Last notice and registration form for conference Feb. 6-8, UT Dallas

[B344DSL@utarlg.uta.edu]

The program and abstracts I sent for the Optimality conference Feb. 6-8, I
believe, did not include a registration form.  I am sorry for the error:
since I have already sent out two mailings to Connectionists on this con-
ference, this is the last general mailing I will send on it.  Anybody desi-
ring more information, e.g., abstracts that weren't included earlier, should
contact me individually (my e-mail address is at the end of the registration
form which I am including in this notice.)  Hope to see some of you there.

Dan Levine









                 REGISTRATION FOR CONFERENCE ON

                  OPTIMALITY IN BIOLOGICAL AND 
                      ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS?

                     FEBRUARY 6 TO 8, 1992,
                  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

Sponsored by Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND), Texas
SIG of International Neural Network Society (INNS), and the
University of Texas at Dallas


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    Registration fee (please enclose check payable to MIND):

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Other non-students                           $80       _______

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     or UTD students

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Presenters (oral or poster) from outside
     Dallas-Ft. Worth                        FREE      _______
           (Note: Registration does not include meals)

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name of MIND.

Preregistrants whose forms and payment checks are received by
January 31 will be mailed a preregistration package with a
confirmation.  This will include a complete schedule with times of
presentations and directions to the hotel and conference site.

Please send this form to:

     Professor Daniel S. Levine
     Department of Mathematics
     Box 19408
     University of Texas at Arlington
     Arlington, TX 76019-0408
     Office: 817-273-3598; FAX: 817-794-5802;
          e-mail b344dsl at utarlg.uta.edu
   



Conference program(still subject to minor change):

ORAL PRESENTATIONS --

Thursday, Feb. 6, AM:

Daniel Levine, U. of Texas, Arlington -- Don't Just Stand There,
	Optimize Something!
Samuel Leven, Radford U. -- Man as Machine?  Conflicting Optima, Dynamic Goals, 
	and Hope
Wesley Elsberry, Battelle Research Labs -- Putting Optimality in its Place:
	Argument on Context, Systems, and Neural Networks
Graham Tattersall, U. of East Anglia -- Optimal Generalisation in
	Artificial Neural Networks 

Thursday, Feb. 6, PM:

Steven Hampson, U. of Cal., Irvine -- Problem Solving in a Connectionist
	World Model
Richard Golden, U. of Texas, Dallas -- Identifying a Neural Network's
	Computational Goals: a Statistical Optimization Perspective
Harold Szu, Naval Surface Warfare Center -- Why Do We Study Neural Network
	Formations on VLSI Chips and Why Are Wavelets More Natural for
	Brain-Style Computing?
Arun Jagota, SUNY at Buffalo -- Efficient Optimizing Dynamics in a
	Hopfield-style network

Friday, Feb. 7, AM:

Gershom Rosenstein, Hebrew U. -- For What are Brains Striving?
Gail Carpenter, Boston U. -- Fuzzy ARTMAP: Adaptive Resonance for
	Supervised Learning
Stephen Grossberg, Boston U. -- Vector Associative Maps: Self-Organizing
	Neural Networks for Error-based Learning, Spatial Orientation,
	and Sensory-Motor Control
Haluk Ogmen, U. of Houston -- Self-Organization via Active Exploration
	in Robotics

Friday, Feb. 7, PM:

David Stork, Ricoh California Research Center -- Non-optimality in
	Neurobiological Systems
Ian Parberry, U. of North Texas -- Neural Networks and Computational Complexity
David Chance, Central Oklahoma U. -- Real-time Neuronal Models Compared Within
	a Classical Conditioning Framework
Samy Bengio, Universite de Montreal -- On the Optimization of a Synaptic
	Learning Rule

Saturday, Feb. 8, AM:

Karl Pribram, Radford U. -- The Least Action Principle: Does it Apply to
	Cognitive Processes?
Paul Prueitt, Georgetown U. -- Control Hierarchies and the Return to Homeostasis
Herve Abdi, U. of Texas, Dallas -- Generalization of the Linear Auto-Associator
Sylvia Candelaria de Ram, New Mexico State U. -- Interactive Sub-systems of
	Natural Language and the Treatment of Specialized Function

Saturday, Feb. 8, PM:

Panel discussion on the basic themes of the conference

POSTERS

Basari Bhaumik, Indian Inst. of Technology, New Delhi -- A Multilayer Network
	for Determining Subjective Contours
John Johnson, U. of Mississippi -- The Genetic Adaptive Neural Network Training
	Algorithm for Generic Feedforward Artificial Neural Systems
Subhash Kak, Louisiana State U. -- State Generators and Complex Neural Memories
Brian Telfer, Naval Surface Warfare Center -- Moving Beyond LMS Energy for
	Natural Classifiers