Connectionists: CFA RIKEN BSI 2007 Summer School

[hiroyuki nakahara]

Dear colleagues,

I forward the following information.    

- Hiro Nakahara



Call for Applications

RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2007 Summer Program
URL: http://www.brain.riken.jp/english/f_summ/f0_top.html
Application deadline; February 28th, 2007
Lecture Course: July 23 - August 3    
Internship: July 4 - August 29 

Every summer, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Wako, Japan; nearby Tokyo)
organizes the international summer school. The short summary of the
summer school this year is attached below. Application guideline, 
further information of the coming and past summer schools and etc are 
on the above URL. 

The summer school program has two types of applications. One is to
attend the lecture course (July 23 - August 3). The course has a a nice
mixture of experimental and theoeretical lectures. The other is to have
a two-months intership in one of laboratories at RIKEN Brain Science
Instiute in addition to the attendance at the lecture course. In both
types, financial support for travel and accommodation will be considered
for those without external funding. 

For questions, please send any general inquiry not to me but to the
adminstration or organizing committee of the summer school on the
the summer school URL(http://www.brain.riken.jp/english/f_summ/f0_top.html),
while you can send inquiry to me if it is specifically about my
laboratory (lab URL: http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp/index_eng.html). 


2007 Summer Program Title; Brain Science: Mystery and Mission

2007 is the 10th anniversary of RIKEN BSI. Coinciding with the early
years of the 21st century, this is a special occasion for celebrating
past achievements in brain science, as well as, importantly,
articulating the shape of the field in the decades to come. The theme of
this Summer Program, therefore, is deliberately broad. A roster of
international researchers will lecture on their area of expertise, and
join in considering new directions of brain science and its long-term
role in society. We hope students will gain further inspiration for
their own mystery and mission in the years ahead.

Invited Lecturers 

Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Terrence Deacon (UC Berkeley, USA)
John Donoghue (Brown University)
Aike Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Zhigang He (Children's Hospital, Boston, USA)
Masao Ito (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Erich Jarvis (Duke University, USA)
Mitsuo Kawato (ATR, Japan)
Akihiro Kusumi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Klaus-Peter Lesch (Univ. of Wurzburg, Germany)
Pierre-Marie Lledo (Institut Pasteur, France)
Nikos Logothetis (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Carol Mason (Columbia University, USA)
Klaus Obermayer (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin,Germany)
Dennis O'Leary (Salk Institute)
Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Josh Sanes (Harvard University, USA)
Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Charles Weissmann (Scripps Florida, USA)
George Yancopoulos (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA)


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Hiro Nakahara
Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa Wako
Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
Email: hn at brain.riken.jp
Lab webpage: http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp/index_eng.html

-- 
hiroyuki nakahara 
http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp