Connectionists: Call for participation: WSOM 2011, 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps

[jaakko.peltonen@tkk.fi]

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                        Call for Participation

                                 for

           WSOM 2011, 8th WORKSHOP ON SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS

                  13 - 15 June 2011, Espoo, Finland
               Aalto University School of Science and
                      Dipoli Conference Center

               Website: http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011

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GENERAL INFORMATION

WSOM 2011 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the
field of self-organizing systems, with a particular emphasis on the
self-organizing maps. It will highlight key advances in these and
closely related fields. WSOM 2011 is the eighth conference in a
series of bi-annual international conferences started with WSOM'97
in Helsinki.

The event will be co-located with the ICANN 2011 conference that
will be organized from 14th to 17th of June, 2011. Conference
programmes, registrations and fees will be coordinated.


VENUE

WSOM 2011 will take place at the Aalto University School of Science
(former Helsinki University of Technology) and Dipoli Conference
Center. They are located in Espoo, in the close vicinity of the
Helsinki capital area. The area is one of the ICT research and
development hot spots in Europe as well as known for its beautiful
and easily accessible nature. The time of the year is particularly
suitable for visiting Finland.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University:
Topographic Mapping of Dissimilarity Data

Teuvo Kohonen, Academy of Finland:
Contextually Self-Organized Maps of Chinese Words


PROGRAM

WSOM 2011 features 36 oral or poster presentations. The full
program is available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 .


ORGANIZERS

      * Honorary chair
        Teuvo KOHONEN
        Academy of Finland
      * General chair
        Timo HONKELA
        Aalto University School of Science
      * Program chair
        Jorma LAAKSONEN
        Aalto University School of Science
      * Local chair
        Olli SIMULA
        Aalto University School of Science
      * Publicity chair
        Jaakko PELTONEN
        Aalto University School of Science


STEERING COMMITTEE

      * Teuvo KOHONEN
      * Marie COTTRELL
      * Pablo ESTEVEZ
      * Timo HONKELA
      * Erkki OJA
      * Jose PRINCIPE
      * Helge RITTER
      * Takeshi YAMAKAWA
      * Hujun YIN


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

      * Guilherme BARRETO
      * Yoonsuck CHOE
      * Jean-Claude FORT
      * Tetsuo FURUKAWA
      * Colin FYFE
      * Barbara HAMMER
      * Samuel KASKI
      * Krista LAGUS
      * Amaury LENDASSE
      * Ping LI
      * Thomas MARTINETZ
      * Risto MIIKKULAINEN
      * Klaus OBERMAYER
      * Jaakko PELTONEN
      * Marina RESTA
      * Udo SEIFFERT
      * Olli SIMULA
      * Kadim TASDEMIR
      * Heizo TOKUTAKA
      * Carme TORRAS
      * Alfred ULTSCH
      * Marc VAN HULLE
      * Michel VERLEYSEN
      * Thomas VILLMANN
      * Lei XU


REGISTRATION

Registration for WSOM 2011 is now open! The on-line registration
is available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 .

In addition to WSOM registration, joint registration to both WSOM
2011 and ICANN 2011 is available. See http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011
for the full range of registration options and prices.


ACCOMMODATION

The closest hotel is Radisson Blu Hotel Espoo, located next to the
workshop venue. See http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 for accommodation
details.


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