<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">An ERC-funded postdoctoral position (2+2 years) is available in the<br class="">group of Marius Peelen at the Donders Institute (Nijmegen, The<br class="">Netherlands).<br class=""><br class="">In this project, we will use fMRI and advanced analysis methods (e.g.,<br class="">hyperalignment) to study the representation of objects and scenes in<br class="">the visual cortex, and characterise how attention and expectation<br class="">influence these representations.<br class=""><br class="">The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour focuses on<br class="">state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience, using a multidisciplinary<br class="">approach, and offers excellent lab and neuroimaging facilities,<br class="">courses, and technical support.<br class=""><br class="">Preference will be given to candidates with a PhD in cognitive<br class="">neuroscience or a related field, who have a strong motivation to<br class="">pursue a scientific career. Experience with fMRI and scientific<br class="">programming (e.g. MATLAB, Python) is required. A background in vision<br class="">and/or attention research is desirable.<br class=""><br class="">For informal inquiries, please email <a href="mailto:m.peelen@donders.ru.nl" class="">m.peelen@donders.ru.nl</a><br class="">For more information about our work, see:<br class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/peelenlab" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr class="">peelenlab</a><br class="">To apply, please visit:<br class=""><a href="http://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=601361" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ru.nl/werken/<wbr class="">details/details_vacature_0/?<wbr class="">recid=601361</a><br class=""><br class="">Marius will be at VSS to meet interested candidates.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 16, 2018, at 6:02 PM, <a href="mailto:connectionists-request@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" class="">connectionists-request@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Send Connectionists mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" class="">connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/connectionists<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>connectionists-request@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>connectionists-owner@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of Connectionists digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. postdoc @ UCLA: consciousness, AI, blockchain tech (Hakwan Lau)<br class=""> 2. Re: postdoc @ UCLA: consciousness, AI,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>blockchain tech<br class=""> (Hakwan Lau)<br class=""> 3. Information theory workshop at CNS*2018 -- call for<br class=""> contributed talks (Joseph Lizier)<br class=""> 4. Neuroplasticity Workshop: From Bench to Machine Learning 13<br class=""> July 2018 - 14 July 2018 -- University of Surrey near London<br class=""> (a.gruning@surrey.ac.uk)<br class=""> 5. Lecturer and Senior Lecturer Positions at QMUL<br class=""> (Asier Erramuzpe Aliaga)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:38:40 -0700<br class="">From: Hakwan Lau <hakwan@gmail.com><br class="">To: connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br class="">Subject: Connectionists: postdoc @ UCLA: consciousness, AI, blockchain<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tech<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><CAF4OrX_2j=JpuOaeR2YfboB+WBD+K_BEK9KfRH1n4A13utAojA@mail.gmail.com><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">in collaboration with the industry (a startup company based in the Bay<br class="">Area), we are looking for a postdoc to follow up on this<br class=""><http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6362/486/tab-figures-data>. the<br class="">ideal candidate may be someone with a computer science background,<br class="">passionate for understanding neuroscience and human consciousness.<br class="">familiarity with / interest in neural network modelling and/or blockchain<br class="">tech a plus. the job will be primarily based at UCLA with frequent<br class="">opportunities to travel to San Francisco & Hong Kong (not an obligation).<br class="">please send CV to hakwan@gmail.com<br class=""><br class="">Hakwan Lau, D.Phil<br class="">[my work <https://qualia.psych.ucla.edu/> & blog<br class=""><https://inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/>]<br class=""><br class="">*This email may contain material that is confidential or privileged for the<br class="">sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, reliance or distribution by<br class="">others or forwarding without expressed permission is strictly prohibited.<br class="">If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete<br class="">all copies.*<br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20180515/3a59953d/attachment-0001.html><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 2<br class="">Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 17:00:35 -0700<br class="">From: Hakwan Lau <hakwan@gmail.com><br class="">To: connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br class="">Subject: Re: Connectionists: postdoc @ UCLA: consciousness, AI,<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>blockchain tech<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><CAF4OrX-Xam4e5pvF-BXzLQPmmasW6ECSKHz3tJHFjbxjjqNj9g@mail.gmail.com><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">ps - if it is not too late (sorry), this ad may be better (with link to our<br class="">collaborator)<br class=""><br class="">in collaboration with our partner in the industry<br class=""><https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsestephen>, we are looking for a postdoc to<br class="">follow up on this<br class=""><http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6362/486/tab-figures-data>. the<br class="">ideal candidate may be someone with a computational background, passionate<br class="">for understanding neuroscience and human consciousness. familiarity with /<br class="">interest in neural network modelling and/or blockchain-related tech a plus.<br class="">the job will be primarily based at UCLA with frequent opportunities to<br class="">travel to San Francisco & Hong Kong (not an obligation). please send CV to<br class="">hakwan@gmail.com<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hakwan Lau, D.Phil<br class="">[my work <https://qualia.psych.ucla.edu/> & blog<br class=""><https://inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/>]<br class=""><br class="">*This email may contain material that is confidential or privileged for the<br class="">sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, reliance or distribution by<br class="">others or forwarding without expressed permission is strictly prohibited.<br class="">If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete<br class="">all copies.*<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Hakwan Lau <hakwan@gmail.com> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">in collaboration with the industry (a startup company based in the Bay<br class="">Area), we are looking for a postdoc to follow up on this<br class=""><http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6362/486/tab-figures-data>.<br class="">the ideal candidate may be someone with a computer science background,<br class="">passionate for understanding neuroscience and human consciousness.<br class="">familiarity with / interest in neural network modelling and/or blockchain<br class="">tech a plus. the job will be primarily based at UCLA with frequent<br class="">opportunities to travel to San Francisco & Hong Kong (not an obligation).<br class="">please send CV to hakwan@gmail.com<br class=""><br class="">Hakwan Lau, D.Phil<br class="">[my work <https://qualia.psych.ucla.edu/> & blog<br class=""><https://inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/>]<br class=""><br class="">*This email may contain material that is confidential or privileged for<br class="">the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, reliance or<br class="">distribution by others or forwarding without expressed permission is<br class="">strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact<br class="">the sender and delete all copies.*<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20180515/3d200cfd/attachment-0001.html><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 3<br class="">Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:54:11 +1000<br class="">From: Joseph Lizier <joseph.lizier@sydney.edu.au><br class="">To: comp-neuro@neuroinformatics.be, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu<br class="">Subject: Connectionists: Information theory workshop at CNS*2018 --<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>call for contributed talks<br class="">Message-ID: <1526432051.17025.15.camel@scooby><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">We are pleased to announce that the Workshop on Methods of Information<br class="">Theory in Computational Neuroscience will be held once again at<br class="">CNS*2018, Seattle, USA.<br class="">The workshop will be held over the final two days of the main<br class="">conference, July 17 and 18.<br class=""><br class="">Our confirmed invited speakers include the following (schedule available<br class="">soon):<br class=""><br class=""> * Braden Brinkman, Stony Brook University -- "Signal-to-noise<br class=""> ratio competes with neural bandwidth to shape efficient coding<br class=""> strategies"<br class=""> * Mireille Conrad, University of Geneva -- "Mutual information vs.<br class=""> transfer entropy in spike-based neuroscience"<br class=""> * Benjamin Cramer, University of Heidelberg -- "Information theory<br class=""> reveals a diverse range of states induced by spike timing based<br class=""> learning in neural networks"<br class=""> * Alex Dimitrov, Washington State University Vancouver --<br class=""> "Modeling of perceptual invariances in biological sensory<br class=""> processing"<br class=""> * Eva Dyer, Georgia Tech -- "Finding low-dimensional structure in<br class=""> large-scale neural recordings"<br class=""> * Justin Gardner, Stanford University -- "Optimality and<br class=""> heuristics for human perceptual inference"<br class=""> * Jim Kay, University of Glasgow -- "Partial Information<br class=""> Decompositions based on Dependency Constraints"<br class=""> * Joseph T. Lizier, The University of Sydney -- "Pointwise Partial<br class=""> Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity<br class=""> Lattices"<br class=""> * Leonardo Novelli, The University of Sydney -- "Validation and<br class=""> performance of effective network inference using multivariate<br class=""> transfer entropy with IDTxl"<br class=""> * Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- TBA<br class=""> * Nicholas M. Timme, Indiana University - Purdue University<br class=""> Indianapolis -- "From neural cultures to rodent models of<br class=""> disease: examples of information theory analyses of effective<br class=""> connectivity, computation, and encoding"<br class=""> * Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute -- "Emergence of<br class=""> Levy Walks from Second-Order Stochastic Optimization"<br class=""> * Siwei Wang, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- "Closing the gap<br class=""> from structure to function with information theoretic design<br class=""> principles"<br class=""> * Patricia Wollstadt, Goethe University, Frankfurt / Honda<br class=""> Research Institute Europe "Validation and performance of<br class=""> effective network inference using multivariate transfer entropy<br class=""> with IDTxl"<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Also, we would like to call for contributions of talks (25 min + 5 min<br class="">Q&A). If you are interested in contributing such a talk, please send a<br class="">title and abstract to Joseph Lizier (joseph.lizier@sydney.edu.au) by<br class="">Friday June 8, 2018.<br class=""><br class="">Please see our website http://bit.ly/cns2018itw for more details.<br class=""><br class="">We hope you will join us there!<br class=""><br class="">Organising Committee:<br class="">Joseph Lizier<br class="">Viola Priesemann<br class="">Justin Dauwels<br class="">Taro Toyoizumi<br class="">Alexander Dimitrov<br class="">Lubomir Kostal <br class="">Michael Wibral<br class=""><br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20180516/6cd133f2/attachment-0001.html><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 4<br class="">Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 08:48:58 +0000<br class="">From: <a.gruning@surrey.ac.uk><br class="">To: <connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu><br class="">Subject: Connectionists: Neuroplasticity Workshop: From Bench to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Machine Learning 13 July 2018 - 14 July 2018 -- University of Surrey<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>near London<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><AM2PR06MB073702693E451305BC56EF50DD920@AM2PR06MB0737.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"<br class=""><br class="">Dear colleagues, <br class=""><br class="">Full information at <http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/Neuroplasticity/index.php>.<br class=""><br class="">Neuroplasticity: From Bench to Machine Learning 13 July 2018 - 14 July 2018<br class=""><br class="">The Surrey Sleep Research Centre, the Department of Computer Science, and the Institute of Advance Studies at the University of Surrey are pleased to announce a call for participation in and contributions to a two-day workshop where researchers can share and discuss the current advances in neuroplasticity and machine learning and their mutual inspiration.<br class=""><br class="">On one hand, Neuroscience keeps discovering new mechanisms involved in neural plasticity and its modulation, which involves the so-called ?third factors? (e.g. dendritic computations, glia, neurotransmitters) and dynamics of neural networks (e.g. oscillations). However the functional and computational interpretation of these phenomena and their utilisation in machine learning remains to be explored. On the other hand, the advent of ?deep networks? in machine learning has allowed us to model artificial neural networks that perform highly complex tasks (e.g. chess, go, image classification). But to date, none of these modeling approaches competes with general human or animal intelligence in terms of cost-effectiveness or domain-transferability.<br class=""><br class="">The main goal of this workshop will be to discuss the missing links between neural-level phenomena and their computational function on behavioural or technical level. This meeting will bring together international and national leaders in the fields of synaptic function and plasticity, network dynamic, computational neuroscience and machine learning and will offer a unique platform to establish new interdisciplinary collaborations.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">CONFIRMED SPEAKERS <br class=""><br class="">Katharina Wilmes, Imperial College London, UK<br class="">Matthew Larkum, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany<br class="">Cyril Hanus, INSERM U894, France<br class="">Brendon Watson, University of Michigan, USA<br class="">Keith Hengen, Washington University, USA<br class="">Giorgos Kastellakis, IMBB-FORTH, Crete<br class="">Friedemann Zenke, University of Oxford<br class="">Connor Houghton, University of Bristol<br class="">Liam McDaid, Ulster University<br class="">David Lester, SpiNNaker, University of Manchester<br class="">Tiina Maninen, Technical University of Turku<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 5<br class="">Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 12:06:31 +0200<br class="">From: Asier Erramuzpe Aliaga <asier.erramuzpe@gmail.com><br class="">To: connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br class="">Subject: Connectionists: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer Positions at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>QMUL<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><CAE1Pk_8bMO=U1yeEE9tE8ZcihjcMSAnPgYg34ZKs2pUtaSHwQA@mail.gmail.com><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">[On behalf of Simon Lucas <simon.lucas@qmul.ac.uk>]<br class=""><br class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">Please see the following (equivalent to Assistant / Associate Professor)<br class=""><br class="">Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in Applied Data Science, AI<br class="">and/or Machine Learning:<br class=""><br class="">https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=3315<br class=""><br class="">Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in Information Technology<br class="">Management:<br class=""><br class="">https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=3314<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best wishes,<br class="">Simon<br class="">-- <br class="">Simon Lucas<br class="">Professor of Artificial Intelligence<br class="">Head of School<br class="">Electronic Engineering and Computer Science<br class="">Queen Mary University of London<br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20180516/4d491354/attachment-0001.html><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Subject: Digest Footer<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Connectionists mailing list<br class="">Connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br class="">https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/connectionists<br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">End of Connectionists Digest, Vol 582, Issue 3<br class="">**********************************************<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>