From m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 1 10:24:27 2010 From: m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1t=E9_Lengyel?=) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:24:27 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Summer School on "Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines" Message-ID: 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 jpezaris at gmail.com Mon Feb 1 16:14:42 2010 From: jpezaris at gmail.com (John Pezaris) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:14:42 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: AREADNE 2010 Call for Abstracts Message-ID: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT -- and -- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AREADNE 2010 Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles June 17 - 20, 2010 Nomikos Conference Center Santorini, Greece http://www.areadne.org info at areadne.org INTRODUCTION One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand how the activation of large populations of neurons give rise to higher order functions of the brain including learning, memory, cognition, perception, action and ultimately conscious awareness. Electrophysiological recordings in behaving animals over the past forty years have revealed considerable information about what the firing patterns of single neurons encode in isolation, but it remains largely a mystery how collections of neurons interact to perform these functions. Recent technological advances have provided a glimpse into the global functioning of the brain. These technologies include functional magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging methods including intrinsic, voltage-sensitive dye, and two-photon imaging, high-density electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography, and multi-microelectrode array electrophysiology. These technologies have expanded our knowledge of brain functioning beyond the single neuron level. At the same time, our understanding of how neuronal ensembles carry information has allowed the development of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to enhance the capabilities of patients with sensory and motor deficits. Knowledge of how neuronal ensembles encode sensory stimuli has made it possible to develop perceptual BMIs for the hearing and visually impaired. Likewise, research in how neuronal ensembles decode motor intentions has resulted in motor BMIs by which people with severe motor disabilities can control external devices. CONFERENCE MISSION First and foremost, this conference is intended to bring scientific leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the functioning of neuronal ensembles. Second, the meeting will provide an informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini in which attendees can discuss and share ideas outside of the presentations at the conference center. Third, this conference continues our long term project to form a systems neuroscience research institute within Greece to conduct state-of-the-art research, offer meetings and courses, and provide a center for visiting scientists from around the world to interact with Greek researchers and students. FORMAT AND SPEAKERS The conference will span four days, in morning and early evening sessions. Confirmed speakers include experts in the field of multi-neuron experiment and analysis (in alphabetic order): David Anderson (Caltech), Helen Barbas (Boston University), Carlos Brody (Princeton University), Matteo Carandini (University College London), Jose Carmena (University of California Berkeley), Bob Desimone (MIT), Tim Ebner (University of Minnesota), Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington), Eb Fetz (University of Washington), Tamar Flash (The Weizmann Institute of Science), David Freeman (University of Chicago), Georgia Gregoriou (University of Crete), Melina Hale (University of Chicago), Michael Hausser (University College London), Jeff Lichtman (Harvard University), Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics), John O'Keefe (University College London), Cathy Ojakangas (University of Chicago), Bijan Pesaran (New York University), Hans Scherberger (German Primate Center), Maneesh Sahani (UCL Gatsby Institute), Alcino Silva (University of California Los Angeles), Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research), Mike Shadlen (University of Washington), Irini Skaliora (Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens). CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We are currently soliciting abstracts for poster presentation. Submissions will be accepted electronically, and must be received by March 12, 2010. Automated email acknowledgment of submission will be provided, and manual verification will be made a few days after submission. Notification of acceptance will be provided by March 30, 2010. Please see our on-line Call for Abstracts at http://areadne.org/2010/call-for-abstracts.html for additional details. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Nicho Hatsopoulos, Co-Chair John Pezaris, Co-Chair Catherine Ojakangas Yiota Poirazi Thanos Siapas Andreas Tolias FOR FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please see the conference web site http://www.areadne.org or send email to info at areadne.org. -- Dr. J. S. Pezaris AREADNE 2010 Co-Chair Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114, USA john at areadne.org From wsenn at cns.unibe.ch Wed Feb 3 10:03:30 2010 From: wsenn at cns.unibe.ch (Walter Senn) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:03:30 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Biological Cybernetics: vol 102, issue 2 --- Table of Content Message-ID: <4B699042.6060400@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 tom.verguts at UGent.be Wed Feb 3 07:04:02 2010 From: tom.verguts at UGent.be (Tom Verguts) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:04:02 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Faculty position Message-ID: The department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, is looking for a lecturer (docent) or senior lecturer (hoofddocent) in the field of Memory and Cognition, starting from 1 October 2010 (see official vacancy below or at http://www.ugent.be/en/news/vacancies/autonomous/BC2010-pp01 ) As of next academic year, the department will have 8 full-time faculty members, as well as many post-doctoral researchers and PhD-students. The Department offers a stimulating research environment in which the main topics include cognitive control, working memory, cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, computational modeling, and numerical cognition. The department has facilities for behavioral research (RT-labs, studio), eye-tracking (Eye-Link 1000), and neurocognitive research (ERP, fMRI, TMS). The department is highly ambitious, internationally oriented, and has expanded greatly during the last years. For more information see: http://expsy.ugent.be/ Official Profile The faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences has a vacancy for a professorship, starting from October 1, 2010. It concerns a position as full-time Professor in the rank of Lecturer (docent) or Senior Lecturer (hoofddocent) in the Department of Experimental Psychology, charged with academic teaching (in Dutch), scientific research and carrying out scientific duties in the field of memory and cognition. Profile: ? candidates should hold a PhD or a degree with a doctoral thesis or a degree recognized as equivalent and have at least two years of postdoctoral experience on October 1, 2010; ? candidates are required to have research experience in the field of study concerned, proved by active participation in international and national scientific meetings and by recent publications in national and international peer reviewed journals; ? having proved experience in international mobility, amongst others through participation in research programmes at research institutions not linked to the university where the highest degree was obtained, is recommended; ? candidates are required to possess the necessary didactic, organizational and communicative skills for teaching at an academic level. The governing language at Ghent University is Dutch. However, persons who do not speak Dutch as a native language are welcome to apply. More detailed information on this vacancy and on the way this job fits in the department?s strategy can be obtained from prof. Rob Hartsuiker, head of the department (phone: +32 (9) 264 64 36, mailto:Robert.Hartsuiker at UGent.be Depending on the specific profile of the selected candidate, the degree of lecturer or senior lecturer will be granted. A full-time position at the entry level of Lecturer implies a five-year temporary appointment in a tenure track system. If the university board positively evaluates the performance of the person involved, the position lead to a permanent position in the rank of Senior Lecturer. A full-time position at the entry level of Senior Lecturer will lead to a tenured position. However, in the case of a first appointment as professor, the Board of Governors of Ghent University may decide to appoint the candidate for a maximum period of three years, after which he/she may be eligible for tenure following a positive evaluation. As teaching at Ghent University is mostly in Dutch, such evaluation may include the acquired ability to teach in Dutch. Applications must be sent in duplicate by registered mail to the rector of Ghent University, Rectorate building, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Ghent, using the specific application forms Autonomous Academic Staff ("ZAP"), including the necessary attestations of competence (copies of degrees), the 5th of March, 2010 at the latest. The application forms for Autonomous Academic Staff (ZAP) ? can be obtained at Ghent University, Department of Personnel and Organization, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Gent. ? can be requested by phone: +32 (0) 9 264 31 29 or + 32 (0) 9 264 31 30. ? can be downloaded from the internet: http://www.ugent.be/nl/werken/aanwerving/formulieren/zap -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The pdf, matlab implementation, sample datasets, and supplement material can be downloaded from http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic/research/emd.htm best regards Danilo Mandic ---------------- Dr Danilo Mandic Communications and Signal Processing Research Group Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London, United Kingdom From wegall at nsi.edu Wed Feb 3 19:25:36 2010 From: wegall at nsi.edu (W. Einar Gall) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:25:36 -0800 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral positions available at The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla Message-ID: <6AD03F89547641B9BEEB92050159EB34@admin.nsi.edu> Positions are currently open for Postdoctoral Fellows in computational neuroscience to join a team of researchers in creating large-scale, spiking network models of sensorimotor control in the mammalian central nervous system. Building on two decades of experience at The Neurosciences Institute, these simulations will be incorporated into autonomous Brain-Based Devices that perform various behavioral tasks. A suitable candidate should have a background in neurobiology, neural modeling experience, and strong programming skills. Located in La Jolla, California, The Neurosciences Institute focuses its theoretical and experimental research on the principles underlying how we perceive and act upon the world, how we learn and remember, and how consciousness arises. Interested candidates should send a curriculum vitae including the names of three references to Dr. W. Einar Gall, Research Director, The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121 or to jobs7 at nsi.edu. The Neurosciences Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer. From huajin.tang at gmail.com Thu Feb 4 02:53:54 2010 From: huajin.tang at gmail.com (Huajin Tang) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:53:54 +0800 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral position in neuromorphic engineering at Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Message-ID: <1c8c580a1002032353p45d361efg1c1c8245b1cc4050@mail.gmail.com> Applicants are invited for a Postdoctoral position in the field of neuromorphic engineering with the focus on hardware implementation of cognitive memory by using a combined approach of neural system modeling and biological plausible microcircuit. The postdoctoral stay is funded for 3 years. The successful applicant will work in a research program in the Institute for Infocomm Research, that is funded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore?s lead government agency dedicated to fostering world-class scientific research and talent. For more information about our research and environment, please visit http://www.a-star.edu.sg/, http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/. The successful candidate is expected to apply neuromorphic microelectronic technology and novel synaptic, memory materials to develop a hardware that is scalable and able to emulate large-scale cognitive memory system. He/she will work in an interdisciplinary team of researchers in mathematics, computer science, microelectronics, and neuroscience. Main objective of the post-doctoral work is to investigate and design the functional microchip with the capabilities for memory storage/retrieval, spatial-temporal pattern encoding and learning. Requirements: - PhD in Computer Science / Electronics & Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering or related disciplines. - Strong background in neuromorphic engineering, CMOS, FPGA or VLSI design and fabrication. - A strong research record. - Programming skills with Matlab/C++. - Fresh graduates with relevant Postgraduate experience are welcome to apply. Desirables: - Background of computational neuroscience (neocortex, cognitive memory and synaptic plasticity, etc). - Expertise in neural circuits, memory encoding and spike-based learning. - Experience in design of neuronal chip. Enquiries can be sent to Dr. Huajin Tang (htang at i2r.a-star.edu.sg). Applications including a CV, a motivation letter (statement of research interests) and the names of two references should be received before 30 March 2010 for a full consideration. The review will begin immediately and the position is open until filled. 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The project involves applying methodologies of lesion and neuroimaging studies to carry out experiments with neurological patient populations and normal controls to explore the neural basis of emotion-reason interactions, where "reason" is interpreted broadly. Applicants must have a PhD (or M.D.) in a relevant area such as cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, behavioral/neural economics, evolutionary psychology, etc., and a track record of writing and publishing scientific articles. They must also be fluent in spoken and written English, knowledgeable about the relevant literature on thought and emotional processes, and experienced in the design and analyses of patient/behavioral studies and/or or fMRI studies, and/or TMS studies, and/or ERP studies. Knowledge of computer programming is also very desirable. The project is a collaboration between Vinod Goel's Cognitive Neuroscience of Reasoning Lab (see http://psy.hull.ac.uk/Staff/v.goel/ ) at the Department of Psychology, University of Hull and the Cognitive Neuroscience Section, NIH, headed by Dr. Jordan Grafman (see http://intra.ninds.nih.gov/lab.asp?org_id=83). The position may well require splitting time between Hull, UK and North America. The post is available from 1st May 2010 (flexible) for a maximum of two years. Informal enquires can be made to Vinod Goel, e-mail: v.goel at hull.ac.uk. Applications consisting of a letter of interest, CV, including names of three referees, and sample articles should be sent to v.goel at hull.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100204/8a924ed1/attachment.html From bschrauw at elis.UGent.be Thu Feb 4 09:53:18 2010 From: bschrauw at elis.UGent.be (Benjamin Schrauwen) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:53:18 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: CFP for workshop on "Cognitive and Neural Models for Automated Processing of Speech and Text" Message-ID: <68E8BA16-1EAB-4CAA-B903-CDF9109309DD@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: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100204/db55230a/attachment-0001.html From oby at cs.tu-berlin.de Fri Feb 5 09:09:03 2010 From: oby at cs.tu-berlin.de (Klaus Obermayer) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:09:03 +0100 (MET) Subject: Connectionists: PhD fellowships, Bernstein Center Berlin Message-ID: The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) and the Technical University of Berlin invite applications for several fellowships (3 yrs.) within 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 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 at cs.tu-berlin.de. From ianfasel at mplab.ucsd.edu Sun Feb 7 14:30:34 2010 From: ianfasel at mplab.ucsd.edu (Ian Fasel) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:30:34 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Submission is now open Message-ID: 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 esann at dice.ucl.ac.be Sun Feb 7 15:39:42 2010 From: esann at dice.ucl.ac.be (esann) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:39:42 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: ESANN 2010 programme Message-ID: <001401caa835$ad57dcb0$08079610$@ucl.ac.be> (Our apologies if you get multiple copies of this message, despite our precautions) ====================================================== ESANN 2010 18th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Comutational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges (Belgium) - April 22-23-24, 2009 Preliminary program ===================================================== The preliminary program of the ESANN 2010 conference is now available on the Web: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related machine learning and artificial neural networks sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much! For 18 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field of neural computation and machine learning. ESANN is a selective conference focusing on fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. This year, around 100 scientific communications will be presented, covering most areas of the neural computation and related fields. The program of the conference can be found at http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann, together with practical information about the conference venue, registration, etc. Other information can be obtained by sending an e-mail to esann at uclouvain.be. ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 mailto:esann at uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 mailto:esann at uclouvain.be ======================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100207/9dc19794/attachment.html From jose.millan at epfl.ch Mon Feb 8 04:19:29 2010 From: jose.millan at epfl.ch (Jose del R. Millan) Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:19:29 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Shared Control for BMI: Two Calls for Papers Message-ID: <4B6FD721.7080709@epfl.ch> Please find attached two Calls for Papers on Shared Control for Brain-Machine Interfaces. The first one is an special issue of the journal IEEE Trans. SMC-Part B. The second one is a workshop at the annual SMC 2010 conference in Istanbul. Looking forward to your submissions! Jose del R. Millan -------------------------------- *IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -- Part B* Special Issue: /Shared Control in Brain-Machine Interfaces/ Scope: Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) offer the possibility of a new generation of technologies that allow users to directly control devices directly via the nervous system. BMIs can be used to develop new communication pathways to restore and augment sensory and motor function in disabled individuals. At the core of BMI system design is a controller that must accommodate the seamless interaction between systems of neurons with electronics and robotics. This special issue focuses on innovations in signal processing, controls, and robotics to revolutionize information handling between the nervous system and computing machines. The concept of "sharing control" between humans and machines has its roots back to the early history of Cybernetics. Compared to that early history, the challenges for BMIs involves developing control systems capable of handling biological signals that are sparse, noisy and dynamic in nature. Moreover, these systems are operating in a wide variety of dynamic environments encountered in the activities of daily life. One of the goals of this special issue is to identify leading advancements in Cybernetics theory that can improve performance in BMIs through cooperative control. Several examples of such systems include intelligent robotics that can assist with obstacle avoidance or accurate grasping, and adaptive algorithms that can learn the robot's optimal behavior from the user's nonstationary brain signals. Of particular interest in this special issue are the principles that allow bi-directional communication and assistance between the user's nervous system and the device being controlled as well as how to support the dynamic sharing of roles and responsibilities of a control task. In addition, topics sought include the design of collaborative, cognitive workspaces and signal analysis that supports a shared understanding of the task and environment. *Schedule:* Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2010 Notification of first review: December 15th, 2010 Revised submissions due: February 15th, 2011 Notification of final review: March 31st, 2011 Final manuscript due: May 31st, 2011 Expected publication: Late 2011 *Guest Editors:* Dr. Jos? del R. Mill?n, Defitech Professor Defitech Chair in Non-Invasive Brain-Machine Interface Center for Neuroprosthetics School of Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) EPFL STI-CNBI ELB 138. Station 11 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland http://people.epfl.ch/jose.millan Jose M. Carmena, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Program in Cognitive Science University of California, Berkeley 754 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1764, USA http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~carmena Justin C. Sanchez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Departments of Pediatrics, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering P.O. Box 100296 Neuroprosthetics Research Group Lab: HD-410 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32610 http://nrg.mbi.ufl.edu -------------------------------- *2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics */Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface/s Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) offer the possibility of a new generation of technologies that allow users to directly control devices directly via the nervous system. BMIs can be used to develop new communication pathways to restore and augment sensory and motor function in disabled individuals. At the core of BMI system design is a controller that must accommodate the seamless interaction between systems of neurons with electronics and robotics. This workshop solicits papers in any area of BMI, but it will prioritize contributions on innovations in signal processing, controls, and robotics to revolutionize information handling between the nervous system and computing machines. The concept of "sharing control" between humans and machines has its roots back to the early history of Cybernetics. Compared to that early history, the challenges for BMIs involves developing control systems capable of handling biological signals that are sparse, noisy and dynamic in nature. Moreover, these systems are operating in a wide variety of dynamic environments encountered in the activities of daily life. One of the goals of this workshop is to identify leading advancements in Cybernetics theory that can improve performance in BMIs through cooperative control. Several examples of such systems include intelligent robotics that can assist with obstacle avoidance or accurate grasping, and adaptive algorithms that can learn the robot's optimal behavior from the user's nonstationary brain signals. Of particular interest in this workshop are the principles that allow bi-directional communication and assistance between the user's nervous system and the device being controlled as well as how to support the dynamic sharing of roles and responsibilities of a control task. In addition, topics sought include the design of collaborative, cognitive workspaces and signal analysis that supports a shared understanding of the task and environment. The workshop will feature some prominent invited speakers active in research on "shared control" in BMI and other fields such as robotics and human-computer interaction. Best contributions presented during the /workshop/ will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the /IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -- Part B/ that will undergo a normal full review process. The theme of this special issue of SMC-B is "Shared Control in Brain-Machine Interfaces", and submissions are open to active researchers in the field independently of whether or not they participate in this workshop. *Place & Dates:* Istanbul, Turkey. October 10-13, 2010. http://www.smc2010.org *PAPER SUBMISSIONS:* Papers should follow the IEEE format and conference guidelines. The template is available at: http://www.smc2010.org/SMC2010_Paper_Format.zip Send a PDF copy of your paper to jose.millan AT epfl.ch with the title "SMC'10-BMI Workshop". *ORGANIZERS:* Jos? del R. Mill?n, Ph.D. EPFL, Switzerland (http://people.epfl.ch/jose.millan) Jose M. Carmena, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~carmena) Justin C. 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Department of Applied Informatics & The Polish Society for Cognitive Science are pleased to invite submissions to the 2nd interterdisciplinary conference on: Argumentation as a cognitive process: NEURODYNAMICS, LOGIC AND MODELS OF ARGUMENTATION, to be held at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru?, Poland, May 13-15, 2010..The Conference is devoted to the memory of John Pollock. _____ Profile. The conference has an interdisciplinary profile within the domain of Cognitive Science. The conference is included into a wider project whose general goal is to bring together the results of research on argumentation gained on the basis of various sciences: philosophy, formal logic, computer science, cognitive psychology and neuroscience. It is the second conference on this topic organized at the NCU (UMK) in Toru?. This time, in addition to the key lectures the organizers propose three sections (workshops): (1) in cognitive logic (2) in applied computer sciences and neuroscience (3) in cognitive psychology and philosophy _____ For details follow links below: Torun City Website enter for detalis Torun City at GoogleMaps enter for detalis _____ Call for papers. Please send an abstract (approx.200 words, no more than 500 words) of your paper to the conference secretary: anitapacholik at wp.pl Submission deadline is: February 15. 2010 (or March 1, 2010, participation without any paper). _____ Conference Fee: STANDARD: 80 ? (with reception). Payment should be made by cheque at the Nicolaus Copernicus University account: Millennium nr 45 1160 2202 0000 0000 3174 8579 - please add your last name and ?konf. Argument? Please contact the organizers for assistance in booking accommodation (the accommodation will be covered only for invited speakers) and for travel information. 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A PDF version of the CfP is available from the IJCV website: http://www.springer.com/11263 Best regards, Matthew Blaschko and Christoph Lampert ************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- International Journal of Computer Vision Special Issue on Structured Prediction and Inference ------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors Matthew B. Blaschko, University of Oxford (blaschko at robots.ox.ac.uk) Christoph H. Lampert, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany (chl at tuebingen.mpg.de) ------------------------------------------------------- Background Many computer visions problems can be formulated naturally as prediction tasks of structured objects. Image segmentation, stereo reconstruction, human pose estimation and natural scene analysis are all examples of such problems, in which the quantity one tries to predict consists of multiple interdependent parts. The structured output learning paradigm offers a natural framework for such tasks, and recently introduced methods for end-to-end discriminative training of conditional random fields (CRFs) and structured support vector machines (S-SVMs) for image classification and interpretation show that computer vision is not just a consumer of existing machine learning developments in this area, but one of the driving forces behind their development. The complexity of structured prediction models makes the problem of inference in these models an integral part of their analysis. While the machine learning literature has largely focused on message passing, computer vision research has introduced novel applications of branch-and-bound and graph cuts as inference algorithms. Articles addressing these issues are particularly encouraged for submission to the special issue. Topics Original papers are being solicited that have as topic one or more aspects of the structured prediction framework in a computer vision setting, that is they address the problem of prediction from an input space, such as images or video, to a structured and interdependent output space. Submissions can be theoretic or applied contributions as well as position papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Training for structured output learning - Probabilistic vs. max-margin training - Generative vs. discriminative training - Semi-supervised or unsupervised learning - Dealing with label noise * Inference methods for structured output learning - Exact vs. approximate inference techniques - Pixel, voxel, and superpixel random field optimization - Priors and higher order clique optimization - Approaches that scale to large amounts of training and test data * Computer vision applications of structured output learning - Segmentation - Stereo reconstruction - Relationship between scene components - Hierarchical models Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. All open submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal. Manuscripts based on previously published conference papers must be extended substantially. Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of the International Journal of Computer Vision a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://VISI.edmgr.com. This online system offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats. * Paper submission deadline: - March 22, 2010 * Estimated Online Publication: - Fall, 2010 ================================================= From jaakko.peltonen at tkk.fi Wed Feb 10 07:44:31 2010 From: jaakko.peltonen at tkk.fi (jaakko.peltonen@tkk.fi) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:31 +0200 (EET) Subject: Connectionists: Second call for papers: MLSP 2010, the Twentieth IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing Message-ID: =================================================================== Second Call for Papers for the Twentieth IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2010) August 29 - September 1, 2010, Kittila, Finland Website: http://mlsp2010.conwiz.dk IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of full papers: April 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2010 Camera-ready paper and author registration: June 18, 2010 Advance registration before: June 23, 2010 =================================================================== The 2010 IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING (MLSP 2010) will be held in Kittila, Finland, in August-September 2010. 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 filip.ponulak at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 08:56:07 2010 From: filip.ponulak at gmail.com (Filip Ponulak) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:56:07 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: New paper about supervised learning in spiking neural networks 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. ------- All 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 at princeton.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com Thu Feb 11 14:20:50 2010 From: x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com (Xoana G Troncoso) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:20:50 -0800 Subject: Connectionists: Final call for Illusion Submissions: 6th annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest Message-ID: <5099dbe71002111120u6dabea64kd0e9912d52c2efdb@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 at 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! 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URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100211/7d9cca1f/attachment-0001.html From zilles at cs.uregina.ca Wed Feb 10 21:13:01 2010 From: zilles at cs.uregina.ca (Sandra Zilles) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:13:01 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: COLT 2010 Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <6FBBEE67-183E-464F-A607-2EA94F79354F@cs.uregina.ca> COLT 2010 - Call for Papers The 23rd Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2010) will take place in Haifa, Israel, on June 27-29, 2010 and will be co-located with ICML 2010. We invite submissions of papers addressing theoretical aspects of machine learning and empirical inference. We strongly support a broad definition of learning theory, including: ? Analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability ? Computational complexity of learning ? Bayesian analysis ? Statistical mechanics of learning systems ? Optimization procedures for learning ? Kernel methods ? Inductive inference ? Boolean function learning ? Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and clustering ? On-line learning and relative loss bounds ? Learning in planning and control, including reinforcement learning ? Learning in games, multi-agent learning ? Mathematical analysis of learning in related fields, e.g., game theory, natural language processing, neuroscience, bioinformatics, privacy and security, machine vision, data mining, information retrieval We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new to the COLT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by elucidating theoretical results in learning. Also, while the primary focus of the conference is theoretical, papers can be strengthened by the inclusion of relevant experimental results. Papers that have previously appeared in journals or at other conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences, are not appropriate for COLT. Papers that include work that has already been submitted for journal publication may be submitted to COLT, as long as the papers have not been accepted for publication by the COLT submission deadline (conditionally or otherwise) and that the paper is not expected to be published before the COLT conference (June 2010). Feedback on Review Quality There will be no rebuttal phase this year. However, authors will be given the opportunity to assess the quality of reviews and provide feedback to the reviewers, after the decisions have been made. These assessments will be used in particular to determine the Best Reviewer award (see below). Paper and Reviewer Awards This year, COLT will award both best paper and best student paper awards. Best student papers must be authored or coauthored by a student. Authors must indicate at submission time if they wish their paper to be eligible for a student award. This does not preclude the paper to be eligible for the best paper award. To further emphasize the importance of the reviewing quality, this year, COLT will also award a best reviewer award to the reviewer who has provided the most insightful and useful comments. Open Problems Session We also invite submission of open problems (see separate call). These should be constrained to two pages. There is a shorter reviewing period for the open problems. Accepted contributions will be allocated short presentation slots in a special open problems session and will be allowed two pages each in the proceedings. Paper Format and Electronic Submission Instructions Formatting and submission instructions will be available in early December at the conference website. Submissions should include the title, authors' names, and a 200-word summary of the paper suitable for the conference program. Papers should not exceed 13 pages (including bibliography) and should be formatted according to the following style file and sample LaTeX source (colt10e.sty, colt10- sample.tar.gz). Authors not using latex should ensure that their document complies with similar formatting (similar margins, 11pt font, single column). Shorter papers are strongly encouraged. Additional material beyond the 13 page limit can be placed in the appendix and might be read, at the discretion of the program committee. Important Dates Preliminary call for papers issued October 15, 2009 Electronic submission of papers (due by 5:59pm PST) February 19, 2010 Electronic submission of open problems March 13, 2010 Notice of acceptance or rejection May 07, 2010 Submission of final version May 21, 2010 Feedback on reviews due May 28, 2010 Joint ICML/COLT workshop day June 25, 2010 2010 COLT conference June 27-29, 2010 OrganizationProgram Co-chairs: ? Adam Tauman Kalai (Microsoft Research) ? Mehryar Mohri (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Google Research) Program Committee: Shivani Agarwal Mikhail Belkin Shai Ben-David Nicol? Cesa-Bianchi Ofer Dekel Steve Hanneke Jeff Jackson Sham Kakade Vladimir Koltchinskii Katrina Ligett Phil Long Gabor Lugosi Ulrike von Luxburg Yishay Mansour Ryan O?Donnell Massimiliano Pontil Robert Schapire Rocco Servedio Shai Shalev-Shwartz John Shawe-Taylor Gilles Stoltz Ambuj Tewari Jenn Wortman Vaughan Santosh Vempala Manfred Warmuth Robert Williamson Thomas Zeugmann Tong Zhang Publicity Chair: ? Sandra Zilles (University of Regina) Local Arrangements Chair: ? Shai Fine (IBM Research Haifa) From erik at tnb.ua.ac.be Thu Feb 11 04:05:28 2010 From: erik at tnb.ua.ac.be (Erik De Schutter) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:05:28 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 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 luecke at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Fri Feb 12 09:52:01 2010 From: luecke at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jorg Lucke) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:52:01 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience / Machine Learning Message-ID: <4B756B11.5010708@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> PhD Position at the FIAS, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany The group of Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) offers a PhD position for research on computational and theoretical approaches to unsupervised learning in vision. The research field is highly dynamic and rapidly expanding. It closely combines theoretical approaches with applications to artificial vision and intelligence, and advances our understanding of brain functions in humans and animals. 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 esalinas at wfubmc.edu Fri Feb 12 11:34:16 2010 From: esalinas at wfubmc.edu (Emilio Salinas) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:34:16 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: new paper: the time course of perceptual discrimination Message-ID: <4CCFAF32FB7B2C449A189C82198E42653495C560@EXCHVS1.medctr.ad.wfubmc.edu> Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the following paper: Perceptual decision making in less than 30 milliseconds Nature Neuroscience [Epub ahead of print] DOI: 10.1038/nn.2485 by Terry Stanford, Swetha Shankar, Dino Massoglia, Gaby Costello and Emilio Salinas The paper can be viewed and downloaded from the following location: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.2485.html If you are interested but do not have access to this site, please contact me requesting a pdf reprint. ABSTRACT In perceptual discrimination tasks, a subject's response time is determined both by sensory and motor processes. Measuring the time consumed by the perceptual evaluation step alone is thus complicated by factors such as motor preparation, task difficulty and speed-accuracy tradeoffs. Here we present a task design that minimizes these confounds and allows us to track a subject's perceptual performance with unprecedented temporal resolution. We find that monkeys can make accurate color discriminations in less than 30 ms. Furthermore, our simple task design provides a novel tool for elucidating how neuronal activity relates to sensory versus motor processing, as demonstrated with neural data from cortical oculomotor neurons. In these cells, perceptual information acts by accelerating and decelerating the ongoing motor plans associated with correct and incorrect choices, as predicted by a race-to-threshold model, and the time course of these neural events parallels the time course of the subject's choice accuracy. Comments are welcome. Cheers, Emilio ------------------------------------------------ Emilio Salinas Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem NC 27157 Phone: (336) 713-5176 Fax: (336) 716-4534 e-mail: esalinas at wfubmc.edu http://www.wfubmc.edu/Faculty/Salinas-Emilio.htm ------------------------------------------------ ? From vcut at bu.edu Fri Feb 12 13:52:19 2010 From: vcut at bu.edu (Vassilis Cutsuridis) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:52:19 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: 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 T.Nowotny at sussex.ac.uk Fri Feb 12 11:45:55 2010 From: T.Nowotny at sussex.ac.uk (Thomas Nowotny) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:45:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Connectionists: 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 at 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 achler at uiuc.edu Sun Feb 14 12:52:16 2010 From: achler at uiuc.edu (Tsvi Achler) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:52:16 -0600 Subject: Connectionists: Last Minute Reminder: 2010 Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Call for Demonstrations Message-ID: Demonstration forms due February 15! ------------ 2010 Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Call for Demonstrations http://agi-conf.org/2010/workshops/#AGI%20Machines --------------- The ability to look beyond what is learned and apply the learned information to new scenarios distinguishes humans and animals from AI artifacts. The goal of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Community is to better understand these gaps. AGI 2010 is pleased to offer an integrative demonstration track with an opportunity to evaluate the best and most flexible AI applications. 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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Web submission page will be closed on this day but in case you need a little more time, please contact me. For more in detail, please visit at http://icnnai.bstu.by/icnnai-2010.html. Akira Imada (Brest State Technical University, Belarus) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100214/6cc8d849/attachment.html From x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com Tue Feb 16 19:49:45 2010 From: x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com (Xoana G Troncoso) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:49:45 -0800 Subject: Connectionists: Illusion submission EXTENSION: 6th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest! Message-ID: <5099dbe71002161649w482c5e34rfd698f2322382d9c@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 at 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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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 thomas.wennekers at plymouth.ac.uk Wed Feb 17 14:02:12 2010 From: thomas.wennekers at plymouth.ac.uk (Thomas Wennekers) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:02:12 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: STM2010 -- Spike Train Analysis Workshop, 2/3 June 2010 - registration open Message-ID: <201002171902.12930.thomas.wennekers@plymouth.ac.uk> Dear Connectionists 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 at plymouth.ac.uk http://www.pion.ac.uk/~thomas ___________________________________________________________ From ted.carnevale at yale.edu Thu Feb 18 13:26:47 2010 From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:26:47 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: NEURON Meeting and Parallellizing Network Models course deadline approaching Message-ID: <4B7D8667.50107@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 ianfasel at mplab.ucsd.edu Thu Feb 18 12:14:51 2010 From: ianfasel at mplab.ucsd.edu (Ian Fasel) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:14:51 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: ICDL - submission deadline EXTENDED (March 6) Message-ID: <16B5E0DA-6CC4-401C-8C5F-D8B59E935F27@mplab.ucsd.edu> Due to popular demand, the deadline for ICDL has been 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 6, 2010 Full 6-page paper submissions due ** Extended 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: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100218/bce8d54d/attachment-0001.html From silvia.chiappa at tuebingen.mpg.de Wed Feb 17 14:17:43 2010 From: silvia.chiappa at tuebingen.mpg.de (Silvia Chiappa) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:17:43 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Summer School on Cognitive Science and Machine Learning Message-ID: <4B7C40D7.1040706@tuebingen.mpg.de> We invite applications for the PASCAL2 Summer School on Cognitive Science and Machine Learning that will be held at Sardegna Ricerche (Italy) from May 6 to May 12 2010. http://www.mlss.cc/sardinia10 The school is organised by PASCAL2, University College London, Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Manchester University, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and MIT. The event will take place immediately before and near the AISTATS 2010 conference. ============================= Theme of the Summer School: Cognitive science aims to reverse engineer human intelligence; machine learning provides one of our most powerful sources of insight into how machine intelligence is possible. Cognitive science therefore raises challenges for, and draws inspiration from, machine learning; and insights about the human mind may help inspire new directions for machine learning. This summer school brings together leading researchers from both fields, and those working at the interface between them. It is aimed at graduate students, post-docs and established researchers from both the cognitive science and machine learning communities, interested in exploring the interface between human and machine intelligence. ============================= Confirmed Speakers: Nick Chater, University College London Alex Clark, Royal Holloway University of London Silvia Chiappa, Cambridge University Peter Dayan, University College London Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley Konrad K?rding, Northwestern University Neil Lawrence, Manchester University Bernhard Sch?lkopf, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Satinder Singh, University of Michigan Josh Tenenbaum, MIT Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute of Science Israel Chris Watkins, Royal Holloway University of London Felix Wichmann, Technical University of Berlin ============================= Important Dates: Application Submission Deadline: March 1 2010 Notification: March 26 2010 Subscription Deadline: April 1 2010 From z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk Thu Feb 18 17:25:17 2010 From: z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk (Zoe Kourtzi) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:25:17 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Post-doc and PhD positions, Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK Message-ID: <53D56CCF-47E4-4A04-A4A4-AB292B968DE4@bham.ac.uk> Post-doc and PhD positions, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK 2 Post-doc and 1 PhD positions are available to work on brain imaging and visual psychophysics. The projects use modeling and advanced computational analyses of brain imaging data to understand the neural basis of visual perception and learning. The projects are based in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham that has a state-of-the-art Imaging Centre (3T MRI scanner), EEG systems, TMS systems and access to screened neuropsychological patients. The School is one of the UK?s top 3 research departments and has strong groups in Behavioural Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Vision Science. There are strong interdisciplinary links with Computer Science, Engineering and a number of international partners through a Marie Curie Initial Training Network that brings together researchers from across Europe. This offers exciting opportunities for advanced training, collaboration with international centres of excellence, interdisciplinary exchange and industrial secondments. For more information see http://cnil.bham.ac.uk and www.optimaldecisions.org. Candidates should have a background in Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field. Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C) and experience with psychophysics, brain imaging and signal processing methods are highly desirable. Above all candidates should be enthusiastic to learn new techniques and to contribute to new experiments. Enquiries should be addressed to Prof Zoe Kourtzi (z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk) or Dr Andrew Welchman (a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk). Applications should include CV, brief statement of research interests, and the names of 3 referees From erik at tnb.ua.ac.be Thu Feb 18 20:34:20 2010 From: erik at tnb.ua.ac.be (Erik De Schutter) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:34:20 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: CNS*2010 Call for Abstracts, Deadline Extended to Feb 26th Message-ID: 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 gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu Fri Feb 19 06:46:04 2010 From: gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu (Mark A. Gluck) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:46:04 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: [Postdoc Position]: Neuro-cognitive computational modeling of learning and decision making Message-ID: [Please post or forward to potential candidates] Postdoctoral position available at Rutgers University-Newark for a postdoctoral fellow with strong prior computational modeling and computer programming skills to work on neural-network models of the brain systems for learning and decision making. ** Applicants must be US Citizens or Green Card holders. ** We seek a postdoctoral fellow in our lab who has: * Prior experience and training in neural network modeling, especially computational neuroscience modeling of brain and behavior. * Strong computer programming skills. * Familiarity with the literature on systems-level and cognitive neuroscience research on human learning, memory, and decision making. Modeling will focus on integration of systems-level and physiology-level models of cortex, basal ganglia, hippocampus, and other brain structures. Emphasis will be on liking brain function to behavior, especially higher-level cognitive functioning in humans. * Excellent people skills, self-motivation, first-rate English-language verbal and written communication skills. * Able to start work by summer (preferred) or fall 2010. See http://www.gluck.edu for more information. To apply, please visit our web site and then send CV and summary about your past and future research interests, and long-term career goals to Dr. Mark A. Gluck at gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu. As noted above, we will only consider US Citizens or Green Card holders. ___________________________________ Dr. Mark A. Gluck, Professor Co-Director, Rutgers Memory Disorders Project Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Rutgers University 197 University Ave. Newark, New Jersey 07102 Web: http://www.gluck.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100219/78d03c83/attachment-0001.html From georg.dorffner at meduniwien.ac.at Fri Feb 19 12:32:25 2010 From: georg.dorffner at meduniwien.ac.at (Georg Dorffner) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:32:25 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Position: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Message-ID: <4B7ECB29.6020203@meduniwien.ac.at> PhD Student Position Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Dept. Cognitive Neurobiology, Center for Brain Research, Med. Univ. Vienna A PhD student position is available at the Center for Brain Research, Med. Univ. Vienna, Austria in the lab of Prof. Thomas Klausberger supported by an ERC Starting grant (salary 29.900 EUR per year before tax). Research work will be co-supervised by Prof. Georg Dorffner, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems. The successful candidate should have a strong computational/mathematical background, experience in pattern recognition and signal analysis, and a curiosity about cortical circuits and cognitive behaviour and should hold a Master degree or equivalent. The lab of T. Klausberger investigates how identified cortical neurons contribute to network operations, oscillations and cognitive behaviour. The techniques used include in vivo electrophysiology in rodents, cognitive tasks, multi-channel spike and local field potential analysis, immunofluorescence microscopy, Neurolucida 3D reconstructions of neurons and electron microscopy. The lab of G. Dorffner is specialised in advanced pattern recognition and signal analysis with a focus on electrophysiological biosignals, as well as in neuroinformatics. Applications including CV and a statement on scientific interests should be addressed until March 20, 2010, to Prof. Thomas Klausberger, thomas.klausberger at meduniwien.ac.at References: http://mrcanu.pharm.ox.ac.uk/staff/klausberger.html Klausberger et al., Nature 2003 Tukker et al., J. Neurosci. 2007 Fuentealba et al., Neuron 2008 Klausberger & Somogyi, Science 2008 http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/georg.dorffner From erik at oist.jp Mon Feb 22 01:17:37 2010 From: erik at oist.jp (Erik De Schutter) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:17:37 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: 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 at oist.jp From mlittman at cs.rutgers.edu Fri Feb 19 14:28:49 2010 From: mlittman at cs.rutgers.edu (Michael Littman) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:28:49 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Rutgers seeks Cognitive Science Director In-Reply-To: <92459596-8891-4947-9BAC-6D0319AD3319@cs.rutgers.edu> References: <92459596-8891-4947-9BAC-6D0319AD3319@cs.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <7DDFF315-BD28-46AC-AFFC-11411396270F@cs.rutgers.edu> Connectionists and machine-learning researchers with a cognitive bent may find the following opening of interest. 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 kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de Mon Feb 22 05:19:21 2010 From: kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:19:21 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: 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 at bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de From m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 22 11:44:40 2010 From: m.lengyel at eng.cam.ac.uk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1t=E9_Lengyel?=) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:44:40 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Summer School on "Beliefs and Decisions: of Minds and Machines" Message-ID: <1B0721A1-2DA3-455A-8187-59B6E318E3C9@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 israel at cc.huji.ac.il Wed Feb 24 04:19:12 2010 From: israel at cc.huji.ac.il (Israel Nelken) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:19:12 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the ICNC Message-ID: <5c3b379c1002240119h2088a2efte05bef8c6f99d59@mail.gmail.com> The Alice and Jack Ormut Ph.D. Program in computational neuroscience of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at the Hebrew University is now accepting applications from foreign students. The mission of the Alice and Jack Ormut Ph.D. Program is to train students to address computation and information processing ? both in the brain and in advanced intelligent devices. 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 at 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 at 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 at cc.huji.ac.il -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100224/b9e64c55/attachment-0001.html From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Wed Feb 24 07:43:50 2010 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:43:50 -0000 Subject: Connectionists: (Springer's) COGNITIVE COMPUTATION journal - Special Issue on Cognitive Behavioural Systems - Final CFP Message-ID: 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: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100224/40eb115d/attachment.html From rm at cs.tu-berlin.de Thu Feb 25 09:53:35 2010 From: rm at cs.tu-berlin.de (Robert Martin) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:53:35 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for applications: Doctoral Program in Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience Message-ID: <4B868EEF.1060700@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 at 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 Soeren.Sonnenburg at tu-berlin.de Thu Feb 25 13:02:11 2010 From: Soeren.Sonnenburg at tu-berlin.de (Soeren Sonnenburg) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:02:11 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Contributions: ICML Workshop on Machine Learning Open Source Software 2010 Message-ID: <1267120931.12585.90.camel@no> ********************************************************************** Call for Contributions Workshop on Machine Learning Open Source Software 2010 http://mloss.org/workshop/icml10/ at ICML 2010, Haifa, Israel, 25th of June, 2010 ********************************************************************** The ICML workshop on Workshop on Machine Learning Open Source Software (MLOSS) will held in Haifa, Israel on the 25th of June 2010. Important Dates =============== * Submission Date: April 10th, 2010 * Notification of Acceptance: April 25th, 2010 * Workshop date: June 25th, 2010 Call for Contributions ====================== The organizing committee is currently seeking abstracts for talks at MLOSS 2010. MLOSS is a great opportunity for you to tell the community about your use, development, or philosophy of open source software in machine learning. This includes (but is not limited to) numeric packages (as e.g. R,octave,numpy), machine learning toolboxes and implementations of ML-algorithms. The committee will select several submitted abstracts for 20-minute talks. The submission process is very simple: * Tag your mloss.org project with the tag icml2010 * Ensure that you have a good description (limited to 500 words) * Any bells and whistles can be put on your own project page, and of course provide this link on mloss.org On April 10th 2010, we will collect all projects tagged with icml2010 for review. Note: Projects must adhere to a recognized Open Source License (cf. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ ) and the source code must have been released at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed based on the status of the project at the time of the submission deadline. Description =========== We believe that the wide-spread adoption of open source software policies will have a tremendous impact on the field of machine learning. The goal of this workshop is to further support the current developments in this area and give new impulses to it. Following the success of the inaugural NIPS-MLOSS workshop held at NIPS 2006, the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) has started a new track for machine learning open source software initiated by the workshop's organizers. Many prominent machine learning researchers have co-authored a position paper advocating the need for open source software in machine learning. To date 11 machine learning open source software projects have been published in JMLR. Furthermore, the workshop's organizers have set up a community website mloss.org where people can register their software projects, rate existing projects and initiate discussions about projects and related topics. This website currently lists 221 such projects including many prominent projects in the area of machine learning. The main goal of this workshop is to bring the main practitioners in the area of machine learning open source software together in order to initiate processes which will help to further improve the development of this area. In particular, we have to move beyond a mere collection of more or less unrelated software projects and provide a common foundation to stimulate cooperation and interoperability between different projects. An important step in this direction will be a common data exchange format such that different methods can exchange their results more easily. This year's workshop sessions will consist of three parts. * We have two invited speakers: Gary Bradski and Victoria Stodden. * Researchers are invited to submit their open source project to present it at the workshop. * In discussion sessions, important questions regarding the future development of this area will be discussed. In particular, we will discuss what makes a good machine learning software project and how to improve interoperability between programs. In addition, the question of how to deal with data sets and reproducibility will also be addressed. Taking advantage of the large number of key research groups which attend ICML, decisions and agreements taken at the workshop will have the potential to significantly impact the future of machine learning software. Invited Speakers ================ * Gary Bradski One of the main authors of OpenCV. (tentatively confirmed) Gary Bradski was previously responsible for the Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV) that is used globally in research, government and commercial applications. He has also been responsible for the open source statistical Machine Learning Library and the Probabilistic Network Library. More recently Dr. Bradski led the vision team for Stanley, the Stanford robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous race in 2005 and most recently helped found the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project under the leadership of Professor Andrew Ng. Dr. Bradski recently published a new book for O'Reilly Press: Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library. * Victoria Stodden Victoria Stodden is a Postdoctoral Associate in Law and a Kauffman Fellow in Law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. After completing her PhD in statistics at Stanford University in 2006 with advisor David Donoho, she obtained a Master in Legal Studies in 2007 from Stanford Law School. She is developing a new licensing structure for computational research and author of the award winning paper "Reproducible Research Standard" that describes her ideas. Workshop Program ================ The 1 day workshop will be a mixture of talks (including a mandatory demo of the software) and panel/open/hands-on discussions. Morning session: 09:00 - 12:00 * Introduction and overview * Contributed Talks * Invited Talk: OpenCV (Gary Bradski) * Contributed Talks * Discussion: Exchanging Software and Data Afternoon session: 14:00 - 17:00 * Contributed Talks * Invited Talk: The Reproducible Research Standard (Victoria Stodden) * Discussion: Reproducible research Program Committee ================= * Jason Weston (Google Research, NY, USA) * Leon Bottou (NEC Princeton, USA) * Tom Fawcett (Stanford Computational Learning Laboratory, USA) * Sebastian Nowozin (Microsoft Research, UK) * Konrad Rieck (Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany) * Lieven Vandenberghe (University of California LA, USA) * Joachim Dahl (Aalborg University, Denmark) * Torsten Hothorn (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany) * Asa Ben-Hur (Colorado State University, USA) * Klaus-Robert Mueller (Fraunhofer Institute First, Germany) * Geoff Holmes (University of Waikato, New Zealand) * Peter Reutemann (University of Waikato, New Zealand) * Markus Weimer (Yahoo Research, California, USA) * Alain Rakotomamonjy (University of Rouen, France) Organizers ========== * Soeren Sonnenburg, Technische Universit?t Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, FR 6-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany * Mikio Braun Technische Universit?t Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, FR 6-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany * Cheng Soon Ong ETH Z?rich, Universit?tstr. 6, 8092 Z?rich, Switzerland * Patrik Hoyer Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Gustaf H?llstr?min katu 2b, 00560 Helsinki, Finland Funding ======= The workshop is supported by PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning) Gruss, Soeren -- Soeren Sonnenburg - ML Group, TU-Berlin Tel: +49 (0)30 314 78630 Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 (0)30 314 78622 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshop/Special Session Proposal Deadline: March 15, 2010 Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2010 The Conference Website: http://www.ic-ic.org/2010/index.htm The Online Paper Submission System: http://www.ic-ic.org/icg/ The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, including Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS)/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)/ Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI)/ Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). A small number of selected high-quality papers will be extended for possible inclusion in two international journals (SCI): - Biosystems Engineering - Neural Computing & Applications All submissions will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance and clarity, only papers presenting novel research results or successful innovative applications are seriously considered for publication. 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