Connectionists: 3rd European Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering School (hotel information included)

[Marc de Kamps]

3rd European Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering School
– Neuroengineering of Cognitive Functions –

For hotel information: see below

Faculty

Igor Aleksander (London, UK)
Helder Araujo (Coimbra, Portugal)
Christian Büchel (Hamburg, Germany)
Gabriel Curio (Berlin, Germany)
Andreas Engel (Hamburg, Germany)
Wolfram Erlhagen (Guimaraes, Portugal)
Eduardo Fernandez (Alicante, Spain)
Pascal Fries (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Vittorio Gallese (Parma, Italy)
Rainer Goebel (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Auke Ijspeert (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Alois Knoll (München, Germany)
Peter König (Osnabrück, Germany)
Andrej Kral (Hamburg, Germany)
Henry Markram (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Klaus-Robert Müller (Berlin, Germany)
Miguel Nicolelis (Durham, USA)
Guy Orban (Leuven, Belgium)
Frank Pasemann (St. Augustin, Germany)
Tim Pearce (Leicester, UK)
Rolf Pfeifer (Zürich, Switzerland)
Gulio Sandini (Genua, Italy)
Vittorio Sanguineti (Genua, Italy)
Jürgen Schmidhuber (München, Germany)
Paul Verschure (Zürich, Switzerland)
Barbara Webb (Edinburgh, UK)
Mathew Wilson (Boston, USA)
Jonathan Wolpaw (Albany, USA)


Conditions for Participation

The school is open to postdocs, researchers and other professionals working
in the field of Neuro-IT, as well as for PhD students of engineering,
physics, computer science, robotics, neuroscience, medicine, biology, or
psychology. A total of 50 participants will be admitted. Selection will be
on a competitive basis. The program committee will select participants on
the basis of their publication record (evaluated relative to career status)
and the relatedness of the candidate’s own research to the theme of the
school. 

Please register at: http://www.neuro-it.net/Activities/Venice2005

Registration fee

PhD students (proof of student status required): Euro 100 Postdocs with
affiliation to a public institution: Euro 200 Other professionals: Euro 300

After notification of acceptance, the registration fee needs to be prepaid
until May 20.

The registration fee includes: admission to all lectures, welcome reception,
lunch catering, coffee and soft drinks during breaks, CD with abstracts and
papers of faculty members, conference booklet with abstracts and key papers.


The registration fee does not include: dinners, accomodation, travel costs.

The programme will also feature student presentations. After acceptance, the
programm committee will ask some of the students to present their ongoing
work in short talks.

The organizers wish to note that the registration fee does not cover the
actual costs of attendance, but all slots are subsidized by funds from the
Neuro-IT network. Admission to the school is granted on the basis that
postdocs and students are attending the programme at all times. Because only
50 participants can be allowed, there will be a waiting list from which
additional students will be admitted in case of cancellations. Prepayments
will only be refunded if the cancelled participant slot has been filled.


Please submit the following information

Name
Affiliation
Complete contact information
CV
Publication record (including papers, chapters, abstracts, talks) One-page
description of primary research interest or project Name of supervisor or
head of group

PhD students: please send proof of student status (fax a signed statement of
your supervisor to Mrs. te Vehne +49 89 289 18107)



Important deadlines

Deadline for application: April 15
Notification of acceptance: April 29
Deadline for payment of registration fee: May 20
 
Hotel information:
See: http://www.neuro-it.net/NeuroIT/Activities/Venice2005/HotelInformation

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