Rio de Janeiro, 5th Congress on Neural Nets, April 2-5, 2001

[John E Moody]

Connectionists,

I am posting this announcement at the request of the organizers of the
Fifth Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks, which will convene in Rio
de Janeiro on April 2-5, 2001.

For registration and abstract submission information, 
please see the conference URL at:
        http://www.ele.ita.br/cnrn
Early registration continues through February 28.

The Congress will feature presentations by Paul Werbos, 
Teuvo Kohonen and others, including:

"Automatic Knowledge Discovery in Power Systems", 
	Prof. Louis A. Wehenkel (U. Liege).
"Real Time Dynamic Security Assessment",  
	Prof. Mohamed El-Sharkawi (U. Washington).
"Electrical Load Forecasting Via Neural Networks", 
	Prof. Tharam S. Dillon (La Trobe U.).
"The Application of Fundamental and Neural Network Models to Credit Risk Analysis", 
        Dr. Pratap Sondhi (Citibank).
"Financial Model Calibration Using Consistency Hints", 
	Prof. Yaser Abu-Mostafa (CALTECH).
"Learning to Trade via Direct Reinforcement",
	Prof. John Moody (Oregon Graduate Institute).
"Self-Organizing Maps of Massive Document Collections", 
	Prof. Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki University of Technology).
"Specification, Estimation, and Evaluation of Neural Networks Time Series Models", 
	Prof. Timo Tersvirta (Stockholm School of Economics).
"Neural Networks in Control Systems",
	Dr. Paul Werbos (National Science Foundation).

See you in Rio!

John

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John E. Moody                   http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~moody/
Professor and Director,         http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CompFin/
Computational Finance Program

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