<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">INFO CSNETWORK, Bústia Compartida</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info.csnetwork@upf.edu">info.csnetwork@upf.edu</a>></span><br>Date: 2017-05-04 8:28 GMT+02:00<br>Subject: [Comp-neuro] BCBT2017 Summer School. Registrations Open!<br>To: <a href="mailto:comp-neuro@neuroinformatics.be">comp-neuro@neuroinformatics.be</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Apologies for crossposting!</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">------------------------------<wbr>----------------------------</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"><br></span><span style="font-family:arial;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">------------------------------<wbr>----------------------------</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial">Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School -BCBT2017</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">28 August - 8 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">September 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><a href="https://eventum.upf.edu/9240/detail/bcbt-2017.html" target="_blank">BCBT2017-Eventum UPF</a><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Join us for the 10^th edition of <b>"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school - BCBT2017 </b>" be held 28 August-8 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">September 2017</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">in Barcelona, Spain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">.<br><br>The BCBT summer school 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">The summer school has been part of a series of events organized by the European coordination action Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://csnetwork.eu/" target="_blank">http://csnetwork.eu/</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">This year the school is supported by the ERC project<span class="m_-7043802458636915691gmail-m_7720832755023366074gmail-m_-7546960490366543292gmail-m_-1186871421444712279gmail-m_4508157019198919694gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://specs.upf.edu/projects/2810" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">CDAC</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> that investigates the role of consciousness in adaptive behavior combining empirical, computational and robot-based approach. BCBT is also supported by </span><a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/sp3" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">EPISENSE</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">,<span class="m_-7043802458636915691gmail-m_7720832755023366074gmail-m_-7546960490366543292gmail-m_-1186871421444712279gmail-m_4508157019198919694gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>a subproject of the </span><a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Human Brain Project</span><span class="m_-7043802458636915691gmail-m_7720832755023366074gmail-m_-7546960490366543292gmail-m_-1186871421444712279gmail-m_4508157019198919694gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">(HBP) that investigates brain mechanisms of perception and memory.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">This is the 10th year of BCBT, which has run with great success in previous years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see <a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/" target="_blank">bcbt.upf.edu</a> for previous editions of the school). </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ConvergentScienceNw/playlists" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">BCBT lectures</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> are available online </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">with the BCBT <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Podcast interviews </span></u>with many of the BCBT speakers.<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in the ambit of “BIO-ICT convergence”, "Brain Inspired ICT", “Cognitive systems-robotics”, “Cognitive and neural systems”, “Foundations of social cognition”.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial">The atmosphere of the BCBT summer school is informal with the goal to stimulate in-depth discussion. There are 1 or 2 presentations in the morning, with the afternoons reserved for tutorials and projects for student participants and road-mapping workshops or further discussion for senior scientists.<br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial">For the 2017 edition we plan a <b>1^st week</b> of the school addressing <b>Neural basis of Consciousness </b>while the <b>2^nd week</b> will include presentations aimed at the investigation of <b>Evolutionary and Developmental aspects of nervous systems and behavior.</b> Friday 8 is reserved for the presentation of the student projects to which everybody is invited.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial">Application deadline: July 24, 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial"><br>For more information on how to apply, please go to </span><a href="https://eventum.upf.edu/9240/detail/bcbt-2017.html" style="font-family:arial;font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">BCBT2017-Eventum UPF</a></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial">BCBT is organized by</span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Paul Verschure, ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES, </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tony Prescott, Sheffield University, UK </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Anna Mura, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES</span></div></div></div>
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