From kass at stat.cmu.edu Mon Nov 1 09:39:25 2004 From: kass at stat.cmu.edu (Rob Kass) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:39:25 -0500 Subject: Bayesian Analysis, the journal Message-ID: <200411011439.iA1EdPe7016475@bizarre.stat.cmu.edu> I am very pleased to announce that the new electronic journal Bayesian Analysis, published by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), is taking submissions at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu For a brief description of the journal and its editorial board, see that web page. We are interested in outstanding research and scholarship. Please submit your work!! Some comments follow. Bayesian Analysis will be published on our web site and will be freely available. It will be dedicated to rapid editorial turnaround of manuscripts, which will be facilitated by (1) a large board of editors and associate editors who will handle most refereeing, and (2) an electronic manuscript-handling system that will greatly reduce the book-keeping overhead for the editorial board. Much effort has gone into creation of the automated manuscript-handling system. Written in PHP/MySQL, it not only enables reviewers to get papers, but also keeps track of all editorial activities and allows instant access to the status and complete history of manuscripts. My hope is that the system will not only reduce the organizational effort required of editors and associate editors but that it will, in addition, relieve the editorial assistant from most of these chores as well (thereby reducing the assistant's job to only a few hours per week, and making the cost of running the journal very small). The system has the following features: Articles are submitted in pdf format and are accessible to relevant referees and editorial board members on the system web site. Articles are tracked by a unique article reference number, and authors may use this number to check on the status of a submitted article. Editors, AEs and referees may view a list of the articles assigned to them, and may then examine the history and current status of any of these articles. Editors have access to an editorial load monitor so that editors and AEs can be picked taking account of load over the past 12 months. The system automatically sends email reminders of response due dates to editors, AEs, and referees. Letters to authors are composed by Editors, checked by the Editor-in-Chief, and sent to authors using the system. They are then archived by the system and are accessible to relevant past and future reviewers. The system allows editors, AEs, and referees to compose messages for other users of the system and archives all such correspondence. This is intended to help with organization of all internal email discussion concerning an article. The system maintains logs of all editorial activities related to each article. The system could not have been constructed without the supervisory advice of our Electronic Production Manager Pantelis Vlachos, the extremely proficient programming of Adrian Rollett, and the miscellaneous help of our very capable editorial assistant Heather Wainer. I am personally grateful to all of them and pleased to acknowledge their work. As you use the system, please don't hesitate to let us know of any comments or suggestions for improvement. I'm excited to be involved in a much-needed vehicle for communication across the ever-widening network of people interested in Bayesian methods. I expect Bayesian Analysis to begin publishing sometime in 2005 and will send an announcement when this occurs. Rob Kass Editor-in-Chief Bayesian Analysis From alex.smola at anu.edu.au Mon Nov 1 22:43:06 2004 From: alex.smola at anu.edu.au (Alex Smola) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:43:06 +1100 Subject: MLSS'05 Canberra: Machine Learning Summer School 24/1-05/2/05 Message-ID: <4E4CA505-2C81-11D9-9D36-000A95AB89E2@anu.edu.au> * Apologies if you receive multiple copies * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL 2005 January 24 to February 05, 2005, Canberra, Australia. http://canberra05.mlss.cc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by the statistical machine learning program, National ICT Australia jointly with Australian National University, Pascal Network and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen). **** Applications are now open **** **** Deadline for early registration is Dec 15th 2004 **** **** For applications, please visit our web site **** The Summer School is intended for students and researchers alike, who are interested in Machine Learning. Its goal is to present some of the topics which are at the core of modern Learning Theory. The school will be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, between the 24th of January and the 5th of February, 2005. During this time, we shall present the following courses (tentative titles): - Sam Roweis, University of Toronto Sequence Learning - Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Machine Learning for Games - Aapo Hyvaerinen, Helsinki University Independent Component Analysis - Matthias Franz, MPI for Biological Cybernetics Tuebingen Natural Statistics of Images - Marcus Hutter, IDSIA, Switzerland MDL and Bayesian Methods - Alex Smola and S V N Vishwanathan, National ICT Australia Graphical Models, Kernels, and Exponential Families - Terry Caelli, National ICT Australia Graph Matching Problems in Computer Vision - Douglas Aberdeen, National ICT Australia Reinforcement Learning - Markus Hegland, Australian National University Algebraic Sparse Grid Methods - Rene Vidal, John Hopkins University Generalized PCA - John Patrick, University of Sydney Natural Language processing Practical sessions by - Adam Kowalczyk, National ICT Australia Bioinformatics - Nic Schraudolph, National ICT Australia Stochastic Optimization - Olivier Chapelle, MPI for Biological Cybernetics Tuebingen Semisupervised Learning For more information please contact: mlss05 at rsise.anu.edu.au MLSS organizing committee: Manuel Davy Bernhard Schoelkopf Alex Smola Vishy Vishwanathan From nips04pub at hotmail.com Tue Nov 2 21:05:45 2004 From: nips04pub at hotmail.com (John Platt) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:05:45 -0800 Subject: NIPS 2004: reminder for early registration Message-ID: NIPS 2004 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and Workshops Monday, December 13 --- Saturday, December 18, 2004 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nips.cc Deadline for Early Registration: November 12, 2004 NIPS is a premier interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers interested in all aspects of neural processing, statistics, and computation. The conference takes place on Dec 13-18, 2004. The deadline for lower conference registration rates and accommodation rates at the Hyatt Regency is November 12. The deadline for lower workshop accommodation rates at the Westin Resort and Spa is November 16. We urge interested parties to register soon for the conference and for hotel accommodations. Websites for registration: * Conference and workshop registration --- https://register.nips.salk.edu/ * Hotel registration --- http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/Hotels.php In addition, we have arranged a 10% discount on WestJet for flights into Vancouver for NIPS. Please see: http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/Airlines.php for more information. Information about transportation from Vancouver to the workshops in Whistler is available at http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/LocalTransportation.php Thank you for your attention. From alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Thu Nov 4 11:21:32 2004 From: alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Boss) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:21:32 -0000 Subject: Gatsby Unit Postdoctoral Positions Message-ID: <001a01c4c28a$5906f4c0$29d5a8c0@hazel> Postdoctoral Research Positions Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit University College London, UK http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/ The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, and related areas. For machine learning positions, the Unit is especially keen to recruit researchers with expertise in graphical models, Bayesian statistics, kernel methods, non-parametric methods, semi-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, game theory or machine learning applied to bioinformatics. The Gatsby Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning, focusing on unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, kernel methods, Gaussian processes, Bayesian statistical theory, the interpretation of neural data, population coding, perceptual processing, neural dynamics, and computational motor control. For further details of our research please see: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other world-class research groups in related departments at University College London, including Anatomy, Computer Science, Functional Imaging, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Statistics. The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes enable staff and students to engage with leading researchers from across the world. Candidates must have a strong analytical background and relevant experience. Salaries are competitive, based on experience and achievement. Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to: admin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/index.html While e-mail is preferred, candidates may also submit applications in hardcopy to the following address: Unit Administrator Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit University College London Alexandra House 17 Queen Square London WC1N 3AR UK The closing date for applications is 5 December 2004. From rrpoznan at iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu Fri Nov 5 13:12:29 2004 From: rrpoznan at iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu (Roman Poznanski) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:12:29 -0500 Subject: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, vol.3, No.4 Message-ID: <418BC28D.8070904@iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu> JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2004 Short Communications 1. A Relational Database Application in Support of Integrated Neuroscience Research By I. Rudowsky, O. Kulyba, M.Kunin, D. Ogarodnikov and T.Raphan 2. Graph Theoretical Characterization and Tracking of Neuronal Transients During Episodes Mesial Temporal Epiletic Seizures By LUIZ A. BACCALA, MILKES Y. ALVARENGA, KOICHI SAMESHIMA, CARMEN L. JORGE and LUIZ H. CASTRO 3. Dynamics of Everyday Life : Rigorous Modular Modeling Based on Bloch's Dynamical Theorem By G.McCollum and P.D.Roberts Research Reports 1. Automated Morphometric Analysis of the Cat Retinal ?/Y, ?/X and ? Ganglion Cells using Wavelet Statistical Moment and Clustering Algorithms By H. F. Jelinek, R. M. Cesar-Jr., J. J. G. Leandro, I. Spence 2. Recalibration of Somesthetic Plantar Information in the Control of Undistributed Upright Stance Maintenance By L.Bernard-Demanze, L.Berger, P. Rougier 3. Mean-Field Modeling of Tonic Cortical Activity in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia, First Episode Schizophrenia (FESz) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). By D.L. Rowe, P.A. Robinson, A. W. Harris, K.L. Felmingham, I.L. Lazzaro and E. Gordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For orders within Europe, please contact the Imperial College Press sales department at: Tel: +44 (0)20 7836-0888 Fax: +44 (0)20 7836-2020 during U.K. business hours. Outside Europe, our books and journals are distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, SINGAPORE 596224 Fax: 65-6467-7667 Tel: 65-6466-5775 E-mail: wspc at wspc.com.sg Price Information: ISSN: 0219-6352 ; Vol. 3/2004; 4 Issues Special Rates: Individuals -- Roman R. Poznanski, Ph.D Associate Editor, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience Department of Psychology Indiana University 1101 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-7007 email: poznan at iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu phone (Office): (812) 856-7195 http://www.worldscinet.com/jin/mkt/editorial.shtml From jph+ at pitt.edu Fri Nov 5 16:41:29 2004 From: jph+ at pitt.edu (John P. Horn) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:41:29 -0500 Subject: G-clamp dynamic clamp software, manuals and publications Message-ID: <01LGVRTF3N460058ZU@mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu> Dear Connectionists: The dynamic clamp method lies at the interface between computational modeling and cellular electrophysiology. We have recently implemented dynamic clamp methodology using the realtime LabVIEW software environment together with hardware that is sold by National instruments. The system is called G-clamp and it allows for high performance 16-bit system dynamic clamp implementation of voltage-dependent conductances and templates of synaptic activity. We have written a second program called Neurosim. Neurosim is a MATLAB program that implements a conductance-based model sympathetic neuron and can also can create synaptic template files for driving G-clamp. G-clamp and Neurosim software, together with manuals describing their installation, operation and modification can now be downloaded from http://hornlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/ In designing G-clamp, we tried to make it flexible, while also easy to learn and use. Our website also contains links to two papers: Kullmann et al. (2004) explains the design and performance of the G-clamp system. Wheeler et al. (2004) shows how the method can be used to implement patterns of virtual synaptic activity and assess the synaptic gain that arises from anatomical convergence of excitatory synapses. John P. Horn, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurobiology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA 15261 jph at pitt.edu From oza at email.arc.nasa.gov Fri Nov 5 20:24:32 2004 From: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov (Nikunj C. Oza) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:24:32 -0800 Subject: CFP: Multiple Classifier Systems workshop Message-ID: **Apologies for multiple copies** ****************************************** *****MCS 2005 Call for Papers***** ****************************************** *****Paper Submission: 21th JANUARY 2005***** ********************************************************************** SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, USA, June 13-15, 2005 Updated information: http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs E-mail: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov (Nikunj Oza) or polikar at rowan.edu (Robi Polikar) ********************************************************************* WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES MCS 2005 is the sixth workshop of a series aimed at creating a common international forum for researchers of the diverse communities working in the field of multiple classifier systems. Information on the previous editions of MCS workshop can be found on http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs. Contributions from all the research communities working in the field are welcome in order to compare the different approaches and to define the common research priorities. Special attention is also devoted to assess the applications of multiple classifier systems. The papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Nikunj C. Oza (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Robi Polikar (Rowan University, USA) Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom) Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy) ORGANIZED BY NASA Ames Research Center Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University Puresense Environmental Sponsored by IAPR TC1 Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques PAPER SUBMISSION Participants should submit an electronic version of the manuscript (PostScript or PDF format) to polikar at rowan.edu. The papers should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS format, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). A cover sheet with the authors names and affiliations is also requested, with the complete address of the corresponding author, and an abstract (200 words). Two members of the Scientific Committee will referee the papers. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the workshop, and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings only if the registration form and payment for one of the authors is received. WORKSHOP TOPICS Papers describing original work in the following and related research topics are welcome: Foundations of multiple classifier systems Methods for classifier fusion Design of multiple classifier systems Neural network ensembles Bagging and boosting Mixtures of experts New and related approaches Applications INVITED SPEAKERS Leo Breiman (USA) Second speaker to be determined (see http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs for updates) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE J. A. Benediktsson (Iceland) H. Bunke (Switzerland) L. P. Cordella (Italy) B. V. Dasarathy (USA) R. P.W. Duin (The Netherlands) C. Furlanello (Italy) J. Ghosh (USA) V. Govindaraju (USA) T. K. Ho (USA) S. Impedovo (Italy) N. Intrator (Israel) A.K. Jain (USA) M. Kamel (Canada) L.I. Kuncheva (UK) D. Partridge (UK) A.J.C. Sharkey (UK) C.Y. Suen (Canada) K. Tumer (USA) G. Vernazza (Italy) T. Windeatt (UK) IMPORTANT DATES January 21, 2004: Paper Submission February 25, 2004: Notification of Acceptance March 25, 2004: Camera-ready Manuscript March 25, 2004: Registration WORKSHOP VENUE The workshop will be held at the Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, USA (http://www.embassymonterey.com). WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag. Extended versions of selected papers will considered for possible publication in a special issue of an international journal. -- -------------------------------------- Nikunj C. Oza, Ph.D. Tel: (650)604-2978 Research Scientist Fax: (650)604-4036 NASA Ames Research Center e-mail: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov Mail Stop 269-3 web: http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/~oza Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 From jqc at imm.dtu.dk Mon Nov 8 05:46:13 2004 From: jqc at imm.dtu.dk (Joaquin Quinonero Candela) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:46:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Competition Message-ID: <39325.192.124.26.250.1099910773.squirrel@192.124.26.250> [Apologies if you receive this message more than once] We are glad to announce the "Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty" Competition: http://predict.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de organized by Joaquin Quinonero Candela, Carl Rasmussen and Yoshua Bengio. This competition will be part of the NIPS 2004 Workshop on "Calibration and Probabilistic Prediction in Machine Learning". The goal is to evaluate the quality of probabilistic models for regression and for classification. For this purpose we propose a set of datasets for regression and classification. We evaluate the predictions of the participants with traditional losses that only take into account "point" predictions, and with additional losses that do take into account the probabilistic nature of the predictions. Many more details are to be found at the website of the competition. Joaquin Quinonero Candela Dept. Empirical Inference Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tuebingen, Germany From kass at stat.cmu.edu Mon Nov 1 09:39:25 2004 From: kass at stat.cmu.edu (Rob Kass) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:39:25 -0500 Subject: Bayesian Analysis, the journal Message-ID: <200411011439.iA1EdPe7016475@bizarre.stat.cmu.edu> I am very pleased to announce that the new electronic journal Bayesian Analysis, published by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), is taking submissions at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu For a brief description of the journal and its editorial board, see that web page. We are interested in outstanding research and scholarship. Please submit your work!! Some comments follow. Bayesian Analysis will be published on our web site and will be freely available. It will be dedicated to rapid editorial turnaround of manuscripts, which will be facilitated by (1) a large board of editors and associate editors who will handle most refereeing, and (2) an electronic manuscript-handling system that will greatly reduce the book-keeping overhead for the editorial board. Much effort has gone into creation of the automated manuscript-handling system. Written in PHP/MySQL, it not only enables reviewers to get papers, but also keeps track of all editorial activities and allows instant access to the status and complete history of manuscripts. My hope is that the system will not only reduce the organizational effort required of editors and associate editors but that it will, in addition, relieve the editorial assistant from most of these chores as well (thereby reducing the assistant's job to only a few hours per week, and making the cost of running the journal very small). The system has the following features: Articles are submitted in pdf format and are accessible to relevant referees and editorial board members on the system web site. Articles are tracked by a unique article reference number, and authors may use this number to check on the status of a submitted article. Editors, AEs and referees may view a list of the articles assigned to them, and may then examine the history and current status of any of these articles. Editors have access to an editorial load monitor so that editors and AEs can be picked taking account of load over the past 12 months. The system automatically sends email reminders of response due dates to editors, AEs, and referees. Letters to authors are composed by Editors, checked by the Editor-in-Chief, and sent to authors using the system. They are then archived by the system and are accessible to relevant past and future reviewers. The system allows editors, AEs, and referees to compose messages for other users of the system and archives all such correspondence. This is intended to help with organization of all internal email discussion concerning an article. The system maintains logs of all editorial activities related to each article. The system could not have been constructed without the supervisory advice of our Electronic Production Manager Pantelis Vlachos, the extremely proficient programming of Adrian Rollett, and the miscellaneous help of our very capable editorial assistant Heather Wainer. I am personally grateful to all of them and pleased to acknowledge their work. As you use the system, please don't hesitate to let us know of any comments or suggestions for improvement. I'm excited to be involved in a much-needed vehicle for communication across the ever-widening network of people interested in Bayesian methods. I expect Bayesian Analysis to begin publishing sometime in 2005 and will send an announcement when this occurs. Rob Kass Editor-in-Chief Bayesian Analysis From alex.smola at anu.edu.au Mon Nov 1 22:43:06 2004 From: alex.smola at anu.edu.au (Alex Smola) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:43:06 +1100 Subject: MLSS'05 Canberra: Machine Learning Summer School 24/1-05/2/05 Message-ID: <4E4CA505-2C81-11D9-9D36-000A95AB89E2@anu.edu.au> * Apologies if you receive multiple copies * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL 2005 January 24 to February 05, 2005, Canberra, Australia. http://canberra05.mlss.cc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by the statistical machine learning program, National ICT Australia jointly with Australian National University, Pascal Network and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen). **** Applications are now open **** **** Deadline for early registration is Dec 15th 2004 **** **** For applications, please visit our web site **** The Summer School is intended for students and researchers alike, who are interested in Machine Learning. Its goal is to present some of the topics which are at the core of modern Learning Theory. The school will be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, between the 24th of January and the 5th of February, 2005. During this time, we shall present the following courses (tentative titles): - Sam Roweis, University of Toronto Sequence Learning - Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Machine Learning for Games - Aapo Hyvaerinen, Helsinki University Independent Component Analysis - Matthias Franz, MPI for Biological Cybernetics Tuebingen Natural Statistics of Images - Marcus Hutter, IDSIA, Switzerland MDL and Bayesian Methods - Alex Smola and S V N Vishwanathan, National ICT Australia Graphical Models, Kernels, and Exponential Families - Terry Caelli, National ICT Australia Graph Matching Problems in Computer Vision - Douglas Aberdeen, National ICT Australia Reinforcement Learning - Markus Hegland, Australian National University Algebraic Sparse Grid Methods - Rene Vidal, John Hopkins University Generalized PCA - John Patrick, University of Sydney Natural Language processing Practical sessions by - Adam Kowalczyk, National ICT Australia Bioinformatics - Nic Schraudolph, National ICT Australia Stochastic Optimization - Olivier Chapelle, MPI for Biological Cybernetics Tuebingen Semisupervised Learning For more information please contact: mlss05 at rsise.anu.edu.au MLSS organizing committee: Manuel Davy Bernhard Schoelkopf Alex Smola Vishy Vishwanathan From nips04pub at hotmail.com Tue Nov 2 21:05:45 2004 From: nips04pub at hotmail.com (John Platt) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:05:45 -0800 Subject: NIPS 2004: reminder for early registration Message-ID: NIPS 2004 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and Workshops Monday, December 13 --- Saturday, December 18, 2004 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nips.cc Deadline for Early Registration: November 12, 2004 NIPS is a premier interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers interested in all aspects of neural processing, statistics, and computation. The conference takes place on Dec 13-18, 2004. The deadline for lower conference registration rates and accommodation rates at the Hyatt Regency is November 12. The deadline for lower workshop accommodation rates at the Westin Resort and Spa is November 16. We urge interested parties to register soon for the conference and for hotel accommodations. Websites for registration: * Conference and workshop registration --- https://register.nips.salk.edu/ * Hotel registration --- http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/Hotels.php In addition, we have arranged a 10% discount on WestJet for flights into Vancouver for NIPS. Please see: http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/Airlines.php for more information. Information about transportation from Vancouver to the workshops in Whistler is available at http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/LocalTransportation.php Thank you for your attention. From alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Thu Nov 4 11:21:32 2004 From: alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Boss) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:21:32 -0000 Subject: Gatsby Unit Postdoctoral Positions Message-ID: <001a01c4c28a$5906f4c0$29d5a8c0@hazel> Postdoctoral Research Positions Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit University College London, UK http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/ The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in theoretical neuroscience, machine learning, and related areas. For machine learning positions, the Unit is especially keen to recruit researchers with expertise in graphical models, Bayesian statistics, kernel methods, non-parametric methods, semi-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, game theory or machine learning applied to bioinformatics. The Gatsby Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning, focusing on unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, kernel methods, Gaussian processes, Bayesian statistical theory, the interpretation of neural data, population coding, perceptual processing, neural dynamics, and computational motor control. For further details of our research please see: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other world-class research groups in related departments at University College London, including Anatomy, Computer Science, Functional Imaging, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Statistics. The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes enable staff and students to engage with leading researchers from across the world. Candidates must have a strong analytical background and relevant experience. Salaries are competitive, based on experience and achievement. Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to: admin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/index.html While e-mail is preferred, candidates may also submit applications in hardcopy to the following address: Unit Administrator Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit University College London Alexandra House 17 Queen Square London WC1N 3AR UK The closing date for applications is 5 December 2004. From rrpoznan at iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu Fri Nov 5 13:12:29 2004 From: rrpoznan at iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu (Roman Poznanski) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:12:29 -0500 Subject: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, vol.3, No.4 Message-ID: <418BC28D.8070904@iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu> JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2004 Short Communications 1. A Relational Database Application in Support of Integrated Neuroscience Research By I. Rudowsky, O. Kulyba, M.Kunin, D. Ogarodnikov and T.Raphan 2. Graph Theoretical Characterization and Tracking of Neuronal Transients During Episodes Mesial Temporal Epiletic Seizures By LUIZ A. BACCALA, MILKES Y. ALVARENGA, KOICHI SAMESHIMA, CARMEN L. JORGE and LUIZ H. CASTRO 3. Dynamics of Everyday Life : Rigorous Modular Modeling Based on Bloch's Dynamical Theorem By G.McCollum and P.D.Roberts Research Reports 1. Automated Morphometric Analysis of the Cat Retinal ?/Y, ?/X and ? Ganglion Cells using Wavelet Statistical Moment and Clustering Algorithms By H. F. Jelinek, R. M. Cesar-Jr., J. J. G. Leandro, I. Spence 2. Recalibration of Somesthetic Plantar Information in the Control of Undistributed Upright Stance Maintenance By L.Bernard-Demanze, L.Berger, P. Rougier 3. Mean-Field Modeling of Tonic Cortical Activity in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia, First Episode Schizophrenia (FESz) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). By D.L. Rowe, P.A. Robinson, A. W. Harris, K.L. Felmingham, I.L. Lazzaro and E. Gordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For orders within Europe, please contact the Imperial College Press sales department at: Tel: +44 (0)20 7836-0888 Fax: +44 (0)20 7836-2020 during U.K. business hours. Outside Europe, our books and journals are distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, SINGAPORE 596224 Fax: 65-6467-7667 Tel: 65-6466-5775 E-mail: wspc at wspc.com.sg Price Information: ISSN: 0219-6352 ; Vol. 3/2004; 4 Issues Special Rates: Individuals -- Roman R. Poznanski, Ph.D Associate Editor, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience Department of Psychology Indiana University 1101 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-7007 email: poznan at iub-psych.psych.indiana.edu phone (Office): (812) 856-7195 http://www.worldscinet.com/jin/mkt/editorial.shtml From jph+ at pitt.edu Fri Nov 5 16:41:29 2004 From: jph+ at pitt.edu (John P. Horn) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:41:29 -0500 Subject: G-clamp dynamic clamp software, manuals and publications Message-ID: <01LGVRTF3N460058ZU@mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu> Dear Connectionists: The dynamic clamp method lies at the interface between computational modeling and cellular electrophysiology. We have recently implemented dynamic clamp methodology using the realtime LabVIEW software environment together with hardware that is sold by National instruments. The system is called G-clamp and it allows for high performance 16-bit system dynamic clamp implementation of voltage-dependent conductances and templates of synaptic activity. We have written a second program called Neurosim. Neurosim is a MATLAB program that implements a conductance-based model sympathetic neuron and can also can create synaptic template files for driving G-clamp. G-clamp and Neurosim software, together with manuals describing their installation, operation and modification can now be downloaded from http://hornlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/ In designing G-clamp, we tried to make it flexible, while also easy to learn and use. Our website also contains links to two papers: Kullmann et al. (2004) explains the design and performance of the G-clamp system. Wheeler et al. (2004) shows how the method can be used to implement patterns of virtual synaptic activity and assess the synaptic gain that arises from anatomical convergence of excitatory synapses. John P. Horn, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurobiology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA 15261 jph at pitt.edu From oza at email.arc.nasa.gov Fri Nov 5 20:24:32 2004 From: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov (Nikunj C. Oza) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:24:32 -0800 Subject: CFP: Multiple Classifier Systems workshop Message-ID: **Apologies for multiple copies** ****************************************** *****MCS 2005 Call for Papers***** ****************************************** *****Paper Submission: 21th JANUARY 2005***** ********************************************************************** SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, USA, June 13-15, 2005 Updated information: http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs E-mail: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov (Nikunj Oza) or polikar at rowan.edu (Robi Polikar) ********************************************************************* WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES MCS 2005 is the sixth workshop of a series aimed at creating a common international forum for researchers of the diverse communities working in the field of multiple classifier systems. Information on the previous editions of MCS workshop can be found on http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs. Contributions from all the research communities working in the field are welcome in order to compare the different approaches and to define the common research priorities. Special attention is also devoted to assess the applications of multiple classifier systems. The papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Nikunj C. Oza (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Robi Polikar (Rowan University, USA) Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom) Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy) ORGANIZED BY NASA Ames Research Center Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University Puresense Environmental Sponsored by IAPR TC1 Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques PAPER SUBMISSION Participants should submit an electronic version of the manuscript (PostScript or PDF format) to polikar at rowan.edu. The papers should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS format, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). A cover sheet with the authors names and affiliations is also requested, with the complete address of the corresponding author, and an abstract (200 words). Two members of the Scientific Committee will referee the papers. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the workshop, and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings only if the registration form and payment for one of the authors is received. WORKSHOP TOPICS Papers describing original work in the following and related research topics are welcome: Foundations of multiple classifier systems Methods for classifier fusion Design of multiple classifier systems Neural network ensembles Bagging and boosting Mixtures of experts New and related approaches Applications INVITED SPEAKERS Leo Breiman (USA) Second speaker to be determined (see http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs for updates) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE J. A. Benediktsson (Iceland) H. Bunke (Switzerland) L. P. Cordella (Italy) B. V. Dasarathy (USA) R. P.W. Duin (The Netherlands) C. Furlanello (Italy) J. Ghosh (USA) V. Govindaraju (USA) T. K. Ho (USA) S. Impedovo (Italy) N. Intrator (Israel) A.K. Jain (USA) M. Kamel (Canada) L.I. Kuncheva (UK) D. Partridge (UK) A.J.C. Sharkey (UK) C.Y. Suen (Canada) K. Tumer (USA) G. Vernazza (Italy) T. Windeatt (UK) IMPORTANT DATES January 21, 2004: Paper Submission February 25, 2004: Notification of Acceptance March 25, 2004: Camera-ready Manuscript March 25, 2004: Registration WORKSHOP VENUE The workshop will be held at the Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, USA (http://www.embassymonterey.com). WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag. Extended versions of selected papers will considered for possible publication in a special issue of an international journal. -- -------------------------------------- Nikunj C. Oza, Ph.D. Tel: (650)604-2978 Research Scientist Fax: (650)604-4036 NASA Ames Research Center e-mail: oza at email.arc.nasa.gov Mail Stop 269-3 web: http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/~oza Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 From jqc at imm.dtu.dk Mon Nov 8 05:46:13 2004 From: jqc at imm.dtu.dk (Joaquin Quinonero Candela) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:46:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Competition Message-ID: <39325.192.124.26.250.1099910773.squirrel@192.124.26.250> [Apologies if you receive this message more than once] We are glad to announce the "Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty" Competition: http://predict.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de organized by Joaquin Quinonero Candela, Carl Rasmussen and Yoshua Bengio. This competition will be part of the NIPS 2004 Workshop on "Calibration and Probabilistic Prediction in Machine Learning". The goal is to evaluate the quality of probabilistic models for regression and for classification. For this purpose we propose a set of datasets for regression and classification. We evaluate the predictions of the participants with traditional losses that only take into account "point" predictions, and with additional losses that do take into account the probabilistic nature of the predictions. Many more details are to be found at the website of the competition. Joaquin Quinonero Candela Dept. Empirical Inference Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tuebingen, Germany