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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Connectionists members,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> -- reminder --<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">we cordially invite you to the NNCN Sparks Workshop<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Neuroengineering the Brain: from Neuroscience to Robotics ... and back<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">taking place December 2-4, 2013 near Munich, Germany.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop brings together leading researchers in the border areas between computational neuroscience and systems engineering with a focus on robotics, to discuss currently available neuromorphic computing approaches applicable in future
technical systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Detailed information: <a href="http://www.sparks2013.de">
http://www.sparks2013.de</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attendance is limited; please register on the web pages as soon as possible if you want to attend.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seats will be allocated on first-come-first-served basis.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are very much looking forward to your participation!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop organizing team<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Jorg Conradt, Gordon Cheng, Stefan Ehrlich, Susanne Schneider<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Jörg Conradt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Prof. of Neuroscientific System Theory
<a href="http://www.nst.ei.tum.de/"><span style="color:blue">www.nst.ei.tum.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Cluster "Cognition for Technical Systems"
<a href="http://www.cotesys.org/"><span style="color:blue">www.cotesys.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Institute of Automatic Control Engineering
<a href="http://www.lsr.ei.tum.de/"><span style="color:blue">www.lsr.ei.tum.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Technische Universität München, Karlstr. 45, 80333 Munich, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Tel: +49 89 289-26902, Fax: +49 89 289-26901, E-mail:
<a href="mailto:conradt@tum.de"><span style="color:blue">conradt@tum.de</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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