CogSci96 in Sofia

[Boicho Kokinov]

            3rd International Summer School
                          in
                 Cognitive Science
             Sofia, July 21 - August 3, 1996

         First Announcement and Call for Papers


The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses in
Cognitive Science, participant symposia, panel discussions,
student sessions, and intensive informal discussions.
Participants will include university teachers and researchers,
graduate and senior undergraduate students.

International Advisory Board

Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,
USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

Courses
Two Sciences of Mind: Cognitive Science and
      Consciousness Studies - Sean O'Nuallain (NCR, Canada)
Contextual Reasoning - Fausto Giunchiglia (University of
      Trento, Italy)
Diagrammatic Reasonning - Hari Narayanan (Georgia Tech, USA)
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning - Schlieder (Hamburg and
      Freiburg University, Germany)
Language, Vision, and Spatial Cognition - Annette
      Herskovits (Boston University)
Situated Planning and Reactivity - Iain Craig (University
      of Warwick, UK)
Anthropology of Knowledge - Janet Keller (University of
      Illinois, USA)
Cognitive Ergonomics - Antonio Rizzo (University of Siena,
      Italy)
Psychophysics: Detection, Discrimination, and Scaling -
      Stephan Mateeff (BAS and NBU, Bulgaria)

Participant Symposia
Participants are invited to submit papers reporting completed
research which will be presented (30 min) at the participant
symposia. Authors should send full papers (8 single spaced
pages) in triplicate or electronically (postscript, RTF, MS Word
or plain ASCII) by May 31. Selected papers will be published in
the School's Proceedings. Only papers presented at the School
will be eligible for publication.

Student Session

Graduate students in Cognitive Science are invited to present
their work at the student session. Research in progress as well
as research plans and proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D.
Theses will be discussed at the student session. Papers will not
be published in the School's Proceedings.

Panel Discussions

Cognitive Science in the 21st century
Symbolic vs. Situated Cognition
Human Thinking and Reasoning: Contextual, Diagrammatic, Spatial,
Culturally Bound

Local Organizers

New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society

Sponsors

TEMPUS SJEP 07272/94

Local Organizing Committee

Boicho Kokinov -  School Director, Elena Andonova, Gergana
Yancheva, Veselka Anastasova

Timetable

Registration Form:            as soon as possible
Deadline for paper submission:     May 31
Notification for acceptance:       June 15
Early registration:           June 15
Arrival date and on site registration   July 21
Summer School            July 22-August 2
Excursion                July 28
Departure date           August 3

Paper submission to:
Boicho Kokinov
Cognitive Science Department
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
e-mail: cogsci96 at cogs.nbu.acad.bg

Send your Registration Form to:
e-mail: cogsci96 at cogs.nbu.acad.bg
(If you don't receive an aknowledgement within 3 days, send a
message to kokinov at bgearn.acad.bg)