3rd European Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering School

[Marc de Kamps]

3rd European Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering School
– Neuroengineering of Cognitive Functions –
June 18-25, 2005
Venice (Italy)

Organizers
Andreas K. Engel (Hamburg, Germany)
Alois Knoll (München, Germany)
Guy Orban (Leuven, Belgium)
Peter König (Osnabrück, Germany)
Gulio Sandini (Genua, Italy)
Fabrizio Davide (Rome, Italy)
Marc de Kamps (München, Germany)

Goals
The school will focus on a new and rapidly growing field – the area of
‚Neuro-IT’ and ‚neuroengineering’ where neuroscience, information technology
and robotics are approaching each other and starting to merge in
interdisciplinary projects. The school is organized and funded by
Neuro-IT.net, an EU Thematic Network, which aims at building a critical mass
of new interdisciplinary research excellence at the interface between
neurosciences and information technologies within the European Union and its
associated states. The 2005 school will thematically focus on the
neuroenginering of cognitive functions.

Venue
The school will be hosted by the Telecom Italia Learning Services SpA. It
will take place at the Future Centre of the Telecom Italia, located in San
Marco, Campo San Salvador
(http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/index.htm), a beautiful
historical site near the famous Rialto Bridge in the heart of Venice. The
Future Centre provides state-of-the-art meeting facilities as well as
accomodation for part of the attendants.

Programme
The school will have a duration of 8 days in total. While the first and the
last day are used for travel, welcome and organizational matters, 6 days
will be devoted to teaching. The school will be organized in two parts. The
first two days will feature advanced tutorials with the goal of providing
background knowledge for students from different disciplines. These
tutorials will focus on background materials directly relevant to the topic
of the summer school, that will improve understanding of the expert
presentations that will follow in subsequent days of the school. One day
will be devoted to presenting important concepts and data from neuroscience
for students from technical disciplines, the second day will be reserved for
presenting topics in neuroengineering and robotics. The other four days of
the school feature expert lectures on key topics in the Neuro-IT field, with
a focus on cognitive functions and their technical realization in artificial
systems. All issues will be dealt with, in an interdisciplinary way, both
from the biological and the IT/engineering perspective. 

Topics
The topics for tutorials and lectures will include:
• Sensory integration – multimodal interaction – attention – awareness
• Sensorimotor interaction – action planning – decision making
• Learning – memory – development
• Neuroprosthetics – brain-machine interfaces
• Biologically inspired robots – evolutionary approaches – architectures

Participants
The school is intended for junior and senior researchers and other
professionals working in the field of Neuro-IT, as well as for students of
engineering, physics, medicine, biology, or psychology. A total of 50 PhD
students or postdocs will be admitted. Selection will be on a competitive
basis. 

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)

Registration
Conditions for acceptance of student applications and registration fees, as
well as accomodation details will be posted on this website soon.
Applications can be submitted through this website starting March 18.
Application deadline will be April 15.