ICANN_97 Oct.7-10: call for participation

[Wulfram Gerstner]

Call for Participation: ICANN'97 in Lausanne (Switzerland).


    ---------	   ICANN'97         -------
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
      October 7-10 - Lausanne, Switzerland
       
	Tutorials on Tuesday, October 7
   Plenary and parallel sessions, October 8-10
        -- The 1997 Latsis Conference --


More details on the conference including the full program
and registration forms can be found in 
           
	http://www.epfl.ch/icann97/
            Email  icann97 at epfl.ch
              Fax +41 21 693-5656
   
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              Conference structure
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ICANN'97 is the 7th Annual Conference of the European Neural Network 
Society ENNS. The program  includes plenary talks and  4 tracks of parallel 
sessions covering the domains of Theory, Biological Models,
Applications, and Implementations. All posters are complemented 
by short oral poster spotlight presentation. The conference
starts with a Tutorial day on October 7. 


                   Tutorials
                   ^^^^^^^^^
Y. Abu-Mostafa (USA), P. Refenes (GB)  Finance Applications
X. Arreguit (CH)                       VLSI Implementations of Vision Systems
J.L. van Hemmen (D), A. Kreiter (D)    Cortical Oscillations
M. Opper (D)                           Statistical Theories of Learning

                Invited plenary talks
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H. Bourlard, Martigny, CH,   	Speech recognition
S. Grossberg, Boston, USA,   	Visual Perception
H. Markram, Rehovot, Israel, 	Fast Synaptic Changes
E. Oja, Espoo, Finland,      	Independent Comp. Analysis
H. Ritter, Bielefeld, D,     	Self-Org. Maps for Robotics
T. Roska, Budapest, HU,      	Cellular Neural Networks 
R. Sutton, Amherst, USA,     	Markov Decision Processes
V. Vapnik, Holmdel, USA,     	Support Vector Machines
E. Vittoz, Neuchatel, CH,    	Bioinspired Circuits

		Special Invited Sessions
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Cortical Maps and Receptive Fields,   
Temporal Patterns and Brain Dynamics, 
Time Series Prediction,               
Adaptive Autonomous Agents         

	         Regular Sessions
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THEORY:
Learning, Signal Processing, Self Organization, Recurrent Networks
Perceptrons, Kernel-based Networks

BIOLOGY:
Coding, Synaptic Learning, Neural Maps, Vision

APPLICATIONS:
Forecasting, Monitoring, Pattern Recognition, 
Robotics, Identification and Control

IMPLEMENTATIONS
Analog VLSI, Digital Implementations

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            Registration 
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The registration fee includes admission to all sessions, one copy of the 
proceedings, coffee breaks and 3 lunches, welcome drinks and banquet.
                                        before August 30  --  after
Regular registration fee                          580 CHF -- 640 CHF
Student (with lunch, no banquet, no proceedings)  270 CHF -- 330 CHF
Tutorial day   (October 7)                         30 CHF --  50 CHF
Ask for a copy of the forms  or look on the Web
 http://www.epfl.ch/icann97/

Proceedings are published by Springer, 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series
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           Conference location and accomodation
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The conference will be held at the EPFL
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Lausanne.
Lausanne is beautifully located on the shores of the
lake of Geneva, and can easily by accessed by train and planes.
Hotels are in the 50 to 150 CHF range. Reservation is not handled 
by the conference organizers. Ask Fassbind Hotels, fax +41 21 323 0145
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                  Organizers
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General Chairman:  Wulfram Gerstner, Mantra-EPFL
Co-chairmen: Alain Germond, Martin Hasler, J.D. Nicoud, EPFL
Registration secretariat: Andree Moinat, LRC-EPFL, tel +41 21 693-2661
FAX: +41 21 693 5656
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For the full program and other informations have a look at 
http://www.epfl.ch/icann97/
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