[ACT-R-users] CogModeling notes: ICCM06 tutorials+registration/Infection modeling

[ritter at acs.ist.psu.edu]

[please forward as/what is appropriate, if you have good ideas, I'll
take them.  ]

This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference
mailing list, which I maintain.  I forward messages about twice a
year.  I've added you this year because I think you are intersted in
such stuff.

The first announcement is the one that is driving this email, the announcement
of the tutorials program at ICCM 2006.  Also, registration is open for this 
year's conference in Trieste, Italy.

cheers,

Frank Ritter (http://acs.ist.psu.edu)
on sabbatical, Tufts, Spring 2006


1. Tutorial program, 2006 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
   5 April 2006, Trieste, Italy, early reg. deadline 1 March (!) 2006
   http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2006/tutorials.html

2. Registration open, 2006 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
   Wednesday, 5 April 2006 to Saturday 8 April 2006, in Trieste, Italy
   http://iccm2006.units.it/

3. Modeling infectious processes          
   "Koopman, James" <jkoopman at umich.edu>

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1. Tutorial program announcement, 
   2006 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
   Wednesday 5 April 2006, in Trieste, Italy
   http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2006/tutorials.html

Early registration deadline: 1 March 2006 (not a huge increase in
price after, deadline might be extended)

The Tutorials program at ICCM 2006 will be held on Wednesday 5
April 2006.

Registration: Tutorials cost 35 Euros (about 25 pounds or about $40)
for each half-day tutorial and about $30 in Euros for students. You
are encouraged to register through the conference site, or, if space
is available, paid for on the day.  Attendance at the tutorials does
not require conference registration; tutorial registration does not
provide conference entrance. If you are not registering for the
conference, you can register for the tutorials at the door.

				Topics

  Agimap --- A tool chain to support the modelling of the interaction
             level of dynamic systems 
  Urbas & al. , Half-day (1345-1700)

  Psi and MicroPsi --- A novel approach for modeling emotion and cognition
                       in a cognitive architecture
  Bach, Doerner, and Vuine, Half-day (1345-1700) 

  Introduction to Connectionist Simulation in Social Cognition
  Van Overwalle, Whole-day (0915-1230)

  Simulation exercises in Social Cognition with FIT
  Van Overwalle, Whole-day (1345-1700)

Introduction: The Tutorials program at the International Conference on
Cognitive Modeling 2006 will be held on 5 April 2006. It will provide
conference participants with the opportunity to gain new insights,
knowledge, and skills from a broad range of areas in and related to
the field of cognitive modeling. Tutorial topics will be presented in
a taught format and are likely to range from practical guidelines to
academic issues and theory.

More details at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2006/tutorials.html

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2. Registration open, 2006 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
   Wednesday, 5 April 2006 (tutorials), 6 to 8 April 2006, in Trieste, Italy
   http://iccm2006.units.it/

  This continues the series of ICCM conferences.  The last conference
  was at Pittsburgh.  http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/ This
  conference will build on that one's success.

		      ICCM-2006:
The 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling

           Trieste, Italy, 5 - 8 April 2006

The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling provides an
international forum that allows cognitive scientists pursuing
computational modeling to present, discuss and evaluate their models,
to compare different architectural approaches, and to further the
development, accumulation and integration of cognitive theories.

The goal of ICCM-2006 is to foster the development of models of human
cognition based on a principled integration of analytical,
experimental and computational tools capable of providing theoretical
accounts of phenomena spanning different levels of analysis, from the
behavioral to the neuronal ones.  Proceedings will be available from LEA.

Invited speakers:

  - Dario Floreano (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de
    Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  - Wayne D. Gray (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
  - Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria)
  - Richard L. Lewis (University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, MI)

Organizing Committee:
  Danilo Fum (University of Trieste)
  Andrea Stocco (Carnegie Mellon University)
  Fabio Del Missier (University of Trento)

Contacts:
  website: http://iccm2006.units.it
  email: iccm2006 at units.it.

Organizing secretariat: The Office    http://www.theoffice.it/iccm2006

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3.  Post-doc in agent modeling of infection
 
Post-doctoral position available for agent based modeling of infection
transmission:
 
The Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) is an
interdisciplinary collaboration of diverse scientist from institutions
across the US.  Environmental Microbiologists, epidemiologists,
information scientists, sociologists, modelers, and other scientists
work jointly to understand how infection gets from one person to
another and how different mechanisms of transmission determine the
shapes of networks through which infection flows.  Joe Eisenberg and
Jim Koopman in the Epidemiology Dept. at the University of Michigan
contribute to CAMRA by developing and analyzing population level
transmission models that encompass models of social settings where
transmission can take place through air, skin to skin contact between
individuals, inanimate objects (fomites) or combinations of these.  We
also model how different social settings where infection transmission
can occur get linked into infection transmission systems.  We are
looking for a post-doc with a primary interest in agent based modeling
of social processes and with skills in programming such models,
especially using RePast.  This post-doc position would conform to
governmental guidelines for support of post-docs but details are
negotiable.  This position would link this post-doc to a variety of
institutions and disciplines providing broad potential for career
advancement.  It would include collaborations at Michigan's Center for
the Study of Complex Systems.
 
Jim Koopman MD MPH       (734) 763-5629 office
Dept. of Epidemiology    (734) 417-9610 Cell      (734) 995-2954 home
611 Church St.           (906) 484-5119 cottage   (734) 998-6837 fax
Ann Arbor, MI 48104       e-mail "Koopman, James" <jkoopman at umich.edu>
       Developing Theory that Serves the Public Health
       http://www.sph.umich.edu/faculty/jkoopman.html