10 scholarschips in Cognitive Science

[Boicho Kokinov]

10 scholarships are available to  successful candidates for the
Graduate Program in Cognitive Science at NBU for candidates from
Eastern and Central Europe. The scholarschips have been provided by the
Soros Foundation.

                        NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
                     Department of Cognitive Science



Admission to the Graduate Program in Cognitive Science is open
till July  30.
It offers the following degrees: Post-Graduate Diploma, M.Sc.,
Ph.D.

                             FEATURES

       Teaching in English both in the regular courses at NBU and
in the intensive courses at the Annual International Summer
Schools.
       Strong interdisciplinary program covering Psychology,
Artificial Intelligence, Neurosciences, Linguistics, Philosophy,
Mathematics, Methods.
       Theoretical and experimental research in integration of the
symbolic and connectionist approaches, emergent hybrid cognitive
architectures, models of memory and reasoning, analogy, vision,
imagery, agnosia, language and speech processing, aphasia.
       Advisors: at least two advisors with different backgrounds,
possibly one external international advisor.
       International dissertation committee.

                    INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA), Amedeo Cappelli (CNR, Italy),
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy), Daniel  Dennett (Tufts
University, USA), Charles De Weert (University of Nijmegen,
Holland), Christian Freksa (Hamburg University, Germany), Dedre
Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Christopher Habel
(Hamburg University, Germany), Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana
University, USA), Joachim Hohnsbein (University of Dortmund,
Germany), Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA), Mark Keane (Trinity
College, Ireland), Alan Lesgold (University of Pittsburg, USA),
Willem Levelt (Max-Plank Institute of  Psycholinguistics,
Holland), Ennio De Renzi (University of Modena, Italy), David
Rumelhart (Stanford University, USA), Richard Shiffrin (Indiana
University, USA), Paul  Smolensky (University of Colorado, USA),
Chris Thornton (University of Sussex, England ), Carlo Umilta'
(University of Padova, Italy)

                      ADDMISSION REQUIREMENTS

       B.Sc. degree in psychology, computer science, linguistics,
philosophy, neurosciences, or related fields.
       Good command of English.

Address:
Cognitive Science Department,
New Bulgarian University,
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria,
tel.: (+3592) 55-80-65
fax: (+3592) 54-08-02
e-mail: cogs at adm.nbu.bg or kokinov at bgearn.acad.bg