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      This is a friendly reminder that the full paper deadline is this
      Sunday.  The abstract deadline is a week after.  If you plan to
      submit but need more time, please contact me.  <br>
      -John<br>
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        <h3 align="center"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/">Brain-Mind
            Institute (BMI)</a><br>
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        <h3 align="center"><small><a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-summer-2013.html">Programs:


              Summer 2013</a></small></h3>
        <p align="center"><strong>Summer School June 17 - July 5, August
            15 - August 2, 2013<br>
            International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), July 27 - 28,
            2013 <br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.msu.edu/">Michigan
              State University</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/">East Lansing</a>,
            <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.michigan.org/">Michigan</a>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.history.com/topics/states">USA</a><br>
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      <p>This is the 2nd year of BMI after the successful BMI 2012.  BMI
        2013 has two parts, summer school and conference. <br>
      </p>
      <p><strong> Important dates</strong>: <br>
        Full papers: by Sunday, April 14, 2013<br>
        Abstracts: by Sunday, April 21, 2013<br>
        Course applications (to get admitted so that you can register):
        by Sunday, April 28, 2013 <br>
        Advance registration: Sunday, April 28, 2013<br>
      </p>
      <h4 align="center">Call for BMI Course Applications</h4>
      <p align="left">BMI summer courses will have two 3-week sessions,
        the 1st session (Computational Brain-Mind, distance learning)
        June 17- July 5, 2013 and the 2nd session (Cognitive Science, at
        MSU) July 15 - August 2, 2013.  <br>
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>Due to the need of 6-discipline scope, the BMI courses are
          designed for anybody who has at least a bachelor degree,
          including faculty, senior researchers, post-doctoral
          researchers, and graduate students in any discipline.
          Exceptional undergraduate student can be considered on a case
          by case basis.</li>
        <li>On-site participation of ICBM during the course is required
          for all course related activities (except BMI 871) as part of
          the requirements of the BMI 6DC program.<br>
        </li>
        <li>Those who pass a course will receive a certificate. 
          Auditing without doing homework and taking exams is also
          welcome. <br>
        </li>
        <li>Those who do not take any BMI course can also register for
          only ICBM.</li>
      </ul>
      <h4 align="center">Call for ICBM Papers and Abstracts</h4>
      <p align="left">BMI Internal Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM) calls
        for papers in all subjects related to brain or mind to be
        presented during Saturday and Sunday. The subjects of interest
        include, but not limited to:</p>
      <ol>
        <li><strong>Genes</strong>: inheritance, evolution, species,
          environments, nature vs. nurture, and evolution vs.
          development.</li>
        <li><strong>Cells</strong>: cell models, cell learning, cell
          signaling, tissues, morphogenesis, and tissue development.</li>
        <li><strong>Circuits</strong>: features, clustering,
          self-organization, cortical circuits, Brodmann areas,
          representation, classification, and regression.</li>
        <li><strong>Streams</strong>: pathways, intra-modal attention,
          vision, audition, touch (including kinesthetics, temperature),
          smell, and taste.</li>
        <li><strong>Brain ways</strong>: neural networks, brain-mind
          architecture, inter-modal attention, multisensory integration,
          and neural modulation (punishment/serotonin/pain,
          reward/dopamine/pleasure/sex,
          novelty/acetylcholine/norepinephrine, higher emotion).</li>
        <li><strong>Experiences/learning</strong>: training, learning,
          development, interaction, performance metrics, and functions
          of genome.</li>
        <li><strong>Behaviors:</strong> actions, motor development,
          concept learning, abstraction, languages, decision making,
          reasoning, and creativity.</li>
        <li><strong>Societies/multi-agent</strong>: joint attention,
          swarm intelligence, group intelligence, genders, races,
          science of organization, constitutions, and laws.</li>
        <li><strong>Diseases</strong>: depression, ADD/ADHD, drug
          addiction, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's
          disease, Parkinson's disease, vision loss, and hearing loss.</li>
        <li><strong>Applications</strong>: image analysis, computer
          vision, speech recognition, pattern recognition, robotics,
          artificial intelligence, instrumentation, and prosthetics.</li>
      </ol>
      Accepted full papers and abstracts will be presented orally at
      ICBM, available online and searchable.  Each paper will be maximum
      8 pages. Each abstracts must be no longer than 1 page. <br>
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Juyang (John) Weng, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program
428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
Tel: 517-353-4388
Fax: 517-432-1061
Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:weng@cse.msu.edu">weng@cse.msu.edu</a>
URL: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eweng/">http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/</a>
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