Connectionists: CfP BCBT2014 Summer School, Barcelona, Spain

[BCBT, Bústia Compartida]

*Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2014)*

University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

September 1-12, 2014

http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt14/


Join us for the annual *"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer
school - BCBT2014 *" (see* http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt14
<http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt14>*) to be held from September 1-12, 2014 in
Barcelona Spain.

The BCBT summer school is part of a series of events organized by the
Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology
(*http://csnetwork.eu/
<http://csnetwork.eu/>*) and is positioned at the interface between biology
and future and emerging technologies with an emphasis on the principles
underlying brains and their translation to avant-garde technologies. BCBT
promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional
architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems.



This is the 7th year of BCBT, which has ran with great success in previous
years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see
bcbt.upf.edu for previous editions of the school). BCBT lectures are
available online (see *http://csnetwork.eu/ <http://csnetwork.eu/>*) as
well as the CSN *Podcast interviews *with many of the BCBT speakers.

BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in
the ambit of “BIO-ICT convergence”, "Brain Inspired ICT", “Cognitive
systems-robotics”.

BCBT will offer up to 30 student slots for the practical workshops while as
many researchers can register to attend the presentations and discussion
sessions as they are interested.

The atmosphere of the BCBT summer school is informal with the goal to
stimulate in-depth discussion. There are presentations in the morning,
usually 2, with the afternoons reserved for tutorials and projects for
student participants and road-mapping workshops or further discussion for
senior scientists.

For the 2014 edition we plan a *1st week* of the school addressing
*Evolutionary
and Developmental aspects of nervous systems and behavior*(*Session 1*, 1-5
Sept*)*, while the *2nd week* will include presentations aimed at the
investigation of *Core Brain Systems* with emphasis on the basal
ganglia (*Session
2*, 8-9 Sept) followed by roadmapping sessions (*Session 3*, 10-11 Sept).
Friday 12 is reserved for the presentation of the student projects to which
everybody is invited.


*Application deadline: August 2nd, 2014*
For more information, and to apply, please go to
http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt14/home

BCBT2014 is supported by the Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and
Neurotechnology (*http://csnetwork.eu/ <http://csnetwork.eu/>*).

and is co-organized by

Paul Verschure (BCBT Chair) SPECS, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES
Tony Prescott (BCBT Co-Chair) University of Sheffield, UK
Leah Krubizer (BCBT Co-Chair) UC Davis, CA, USA
Anna Mura (BCBT Co-Chair) SPECS, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES
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