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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">eSMCs
Summer
School 2013 on Embodiment and Morphological Computation,
September <span lang="en-US">2</span><span lang="en-US">2</span><span
lang="en-US">-2</span><span lang="en-US">8,</span><span
lang="en-US">
201</span><span lang="en-US">3</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a
href="http://summerschool2013.esmcs.eu/"><font color="#000080"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="zxx"><u>summerschool2013.esmcs.eu</u></span></font></font></a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><b>Invitation</b><br>
We
cordially invite you to the summer school “Embodiment and
Morphological Computation”, which will take place at the
University
of Zurich, Switzerland in September 2013. The school will give a
comprehensive overview of the state-of-the art in the fields of
embodied cognition, morphological computation and neuronal
mechanisms
of enactive cognition. In addition it aims at connecting
renowned
researchers in the field with students and post-docs who are
interested in the corresponding subjects.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">The
school
will be the third in a series of summer schools funded and
organized by the EU FP-7 project "Extending sensorimotor
contingencies to cognition - eSMCs" <span lang="en-US">(</span><a
href="http://esmcs.eu/"><font color="#021eaa"><span
lang="en-US">esmcs.eu</span></font></a><span lang="en-US">)</span>.
This year the school is jointly organized by the Artificial
Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich <span lang="en-US">(</span><a
href="http://www.ailab.ch/"><span lang="en-US">www.ailab.ch</span></a><span
lang="en-US">)</span>
and the Dept. of Neurophysiology at the UKE Hamburg
<span lang="en-US">(</span><a
href="http://uke.de/neurophysiology"><span lang="en-US">uke.de/neurophysiology</span></a><span
lang="en-US">)</span>.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><b>Content</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">The
five-day
school will be structured around the following themes:</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">1.
embodiment
and morphology</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">2.
active
perception and sensorimotor contingencies</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">3.
information
theory</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">4.
neuroscience
of motor cognition</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">5.
embodiment
and awareness</font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">The
school
will comprise keynote lectures in the mornings and workshops
in the afternoons, which serve for in-depth discussions of
topics
from the keynote lectures. The workshops will feature hands-on
tutorials where students will have the opportunity to build
their own
robots using the robotic toolkit EmbedIT (<a
href="http://embed-it.ch/">embed-it.ch/</a>)
to study the impact of morphology on locomotion behavior.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Participation
in
the school will be free of charge, but participants will have to
cover their own expenses.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><b>Confirmed
Speakers:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Auke
Iijspeert,
EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Josh
Bongard,
University of Vermont, USA</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Fumiya
Ida,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Marek
McGann,
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Wolfgang
Prinz,
University of Münster, Germany</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Daniel
Polani,
University of Hertfordshire, UK</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Rajesh
Rao,
University of Washington, USA</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Ricarda
Schubotz,
University of Münster, Germany</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Angelo
Maravita,
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Catherine
Tallon-Baudry,
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Herbert
Peremans,
University of Antwerp, Belgium</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Rolf
Pfeifer,
University of Zurich, Switzerland</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Helmut
Hauser,
University of Zurich, Switzerland</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><b>Important
dates:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">-
Application deadline: </span><span style="font-weight:
normal">3</span><span style="font-weight: normal">1</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">.</span><span style="font-weight:
normal">7</span><span style="font-weight: normal">.201</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">3</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2">-
Notification of acceptance: 9.8.2013</font></p>
<p lang="en-US"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">- Summer
school:
22.9.-28.9.2013</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><b>How
to
apply:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">The
school
is open to 50 PhD students and post-docs who are working on
the themes addressed. Interested participants shall submit
written
information on their scientific background, projects involved,
and
motivation to attend. Admission will be on a competitive basis.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">Applications
should be sent via email to </span><a
href="mailto:esmcs-summerschool@ifi.uzh.ch"><span lang="en-US">esmcs-summerschool@ifi.uzh.ch</span></a><span
lang="en-US">.
Please state on a single page (11pt font):</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">-</span><span lang="en-US">
Your scientific background and degree</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">-</span><span lang="en-US">
Your motivation to come to this school</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">-</span><span lang="en-US">
The topic of your thesis</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">-</span><span lang="en-US">
Any prior knowledge in the field</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2">Participation
in the school is free.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2"><b>Further
Information</b><b>:</b><br>
All relevant information can be found at
<a href="http://summerschool2013.esmcs.eu/">summerschool2013.esmcs.eu</a>.
For further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us
(<a href="mailto:esmcs-summerschool@ifi.uzh.ch">esmcs-summerschool@ifi.uzh.ch</a>).
Previous
schools in this series were "The future of the embodied
mind", held 2011 in San Sebastián, Spain
(<a href="http://summerschool2011.esmcs.eu/"><font
color="#021eaa">summerschool2011.esmcs.eu/</font></a>),
and a conjunction with the "Barcelona cognition, brain and
technology summer school" in 2012 (<a
href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt11/"><font color="#021eaa">bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt11/</font></a>).</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2">On
behalf of the eSMCs consortium,</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-US"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2">Rolf
Pfeifer, AI-Lab, University of Zurich</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-US">Andreas
Engel, Dep</span><span lang="en-US">t. of Neurophysiology, UKE
Hamburg<br>
</span></font></p>
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lang="en-US"><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Nico Schmidt, Ph.D. Student
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich
Andreasstr. 15, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 44 63 54563
Fax: +41 (0) 44 63 54507
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nico.schmidt@uzh.ch">nico.schmidt@uzh.ch</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ailab/nschmidt">http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ailab/nschmidt</a></pre>
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