LAST CALL for participation for the Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling

[Steven Young]

This is the LAST CALL for participation for the 1996 Oxford
Summer School on Connectionist Modelling follows.  Please pass
on this information to people you know who 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.