<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Barcelona Cognition, Brain and
Technology Summer School (BCBT2015)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">University
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">August 31<sup>st</sup>
to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">September 11<sup>th</sup>, 2015 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/home">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15<span lang="EN-US"><br>
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Join us for the annual <b>"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology
summer school - BCBT2015 </b>" (see</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"> <a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/home">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/home</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) to be held
from August 31<sup>st</sup> to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">September 11<sup>th</sup>, 2015
in Barcelona Spain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.<br>
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The BCBT summer school is part of a series of events organized by the Convergent
Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (<a href="http://csnetwork.eu/" target="_blank">http://csnetwork.eu/</a>) 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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This
is the 8th year of BCBT, which has ran with great success in previous
years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see <a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu">bcbt.upf.edu</a>
for previous editions of the school). BCBT lectures are available online (see </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://csnetwork.eu/" target="_blank">http://csnetwork.eu/</a>) as well as the CSN <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Podcast
interviews </span></u>with many of the BCBT
speakers.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BCBT
caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in the ambit
of “BIO-ICT convergence”, "Brain Inspired ICT", “Cognitive
systems-robotics”.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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. </span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.<br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For the 2015 edition we plan a <b>1<sup>st</sup> week</b> of the school addressing <b>Evolutionary
and Developmental aspects of nervous systems and behavior </b>while the <b>2<sup>nd</sup> week</b> will include presentations
aimed at the investigation of <b>Decision
making</b>. Friday 11 is reserved for the presentation of the student projects
to which everybody is invited. </span></p>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Application deadline: July 27th, 2015</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
For more information on to apply, please go to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt14/home"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/participate<br>
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</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BCBT2015 is supported by the Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and
Neurotechnology (<a href="http://csnetwork.eu/" target="_blank">http://csnetwork.eu/</a>).<br>
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and is co-organized by<br><br>Paul Verschure (BCBT Chair), ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES<br>Tony Prescott (BCBT Co-Chair) University of Sheffield, UK<br>Anna Mura (BCBT Co-Chair), University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES<br><br>In collaboration with<br>Leah Krubizer (BCBT Co-Chair) UC Davis, CA, USA<br>Gustavo Deco (BCBT Co-Chair), ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES</div>