is available in the Computational Neuroscience Unit of Dr. Erik De Schutter at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (http://www.irp.oist.jp/cns/people.html) for large scale network simulations of the cerebellum. We have build an anatomically detailed 3D network model of cerebellar cortex with physiologically realistic neural spiking and synaptic properties. The postdoc will use this model to study population coding in the cerebellar cortex and/or the effect of distributed synaptic plasticity on cerebellar learning. In addition, the postdoc will contribute towards expanding this network model to include the cerebellar nuclei and olivary nucleus. Candidates should have experience in data-driven neural network modeling, preferentially using the NEURON simulator. Previous interest in the research questions mentioned or in cerebellar function is recommended. The postdoc is expected to interact with other researchers and students in the lab who are working on related projects. We offer attractive financial and working conditions in an English language environment located on a beautiful subtropical island. Starting date from June 2010 onwards. More information about the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology is available at http://www.oist.jp/ Send curriculum vitae, summary of research interests and experience, and the names of three referees to Dr. Erik De Schutter at erik@oist.jp From Eugene.Izhikevich at braincorporation.com Mon Feb 22 00:23:04 2010 From: Eugene.Izhikevich at braincorporation.com (Eugene M. Izhikevich) Date: Mon Feb 22 10:20:19 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Vision Neuroscience Positions at Brain Corporation Message-ID: <4b81c05a.8702be0a.3435.79e9@mx.google.com> A number of full-time vision neuroscience positions are available immediately at Brain Corporation, San Diego, CA at the level of scientist (postdoc), senior scientist (assistant professor), and principal scientist (associate/full professor) to complement the existing team of computational neuroscientists in developing a biologically detailed spiking model of the mammalian visual system. REQUIREMENTS: All candidates must have both (1) lab experience doing in vivo vision neuroscience and electrophysiology, including single- or multiunit recordings, and (2) published record of research analyzing unit activity. Preference will be given to those who collaborate with computational neuroscientists on spiking models and spike-timing dynamics. The major responsibility of the vision neuroscientists will be daily theoretical brainstorming with computational neuroscientists on spiking models of visual processing. The principal scientist will lead the whole neuroscience group. No programming is required, though familiarity with MATLAB and C/C++ is a plus. Brain Corporation is funded to pursue an ambitious goal of developing a biologically realistic spiking model of visual processing. It is located in the proximity to the UCSD campus and the Salk Institute. Employee compensation package at Brain Corporation includes annual performance-based bonuses, matching 401k contributions, and a stock option grant. Additionally, employees have access to facilities and amenities of its partner - Qualcomm Inc. - a leader in semiconductor technology. Submit your resume and relevant papers to Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich at . In your cover letter address both requirements. Selection of candidates will start at the COSYNE meeting. -- Eugene M. Izhikevich Chairman & CEO Brain Corporation QRC-224L 5775 Morehouse Drive San Diego, CA, 92121 From nschult at emory.edu Sun Feb 21 23:24:01 2010 From: nschult at emory.edu (Nathan W. Schultheiss) Date: Mon Feb 22 10:20:43 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] announcement of new JNS paper Message-ID: <20100221172401.20473ye2psid9gu9@webmail.service.emory.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication of a paper from Nathan W. Schultheiss, Jeremy R. Edgerton, and Dieter Jaeger in the current issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. Please see the article: Phase Response Curve Analysis of a Full Morphological Globus Pallidus Neuron Model Reveals Distinct Perisomatic and Dendritic Modes of Synaptic Integration Nathan W. Schultheiss, Jeremy R. Edgerton, and Dieter Jaeger J. Neurosci. 2010;30 2767-2782 http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/7/2767?etoc Cheers, Nathan From r.c.miall at bham.ac.uk Mon Feb 22 09:45:10 2010 From: r.c.miall at bham.ac.uk (Chris Miall) Date: Mon Feb 22 10:21:11 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Two professorial posts, Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Message-ID: <4B824416.5040001@bham.ac.uk> A reminder that there are two professorial positions available, closing date March 30th, in a new centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Other positions in this centre will follow later. Details of the 2 posts are found at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAJ748/chair-in-computational-neuroscience/ and http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAP976/chair-in-cognitive-robotics/ Chris Miall, Glyn Humphreys, Jeremy Wyatt. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Professor R.C. Miall Behavioural Brain Sciences Tel +44 121 414 2867 School of Psychology, Fax +44 121 414 4897 University of Birmingham, Mobile: 07709 586997 Edgbaston, Email: r.c.miall@bham.ac.uk Birmingham B15 2TT UK Web: http://prism.bham.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------- From kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de Mon Feb 22 11:21:32 2010 From: kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Mon Feb 22 12:21:19 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoc-Positions in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <000701cab3a8$ce1cec00$6a56c400$@uni-freiburg.de> ?Structure and dynamics of cortical networks? Computational Neuroscience lab ? Prof. Stefan Rotter (www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de) Our goal is to understand the interplay between network topology and spiking activity dynamics in the neocortex and other parts of the mammalian brain, and to explore the possibilities and constraints of dynamical brain function. Our main tools are mathematical/numerical network modeling and statistical data analysis, often used side by side within the framework of stochastic point processes and statistical graph theory. In collaboration with physiologists and anatomists, we seek to develop new perspectives for the model-based analysis and interpretation of neuronal signals. We are a young group of researchers from mathematics, physics, computer science and biology and invite applications to join the lab for a 2-3 year PostDoc project, and to enter the PostDoc program in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center Freiburg. The Bernstein Center Freiburg concentrates research in Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The projects are highly interdisciplinary and span from mathematical-theoretical approaches on the function and dynamics of neuronal networks over neuroanatomy and experimentally driven neurophysiology up to the development of technologies for medical application. Further details on: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de/jobs Contact: Dr. Janina Kirsch Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email:?kirsch@bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de From kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de Mon Feb 22 11:19:21 2010 From: kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Mon Feb 22 12:21:23 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Ph.D.-Positions in Computatational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <000301cab3a8$801e2fa0$805a8ee0$@uni-freiburg.de> ?Structure and dynamics of cortical networks? Computational Neuroscience lab ? Prof. Stefan Rotter (www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de) Our goal is to understand the interplay between network topology and spiking activity dynamics in the neocortex and other parts of the mammalian brain, and to explore the possibilities and constraints of dynamical brain function. Our main tools are mathematical/numerical network modeling and statistical data analysis, often used side by side within the framework of stochastic point processes and statistical graph theory. In collaboration with physiologists and anatomists, we seek to develop new perspectives for the model-based analysis and interpretation of neuronal signals. We are a young group of researchers from mathematics, physics, computer science and biology and invite applications to join the lab for a 3-4 year PhD project, and to enter the PhD program in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center Freiburg. The Bernstein Center Freiburg concentrates research in Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The projects are highly interdisciplinary and span from mathematical-theoretical approaches on the function and dynamics of neuronal networks over neuroanatomy and experimentally driven neurophysiology up to the development of technologies for medical application. Further details on: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de/jobs Contact: Dr. Janina Kirsch Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email:?kirsch@bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de From mlittman at cs.rutgers.edu Mon Feb 22 14:42:42 2010 From: mlittman at cs.rutgers.edu (Michael Littman) Date: Mon Feb 22 16:02:09 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Rutgers seeks Cognitive Science Director Message-ID: Computational neuroscientists with a strong cognitive bent might be interested in the following opening. The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University is searching for a new director. The ideal candidate is an outstanding scholar with proven administrative abilities and a vision for the future of cognitive science at Rutgers. A primary goal of the Center is to understand aspects of intelligent performance such as perception, language processing, decision making, problem solving, reasoning, learning and knowledge formation. RuCCS has 22 jointly appointed faculty members and 30 associates who play an active role in the intellectual life of the Center. The Center promotes the integration of techniques and knowledge drawn from a wide variety of fields, primarily psychology, computer science, linguistics and philosophy. The Center offers a Certificate for graduate students and a minor and major for undergraduates. Candidates should be at the Full Professor level. Salary is negotiable. Consideration of applications will begin on March 29, 2010. Please see the posting at http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ruccs/jobs.php for details on the position as well as contact information. Rutgers is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. From m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 22 17:45:00 2010 From: m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1t=E9_Lengyel?=) Date: Mon Feb 22 18:18:58 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Summer School on "Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines" Message-ID: <525A2AF2-71C6-4484-90E2-72DFDD52816D@eng.cam.ac.uk> We invite applications for the Summer School on "Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines" that will be held in Budapest, Hungary between 5-9 July 2010. http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/beliefs/index-beliefs.php *Note extended deadline: 15 March 2010* The aim of the course is to demonstrate that some basic principles of decision making can provide a unifying framework for constructing intelligently behaving artefacts on one hand, and for explaining human and animal cognition both in simple as well as in the most complex domains of behaviour on the other hand. To achieve this, lectures will progress via domains of gradually increasing abstraction that machine learning algorithms and humans deal with starting from representing uncertainty and beliefs about unobserved quantities, through learning internal models of the environment, to making adaptive and successful decisions. The course is aimed at students, post docs, and junior faculty working in machine learning, cognitive science, neuroscience, or related fields, and especially those who are interested in a combination of these approaches. Faculty: - J?zsef Fiser, Brandeis University, Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program, USA - Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK - M?t? Lengyel, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK - Michael N. Shadlen, University of Washington, Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA - Daniel Wolpert, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK (Apologies for crossposting.) From jeedward at yahoo.com Wed Feb 24 03:20:24 2010 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Wed Feb 24 11:15:50 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for papers: Computational Neuroscience and Neural Computation Message-ID: <785083.27701.qm@web45910.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research area is related to the following session. Call for papers: Computational Neuroscience and Neural Computation There is a special session on computational neuroscience and neural computation at the 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. We invite paper submissions from all areas related to neural computation. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) ? International Conference on Computer Networks (CCN-10) ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) ? International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) ? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) ? International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) ? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee PS: While submitting the draft paper (please see submission instructions at the website), please include the session name at the top of the email body. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ready to use codes in Matlab/Octave and Mathematica are available as supplementary material for the paper, and also in the link given below. Still better, a JavaScript page is online (link below) to quickly try out the efficacy of this method. Your feedback is most welcome. Thank you.... ramana dodla PS: Please see the cover-art of the journal for bigger plots of phase function applied to ISIs as few as 3, and as many as more than 600. TITLE: A Phase Function to Quantify Serial Dependence between Discrete Samples AUTHORS: Ramana Dodla and Charles J. Wilson JOURNAL: Biophysical Journal 98:L05-L07, 2010 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2009.11.003 ONLINE COMPUTATION: http://marlin.life.utsa.edu/~ramana/phase_function_online/index.html ABSTRACT: Auto- and cross-correlation methods, when applied to discrete events, can determine periodicity and correlation times within and between event train sequences. However, if the number of available events for analysis is too few, the correlation techniques yield ambiguous and insufficient results. Here we report a technique based on measurements of phases of event times that could detect the periodicity even among very few discrete data points. The results are demonstrated on in vitro neuronal spike time data, and are found to be highly contrasting when compared with the correlation techniques. The technique could become invaluable, for example, for treating in vivo spike time records that often last very short duration, or for determining short timescales in discrete biophysical experimental data. COVER PICTURE: A method based on relative phases between discrete time events is used to capture the serial correlations in an experimental spike train. The figure depicts phase correlations of a spike train with itself as a function of time lag by including an increasing number of time events. The top five traces are autophase function curves for a spike train with as few as 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 time events, respectively. The bottom three traces use 14, 68, and 673 time events, respectively. For a large number of events, the phase function produces a profile equivalent to a corresponding correlation function. But for a very few number of events, it can show a measurable profile where a correlation function may fail to reliably detect one. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Program, which is targeted to exceptionally qualified students from diverse academic backgrounds, is designed to allow students to supplement their knowledge in areas in which they lack adequate academic training. The Program offers an advanced interdisciplinary curriculum and provides students with the opportunity to conduct ground-breaking research. The program provides students with expertise in: ? Neurobiology ? the relationships between the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system to its function and techniques used in modern research. ? Physics ? theory of dynamical systems with applications to neural networks, computation and learning. ? Computer science and engineering ? signal processing, statistical learning theory and information theory. ? Psychology ? with an emphasis on cognition, memory and perception. Students who have completed their bachelor's degree in any field with an average of 85 or higher, or those who have completed a master's degree in any field, are eligible to apply to the doctoral program. Foreign students must have equivalent grades and degrees. Admission is contingent on the approval of the Program's admissions committee. Candidates should send the following information by electronic mail to Ms. Ruthi Suchi, the administrative director of the ICNC ( icnc@alice.nc.huji.ac.il): 1. Current CV 2. One-page statement of scientific interests and objectives 3. Two or more letters of recommendation 4. Transcripts from each university attended 5. Proof of English proficiency (required only for non-native speakers of English, details can be found http://icnc.huji.ac.il/phd/eng/registration/). The deadline for applications is March 31, 2010. Tuition for overseas students is approximately $4,000 per year for the first two years. Accepted students are entitled to a fellowship (which amounts to an annual stipend of approximately $10,000) and partial support towards tuition. Fellowships are made possibly by the generous support of the Alice and Jack Ormut Foundation. For further information, see http://icnc.nc.huji.ac.il/phd/eng/information/or contact Prof. Israel Nelken (director of the program), at israel@cc.huji.ac.il. Jerusalem offers an unparalleled mix of past and present culture. From world-class restaurants and caf?s to historical religious sites, the city is a melting pot of ancient roots and modern innovations. Jerusalem is rich in art galleries, museums, theaters and concert halls. Exciting festivals, exhibitions, sports competitions, and other special events are held throughout the year. For further information on life in Jerusalem, see http://tour.jerusalem.muni.il/. -- Prof. Israel Nelken Dept. of Neurobiology The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences Edmond Safra Campus, Givat Ram Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL Tel: ++972-2-6584229 Fax: ++972-2-6586077 israel@cc.huji.ac.il -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100224/b9e64c55/attachment.html From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Wed Feb 24 13:43:17 2010 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Wed Feb 24 15:30:21 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] (Springer's) COGNITIVE COMPUTATION journal - Special Issue on Cognitive Behavioural Systems - Final CFP Message-ID: <49B9316FE82149C085A3C7DE76C5B730@cs.ad.stir.ac.uk> Cognitive Computation (Springer, USA) - Final Call for Papers Special Issue on ?Cognitive Behavioural Systems? Guest Editors: Simon Haykin (McMaster University, ON, Canada) Anna Esposito (Second University of Naples, Italy) Marcos Faundez?Zanuy (Escola Politecnica de Mataro, Barcelona, Spain) Amir Hussain (University of Stirling, UK) Janet Silfka (Vlingo, Boston, USA) Cognitive processes, such as inference, categorization, and memory, are not independent from their physical instantiations. Individuals? choices, perception, and actions emerge and are dynamically affected /enhanced by the interaction between sensory?motor systems and the inhabited environment (that includes the organizational, cultural, and physical context). This interplay brings up instantiations of cognitive behavioural systems. In this context, we are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of the Cognitive Computation journal on ?Cognitive Behavioural Systems?. This call is open to all researchers involved in the field. Submissions are invited in the following areas: Human factors and behavioural patterns; Interactive and unsupervised multimodal systems; Analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication signals; Cross modal analysis of audio and video; Spontaneous face?to?face interaction; Advanced acoustical and perceptual signal processing; Audiovisual data encoding; Fusion of visual and audio signals for recognition and synthesis; Identification of human emotional states; Analysis of gesture, speech and facial expressions; Implementation of intelligent avatars; Annotation of extended MPEG7 standard; Human behaviour and unsupervised interactive interfaces; Cognitive and psychological modelling of body?to?body interaction; Artificial life; Cultural and socio?cultural variability; Important Dates: a.. Submissions Deadline (NEW): APRIL 15 2010 b.. First notification of acceptance: JULY 1, 2010 c.. Submission of revised papers: AUG 15, 2010 d.. Final notification to the authors: OCT 1, 2010 e.. Submission of final/camera?ready papers: NOV 1, 2010.. Publication of special issue - Vol.2, Issue 3, 2010 (tentative) Submission requirements: All papers should follow the manuscript preparation requirements for the Cognitive Computation submissions, see http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559 Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts via the online submission site, available at the above link, to the attention of Professor Anna Esposito explicitly mentioning ?Submission to the Cognitive Behavioural Systems: Special Issue? in the Subject line. Further information: Cognitive Computation is now indexed in DBLP - See: http://dblp.uni?trier.de:80/db/journals/cogcom/index.html ? where you will find links to all papers published until now. -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100224/bedff8b3/attachment-0001.html From rm at cs.tu-berlin.de Thu Feb 25 15:55:11 2010 From: rm at cs.tu-berlin.de (Robert Martin) Date: Thu Feb 25 16:17:04 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for applications: Doctoral Program in Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience Message-ID: <4B868F4F.4010803@cs.tu-berlin.de> ~~~~~~~~ REMINDER ~~~~~~~~ The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin and the TU Berlin invite applications for *6 Fellowships* of its new Research Training Group ?Sensory Computation in Neural Systems? (GRK 1589/1). Doctoral candidates will develop computational methods for the study of sensory computations, focusing on time and dynamics, and apply these in experiments. To this end, the training group brings machine learning and engineering together with neural and cognitive modeling as well as experimental approaches. Each student will be supervised by two investigators with complementary expertise and will be associated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, http://www.bccn-berlin.de/, a well-known research center dedicated to the theoretical study of neural processing. Candidates are expected to hold a Masters degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g., neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, physics, etc.) and have the required advanced mathematical background. The deadline for application is March 15, 2010. Successful applicants will be invited for a short presentation and an interview, expected to take place in April 2010. The fellowships of approximately 1500 ?/month will be granted for up to three years. For further information concerning the program and the application procedure, see http://www.bccn-berlin.de/Jobs/job/?contentId=2284 or e-mail Robert Martin, rm@cs.tu-berlin.de. -- Robert Martin, PhD Administrator, GRK 1589/1, "Sensory Computation in Neural Systems", and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin Neural Information Processing Group TU Berlin, FR 2-1, Franklinstrasse 28/29, 10587 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49-30-314 24753 From s.schultz at imperial.ac.uk Fri Feb 26 19:59:09 2010 From: s.schultz at imperial.ac.uk (Schultz, Simon R) Date: Sun Feb 28 13:18:44 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 3 PhD positions available Message-ID: <0F5B1057-861F-4646-ACB1-7DBBD14330BC@imperial.ac.uk> Dear Computational Neuroscientists, The Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London has three fully funded PhD studentships available to UK/EU citizens who have been resident in the UK for 3 years. Imperial is one of the world?s top engineering schools, with a growing and highly collaborative neuroscience community as well as strengths in related disciplines such as robotics, computing, photonics, cell biology, and nanotechnology. The Department of Bioengineering has an exciting and expanding group of computational and systems neuroscience researchers, and I would thus like to encourage PhD applications in this area. Relevant Academic Faculty include Anil Bharath, Etienne Burdet, Aldo Faisal, Kenneth Harris, Holger Krapp and Simon Schultz. For more information, see the following page: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/bioengineering/courses/phd/phd_positions The deadline for applications to be received is 31 March, although we would advise applicants to contact a potential PhD supervisor well before this date. ------------------- Simon R Schultz Senior Lecturer Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London. South Kensington Campus, Royal School of Mines Building, London SW7 2AZ, UK http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/s.schultz From tbosse at few.vu.nl Sat Feb 27 11:26:40 2010 From: tbosse at few.vu.nl (Tibor Bosse) Date: Sun Feb 28 13:19:18 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for Papers - HAI 2010 Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications (HAI'10) URL: http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI10/ Toronto, Canada, August 31, 2010 Workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'10) Call for Papers Background Recent developments within Ambient Intelligence and Agent Technology provide new possibilities to contribute to personal care. For example, an intelligent ambient agent in our car may monitor us and warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or take measures when we are too drunk to drive. As another example, an elderly person may wear a device with an ambient agent that monitors his or her wellbeing and generates an action when a dangerous situation is noticed. Such Ambient Intelligence applications can be based on the one hand on possibilities to acquire sensor information about humans and their functioning, but on the other hand, more knowledgeable applications crucially depend on the availability of adequate knowledge for analysis of such information about human functioning. If such knowledge about human functioning is computationally available in intelligent software/hardware agents within devices in the environment, these agents can show more human-like understanding and contribute to personal care based on this understanding. In recent years, scientific areas focusing on human functioning such as cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience and biomedical sciences have made substantial progress in providing an increased insight in the various physical and mental aspects of human functioning. Although much work still remains to be done, models have been developed for a variety of such aspects and the way in which humans (try to) manage or regulate them. From a more biomedical angle, examples of such aspects are (management of) heart functioning, diabetes, eating regulation disorders, and HIV-infection. From a more psychological and social angle, examples are emotion regulation, attention regulation, addiction management, trust management, stress management, and criminal behaviour management. If models of human processes and their management are represented in a formal and computational format, and incorporated in the human environment in agents that monitor the physical and mental state of the human, then such ambient agents are able to perform a more in-depth analysis of the human's functioning. An agent-based ambience is created that has a human-like understanding of humans, based on computationally formalised knowledge from the human-directed disciplines, and that may more effectively affect the state of humans by undertaking in a knowledgeable manner actions that improve their wellbeing and performance. This may concern elderly people and patients, but also humans in highly demanding circumstances or tasks. For example, the workspaces of naval officers may include systems that, among others, track their eye movements and characteristics of incoming stimuli (e.g., airplanes on a radar screen), and use this information in a computational model that is able to estimate where their attention is focussed at. When it turns out that an officer neglects parts of a radar screen, such a system can either indicate this to the person, or arrange on the background that another person or computer system takes care of this neglected part. Aims This workshop series addresses multidisciplinary aspects of Ambient Intelligence and Agent Systems with human-directed disciplines such as psychology, social science, neuroscience and biomedical sciences. The first workshop in the series (HAI'07) took place at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI'07), in Darmstadt, Germany, November 2007. The second workshop in the series (HAI'08) took place at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08), in Sydney, Australia, December 2008. The third workshop in the series (HAI'09) took place at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), in Milan, Italy, September 2009. The aim of the workshops is to get researchers together from these human-directed disciplines or working on cross connections of Ambient Intelligence with these disciplines. The focus is on the use of knowledge from these disciplines in Ambient Intelligence applications, in order to take care of and support in a knowledgeable manner humans in their daily living in medical, psychological and social respects. The workshop can play an important role, for example, to get modellers in the psychological, neurological, social or biomedical disciplines interested in agent-based Ambient Intelligence as a high-potential application area for their models, and, for example, get inspiration for problem areas to be addressed for further developments in their disciplines. From the other side, the workshop may make researchers in Ambient Intelligence, Agent Systems, and Artificial Intelligence more aware of the possibilities to incorporate more substantial knowledge from the psychological, neurological, social and biomedical disciplines in ambient agent architectures and applications. As part of the interaction, specifications may be generated for experiments to be addressed by the human-directed sciences. Some of the areas of interest * human-aware computing * computational modelling of cognitive, neurological, social and biomedical processes for Ambient Intelligence * modelling emotion and mood and their regulation * social awareness modelling * collecting and analysing histories of behaviour * computational modelling of mindreading, theory of mind * building profiles; user modelling in Ambient Intelligence * sensoring; e.g., tracking physiological states, gaze, body movements, gestures * sensor information integration methods * analysis of sensor information; e.g., voice and skin analysis with respect to emotional states, gesture analysis, heart rate analysis * environmental modelling * situational awareness * model-based reasoning and analysis techniques for Ambient Intelligence * responsive and adaptive systems; machine learning * cognitive agent models * reflective ambient agent architectures * multi-agent system architectures for Ambient Intelligence applications * human interaction with devices * wearable devices for ambient health and wellness monitoring * brain-computer interfacing * analysis and design of applications to care for humans in need of support for physical and mental health; e.g., elderly or psychiatric care, surveillance, penitentiary care, humans in need of regular medical or psychological care, support for psychotherapeutical/self-help communities * analysis and design of applications to support humans in demanding circumstances and tasks, such as warfare officers, air traffic controllers, crisis and disaster managers, humans in space missions * evaluation studies * handling aspects of privacy and security; philosophical and ethical aspects Submission and Proceedings Papers can be submitted in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines, as for the IAT'10 conference). Expected length is 4 pages, with the possibility to buy one additional page. Double submission is allowed (for example, for papers submitted to the main conference IAT'10), but inclusion in the proceedings requires that the paper was and is not published elsewhere. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshop. More submission details will follow at the workshop's Website: http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI10/ Registration For every accepted paper at least one author has to register for the WI / IAT-2010 conference. There is no separate workshop registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). Important Dates Submission deadline April 16, 2010 Notification June 7, 2010 Camera ready papers June 21, 2010 Workshop August 31, 2010 Coordination Commitee Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing and Mathematics) Tibor Bosse (contact person, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) Programme Committee Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing and Mathematics) Marc B?hlen (State University of New York, USA) Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, InfoMus Lab) Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University, Ubicomp Lab, Taiwan) Rino Falcone (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction) Peter Leijdekkers (University of Technology Sydney, Mobile Ubiquitous Services & Technologies Group, Australia) Paul Lukowicz (Austrian University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology) Silvia Miksch (Danube University Krems, Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering) Jose del Millan (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne EPFL, Research Institute IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland) Neelam Naikar (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Centre for Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis, Australia) Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Distributed and Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Japan) Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction) Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Japan) Steffen Pauws (Philips Research Europe, Media Interaction Department, Netherlands) Christian Peter (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock, Human-Centered Interaction Technologies, Germany) Nitendra Rajput (IBM Research, Telecom Research Innovation Center, India) Tomasz M. Rutkowski (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) Maarten Sierhuis (NASA Ames Research Center, Human-Centered Computing, USA) Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Dept of Computer and Information Science) Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science Department) Bruce H. Thomas (University of South Australia Mawson Lakes, Wearable Computer Lab, Australia) Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) From dorianaur at gmail.com Sun Feb 28 17:20:01 2010 From: dorianaur at gmail.com (Dorian Aur) Date: Mon Mar 1 10:28:20 2010 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Neuroelectrodynamics: Understanding the Brain Language [new book] Message-ID: <69c4fe01002280820h3345bbbfyc86469288e1fb8c@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, We are very happy to announce the publication of our book: *Neuroelectrodynamics: Understanding the Brain Language (2010)* By Dorian Aur and Mandar S.Jog, IOS Press, 2010 *Description from the publisher: * The essence of brain function consists in how information is processed, transferred and stored. Current neurophysiological doctrine remains focused within a spike timing paradigm, but this has a limited capacity for advancing the understanding of how the brain works. This book puts forward a new model; the neuroelectrodynamic model (NED), which describes the intrinsic computational processes by the dynamics and interaction of charges. It uses established laws of physics, such as those of classical mechanics, thermodynamics and quantum physics, as the guiding principle to develop a general theoretical construct of the brain?s computational model, which incorporates the neurobiology of the cells and the molecular machinery itself, along with the electrical activity in neurons, to explain experimental results and predict the organization of the system. After addressing the deficiencies of current approaches, the laws and principles required to build a new model are discussed. In addition, as well as describing experiments which provide the required link between computation and semantics, the book highlights important concepts relating the theory of information with computation and the electrical properties of neurons. The NED model is explained and expounded and several examples of its application are shown. Of interest to all those involved in the fields of neuroscience, neurophysiology, computer science and the development of artificial intelligence, NED is a step forward in understanding the mind in computational terms. Please, visit the book?s website for more information and pricing ( http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=9781607500919) or (http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_b/fl9781607500919.pdf) *CHAPTER 1. Understanding the Brain Language* ? Myths, Controversies and Current Challenges ? Spike Timing ? Current Challenges ? Issues of Brain Computation ? How can Information be Represented in the Brain ? Interdisciplinary Formalism *CHAPTER 2. Imaging Spikes ? Challenges for Brain Computations* ? Methods, Models and Techniques ? From Spikes to Behavior *CHAPTER 3. Information and Computation* ? What is Computation? ? Neurons as information engines *CHAPTER 4. Models of Brain Computation* ? Dynamics Based Computation ? The Power of Charges ? Quantum Model ? Combining Many Worlds ? The Thermodynamic Model of Computation *CHAPTER 5. From Brain Language to Artificial Intelligence* ? How are memories stored? ? Spike Timing ? An Incomplete Description ? Instead of Discussion Comments and critiques are most welcome! ** Apologies for cross-posting ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20100228/fe326eb2/attachment.html