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size="2">!Application deadline is 31.7.2013!</font><br>
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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 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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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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