Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling

[Steven Young]

The call for participation for the 1996 Oxford Summer School on
Connectionist Modelling follows.  Please pass on this information
to people you know you would be interested.
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OXFORD SUMMER SCHOOL ON CONNECTIONIST MODELLING
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford
                                
21 July - 2nd August 1996

Applications are invited for participation in a 2-week
residential Summer School on techniques in connectionist
modelling.  The course is aimed primarily at researchers who
wish to exploit neural network models in their teaching and/or
research and it will provide a general introduction to
connectionist modelling through lectures and exercises on Power
PCs.  The course  is interdisciplinary in content though many of
the illustrative examples are taken from cognitive and
developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.  The
instructors with primary responsibility for teaching the course
are Kim Plunkett and Edmund Rolls.

No prior knowledge of computational modelling will be required
though simple word processing skills will be assumed.
Participants will be encouraged to start work on their own
modelling projects during the Summer School.

The cost of participation in the Summer School is #750 to
include accommodation (bed and breakfast at St. John's College)
and registration.  Participants will be expected to cover their
own travel and meal costs.  A small number of graduate student
scholarships providing partial funding may be available.
Applicants should indicate whether they wish to be considered
for a graduate student scholarship but are advised to seek their
own funding as well, since in previous years the number of
graduate student applications has far exceeded the number of
scholarships available.

There is a Summer School World Wide Web page describing the
contents of the 1995 Summer School available on:

http://cogsci1.psych.ox.ac.uk/summer-school/

Further information about contents of the course can be obtained
from Steven.Young at psy.ox.ac.uk

If you are interested in participating in the Summer School,
please contact:

Mrs Sue King
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford 
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3UD
                                    
Tel:  (01865) 271353
Email:  susan.king at psy.oxford.ac.uk

Please send a brief description of your background with an
explanation of why you would like to attend the Summer School
(one page maximum) no later than 31st January 1996.


Regards,
Steven Young.
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        Facility for Computational Modelling in Cognitive Science
         McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford
                   <mailto:Steven.Young at psy.ox.ac.uk>