From alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Tue Mar  1 05:50:21 2005
From: alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Boss)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:50:21 -0000
Subject: Gatsby Unit Workshop - Invitation
Message-ID: <001701c51e4c$779b9580$29d5a8c0@hazel>

GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT
WORKSHOP 14 MARCH 2005, LONDON, UK

Venue: Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites you to a Workshop on 14
March 2005

All welcome but pre-registration is essential.

Please e-mail: asstadmin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk if you would like to attend.


Speakers:

Professor Tony Movshon
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Title:  Processing of Local and Global Motion by Neurons in MT/V5

Professor Alan Yuille
Department of Statistics, UCLA
Title: Bayesian Ideal Observers and Correspondence Noise

Professor Shun-ichi Amari
Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Title: Population Coding, Bayesian Inference and Information Geometry

Professor Jonathan Cohen
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University
Title: Optimization of Decision Making and Cognitive Control: Formal
Models, Behavior, and Neural Mechanisms

For further details, including abstracts, see:

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/


Those proposing to attend may also be interested in the following
seminar hosted by Professor Jon Driver, Director of the Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Professor Anne Treisman
Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Title: Broad or narrow focus of attention: how does it determine what
we see?

Time: 17.00
Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, University College London

Coordinated scheduling supports attendance at both the Gatsby Unit
Workshop and the ICN seminar.



From codrina.lauth at ais.fraunhofer.de  Tue Mar  1 04:27:44 2005
From: codrina.lauth at ais.fraunhofer.de (Ina Lauth)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:27:44 +0100
Subject: [Mlnet] Machine Learning - Pascal Challenges, April 11-13
Message-ID: <002601c51e40$fb5c0820$e6961a81@laplauth>

Dear colleagues,

The Pascal (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational
 	Learning) network of excellence

organizes a series of challenges - very relevant to KDNet,
and participation from KDNet people is welcome :-)

- Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty
- 101 Visual Object Classes
- Recognising Textual Entailment
- Assessing ML methodologies to Extract Implicit relations from
documents.

The workshop will take place in Southampton, April 11-13th, 2005.

See http://www.pascal-network.org/Workshops/PC04/

Best regards,
Michele Sebag
CNRS, Paris-Sud Orsay.
http://www.lri.fr/~sebag/



From sami.kaski at hut.fi  Wed Mar  2 13:10:40 2005
From: sami.kaski at hut.fi (Sami Kaski)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:10:40 +0200
Subject: Challenge: Relevance from eye movements
Message-ID: <wtsm3dex5r.fsf@itl-pc88.hut.fi>



URL: http://www.cis.hut.fi/eyechallenge2005/


INFERRING RELEVANCE FROM EYE MOVEMENTS CHALLENGE 2005


The Challenge is to predict from eye movement data whether a reader
finds a text relevant.

The scientific goals are:

 * To advance machine learning methodology
 * To find the best eye movement features
 * To learn of the psychology underlying eye movements in search tasks

The results will be presented in a workshop. We will do our best to
arrange it in connection with a major conference. Authors of the best
presentations will be invited to extend their talks into articles in a
special issue of a journal.


The Challenge is at 
http://www.cis.hut.fi/eyechallenge2005/


Key dates:

1 March 2005                 Challenge starts
1 and 15 September 2005      Competitions end
30 September 2005            Deadline for extended abstracts


The Challenge is part of the EU Network of Excellence PASCAL Challenge
Program. Participation is open to all.

Please send your questions and feedback to
<eyechallenge2005 at james.hut.fi>.


We are looking forward to an interesting competition!


Jarkko Saloj?rvi, Kai Puolam?ki, Lauri Kovanen, Jaana Simola, Ilpo
Kojo, Samuel Kaski


Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computer and
Information Science

Helsinki School of Economics, Center for Knowledge and Innovations
Research

University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science



From ted.carnevale at yale.edu  Wed Mar  2 20:58:25 2005
From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:58:25 -0500
Subject: NEURON 2005 Summer Course
Message-ID: <42266F41.3060406@yale.edu>

Seats are still available in the NEURON 2005 Summer Course,
which will be held Saturday, June 18, through Wednesday,
June 22, at the Supercomputer Center on the campus of the
University of California at San Diego, CA.  Get first-hand
instruction and learn about the latest enhancements that
make NEURON more powerful and even easier to use for modeling
individual neurons and networks of neurons.

For more information see
   http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/sdsc2005/sdsc2005.htm
or contact
   Ted Carnevale
   Psychology Dept.
   PO Box 208205
   Yale University
   New Haven, CT 06520-8205
   USA
   phone 203-432-7363
   fax 203-432-7172
   email ted.carnevale at yale.edu

Supported in part by:
   National Institutes of Health
   National Science Foundation
   The San Diego Supercomputer Center

Contractual terms require inclusion of the following statement:
   This course is not sponsored by the University of California.

--Ted




From dirk at bioss.sari.ac.uk  Thu Mar  3 08:10:30 2005
From: dirk at bioss.sari.ac.uk (Dirk Husmeier)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:10:30 +0000
Subject: Director of Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
Message-ID: <42270CC6.6090205@bioss.ac.uk>

Director of Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland

BioSS is an internationally renowned group of statisticians, 
mathematicians, bioinformaticians and
computing specialists. BioSS undertakes research, training and 
consultancy work to underpin the work of
eight scientific institutes, augmented by a range of research grants and 
contracts, and operates with an annual
budget of circa GBP 1.3M.

We seek to appoint as Director an exceptional individual with:
* an international standing in applied statistics, biomathematics, 
bioinformatics or a related field;
* experience of collaborations with subject-area scientists to solve 
problems in agriculture, the environment, food or health; and
* the organisational skills to co-ordinate and develop a highly 
motivated, distributed, group of specialist staff.

See www.bioss.ac.uk for details of BioSS, the post and the attractive 
salary (GBP 50K+) and benefits package.
Closing date for applications March 25th 2005.

-- 
Dirk Husmeier
Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
JCMB, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
http://www.bioss.sari.ac.uk/~dirk




From jverbeek at science.uva.nl  Thu Mar  3 06:12:24 2005
From: jverbeek at science.uva.nl (jverbeek@science.uva.nl)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:12:24 +0100
Subject: PhD thesis on clustering and dimension reduction available online
Message-ID: <4226F118.1030107@science.uva.nl>

Readers of the connectionist list may be interested in my PhD thesis

"Mixture models for clustering and dimension reduction"

which is now available online at

http://www.science.uva.nl/~jverbeek/thesis.html

Best,

Jakob



-- 

J.J. Verbeek
http://www.science.uva.nl/~jverbeek




From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Thu Mar  3 17:13:48 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: 03 Mar 2005 16:13:48 -0600
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <1109888027.3749.432.camel@localhost.localdomain>

        Machine Learning Summer School
        Chicago, USA
        May 16-27, 2005
        http://chicago05.mlss.cc/

TTI-Chicago and the University of Chicago are hosting a Machine
Learning Summer School from May 16-27.  This will include all the
machine learning and learning theory that can be covered in 2 weeks of
intense instruction.  The target audience is anyone interested in the
subject including graduate students and academic and industry
researchers.  Please join us.

Subjects: Bayesian Learning, Boosting, Decision trees, Empirical
Comparisons and Case Studies, Energy Models, Evidence Integration in
Bioinformatics, Generalization Bounds, Information Geometry, Manifold
Methods, Object Recognition, Online Learning, Reductions,
Regularization, Semisupervised Learning, Structured Learning, SVMs

Speakers: Yasemin Altun, Misha Belkin, Rich Caruana, Sanjoy Dasgupta,
Zoubin Ghahramani, Mark Johnson, Adam Kalai, John Langford, Yann LeCun,
Phil Long, David McAllester, Partha Niyogi, Robert Nowak, Robert
Schapire, Yoram Singer, Steve Smale (and possibly more).

In addition, the summer school will be colocated with two workshops
and the 'special emphasis on learning theory' quarter at TTI-Chicago.
Attendees of the school will be able to attend the workshops and
vice-versa. For further details on the quarter see:

        http://www.tti-c.org/abstracts/learning_theory.html

Contact jl at tti-c.org for questions.






From vitorino.ramos at alfa.ist.utl.pt  Thu Mar  3 13:33:01 2005
From: vitorino.ramos at alfa.ist.utl.pt (Vitorino RAMOS)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:33:01 +0000
Subject: 2 Draft Papers: Swarm Search, Self-Regulated Pop. Size and
  Social Cognitive Maps
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.1.20050303180826.00a24738@mail.ist.utl.pt>


Dear Colleagues:
Two of my recent works can now be found online. hope u could enjoy them.
best regards, vitorino ramos

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Varying the Population Size of Artificial Foraging Swarms on Time Varying 
Landscapes,
final draft submitted to ICCANN -05, International Conf. on Artificial 
Neural Networks,
Springer-Verlag, LNCS series, Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 11-15, 2005.

link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_59.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-ICANN05.pdf

ABSTRACT: Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the 
collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with 
their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI 
provides a basis with wich it is possible to explore collective (or 
distributed) problem solving without centralized control or the provision 
of a global model. In this paper we present a Swarm Search Algorithm with 
varying population of agents. The swarm is based on a previous model with 
fixed population which proved its effectiveness on several computation 
problems. We will show that the variation of the population size provides 
the swarm with mechanisms that improves its self-adaptability and causes 
the emergence of a more robust self-organized behavior, resulting in a 
higher efficiency on searching peaks and valleys over dynamic search 
landscapes represented here - for the purpose of different experiments - by 
several three-dimensional mathematical functions that suddenly change over 
time. We will also show that the present swarm, for each function, 
self-adapts towards an optimal population size, thus self-regulating.

KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence and Perception, Dynamic Population Sizes, 
Self-Regulation, Social Cognitive Maps, Social Foraging, Self-Organization 
and Evolution, Distributed Search and Optimization.

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Social Cognitive Maps, Swarm Collective Perception and Distributed Search 
on Dynamic
Landscapes, CVRM-IST 127E-2005 technical report, final draft submitted to 
Brains, Minds & Media,
Journal of New Media in Neural and Cognitive Science, NRW, Germany, 2005.

link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_58.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-BMM.pdf

ABSTRACT: Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the
collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with
their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI
provides a basis with which it is possible to explore collective (or
distributed) problem solving without centralized control or the provision
of a global model. To tackle the formation of a coherent social collective
intelligence from individual behaviors, we discuss several concepts related
to self-organization, stigmergy and social foraging in animals. Then, in a
more abstract level we suggest and stress the role played not only by the
environmental media as a driving force for societal learning, as well as by
positive and negative feedbacks produced by the many interactions among
agents. Finally, presenting a simple model based on the above features, we
will address the collective adaptation of a social community to a cultural
(environmental, contextual) or media informational dynamical landscape,
represented here - for the purpose of different experiments - by several
three-dimensional mathematical functions that suddenly change over time.
Results indicate that the collective intelligence is able to cope and
quickly adapt to unforeseen situations even when over the same cooperative
foraging period, the community is requested to deal with two different and
contradictory purposes.

KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence and Perception, Social Cognitive Maps, Social
Foraging, Self-Organization, Distributed Search and Optimization.

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From Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu  Fri Mar  4 07:49:43 2005
From: Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu (Aris Xanthos)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:49:43 +0100
Subject: Call for papers: Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition
Message-ID: <42285967.80407@hunter.cuny.edu>

[Apologies for multiple postings]

           
               *** Call for Papers ***

Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition

Workshop at ACL 2005

29-30 June 2005 at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

      **** Submission Deadline: 4 April 2005 ****

http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp


Workshop Topic
--------------
 
The workshop, which is a follow-up to the successful workshop held
at COLING in 2004, will be devoted to psychologically motivated
computational models of language acquisition -- models that are
compatible with, or motivated by research in psycholinguistics,
developmental psychology with particular emphasis on the acquisition
of syntax, though work on the acquisition of morphology, phonology
and other levels of linguistic description is also welcome.

The workshop will be taking place at the same time as CoNLL-2005 
(http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll/cfp.html) and if there is sufficient
interest there will be a plenary session for papers that are relevant
to both audiences.

Invited Talks
-------------
  Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
  Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University 
 
Workshop Description and Motivation
-----------------------------------

In recent decades there has been a great deal of successful research
that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural
language technologies, along with many meetings, conferences and
workshops in which to present such research. These have generally
been motivated primarily by engineering concerns. There have been
only a few venues in which computational models of human (first)
language acquisition are the focus.

In the light of recent results in developmental psychology,
indicating that very young infants are capable of detecting 
statistical patterns in an audible input stream, statistically
motivated approaches have gained in plausibility. However, this
raises the question of whether or not a psychologically credible
statistical learning strategy can be successfully exploited in a
full-blown psychocomputational acquisition model, and the extent
to which such algorithms must use domain-specific knowledge.

The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers
who work within computational linguistics, formal learning theory,
grammatical inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence,
linguistics, psycholinguistics and other fields, who have created or
are investigating computational models of language acquisition. In
particular, it will provide a forum for establishing links and common
themes between diverse paradigms.  Although research which directly
addresses the acquisition of syntax is strongly encouraged, related
studies that inform research on the acquisition of other areas of
language are also welcome. 
 
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars;
* Formal learning theoretic and grammar induction models that
  incorporate psychologically plausible constraints;
* Models that employ language models from corpus linguistics;
* Models that address the question of learning bias in terms of
  innate linguistic knowledge versus domain general strategies
* Models that can acquire natural language word-order;
* Hybrid models that cross established paradigms;
* Models that directly make use of or can be used to evaluate
  existing linguistic or developmental theories in a computational
  framework (e.g. the principles & parameters framework, Optimality
  Theory, or Construction Grammar);
* Models that combine parsing and learning;
* Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective;
* Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora;
* Comparative surveys, across multiple paradigms, that critique
  previously published studies;

Paper Length: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (A4 or
the equivalent). High-quality short papers or extended abstracts
of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged. Submission and format details
are below.
 
 
Important Dates
---------------

Please note that the turnaround time for accepted papers is quite short.

Deadline for main session paper submission: April 4, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005
Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005
Conference: June 29-30, 2005

 
Workshop Organizers
-------------------
 
* William Gregory Sakas (Chair), City University of New York, USA
  (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu)
* Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
  (alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk)
* James Cussens, University of York, UK (jc at cs.york.ac.uk)
* Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  (aris.xanthos at unil.ch)

Program Committee
-----------------

* Robert Berwick, MIT, USA
* Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
* Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK
* Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA
* Nick Chater, University of Warwick, UK
* Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK 
* Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg
  University, The Netherlands
* Elan Dresher, University of Toronto, Canada
* Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
* Jerry Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
* John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA
* John Hale, University of Michigan, USA
* Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA
* Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita di Torino, Italy
* Paola Merlo, University of Geneva, Switzerland
* Sandeep Prasada, City University of New York, USA
* Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
* Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA
* Ed Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
* Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada
* Patrick Sturt, University of Glasgow, UK
* Charles Yang, Yale University, USA

Paper Submission
----------------
 
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings
and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We
strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft
Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are
available at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/styles/. High-quality
short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged.
 
Electronic Submission: All submissions will be by email. Reviews
will be blind, so be careful not to disclose authorship or
affiliation. PDF submissions are preferred and will be required for
the final camera-ready copy.
 
Submissions should be sent as an attachment to:

  psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu.

  The subject line must contain the single word: Submission. 
 
Please be sure to include accurate contact information in the body
of the email.
 
Workshop contact:
-----------------

email: psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu
web:   http://www.colag.cs.cuny.edu/psychocomp

or

William Gregory Sakas
Department of Computer Science, North 1008
Hunter College, City University of New York
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
USA

1 (212) 772.5211 - voice
1 (212) 772.5219 - fax

sakas at hunter.cuny.edu






From retienne at jhu.edu  Fri Mar  4 17:31:04 2005
From: retienne at jhu.edu (retienne)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:31:04 -0500
Subject: Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop 2005:  Deadline March 25th
In-Reply-To: <41F7C734.8060205@jhu.edu>
References: <41F7C734.8060205@jhu.edu>
Message-ID: <mailman.1126.1149540488.24850.connectionists@cs.cmu.edu>

FYI:  Second Announcement (Sorry for multiple copies.  This email goes 
out to many lists)

  Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
  call for applications

      Sunday, JUNE 26 - Saturday, JULY 16, 2005

      TELLURIDE, COLORADO

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Avis COHEN (University of Maryland)
Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, 
Switzerland)
Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS (Johns Hopkins University)
Paul HASLER (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Timmer HORIUCHI (University of Maryland)
Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, 
Switzerland)
Christof KOCH (California Institute of Technology)
Terrence SEJNOWSKI (Salk Institute and UCSD)
Shihab SHAMMA (University of Maryland)
Andre van SCHAIK (University of Sydney)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

We invite applications for a three week summer workshop that will be 
held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday, June 26 to Saturday, July 16, 
2005. The application deadline is Friday, March 25 and application 
instructions are described at the bottom of this document. We must 
have your completed application, including letters of recommendation, 
by March 25 for your application to be considered.

Last year's 2004 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic 
Engineering, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the 
Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering, the Office of Naval Research, 
Airforce Research Office, Institute for NeuroInfomatics - ETHZ, Geogia 
Institute of Technology, University of Maryland - College Park, Johns 
Hopkins University, The Salk Institute, and by the Center for 
Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at the California Institute of 
Technology, was an exciting event and a great success. We strongly 
encourage interested parties to browse through the:  
http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride/

      GOALS:

Carver Mead introduced the term "Neuromorphic Engineering" for a new 
field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural 
systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots, 
whose architecture and design principles are based on those of 
biological nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring 
together young investigators and more established researchers from 
academia with their counterparts in industry and national 
laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering 
aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The focus of 
the workshop will be on active participation, with demonstration 
systems and hands on experience for all participants. Neuromorphic 
engineering has a wide range of applications from nonlinear adaptive 
control of complex systems to the design of smart sensors. Many of the 
fundamental principles in this field, such as the use of learning 
methods and the design of parallel hardware (with an emphasis on 
analog and asynchronous digital VLSI), are inspired by biological 
systems. However, existing applications are modest and the challenge 
of scaling up from small artificial neural networks and designing 
completely autonomous systems at the levels achieved by biological 
systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying this three week workshop 
is that the next generation of neuromorphic systems would benefit from 
closer attention to the principles found through experimental and 
theoretical studies of real biological nervous systems as whole systems.

      FORMAT:

The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on 
systems neuroscience (in particular learning, oculo-motor and other 
motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on analog VLSI 
design, small mobile robots (Koalas, Kheperas, LEGO robots), hands-on 
projects, and special interest groups. Participants are required to 
take part and possibly complete at least one of the projects proposed. 
They are furthermore encouraged to become involved in as many of the 
other activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be 
two lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to 
the community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds 
among the participants, the majority of these lectures will be 
tutorials, rather than detailed reports of current research. These 
lectures will be given by invited speakers. Participants will be free 
to explore and play with whatever they choose in the afternoon. 
Projects and interest groups meet in the late afternoons, and after 
dinner. In the early afternoon there will be tutorial on a wide 
spectrum of topics, including analog VLSI, mobile robotics, auditory 
systems, central-pattern-generators, selective attention mechanisms, etc.
Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in 
a number of working groups, including:

    * active vision
    * audition
    * motor control
    * central pattern generator
    * robotics
    * multichip communication
    * analog VLSI
    * learning
    * neuroprosthethic decives and systems

The active perception project group will emphasize vision and human 
sensory-motor coordination. Issues to be covered will include spatial 
localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements, 
and the use of visual motion information for motor control.
The central pattern generator group will focus on small walking and 
undulating robots. It will look at characteristics and sources of 
parts for building robots, play with working examples of legged and 
segmented robots, and discuss CPG's and theories of nonlinear 
oscillators for locomotion. It will also explore the use of simple 
analog VLSI sensors for autonomous robots.
The robotics group will use rovers and working digital vision boards 
as well as other possible sensors to investigate issues of 
sensorimotor integration, navigation and learning.
The audition group aims to develop biologically plausible algorithms 
and aVLSI implementations of specific auditory tasks such as source 
localization and tracking, and sound pattern recognition. Projects 
will be integrated with visual and motor tasks in the context of a 
robot platform.
The multichip communication project group will use existing interchip 
communication interfaces to program small networks of artificial 
neurons to exhibit particular behaviors such as amplification, 
oscillation, and associative memory. Issues in multichip 
communicationwill be discussed.
This year we will also have some new robots kindly donated by the 
WowWee Toys division of Hasbro in Hong Kong. This will permit us to 
carry out experiments with WooWee/Hasboro hardware through Mark Tilden.

      LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS:

The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride, 9000 
feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver 
(350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines 
provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within 
the beautifully renovated public school building are fully accessible 
to participants with disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski 
condominiums, within walking distance of the school. Participants are 
expected to share condominiums.
The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on. 
Participants are not required to have had previous experience in 
analog VLSI circuit design, computational or machine vision, systems 
level neurophysiology or modeling the brain at the systems level. 
However, we strongly encourage active researchers with relevant 
backgrounds from academia, industry and national laboratories to 
apply, in particular if they are prepared to work on specific 
projects, talk about their own work or bring demonstrations to 
Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software). Internet access will be 
provided. Technical staff present throughout the workshops will assist 
with software and hardware issues. We will have a network of PCs 
running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop projects. We also 
plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage participants to 
bring along their personal laptop.
No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we recommend 
that you do not rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain 
gear, and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful 
mountains. Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we 
expect participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week 
workshop.

      FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:

Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around mid April 2005. 
Participants are expected to pay a $295.00 workshop fee at that time 
in order to reserve a place in the workshop. The cost of a shared 
condominium will be covered for all academic participants but upgrades 
to a private room will cost extra. Participants from National 
Laboratories and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums. 
Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for US domestic travel and up to 
$800 for overseas travel will be possible if financial help is needed 
(please specify on the application).

      HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above 
(i.e.postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and 
the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We 
actively encourage qualified women and minority candidates to apply.
Application should include:

    * Cover sheet with:
          o First name, Last name
          o Institution and department
          o Complete mailing address
          o Valid e-mail address
    * Curriculum Vitae
    * One-page summary of background and interests relevant to workshop
    * Two letters of recommendation

Please send your application to:

    Terrence Sejnowski
    The Salk Institute -- CNL
    10010 N. Torrey Pines Road
    La Jolla, California 92037

Electronic applications will not be accepted. Questions regarding the 
application process may be addressed to: telluride at salk.edu 
<mailto:telluride at salk.edu>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Associate  Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

105 Barton Hall/3400 N. Charles St.		2213 AV Williams Bldg
Johns Hopkins University			University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD 21218				College Park, MD 20742
Tel:  410 - 516 - 3494				Tel:  301 - 405 - 0470
Fax:  410 - 516 - 5566				Fax:  301 - 314 - 9281
Email:  retienne at jhu.edu			Email:  retienne at isr.umd.edu
URL:  http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~etienne		URL:  http://www.isr.umd.edu/~retienne




From dekamps at t-online.de  Sat Mar  5 15:19:17 2005
From: dekamps at t-online.de (Marc de Kamps)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:19:17 +0100
Subject: ICANN2005 deadline extended; special session dealine March 30
Message-ID: <LAENIDGJMEEACJMEJHPHEEOACEAA.dekamps@t-online.de>

Although the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 11-15
September 2005, Warsaw, Poland,
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005
has already received a large number of submissions, many people have asked
for an extension of the deadline for regular sessions.

It is therefore extented until March 14.

There is still a chance to submit your papers to 9 special sessions planned
at the conference and 5 post-conference workshops, with the deadline on 30
March.





From auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch  Mon Mar  7 15:31:25 2005
From: auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch (Auke Jan Ijspeert)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:31:25 +0100
Subject: Extended Deadline: AMAM 2005 in Ilmenau (Germany) September 25-30,
 2005
Message-ID: <422CBA1D.9030404@epfl.ch>

Dear Connectionist colleagues,

Since several colleagues contacted us with the implicit question "How
hard is the deadline of  February 28th, 2005 ?" for AMAM 2005 (3rd
International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines), we
now officially extend the deadline to March 21st, 2005. But this really
is a hard deadline, since otherwise the flow of peer-review and
publication until the beginning of the conference will be problematic.

Up to now we got more than 50 abstracts. To hold keynotes ("Basics &
Advances in ...") we have confirmations from the following colleagues:
Biology & Mechanics:
        Roy Ritzmann
        Martin S. Fischer
Biology & Control:
        Sten Grillner
Robotics & Control:
        R=FCdiger Dillmann
Robotics & Mechanics:
        Martin Buehler

If you do know a colleague who could be interested in the conference and
whom we perhaps missed to contact, please be so kind to point her or him
on the symposium's website
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/amam
or  alternately please forward the flyer which can be found at
http://wcms1.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/fakmb/fileadmin/template/amam/div/flyer.pdf

Especially contributions from the "mechanical side" (may it be "bio" or
"robotics") would be welcome, to balance out with the up to now
numerically over-represented papers on control aspects  - "embodiment"
could be represented a little bit more. Please note that we shall
realize a robot zoo, and that machine presentation in combination with
the abstract (with ISBN) will be accepted as a contribution - the offer
to have an additional long paper (with ISBN) really is an offer and no urge!

We hope to meet you in September in Ilmenau,

Auke Jan Ijspeert for the International Organizing Committee
Hartmut Witte for the Local Organizers



From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Mon Mar  7 13:09:22 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:09:22 -0000
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience
Message-ID: <52A8091888A23F47A013223014B6E9FE03855B21@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk>


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Tue Mar  8 07:32:01 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:32:01 -0000
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience
Message-ID: <52A8091888A23F47A013223014B6E9FE03855B83@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk>

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From wduch at phys.uni.torun.pl  Wed Mar  9 05:41:08 2005
From: wduch at phys.uni.torun.pl (Wlodzislaw Duch)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:41:08 +0100
Subject: BioInformatics Workshop (post-ICANN 2005), Torun, Poland (BIT05), Call for Papers
Message-ID: <20050309104111.70D7F13E7D8@nobel.phys.uni.torun.pl>

CALL FOR PAPERS/CONTRIBUTIONS


Workshop on Applications of Statistical and Machine Learning in
Bioinformatics
BIT 2005, Toru?, Poland, September 16-17 2005

You are kindly invited to participate in BIT 2005, a workshop on
applications of machine learning in bioinformatics and computational
biology organized jointly by the European Neural Network Society and
the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toru?, Poland. BIT 2005 will
be held as a satellite workshop in  parallel with the International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2005, September 11-15
Warsaw, Poland.

We invite the submission of original contributions. The focus of the
workshop and the planned volume are applications of Neural Networks
and other  machine learning techniques to problems arising in the
fields of bioinformatics  and computational biology. However,
contributions covering related topics  are also encouraged. We plan
to publish selected original papers in a special  volume of "Studies
in Computational Intelligence"; a new series published by
Springer-Verlag.

The papers should have up to 10 pages (including figures, tables and
references).To ensure high quality and consistency of the proceedings
 please use Latex or Microsoft Word and follow the Springer style for
multi-author  books and proceedings, available from the Springer
site. For Latex please use llncs2e.zip and for Microsoft Word word.zip
files. Please, do not use the ICANN 2005 paper submission page to
submit your manuscripts, submitting them instead via e-mail directly
to one of the organizers (see below) in the pdf format.

Additional information regarding the workshop, program and submission
of contributions are available at:
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005/workshops.html

We are looking forward to seeing you in Toru?, a beautiful medieval
town in central Poland (whc.unesco.org/sites/835.htm).

The workshop fee is only 25 Euro, including lunch and transportation
from Warsaw to Torun by bus, we may help to book a reasonable
accommodation in Torun (W.N.).

Workshop orgnaizers,
Wies?aw Nowak (wiesiek at phys.uni.torun.pl)
Jarek Meller (jmeller at chmcc.org)





From usuishiro at riken.jp  Sun Mar 13 23:06:25 2005
From: usuishiro at riken.jp (usuishiro@riken.jp)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:06:25 +0900
Subject: Extended deadline for Call for Team Leader
Message-ID: <JV2005031413062522.17639109@riken.jp>

(Sorry if you received multiple copies of this document. We would like 
to announce the deadline has been extended from May 31 to June 30.)

Laboratory Head and Unit Leader Positions in the Area of "Creating the Brain"

The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI), Japan's largest international
neuroscience institute, is seeking outstanding applicants for several
fulltime laboratory head and unit leader positions to develop its
interdisciplinary research area of "Creating the Brain". This area
comprises a "Computational Neuroscience Group" that will focus on 
developing computational theories that elucidate brain functions and
mechanisms, and a "Brain-Style Computing Group" that will aim towards
establishing new brain-style information technologies that utilize
computational theories modeling brain function. The two groups will work
in close collaboration, including joint research projects where beneficial.
The research topics of the new laboratories and units may include, for
example, computational neuroscience, brain-style robotics,
neuro-linguistics, neuromorphic engineering and mathematical neuroscience.
Applicants are encouraged to submit unique and creative research proposals
that fit within this research context.

New laboratory heads will be provided generous subsidies to organize teams
of around 6 researchers and technical staff. Units will also be provided
subsidies to build teams of around 3 members, and can be promoted to full
laboratory status based on successful review. Employment contracts are
renewed annually though full support will be provided for the initial 5
years, after which renewal will depend on the results of a progress review
conducted by an international review committee.

Attractive remuneration packages will be available for suitably qualified
and experienced candidates with a record of achievement. A benefits package
including health, pension, and subsidies for housing and relocation
expenses, is also provided. Applicants living outside Japan are highly
encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be able to develop and
direct research plans that match the research objectives of the Creating 
the Brain area, as well as possess a strong desire for interdisciplinary
research work. Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and
team-building skills are essential, in addition to a strong capacity for
working in multicultural environments. More information about the institute
can be obtained at http://www.brain.riken.jp . Inquiries can be directed to 
the e-mail address below.

Applicants should send, fax or e-mail 1) research interests and project
proposal for work at BSI (max 2000 words), 2) a full curriculum vitae, 3)
publication list, 4) a statement highlighting main accomplishments, and 5)
names and addresses of three references to the address below.

Search Committee 22
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
FAX: +81-48-462-4796
E-mail: search22 at brain.riken.jp

Closing date: June 30, 2005

Shun-ichi Amari

 Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
 Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience 
 Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
 +81-48-467-9669 fax +81-48-467-9687
 amari at brain.riken.go.jp
 http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/
 http://www.brain.riken.jp/english/b_rear/b0_rear.html



From Johan.Suykens at esat.kuleuven.ac.be  Mon Mar 14 08:00:06 2005
From: Johan.Suykens at esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Johan Suykens)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:00:06 +0100
Subject: New book announcement
Message-ID: <42358AD6.2020607@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>


- New Book announcement -

''Cellular Neural Networks, Multi-Scroll Chaos and Synchronization''
  Mustak E. Yalcin, Johan A.K. Suykens and Joos P.L. Vandewalle

  World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A - Vol. 50,
  World Scientific Pub. Co., Singapore, 2005 (ISBN 981-256-161-7)

  Information at:
  http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/chaoslab/
  http://www.wspc.com/books/chaos/5753.html

Contents-

1. Introduction

2. Cellular Neural/Nonlinear Networks
 - CNN
 - CNN models
 - CNN universal machine: a visual microprocessor
 - New research directions in CNNs

3. Multi-scroll Chaotic and Hyperchaotic Attractors
 - Chua's circuit
 - Generalized Chua's circuit
 - Families of scroll grid attractors
 - Multi-scroll hyperchaotic attractors
 - Scroll maps from n-scroll attractors
 - Lur'e representations

4. Synchronization of Chaotic Lur'e Systems
 - Synchronization
 - Master-slave synchronization: autonomous case
 - Robust synchronization
 - Time-delay synchronization scheme
 - Nonlinear Hinfty synchronization: non-autonomous case
 - Robust nonlinear Hinfty synchronization
 - Impulsive synchronization
 - Controller design
 - Examples

5. Engineering Applications
 - Chaos in communications
 - Chaotic systems in optimization
 - Random number generators and cryptography
 - Image/Video authentication on CNN-UM
 - CNN template tuning

6. General conclusions and future work







From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk  Mon Mar 14 17:41:37 2005
From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:41:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: SPP: Pylyshyn conference Early Registration Discount (fwd)
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From ddedrick at uoguelph.ca  Thu Mar 10 14:08:06 2005
From: ddedrick at uoguelph.ca (Don Dedrick)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:08:06 -0500
Subject: SPP: Pylyshyn conference Early Registration Discount
Message-ID: <mailman.1130.1149540488.24850.connectionists@cs.cmu.edu>

*Zenon Pylyshyn Conference*
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Philosophy, Computing and Information Science, and the Graduate Program 
in Applied Cognitive Science (Psychology) at the University of Guelph, 
Ontario, Canada are sponsoring an international, interdisciplinary 
conference to honour the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Zenon 
Pylyshyn's classic work in the foundations of cognitive science, 
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Brian Cantwell-Smith, Michael Dawson, Melvyn Goodale, Stevan Harnad, 
Charles Reiss, Brian Scholl, Claudia Uller. Registration is 40 dollars 
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graduate. (For planning purposes, the conference organizers would 
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From mnas.ijcai05 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 16 00:15:05 2005
From: mnas.ijcai05 at gmail.com (Modeling Natural Action Selection)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:15:05 -0800
Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: MODELING NATURAL ACTION SELECTION
Message-ID: <cd4e7e250503152115525c6227@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies for cross-postings:

Final Call For Papers:  Modeling Natural Action Selection (at IJCAI 2005)

             MODELING NATURAL ACTION SELECTION
       an International and Interdisciplinary Workshop

       http://www.bath.ac.uk/comp-sci/ai/MNAS-2005/

                 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
                      July 30-31, 2005

In association with:
The 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005)

Introduction:
-------------

Action selection is an agent's continuous problem of choosing what to
do next.  In artificial intelligence, this problem has been addressed
with strategies ranging from constructing long chains of intentions
that provide provably optimal means of achieving goals to reactive or
anytime algorithms that do simple lookups based solely on the external
environment.  But what does nature do?

This multidisciplinary workshop is dedicated to advancing our
understanding of the behavioral patterns and neural substrates
supporting action selection in animals --- including humans.  Examples
of interesting topics include:
o  The variation of action selection strategies across species.
o  The variation of strategies within species across individual,
  social or environmental contexts.
o  Cognitive, neural and embodied models of decision making.

We are seeking participation of researchers from either natural or
artificial intelligence (NI or AI), who propose models for either
human or animal behavior.  We seek experts from neuroscience,
psychology, and the quantitative social sciences as well as AI.  We
hope workshop participants will substantially advance the discipline
both through presenting novel results and by examining and critiquing a wide
variety of modeling approaches.

Requirements:
------------------

We ask that all papers:
o  Reference or describe a model of action selection,
o  Reference or describe a data set derived from the actions of
  living animals or humans, and
o  Make direct comparisons between the model and biological data.

All aspects of action selection are acceptable, from single task
performance to evolutionary models of behavior, from individual
protozoa to human societies.  Our goal for the workshop is to bring
together researchers using a variety of strategies for modeling with
the aim of building an understanding of the currently available models,
tools, advances and challenges in the field.

Our ultimate goal is to create a rich synergy between AI and NI models
of action selection.  A similar synergy has helped advance the fields
of neuroscience and neural networks over the past decade, and has
resulted in a number of journals which regularly publish strong papers
from both fields.

Venue:
---------

This workshop will take place as part of the 19th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), the world's
premiere conference on AI.  Participants in the workshop may wish to
attend the full conference but will not be required to do so.

The venue will be Edinburgh, Scotland.  This will be excellent time to
visit the Scottish capital just prior to the start of the famous
Edinburgh International Festival, and during the Edinburgh Jazz and
Blues Festival. Participants are encouraged to plan to stay on after
the workshop to enjoy the city and take advantage of these events.

The conference dinner (not included in the fees) will be held at:
`a room in town' (http://www.aroomin.co.uk/thetown/) on Sunday night.

Workshop Format:
----------------

The workshop will be held over two days.  The format will consist of

o  twenty minute talks with ten minute discussions,
o  keynote presentations from internationally renowned speakers,
o  poster and discussion sessions, and
o  dinners in town.

Talks will be clustered by approach so that researchers unfamiliar
with the various approaches to modeling action selection will have an
opportunity to learn.  We intend to allow speakers to know the
speaking order well in advance so that they can coordinate their talks
to maximize content and minimize repetition.

Talks will be chosen from submitted papers.  All papers will be
subject to peer review by the program committee. The number of full
papers accepted, as determined by review, may exceed the number of
talk slots available, in which case the remainder of accepted papers
will be offered a special full-paper poster session. The maximum
number of participants is limited by IJCAI to 40. If there is room for
participants without full papers, a second call will be sent out in
May for extended abstracts and ordinary poster submissions.

Speakers:
---------

We now have three confirmed invited speakers (& expect to add a
fourth).  The confirmed speakers (**pending travel funding awards) are:

o  Prof. Randall C. O'Reilly**, University of Colorado Boulder
       Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
       http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/

o  Prof. Michael Laver, New York University
       Department of Politics
       http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/laver/laver_home.html

o  Dr. Marius Usher (Reader), Birkbeck University of London
       School of Psychology
       http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/usher_m/

Publications:
-------------

A workshop proceedings, published by AISB and printed by IJCAI (and
included in the cost of registration), will include all accepted
papers and poster abstracts.  In addition, a number of journals
(including Cognitive Science and The Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society B) have expressed interest in publishing a special issue
for the best scientific papers from the workshop.  Final negotiations
will depend on the quality of papers submitted to the workshop.

Workshop participants will also discuss creating a further publication
(either a book or journal special issue) emphasizing the techniques
and technology used by the successful modelers.  Again, we have had
offers from Adaptive Behaviour and Connection Science to consider this
volume.

Papers and Participation:
-------------------------

IJCAI workshop participation is limited to 40 people.  Preference will
be given to those who submit papers, but other places may be available.

Workshop papers should be from approximately 4,000 to 8,000 words,
although we will accept papers of up to 8 pages.  For later
publications, we expect the length will be extended for at least a
selection of papers.

Please email submitted papers as a single .pdf file to mnas.ijcai05 at gmail.com.
Be sure to include in the body of the email: (1) the corresponding author's
name, affiliation, and email address, (2) the title and abstract, and (3)
between three and five keywords.

ELECTRONIC PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:       APRIL 1, 2005
Paper Notifications sent:                                          
May 15, 2005
Camera-ready copy deadline:                                     June 15, 2005
Paperless participant application deadline:                  June 15, 2005
Notice for paperless participants:                               June 30, 2005

Workshop dates:
July 30 - 31, 2005

Organizing Committee:
---------------------

Dr. Joanna J. Bryson
Artificial models of natural Intelligence
Department of Computer Science
University of Bath, UK
BA2 7AY
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb

Dr. Tony Prescott
Adaptive Behaviour Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Sheffield, UK
S10 2TP
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~abrg/tony/index.shtml

Dr. Anil K.Seth
The Neurosciences Institute
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive
San Diego
CA 92121, USA
http://www.nsi.edu/users/seth

Program Committee:
------------------

Gordon Arbuthnott, Dept of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, University
of Edinburgh, UK

Orlando Avila-Garcia, Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertsfordshire, UK

Gianluca Baldassarre, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies, National Research Council, Italy

Christian Balkenius, Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden

Alwyn Barry, Artificial models of natural Intelligence, University of Bath, UK

Bettina Berendt, Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Hagai Bergman, Department of Physiology, Hebrew University, Israel

Rafal Bogacz, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK

Driss Boussaoud, Institute for Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, France

Olivier Buffet, Statistical Machine Learning program, National ICT
Australia, Australia

Lola Canamero, Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK

Angelo Cangelosi, Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition, University of Plymouth, UK

Ricardo Chavarriaga, Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL,
Switzerland

Rick Cooper, Cognitive Science, Birbeck (University of London), UK

Frederick Crabbe, Computer Science Department, United States Naval Academy, USA

Nathaniel Daw, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University
College London, UK

Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University
College London, UK

Yiannis Demiris, Intelligent and Interactive Systems Group, Imperial
College London, UK

Peter Dominey, Sequential Cognition and Language Group, CNRS, France

Kenji Doya, Department of Computational Neurobiology, ATR Computational
Neuroscience Laboratories, Japan

Jason Fleischer, Theoretical Neurobiology, The Neurosciences Institute, USA

Philippe Gaussier, Equipe Neurocybern?tique, CNRS, France

Agnes Guillot, AnimatLab, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Kevin Gurney, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK

Jim Houk, Deparment of Physiology, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

Karl F. MacDorman, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

Mark Humphries, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK

Mark Humphrys, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland

Jeff Krichmar, Theoretical Neurobiology, The Neurosciences Institute, USA

Brian S. Logan, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK

Will Lowe, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Jean-Arcady Meyer, AnimatLab, CNRS, France

Michael J. North, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems
Simulation, Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne
National Laboratory, USA

Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK

Frank Ritter, Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State University, USA

Deb Roy, Media Laboratory, MIT, USA

David Sallach, Center for Complex Adaptive Systems, Argonne National
Laboratory, USA

Emmet Spier, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics,
Sussex University, UK



From antoni.guillamon at upc.edu  Tue Mar 15 18:04:58 2005
From: antoni.guillamon at upc.edu (Toni Guillamon)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:04:58 +0100
Subject: JISD 2005, Barcelona: Advanced couses on Neuronal Dynamics
Message-ID: <42376A1A.5060703@upc.edu>

Dear colleagues (our apologies if you receive this message more than
once):

The fourth edition of the JORNADES D'INTRODUCCI? ALS SISTEMES DINAMICS
(JISD2005) (DAYS OF INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS), will be held
from June 27 to July 1, 2005 at the Universitat Polit?cnica de
Catalunya (UPC)<http://www.upc.edu/>, in Barcelona.

The JISD2005 will be devoted to courses on computational and
mathematical neuroscience given by:

  * Prof.  John Rinzel, Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics,
    Courant   Institute  and  Center  for  Neural  Science,  New  York
    University,<http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/Rinzel.html>

  * Prof.  David Terman, Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State
    University, <http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/%7Eterman/>.

Both courses are part of the Doctorate Programme in Applied
Mathematics<http://www.upc.es/tercercicle/eng/doctorat/programes/48.htm>,
in the Graduate studies at UPC, and will run under the supervision of
Prof. Antoni Guillamon. They will be delivered from June 27 to July 1,
and will consist of 5 hours of lectures every day.

The outlines are posted on
<http://www.ma1.upc.edu/%7Etonig/Branca3cicle/JISD/indexjisd2005-I.html>. Further
information will also be posted on this web site.

The JISD2005, as well as the Doctoral Programme in Applied
Mathematics, is supported by a Spanish grant Menci?n de calidad en
programas de doctorado.Students belonging to another Spanish quality
program can apply for living and travel expenses.  There is no
registration fee. Please, reply to this email if you are interested.
Looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona.

Toni Guillamon
Dept. Matem?tica Aplicada I, EPSEB
Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
Avda. Dr. Mara??n, 44-50
08028 Barcelona




From biehl at cs.rug.nl  Wed Mar 16 06:48:07 2005
From: biehl at cs.rug.nl (Michael Biehl)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:48:07 +0100
Subject: preprint available (Efficient training of multilayer percpetrons using PCA)
Message-ID: <200503161248.07898.biehl@cs.rug.nl>


Dear Colleagues,
the following preprint is now available   online at:
                   http://www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl/prepneuro.html
(pdf format, 14 pages, 5 figures)


Efficient training of multilayer perceptrons using PCA
C. Bunzmann, M. Biehl, R. Urbanczik
(14 pages, 5 figures)

                                              Abstract 
A training algorithm for multilayer perceptrons is discussed and studied
in detail, which relates to the technique of Principal Component Analysis.
The latter is performed with respect to a correlation matrix computed from 
the example inputs and their target outputs.
Typical properties of the training procedure are investigated by means of a 
statistical physics analysis in models of learning regression and 
classification tasks. 
We demonstrate that the procedure requires by far fewer examples  for good
generalization than traditional on-line training. For networks with large 
hidden layers we derive the training prescription which achieves, within our 
model,  the optimal generalization  behavior.



------------------------------------------------------

    Michael Biehl

    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen   
    Wiskunde & Informatica
    Blauwborgje 3 
    9747 AC Groningen
    The Netherlands

    e-mail biehl at cs.rug.nl
    web    www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl




From pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu  Wed Mar 16 12:26:13 2005
From: pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu (Pierre Baldi)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:26:13 -0800
Subject: POSITIONS IN BIOINFORMATICS AND MACHINE LEARNING
Message-ID: <010d01c52a4d$407bf100$cd04c380@ics.uci.edu>


OPEN POSITIONS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE


Several NIH/NSF-sponsored postdoctoral and graduate student fellowships
in the areas of Computational Biology/Bioinformatics and Machine
Learning are available in the School of Information and Computer
Sciences www.ics.uci.edu) and the Institute for Genomics and
Bioinformatics (www.igb.uci.edu) at the University of California,
Irvine. 

Examples of areas of particular interest include: protein
structure/function prediction, molecular docking and drug design,
chemical informatics, comparative genomics, analysis of high-throughput
data (e.g. DNA microarray data), gene regulation, systems biology,
computational neuroscience, and all areas of machine learning and large
scale data analysis. 

Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV, statement
of research interests and accomplishments, and names and email addresses
of 3 referees to be sent, preferably by email, to: pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu.
Positions are available immediately. Relevant faculty in the School
include: P. Baldi, R. Dechter, D. Kibler, R. Lathrop, E. Mjolsness, M.
Pazzani, P. Smyth, H. Stern, and M. Welling. 

There are outstanding opportunities at UCI for close collaboration with
life scientists located throughout the campus in other units (School of
Biological Sciences, College of Medicine, Department of Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry) within short walking distance from the School. 

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed
to excellence through diversity. 
=============================================================
Pierre Baldi
School of Information and Computer Sciences 
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
(949) 824-5809
(949) 824-4056 FAX
pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu
www.ics.uci.edu/~pfbaldi






From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Thu Mar 17 11:18:50 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:18:50 -0000
Subject: IEEE CIG 2005 Call for Participation
Message-ID: <EC159B4211898E43ADF0C4F5C82567EE0119A675@sernt4.essex.ac.uk>


From nnrev at atr.jp  Fri Mar 18 01:35:38 2005
From: nnrev at atr.jp (Neural Networks Editorial Office)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:35:38 +0900
Subject: Neural Networks 2006 Call for Papers
Message-ID: <p06001007be6025b6d614@atr.jp>


   [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.]

************************************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 Special Issue of Neural Networks
" Neurobiology of Decision Making "
************************************************************************

Co-Editors
Shintaro Funahashi
Matthew Rushworth
Daeyeol Lee

Submission
Deadline for submission: October 31, 2005
Notification of final acceptance: April 30, 2006
Format: as for normal papers in the journal

Address for Papers
Dr. Mitsuo Kawato
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan.


Decision making is ubiquitous in our everyday life, and plays a 
central role in transforming a vast complex array of incoming sensory 
stimuli to a meaningful sequence of purposeful actions. Many of these 
decisions have important biological consequences, whereas others may 
appear to have more limited impacts. Regardless of their subjective 
qualities, people and other animals can utilize both external and 
internal cues to single out a choice among many alternatives. Often, 
these choices display features of optimally tuned systems. The neural 
mechanisms that underpin such decision making are currently the 
subject of intense investigations in cognitive and behavioural 
neurosciences.  Furthermore, many of these issues have important 
implications for developing machines designed to make optimal 
decisions in uncertain and dynamic environments. In order to 
understand the process of decision making, researchers are drawing on 
a diverse range of methodologies and theoretical approaches. In some 
cases, behavioural and ecological frameworks are necessary for 
identifying biologically important factors that influence decisions 
in different animals. Game theoretical approaches may be employed 
when decisions are made by several interacting individuals rather 
than isolated individuals acting independently. Neuropsychological 
and neuroimaging studies are useful in revealing which brain areas 
participate in decision making and how the brain works as a whole. 
Neurophysiological studies using animal models are also necessary for 
revealing network mechanisms of decision making within a particular 
brain area. Computational approaches play a critical role in 
integrating the knowledge obtained by empirical studies and may be 
essential for ultimately understanding the neural mechanisms of 
decision making.

This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in the studies of 
decision making, with special emphasis on neural mechanisms and 
computational models of decision making, the influence of emotional, 
motivational, and mnemonic factors on decision making at both 
behavioral and neural network levels, and computational and neural 
network approaches to dynamic neural processes.

Neural Networks Official home page:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/841/description
Instructions to Authors:
See Guide For Authors in the above web page

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From auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch  Fri Mar 18 05:14:28 2005
From: auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch (AUKE IJSPEERT)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:14:28 +0100
Subject: AMAM2005, final call for abstracts March 21
Message-ID: <2c1d1a2d.1a2d2c1d@imap.epfl.ch>

Dear Connectionist colleagues,

The extended deadline for AMAM 2005 (the 3rd International Symposium on
Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines, see
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/amam), March 21st 2005, is approaching fast.

To hold keynotes ("Basics & Advances in ...") we have confirmations from
the following colleagues:

Biology & Mechanics:
        Roy Ritzmann
        Martin S. Fischer
Biology & Control:
        Sten Grillner
Robotics & Control:
        Ruediger Dillmann
Robotics & Mechanics:
        Martin Buehler

If you do know a colleague who could be interested in the conference and
whom we perhaps missed to contact, please be so kind to point her or him
on the symposium's website
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/amam
or  alternately please forward the flyer which can be found at
http://wcms1.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/fakmb/fileadmin/template/amam/div/flyer.pdf

Especially contributions from the "mechanical side" (may it be "bio" or
"robotics") would be welcome, to balance out with the up to now
numerically over-represented papers on control aspects  - "embodiment"
could be represented a little bit more. Please note that we shall
realize a robot zoo, and that machine presentation in combination with
the abstract (with ISBN) will be accepted as a contribution - the offer
to have an additional long paper (with ISBN) really is an offer and no urge!

We hope to meet you in September in Ilmenau,

Auke Jan Ijspeert for the International Organizing Committee
Hartmut Witte for the Local Organizers





From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Fri Mar 18 07:38:16 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:38:16 -0000
Subject: RESEARCH POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE & MUSIC COGNITION
Message-ID: <1206CDC3D8E6C646AB569E3013735BF90130E954@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk>


From nestor.parga at uam.es  Fri Mar 18 06:39:31 2005
From: nestor.parga at uam.es (Nestor Parga)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:39:31 +0100
Subject: Paper available on "neuron populations in the high conductance 
	state"
Message-ID: <423ABDF3.7060204@uam.es>


Dear colleagues,

We would like to announce the following paper:

"Membrane potential and response properties of populations of
cortical neurons in the high conductance state"

by:  Ruben Moreno-Bote and Nestor Parga

(Physical Review Letters 94: 088103, March 2005)

A version of this work is available at:

http://www.ft.uam.es/neurociencia/publications.html


Best regards

Nestor Parga

----------------------------------------------------

Title:
"Membrane potential and response properties of populations of
cortical neurons in the high conductance state"


Authors:
Ruben Moreno-Bote and Nestor Parga

Abstract:

Because of intense synaptic activity, cortical neurons are in a high
conductance state. We show that this state has important consequences
on the properties of a population of independent model neurons with
conductance-based synapses. Using an adiabaticlike approximation we
study both the membrane potential and the firing probability
distributions across the population. We find that the latter is
bimodal in such a way that at any particular moment some neurons are
inactive while others are active. The population rate and the response
variability are also characterized.


Nestor Parga
Dpto. de Fisica Teorica, C-XI
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
28049 Madrid, SPAIN
Phone :  (+34) 91-497-4542
Fax   :  (+34) 91-497-3936
E-mail:   nestor.parga at uam.es
http://delta.ft.uam.es/neurociencia/nestor/





From R.Borisyuk at plymouth.ac.uk  Thu Mar 31 04:58:41 2005
From: R.Borisyuk at plymouth.ac.uk (Roman Borisyuk)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:58:41 +0100
Subject: Connectionists: FW: CFP - IV05-MAGIC-strategies to analyze,
	visualize and understand large comple datasets
Message-ID: <52A8091888A23F47A013223014B6E9FE024BB3B1@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk>

 

MAGIC SYMPOSIUM: Strategies to analyze visualize and understand large
datasets. 

 

In particular, the IV tools for analyzing data of experiments in
neuroscience (e.g. simultaneously recorded multiple spike-trains) will
be under intensive discussion.

MAGIC Symposium will be organized as a part of IV05: Information
Visualization 2005 -  9th IEEE International Conference on Information
Visualisation, 6-8 July 2005, London, UK

 

MAGIC represents the emerging challenges that confront Information
Visualization experts across the world. 

"MAGIC" was defined by Ben Shneiderman  at IV4 conference last year as
...

M: Marking, selection and annotation that is essential for large
datasets

A: Aggregates & summaries: automatically generated, interactively tuned

G: Graphics & Text; combinations of text and graphics e.g. use of "+" or
"-" symbols in Windows Explorer used to reveal and hide
sub-folders/hierarchies 

I: Use of Information Linguistic Summaries

C: Coordinated views: provision of multiple, coordinated (synchronised)
views within a data analysis, presentation and/or exploration
environment.

 

This year the IV05 conference is running a special session on
Information Visualization Tools that addresses "MAGIC" issues. This
symposium is not focused on the application area of research,
educational or industrial projects, but the focus is on the MAGIC
strategies (or "tricks") being developed as part of our information
visualization solutions. As these strategies are inherently
transdisciplinary in nature, this symposium provides a platform for the
distribution of ideas to/from almost any discipline/topic that exploits
information visualization. 

 

See the symposium call for participation for further information:

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV05/

 

Submission of materials:

Accepted full papers (DEADLINE 21/03/2005) will appear in the
proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society

Accepted posters (DEADLINE 30/04/2005) will be included electronically
on the IEEE IV05 Conference materials and distributed in a hardcopy
compendium to all symposium and conference attendees. 

 

For symposia information contact the symposia chair Liz Stuart:

lstuart at plymouth.ac.uk

 

Please note the new deadlines for the full paper and poster submissions.


If you want any further details about this symposium or the conference
in general, just email to Liz Stuart and I'll be happy to help ...

 

Dr. Liz Stuart 

The Visualization Lab

Centre for Interactive Intelligent systems

 

The best way to contact me is by email! 

e: lstuart at plymouth.ac.uk <mailto:lstuart at plymouth.ac.uk>  

w: www.plymouth.ac.uk/infovis <http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/infovis>  

t: +44 (0) 1752 232 665 

f: +44 (0) 1752 232 540 

 

Campus location 

Room 331, Block B, Portland Square 

  

Postal address 

Computing, SoCCE 

Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth 

Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK


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|                                                  |
|                    ESANN'2005                    | 
|                                                  |
|              13th European Symposium             |
|           on Artificial Neural Networks          |
|                                                  |
|      Bruges (Belgium) - April 27-28-29, 2005     |
|                                                  |
|                Preliminary program               |
----------------------------------------------------

The preliminary program of the ESANN'2005 conference is now available on
the Web:
       http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann
For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related ANN
sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list;
thank you very much!

We try as much as possible to avoid multiple sendings of this message;
however please apologize if you receive this e-mail twice, despite our
precautions.

For 13 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field
of neural computation and machine learning.  ESANN is a human-size
conference focusing on fundamental aspects of machine learning and
artificial neural networks (theory, models, algorithms, links with
statistics, data analysis, biological background,...).  This year, 95
scientific communications will be presented, covering most areas of the
neural computation field.

The program of the conference can be found at the URL
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann, together with practical information
about the conference venue, registration,...  Other information can be
obtained by sending an e-mail to esann at dice.ucl.ac.be .



========================================================
ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks 
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

* For submissions of papers, reviews,...
Michel Verleysen
Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Microelectronics Laboratory
3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 
mailto:esann at dice.ucl.ac.be

* Conference secretariat
d-side conference services
24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium
tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 
mailto:esann at dice.ucl.ac.be 
========================================================


 


From alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk  Tue Mar  1 05:50:21 2005
From: alexandra at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Alexandra Boss)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:50:21 -0000
Subject: Gatsby Unit Workshop - Invitation
Message-ID: <001701c51e4c$779b9580$29d5a8c0@hazel>

GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT
WORKSHOP 14 MARCH 2005, LONDON, UK

Venue: Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites you to a Workshop on 14
March 2005

All welcome but pre-registration is essential.

Please e-mail: asstadmin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk if you would like to attend.


Speakers:

Professor Tony Movshon
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Title:  Processing of Local and Global Motion by Neurons in MT/V5

Professor Alan Yuille
Department of Statistics, UCLA
Title: Bayesian Ideal Observers and Correspondence Noise

Professor Shun-ichi Amari
Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Title: Population Coding, Bayesian Inference and Information Geometry

Professor Jonathan Cohen
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University
Title: Optimization of Decision Making and Cognitive Control: Formal
Models, Behavior, and Neural Mechanisms

For further details, including abstracts, see:

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/


Those proposing to attend may also be interested in the following
seminar hosted by Professor Jon Driver, Director of the Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Professor Anne Treisman
Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Title: Broad or narrow focus of attention: how does it determine what
we see?

Time: 17.00
Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, University College London

Coordinated scheduling supports attendance at both the Gatsby Unit
Workshop and the ICN seminar.



From codrina.lauth at ais.fraunhofer.de  Tue Mar  1 04:27:44 2005
From: codrina.lauth at ais.fraunhofer.de (Ina Lauth)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:27:44 +0100
Subject: [Mlnet] Machine Learning - Pascal Challenges, April 11-13
Message-ID: <002601c51e40$fb5c0820$e6961a81@laplauth>

Dear colleagues,

The Pascal (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational
 	Learning) network of excellence

organizes a series of challenges - very relevant to KDNet,
and participation from KDNet people is welcome :-)

- Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty
- 101 Visual Object Classes
- Recognising Textual Entailment
- Assessing ML methodologies to Extract Implicit relations from
documents.

The workshop will take place in Southampton, April 11-13th, 2005.

See http://www.pascal-network.org/Workshops/PC04/

Best regards,
Michele Sebag
CNRS, Paris-Sud Orsay.
http://www.lri.fr/~sebag/



From sami.kaski at hut.fi  Wed Mar  2 13:10:40 2005
From: sami.kaski at hut.fi (Sami Kaski)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:10:40 +0200
Subject: Challenge: Relevance from eye movements
Message-ID: <wtsm3dex5r.fsf@itl-pc88.hut.fi>



URL: http://www.cis.hut.fi/eyechallenge2005/


INFERRING RELEVANCE FROM EYE MOVEMENTS CHALLENGE 2005


The Challenge is to predict from eye movement data whether a reader
finds a text relevant.

The scientific goals are:

 * To advance machine learning methodology
 * To find the best eye movement features
 * To learn of the psychology underlying eye movements in search tasks

The results will be presented in a workshop. We will do our best to
arrange it in connection with a major conference. Authors of the best
presentations will be invited to extend their talks into articles in a
special issue of a journal.


The Challenge is at 
http://www.cis.hut.fi/eyechallenge2005/


Key dates:

1 March 2005                 Challenge starts
1 and 15 September 2005      Competitions end
30 September 2005            Deadline for extended abstracts


The Challenge is part of the EU Network of Excellence PASCAL Challenge
Program. Participation is open to all.

Please send your questions and feedback to
<eyechallenge2005 at james.hut.fi>.


We are looking forward to an interesting competition!


Jarkko Saloj?rvi, Kai Puolam?ki, Lauri Kovanen, Jaana Simola, Ilpo
Kojo, Samuel Kaski


Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computer and
Information Science

Helsinki School of Economics, Center for Knowledge and Innovations
Research

University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science



From ted.carnevale at yale.edu  Wed Mar  2 20:58:25 2005
From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:58:25 -0500
Subject: NEURON 2005 Summer Course
Message-ID: <42266F41.3060406@yale.edu>

Seats are still available in the NEURON 2005 Summer Course,
which will be held Saturday, June 18, through Wednesday,
June 22, at the Supercomputer Center on the campus of the
University of California at San Diego, CA.  Get first-hand
instruction and learn about the latest enhancements that
make NEURON more powerful and even easier to use for modeling
individual neurons and networks of neurons.

For more information see
   http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/sdsc2005/sdsc2005.htm
or contact
   Ted Carnevale
   Psychology Dept.
   PO Box 208205
   Yale University
   New Haven, CT 06520-8205
   USA
   phone 203-432-7363
   fax 203-432-7172
   email ted.carnevale at yale.edu

Supported in part by:
   National Institutes of Health
   National Science Foundation
   The San Diego Supercomputer Center

Contractual terms require inclusion of the following statement:
   This course is not sponsored by the University of California.

--Ted




From dirk at bioss.sari.ac.uk  Thu Mar  3 08:10:30 2005
From: dirk at bioss.sari.ac.uk (Dirk Husmeier)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:10:30 +0000
Subject: Director of Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
Message-ID: <42270CC6.6090205@bioss.ac.uk>

Director of Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland

BioSS is an internationally renowned group of statisticians, 
mathematicians, bioinformaticians and
computing specialists. BioSS undertakes research, training and 
consultancy work to underpin the work of
eight scientific institutes, augmented by a range of research grants and 
contracts, and operates with an annual
budget of circa GBP 1.3M.

We seek to appoint as Director an exceptional individual with:
* an international standing in applied statistics, biomathematics, 
bioinformatics or a related field;
* experience of collaborations with subject-area scientists to solve 
problems in agriculture, the environment, food or health; and
* the organisational skills to co-ordinate and develop a highly 
motivated, distributed, group of specialist staff.

See www.bioss.ac.uk for details of BioSS, the post and the attractive 
salary (GBP 50K+) and benefits package.
Closing date for applications March 25th 2005.

-- 
Dirk Husmeier
Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS)
JCMB, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
http://www.bioss.sari.ac.uk/~dirk




From jverbeek at science.uva.nl  Thu Mar  3 06:12:24 2005
From: jverbeek at science.uva.nl (jverbeek@science.uva.nl)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:12:24 +0100
Subject: PhD thesis on clustering and dimension reduction available online
Message-ID: <4226F118.1030107@science.uva.nl>

Readers of the connectionist list may be interested in my PhD thesis

"Mixture models for clustering and dimension reduction"

which is now available online at

http://www.science.uva.nl/~jverbeek/thesis.html

Best,

Jakob



-- 

J.J. Verbeek
http://www.science.uva.nl/~jverbeek




From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Thu Mar  3 17:13:48 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: 03 Mar 2005 16:13:48 -0600
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <1109888027.3749.432.camel@localhost.localdomain>

        Machine Learning Summer School
        Chicago, USA
        May 16-27, 2005
        http://chicago05.mlss.cc/

TTI-Chicago and the University of Chicago are hosting a Machine
Learning Summer School from May 16-27.  This will include all the
machine learning and learning theory that can be covered in 2 weeks of
intense instruction.  The target audience is anyone interested in the
subject including graduate students and academic and industry
researchers.  Please join us.

Subjects: Bayesian Learning, Boosting, Decision trees, Empirical
Comparisons and Case Studies, Energy Models, Evidence Integration in
Bioinformatics, Generalization Bounds, Information Geometry, Manifold
Methods, Object Recognition, Online Learning, Reductions,
Regularization, Semisupervised Learning, Structured Learning, SVMs

Speakers: Yasemin Altun, Misha Belkin, Rich Caruana, Sanjoy Dasgupta,
Zoubin Ghahramani, Mark Johnson, Adam Kalai, John Langford, Yann LeCun,
Phil Long, David McAllester, Partha Niyogi, Robert Nowak, Robert
Schapire, Yoram Singer, Steve Smale (and possibly more).

In addition, the summer school will be colocated with two workshops
and the 'special emphasis on learning theory' quarter at TTI-Chicago.
Attendees of the school will be able to attend the workshops and
vice-versa. For further details on the quarter see:

        http://www.tti-c.org/abstracts/learning_theory.html

Contact jl at tti-c.org for questions.






From vitorino.ramos at alfa.ist.utl.pt  Thu Mar  3 13:33:01 2005
From: vitorino.ramos at alfa.ist.utl.pt (Vitorino RAMOS)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:33:01 +0000
Subject: 2 Draft Papers: Swarm Search, Self-Regulated Pop. Size and
  Social Cognitive Maps
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.1.20050303180826.00a24738@mail.ist.utl.pt>


Dear Colleagues:
Two of my recent works can now be found online. hope u could enjoy them.
best regards, vitorino ramos

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Varying the Population Size of Artificial Foraging Swarms on Time Varying 
Landscapes,
final draft submitted to ICCANN -05, International Conf. on Artificial 
Neural Networks,
Springer-Verlag, LNCS series, Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 11-15, 2005.

link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_59.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-ICANN05.pdf

ABSTRACT: Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the 
collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with 
their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI 
provides a basis with wich it is possible to explore collective (or 
distributed) problem solving without centralized control or the provision 
of a global model. In this paper we present a Swarm Search Algorithm with 
varying population of agents. The swarm is based on a previous model with 
fixed population which proved its effectiveness on several computation 
problems. We will show that the variation of the population size provides 
the swarm with mechanisms that improves its self-adaptability and causes 
the emergence of a more robust self-organized behavior, resulting in a 
higher efficiency on searching peaks and valleys over dynamic search 
landscapes represented here - for the purpose of different experiments - by 
several three-dimensional mathematical functions that suddenly change over 
time. We will also show that the present swarm, for each function, 
self-adapts towards an optimal population size, thus self-regulating.

KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence and Perception, Dynamic Population Sizes, 
Self-Regulation, Social Cognitive Maps, Social Foraging, Self-Organization 
and Evolution, Distributed Search and Optimization.

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Social Cognitive Maps, Swarm Collective Perception and Distributed Search 
on Dynamic
Landscapes, CVRM-IST 127E-2005 technical report, final draft submitted to 
Brains, Minds & Media,
Journal of New Media in Neural and Cognitive Science, NRW, Germany, 2005.

link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_58.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-BMM.pdf

ABSTRACT: Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the
collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with
their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI
provides a basis with which it is possible to explore collective (or
distributed) problem solving without centralized control or the provision
of a global model. To tackle the formation of a coherent social collective
intelligence from individual behaviors, we discuss several concepts related
to self-organization, stigmergy and social foraging in animals. Then, in a
more abstract level we suggest and stress the role played not only by the
environmental media as a driving force for societal learning, as well as by
positive and negative feedbacks produced by the many interactions among
agents. Finally, presenting a simple model based on the above features, we
will address the collective adaptation of a social community to a cultural
(environmental, contextual) or media informational dynamical landscape,
represented here - for the purpose of different experiments - by several
three-dimensional mathematical functions that suddenly change over time.
Results indicate that the collective intelligence is able to cope and
quickly adapt to unforeseen situations even when over the same cooperative
foraging period, the community is requested to deal with two different and
contradictory purposes.

KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence and Perception, Social Cognitive Maps, Social
Foraging, Self-Organization, Distributed Search and Optimization.

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From Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu  Fri Mar  4 07:49:43 2005
From: Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu (Aris Xanthos)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:49:43 +0100
Subject: Call for papers: Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition
Message-ID: <42285967.80407@hunter.cuny.edu>

[Apologies for multiple postings]

           
               *** Call for Papers ***

Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition

Workshop at ACL 2005

29-30 June 2005 at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

      **** Submission Deadline: 4 April 2005 ****

http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp


Workshop Topic
--------------
 
The workshop, which is a follow-up to the successful workshop held
at COLING in 2004, will be devoted to psychologically motivated
computational models of language acquisition -- models that are
compatible with, or motivated by research in psycholinguistics,
developmental psychology with particular emphasis on the acquisition
of syntax, though work on the acquisition of morphology, phonology
and other levels of linguistic description is also welcome.

The workshop will be taking place at the same time as CoNLL-2005 
(http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll/cfp.html) and if there is sufficient
interest there will be a plenary session for papers that are relevant
to both audiences.

Invited Talks
-------------
  Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
  Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University 
 
Workshop Description and Motivation
-----------------------------------

In recent decades there has been a great deal of successful research
that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural
language technologies, along with many meetings, conferences and
workshops in which to present such research. These have generally
been motivated primarily by engineering concerns. There have been
only a few venues in which computational models of human (first)
language acquisition are the focus.

In the light of recent results in developmental psychology,
indicating that very young infants are capable of detecting 
statistical patterns in an audible input stream, statistically
motivated approaches have gained in plausibility. However, this
raises the question of whether or not a psychologically credible
statistical learning strategy can be successfully exploited in a
full-blown psychocomputational acquisition model, and the extent
to which such algorithms must use domain-specific knowledge.

The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers
who work within computational linguistics, formal learning theory,
grammatical inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence,
linguistics, psycholinguistics and other fields, who have created or
are investigating computational models of language acquisition. In
particular, it will provide a forum for establishing links and common
themes between diverse paradigms.  Although research which directly
addresses the acquisition of syntax is strongly encouraged, related
studies that inform research on the acquisition of other areas of
language are also welcome. 
 
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars;
* Formal learning theoretic and grammar induction models that
  incorporate psychologically plausible constraints;
* Models that employ language models from corpus linguistics;
* Models that address the question of learning bias in terms of
  innate linguistic knowledge versus domain general strategies
* Models that can acquire natural language word-order;
* Hybrid models that cross established paradigms;
* Models that directly make use of or can be used to evaluate
  existing linguistic or developmental theories in a computational
  framework (e.g. the principles & parameters framework, Optimality
  Theory, or Construction Grammar);
* Models that combine parsing and learning;
* Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective;
* Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora;
* Comparative surveys, across multiple paradigms, that critique
  previously published studies;

Paper Length: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (A4 or
the equivalent). High-quality short papers or extended abstracts
of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged. Submission and format details
are below.
 
 
Important Dates
---------------

Please note that the turnaround time for accepted papers is quite short.

Deadline for main session paper submission: April 4, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005
Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005
Conference: June 29-30, 2005

 
Workshop Organizers
-------------------
 
* William Gregory Sakas (Chair), City University of New York, USA
  (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu)
* Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
  (alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk)
* James Cussens, University of York, UK (jc at cs.york.ac.uk)
* Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  (aris.xanthos at unil.ch)

Program Committee
-----------------

* Robert Berwick, MIT, USA
* Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
* Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK
* Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA
* Nick Chater, University of Warwick, UK
* Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK 
* Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg
  University, The Netherlands
* Elan Dresher, University of Toronto, Canada
* Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
* Jerry Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
* John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA
* John Hale, University of Michigan, USA
* Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA
* Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita di Torino, Italy
* Paola Merlo, University of Geneva, Switzerland
* Sandeep Prasada, City University of New York, USA
* Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
* Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA
* Ed Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
* Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada
* Patrick Sturt, University of Glasgow, UK
* Charles Yang, Yale University, USA

Paper Submission
----------------
 
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings
and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We
strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft
Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are
available at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/styles/. High-quality
short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged.
 
Electronic Submission: All submissions will be by email. Reviews
will be blind, so be careful not to disclose authorship or
affiliation. PDF submissions are preferred and will be required for
the final camera-ready copy.
 
Submissions should be sent as an attachment to:

  psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu.

  The subject line must contain the single word: Submission. 
 
Please be sure to include accurate contact information in the body
of the email.
 
Workshop contact:
-----------------

email: psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu
web:   http://www.colag.cs.cuny.edu/psychocomp

or

William Gregory Sakas
Department of Computer Science, North 1008
Hunter College, City University of New York
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
USA

1 (212) 772.5211 - voice
1 (212) 772.5219 - fax

sakas at hunter.cuny.edu






From retienne at jhu.edu  Fri Mar  4 17:31:04 2005
From: retienne at jhu.edu (retienne)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:31:04 -0500
Subject: Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop 2005:  Deadline March 25th
In-Reply-To: <41F7C734.8060205@jhu.edu>
References: <41F7C734.8060205@jhu.edu>
Message-ID: <mailman.1126.1149591617.29955.connectionists@cs.cmu.edu>

FYI:  Second Announcement (Sorry for multiple copies.  This email goes 
out to many lists)

  Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
  call for applications

      Sunday, JUNE 26 - Saturday, JULY 16, 2005

      TELLURIDE, COLORADO

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Avis COHEN (University of Maryland)
Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, 
Switzerland)
Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS (Johns Hopkins University)
Paul HASLER (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Timmer HORIUCHI (University of Maryland)
Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, 
Switzerland)
Christof KOCH (California Institute of Technology)
Terrence SEJNOWSKI (Salk Institute and UCSD)
Shihab SHAMMA (University of Maryland)
Andre van SCHAIK (University of Sydney)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

We invite applications for a three week summer workshop that will be 
held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday, June 26 to Saturday, July 16, 
2005. The application deadline is Friday, March 25 and application 
instructions are described at the bottom of this document. We must 
have your completed application, including letters of recommendation, 
by March 25 for your application to be considered.

Last year's 2004 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic 
Engineering, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the 
Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering, the Office of Naval Research, 
Airforce Research Office, Institute for NeuroInfomatics - ETHZ, Geogia 
Institute of Technology, University of Maryland - College Park, Johns 
Hopkins University, The Salk Institute, and by the Center for 
Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at the California Institute of 
Technology, was an exciting event and a great success. We strongly 
encourage interested parties to browse through the:  
http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride/

      GOALS:

Carver Mead introduced the term "Neuromorphic Engineering" for a new 
field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural 
systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots, 
whose architecture and design principles are based on those of 
biological nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring 
together young investigators and more established researchers from 
academia with their counterparts in industry and national 
laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering 
aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The focus of 
the workshop will be on active participation, with demonstration 
systems and hands on experience for all participants. Neuromorphic 
engineering has a wide range of applications from nonlinear adaptive 
control of complex systems to the design of smart sensors. Many of the 
fundamental principles in this field, such as the use of learning 
methods and the design of parallel hardware (with an emphasis on 
analog and asynchronous digital VLSI), are inspired by biological 
systems. However, existing applications are modest and the challenge 
of scaling up from small artificial neural networks and designing 
completely autonomous systems at the levels achieved by biological 
systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying this three week workshop 
is that the next generation of neuromorphic systems would benefit from 
closer attention to the principles found through experimental and 
theoretical studies of real biological nervous systems as whole systems.

      FORMAT:

The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on 
systems neuroscience (in particular learning, oculo-motor and other 
motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on analog VLSI 
design, small mobile robots (Koalas, Kheperas, LEGO robots), hands-on 
projects, and special interest groups. Participants are required to 
take part and possibly complete at least one of the projects proposed. 
They are furthermore encouraged to become involved in as many of the 
other activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be 
two lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to 
the community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds 
among the participants, the majority of these lectures will be 
tutorials, rather than detailed reports of current research. These 
lectures will be given by invited speakers. Participants will be free 
to explore and play with whatever they choose in the afternoon. 
Projects and interest groups meet in the late afternoons, and after 
dinner. In the early afternoon there will be tutorial on a wide 
spectrum of topics, including analog VLSI, mobile robotics, auditory 
systems, central-pattern-generators, selective attention mechanisms, etc.
Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in 
a number of working groups, including:

    * active vision
    * audition
    * motor control
    * central pattern generator
    * robotics
    * multichip communication
    * analog VLSI
    * learning
    * neuroprosthethic decives and systems

The active perception project group will emphasize vision and human 
sensory-motor coordination. Issues to be covered will include spatial 
localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements, 
and the use of visual motion information for motor control.
The central pattern generator group will focus on small walking and 
undulating robots. It will look at characteristics and sources of 
parts for building robots, play with working examples of legged and 
segmented robots, and discuss CPG's and theories of nonlinear 
oscillators for locomotion. It will also explore the use of simple 
analog VLSI sensors for autonomous robots.
The robotics group will use rovers and working digital vision boards 
as well as other possible sensors to investigate issues of 
sensorimotor integration, navigation and learning.
The audition group aims to develop biologically plausible algorithms 
and aVLSI implementations of specific auditory tasks such as source 
localization and tracking, and sound pattern recognition. Projects 
will be integrated with visual and motor tasks in the context of a 
robot platform.
The multichip communication project group will use existing interchip 
communication interfaces to program small networks of artificial 
neurons to exhibit particular behaviors such as amplification, 
oscillation, and associative memory. Issues in multichip 
communicationwill be discussed.
This year we will also have some new robots kindly donated by the 
WowWee Toys division of Hasbro in Hong Kong. This will permit us to 
carry out experiments with WooWee/Hasboro hardware through Mark Tilden.

      LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS:

The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride, 9000 
feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver 
(350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines 
provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within 
the beautifully renovated public school building are fully accessible 
to participants with disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski 
condominiums, within walking distance of the school. Participants are 
expected to share condominiums.
The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on. 
Participants are not required to have had previous experience in 
analog VLSI circuit design, computational or machine vision, systems 
level neurophysiology or modeling the brain at the systems level. 
However, we strongly encourage active researchers with relevant 
backgrounds from academia, industry and national laboratories to 
apply, in particular if they are prepared to work on specific 
projects, talk about their own work or bring demonstrations to 
Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software). Internet access will be 
provided. Technical staff present throughout the workshops will assist 
with software and hardware issues. We will have a network of PCs 
running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop projects. We also 
plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage participants to 
bring along their personal laptop.
No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we recommend 
that you do not rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain 
gear, and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful 
mountains. Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we 
expect participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week 
workshop.

      FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:

Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around mid April 2005. 
Participants are expected to pay a $295.00 workshop fee at that time 
in order to reserve a place in the workshop. The cost of a shared 
condominium will be covered for all academic participants but upgrades 
to a private room will cost extra. Participants from National 
Laboratories and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums. 
Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for US domestic travel and up to 
$800 for overseas travel will be possible if financial help is needed 
(please specify on the application).

      HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above 
(i.e.postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and 
the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We 
actively encourage qualified women and minority candidates to apply.
Application should include:

    * Cover sheet with:
          o First name, Last name
          o Institution and department
          o Complete mailing address
          o Valid e-mail address
    * Curriculum Vitae
    * One-page summary of background and interests relevant to workshop
    * Two letters of recommendation

Please send your application to:

    Terrence Sejnowski
    The Salk Institute -- CNL
    10010 N. Torrey Pines Road
    La Jolla, California 92037

Electronic applications will not be accepted. Questions regarding the 
application process may be addressed to: telluride at salk.edu 
<mailto:telluride at salk.edu>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Associate  Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

105 Barton Hall/3400 N. Charles St.		2213 AV Williams Bldg
Johns Hopkins University			University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD 21218				College Park, MD 20742
Tel:  410 - 516 - 3494				Tel:  301 - 405 - 0470
Fax:  410 - 516 - 5566				Fax:  301 - 314 - 9281
Email:  retienne at jhu.edu			Email:  retienne at isr.umd.edu
URL:  http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~etienne		URL:  http://www.isr.umd.edu/~retienne




From dekamps at t-online.de  Sat Mar  5 15:19:17 2005
From: dekamps at t-online.de (Marc de Kamps)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:19:17 +0100
Subject: ICANN2005 deadline extended; special session dealine March 30
Message-ID: <LAENIDGJMEEACJMEJHPHEEOACEAA.dekamps@t-online.de>

Although the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 11-15
September 2005, Warsaw, Poland,
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005
has already received a large number of submissions, many people have asked
for an extension of the deadline for regular sessions.

It is therefore extented until March 14.

There is still a chance to submit your papers to 9 special sessions planned
at the conference and 5 post-conference workshops, with the deadline on 30
March.





From auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch  Mon Mar  7 15:31:25 2005
From: auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch (Auke Jan Ijspeert)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:31:25 +0100
Subject: Extended Deadline: AMAM 2005 in Ilmenau (Germany) September 25-30,
 2005
Message-ID: <422CBA1D.9030404@epfl.ch>

Dear Connectionist colleagues,

Since several colleagues contacted us with the implicit question "How
hard is the deadline of  February 28th, 2005 ?" for AMAM 2005 (3rd
International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines), we
now officially extend the deadline to March 21st, 2005. But this really
is a hard deadline, since otherwise the flow of peer-review and
publication until the beginning of the conference will be problematic.

Up to now we got more than 50 abstracts. To hold keynotes ("Basics &
Advances in ...") we have confirmations from the following colleagues:
Biology & Mechanics:
        Roy Ritzmann
        Martin S. Fischer
Biology & Control:
        Sten Grillner
Robotics & Control:
        R=FCdiger Dillmann
Robotics & Mechanics:
        Martin Buehler

If you do know a colleague who could be interested in the conference and
whom we perhaps missed to contact, please be so kind to point her or him
on the symposium's website
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/amam
or  alternately please forward the flyer which can be found at
http://wcms1.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/fakmb/fileadmin/template/amam/div/flyer.pdf

Especially contributions from the "mechanical side" (may it be "bio" or
"robotics") would be welcome, to balance out with the up to now
numerically over-represented papers on control aspects  - "embodiment"
could be represented a little bit more. Please note that we shall
realize a robot zoo, and that machine presentation in combination with
the abstract (with ISBN) will be accepted as a contribution - the offer
to have an additional long paper (with ISBN) really is an offer and no urge!

We hope to meet you in September in Ilmenau,

Auke Jan Ijspeert for the International Organizing Committee
Hartmut Witte for the Local Organizers



From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Mon Mar  7 13:09:22 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:09:22 -0000
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience
Message-ID: <52A8091888A23F47A013223014B6E9FE03855B21@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk>


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Tue Mar  8 07:32:01 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:32:01 -0000
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience
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From wduch at phys.uni.torun.pl  Wed Mar  9 05:41:08 2005
From: wduch at phys.uni.torun.pl (Wlodzislaw Duch)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:41:08 +0100
Subject: BioInformatics Workshop (post-ICANN 2005), Torun, Poland (BIT05), Call for Papers
Message-ID: <20050309104111.70D7F13E7D8@nobel.phys.uni.torun.pl>

CALL FOR PAPERS/CONTRIBUTIONS


Workshop on Applications of Statistical and Machine Learning in
Bioinformatics
BIT 2005, Toru?, Poland, September 16-17 2005

You are kindly invited to participate in BIT 2005, a workshop on
applications of machine learning in bioinformatics and computational
biology organized jointly by the European Neural Network Society and
the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toru?, Poland. BIT 2005 will
be held as a satellite workshop in  parallel with the International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2005, September 11-15
Warsaw, Poland.

We invite the submission of original contributions. The focus of the
workshop and the planned volume are applications of Neural Networks
and other  machine learning techniques to problems arising in the
fields of bioinformatics  and computational biology. However,
contributions covering related topics  are also encouraged. We plan
to publish selected original papers in a special  volume of "Studies
in Computational Intelligence"; a new series published by
Springer-Verlag.

The papers should have up to 10 pages (including figures, tables and
references).To ensure high quality and consistency of the proceedings
 please use Latex or Microsoft Word and follow the Springer style for
multi-author  books and proceedings, available from the Springer
site. For Latex please use llncs2e.zip and for Microsoft Word word.zip
files. Please, do not use the ICANN 2005 paper submission page to
submit your manuscripts, submitting them instead via e-mail directly
to one of the organizers (see below) in the pdf format.

Additional information regarding the workshop, program and submission
of contributions are available at:
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005/workshops.html

We are looking forward to seeing you in Toru?, a beautiful medieval
town in central Poland (whc.unesco.org/sites/835.htm).

The workshop fee is only 25 Euro, including lunch and transportation
from Warsaw to Torun by bus, we may help to book a reasonable
accommodation in Torun (W.N.).

Workshop orgnaizers,
Wies?aw Nowak (wiesiek at phys.uni.torun.pl)
Jarek Meller (jmeller at chmcc.org)





From usuishiro at riken.jp  Sun Mar 13 23:06:25 2005
From: usuishiro at riken.jp (usuishiro@riken.jp)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:06:25 +0900
Subject: Extended deadline for Call for Team Leader
Message-ID: <JV2005031413062522.17639109@riken.jp>

(Sorry if you received multiple copies of this document. We would like 
to announce the deadline has been extended from May 31 to June 30.)

Laboratory Head and Unit Leader Positions in the Area of "Creating the Brain"

The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI), Japan's largest international
neuroscience institute, is seeking outstanding applicants for several
fulltime laboratory head and unit leader positions to develop its
interdisciplinary research area of "Creating the Brain". This area
comprises a "Computational Neuroscience Group" that will focus on 
developing computational theories that elucidate brain functions and
mechanisms, and a "Brain-Style Computing Group" that will aim towards
establishing new brain-style information technologies that utilize
computational theories modeling brain function. The two groups will work
in close collaboration, including joint research projects where beneficial.
The research topics of the new laboratories and units may include, for
example, computational neuroscience, brain-style robotics,
neuro-linguistics, neuromorphic engineering and mathematical neuroscience.
Applicants are encouraged to submit unique and creative research proposals
that fit within this research context.

New laboratory heads will be provided generous subsidies to organize teams
of around 6 researchers and technical staff. Units will also be provided
subsidies to build teams of around 3 members, and can be promoted to full
laboratory status based on successful review. Employment contracts are
renewed annually though full support will be provided for the initial 5
years, after which renewal will depend on the results of a progress review
conducted by an international review committee.

Attractive remuneration packages will be available for suitably qualified
and experienced candidates with a record of achievement. A benefits package
including health, pension, and subsidies for housing and relocation
expenses, is also provided. Applicants living outside Japan are highly
encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be able to develop and
direct research plans that match the research objectives of the Creating 
the Brain area, as well as possess a strong desire for interdisciplinary
research work. Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and
team-building skills are essential, in addition to a strong capacity for
working in multicultural environments. More information about the institute
can be obtained at http://www.brain.riken.jp . Inquiries can be directed to 
the e-mail address below.

Applicants should send, fax or e-mail 1) research interests and project
proposal for work at BSI (max 2000 words), 2) a full curriculum vitae, 3)
publication list, 4) a statement highlighting main accomplishments, and 5)
names and addresses of three references to the address below.

Search Committee 22
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
FAX: +81-48-462-4796
E-mail: search22 at brain.riken.jp

Closing date: June 30, 2005

Shun-ichi Amari

 Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
 Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience 
 Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
 +81-48-467-9669 fax +81-48-467-9687
 amari at brain.riken.go.jp
 http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/
 http://www.brain.riken.jp/english/b_rear/b0_rear.html



From Johan.Suykens at esat.kuleuven.ac.be  Mon Mar 14 08:00:06 2005
From: Johan.Suykens at esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Johan Suykens)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:00:06 +0100
Subject: New book announcement
Message-ID: <42358AD6.2020607@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>


- New Book announcement -

''Cellular Neural Networks, Multi-Scroll Chaos and Synchronization''
  Mustak E. Yalcin, Johan A.K. Suykens and Joos P.L. Vandewalle

  World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A - Vol. 50,
  World Scientific Pub. Co., Singapore, 2005 (ISBN 981-256-161-7)

  Information at:
  http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/chaoslab/
  http://www.wspc.com/books/chaos/5753.html

Contents-

1. Introduction

2. Cellular Neural/Nonlinear Networks
 - CNN
 - CNN models
 - CNN universal machine: a visual microprocessor
 - New research directions in CNNs

3. Multi-scroll Chaotic and Hyperchaotic Attractors
 - Chua's circuit
 - Generalized Chua's circuit
 - Families of scroll grid attractors
 - Multi-scroll hyperchaotic attractors
 - Scroll maps from n-scroll attractors
 - Lur'e representations

4. Synchronization of Chaotic Lur'e Systems
 - Synchronization
 - Master-slave synchronization: autonomous case
 - Robust synchronization
 - Time-delay synchronization scheme
 - Nonlinear Hinfty synchronization: non-autonomous case
 - Robust nonlinear Hinfty synchronization
 - Impulsive synchronization
 - Controller design
 - Examples

5. Engineering Applications
 - Chaos in communications
 - Chaotic systems in optimization
 - Random number generators and cryptography
 - Image/Video authentication on CNN-UM
 - CNN template tuning

6. General conclusions and future work







From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk  Mon Mar 14 17:41:37 2005
From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:41:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: SPP: Pylyshyn conference Early Registration Discount (fwd)
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From ddedrick at uoguelph.ca  Thu Mar 10 14:08:06 2005
From: ddedrick at uoguelph.ca (Don Dedrick)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:08:06 -0500
Subject: SPP: Pylyshyn conference Early Registration Discount
Message-ID: <mailman.1130.1149591618.29955.connectionists@cs.cmu.edu>

*Zenon Pylyshyn Conference*
April 29-May 1 In Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Philosophy, Computing and Information Science, and the Graduate Program 
in Applied Cognitive Science (Psychology) at the University of Guelph, 
Ontario, Canada are sponsoring an international, interdisciplinary 
conference to honour the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Zenon 
Pylyshyn's classic work in the foundations of cognitive science, 
/Computation and Cognition/. Professor Pylyshyn will give the keynote 
address. Confirmed speakers: Austen Clark, Paul Churchland, Susan Carey, 
Brian Cantwell-Smith, Michael Dawson, Melvyn Goodale, Stevan Harnad, 
Charles Reiss, Brian Scholl, Claudia Uller. Registration is 40 dollars 
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graduate. (For planning purposes, the conference organizers would 
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*Discount for Early Registration:* 25 dollars (CAN), before April 1st. 
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From mnas.ijcai05 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 16 00:15:05 2005
From: mnas.ijcai05 at gmail.com (Modeling Natural Action Selection)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:15:05 -0800
Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: MODELING NATURAL ACTION SELECTION
Message-ID: <cd4e7e250503152115525c6227@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies for cross-postings:

Final Call For Papers:  Modeling Natural Action Selection (at IJCAI 2005)

             MODELING NATURAL ACTION SELECTION
       an International and Interdisciplinary Workshop

       http://www.bath.ac.uk/comp-sci/ai/MNAS-2005/

                 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
                      July 30-31, 2005

In association with:
The 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005)

Introduction:
-------------

Action selection is an agent's continuous problem of choosing what to
do next.  In artificial intelligence, this problem has been addressed
with strategies ranging from constructing long chains of intentions
that provide provably optimal means of achieving goals to reactive or
anytime algorithms that do simple lookups based solely on the external
environment.  But what does nature do?

This multidisciplinary workshop is dedicated to advancing our
understanding of the behavioral patterns and neural substrates
supporting action selection in animals --- including humans.  Examples
of interesting topics include:
o  The variation of action selection strategies across species.
o  The variation of strategies within species across individual,
  social or environmental contexts.
o  Cognitive, neural and embodied models of decision making.

We are seeking participation of researchers from either natural or
artificial intelligence (NI or AI), who propose models for either
human or animal behavior.  We seek experts from neuroscience,
psychology, and the quantitative social sciences as well as AI.  We
hope workshop participants will substantially advance the discipline
both through presenting novel results and by examining and critiquing a wide
variety of modeling approaches.

Requirements:
------------------

We ask that all papers:
o  Reference or describe a model of action selection,
o  Reference or describe a data set derived from the actions of
  living animals or humans, and
o  Make direct comparisons between the model and biological data.

All aspects of action selection are acceptable, from single task
performance to evolutionary models of behavior, from individual
protozoa to human societies.  Our goal for the workshop is to bring
together researchers using a variety of strategies for modeling with
the aim of building an understanding of the currently available models,
tools, advances and challenges in the field.

Our ultimate goal is to create a rich synergy between AI and NI models
of action selection.  A similar synergy has helped advance the fields
of neuroscience and neural networks over the past decade, and has
resulted in a number of journals which regularly publish strong papers
from both fields.

Venue:
---------

This workshop will take place as part of the 19th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), the world's
premiere conference on AI.  Participants in the workshop may wish to
attend the full conference but will not be required to do so.

The venue will be Edinburgh, Scotland.  This will be excellent time to
visit the Scottish capital just prior to the start of the famous
Edinburgh International Festival, and during the Edinburgh Jazz and
Blues Festival. Participants are encouraged to plan to stay on after
the workshop to enjoy the city and take advantage of these events.

The conference dinner (not included in the fees) will be held at:
`a room in town' (http://www.aroomin.co.uk/thetown/) on Sunday night.

Workshop Format:
----------------

The workshop will be held over two days.  The format will consist of

o  twenty minute talks with ten minute discussions,
o  keynote presentations from internationally renowned speakers,
o  poster and discussion sessions, and
o  dinners in town.

Talks will be clustered by approach so that researchers unfamiliar
with the various approaches to modeling action selection will have an
opportunity to learn.  We intend to allow speakers to know the
speaking order well in advance so that they can coordinate their talks
to maximize content and minimize repetition.

Talks will be chosen from submitted papers.  All papers will be
subject to peer review by the program committee. The number of full
papers accepted, as determined by review, may exceed the number of
talk slots available, in which case the remainder of accepted papers
will be offered a special full-paper poster session. The maximum
number of participants is limited by IJCAI to 40. If there is room for
participants without full papers, a second call will be sent out in
May for extended abstracts and ordinary poster submissions.

Speakers:
---------

We now have three confirmed invited speakers (& expect to add a
fourth).  The confirmed speakers (**pending travel funding awards) are:

o  Prof. Randall C. O'Reilly**, University of Colorado Boulder
       Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
       http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/

o  Prof. Michael Laver, New York University
       Department of Politics
       http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/laver/laver_home.html

o  Dr. Marius Usher (Reader), Birkbeck University of London
       School of Psychology
       http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/usher_m/

Publications:
-------------

A workshop proceedings, published by AISB and printed by IJCAI (and
included in the cost of registration), will include all accepted
papers and poster abstracts.  In addition, a number of journals
(including Cognitive Science and The Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society B) have expressed interest in publishing a special issue
for the best scientific papers from the workshop.  Final negotiations
will depend on the quality of papers submitted to the workshop.

Workshop participants will also discuss creating a further publication
(either a book or journal special issue) emphasizing the techniques
and technology used by the successful modelers.  Again, we have had
offers from Adaptive Behaviour and Connection Science to consider this
volume.

Papers and Participation:
-------------------------

IJCAI workshop participation is limited to 40 people.  Preference will
be given to those who submit papers, but other places may be available.

Workshop papers should be from approximately 4,000 to 8,000 words,
although we will accept papers of up to 8 pages.  For later
publications, we expect the length will be extended for at least a
selection of papers.

Please email submitted papers as a single .pdf file to mnas.ijcai05 at gmail.com.
Be sure to include in the body of the email: (1) the corresponding author's
name, affiliation, and email address, (2) the title and abstract, and (3)
between three and five keywords.

ELECTRONIC PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:       APRIL 1, 2005
Paper Notifications sent:                                          
May 15, 2005
Camera-ready copy deadline:                                     June 15, 2005
Paperless participant application deadline:                  June 15, 2005
Notice for paperless participants:                               June 30, 2005

Workshop dates:
July 30 - 31, 2005

Organizing Committee:
---------------------

Dr. Joanna J. Bryson
Artificial models of natural Intelligence
Department of Computer Science
University of Bath, UK
BA2 7AY
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb

Dr. Tony Prescott
Adaptive Behaviour Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Sheffield, UK
S10 2TP
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~abrg/tony/index.shtml

Dr. Anil K.Seth
The Neurosciences Institute
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive
San Diego
CA 92121, USA
http://www.nsi.edu/users/seth

Program Committee:
------------------

Gordon Arbuthnott, Dept of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, University
of Edinburgh, UK

Orlando Avila-Garcia, Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertsfordshire, UK

Gianluca Baldassarre, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies, National Research Council, Italy

Christian Balkenius, Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden

Alwyn Barry, Artificial models of natural Intelligence, University of Bath, UK

Bettina Berendt, Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Hagai Bergman, Department of Physiology, Hebrew University, Israel

Rafal Bogacz, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK

Driss Boussaoud, Institute for Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, France

Olivier Buffet, Statistical Machine Learning program, National ICT
Australia, Australia

Lola Canamero, Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK

Angelo Cangelosi, Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition, University of Plymouth, UK

Ricardo Chavarriaga, Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL,
Switzerland

Rick Cooper, Cognitive Science, Birbeck (University of London), UK

Frederick Crabbe, Computer Science Department, United States Naval Academy, USA

Nathaniel Daw, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University
College London, UK

Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University
College London, UK

Yiannis Demiris, Intelligent and Interactive Systems Group, Imperial
College London, UK

Peter Dominey, Sequential Cognition and Language Group, CNRS, France

Kenji Doya, Department of Computational Neurobiology, ATR Computational
Neuroscience Laboratories, Japan

Jason Fleischer, Theoretical Neurobiology, The Neurosciences Institute, USA

Philippe Gaussier, Equipe Neurocybern?tique, CNRS, France

Agnes Guillot, AnimatLab, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Kevin Gurney, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK

Jim Houk, Deparment of Physiology, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

Karl F. MacDorman, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

Mark Humphries, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK

Mark Humphrys, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland

Jeff Krichmar, Theoretical Neurobiology, The Neurosciences Institute, USA

Brian S. Logan, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK

Will Lowe, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Jean-Arcady Meyer, AnimatLab, CNRS, France

Michael J. North, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems
Simulation, Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne
National Laboratory, USA

Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK

Frank Ritter, Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State University, USA

Deb Roy, Media Laboratory, MIT, USA

David Sallach, Center for Complex Adaptive Systems, Argonne National
Laboratory, USA

Emmet Spier, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics,
Sussex University, UK



From antoni.guillamon at upc.edu  Tue Mar 15 18:04:58 2005
From: antoni.guillamon at upc.edu (Toni Guillamon)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:04:58 +0100
Subject: JISD 2005, Barcelona: Advanced couses on Neuronal Dynamics
Message-ID: <42376A1A.5060703@upc.edu>

Dear colleagues (our apologies if you receive this message more than
once):

The fourth edition of the JORNADES D'INTRODUCCI? ALS SISTEMES DINAMICS
(JISD2005) (DAYS OF INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS), will be held
from June 27 to July 1, 2005 at the Universitat Polit?cnica de
Catalunya (UPC)<http://www.upc.edu/>, in Barcelona.

The JISD2005 will be devoted to courses on computational and
mathematical neuroscience given by:

  * Prof.  John Rinzel, Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics,
    Courant   Institute  and  Center  for  Neural  Science,  New  York
    University,<http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/Rinzel.html>

  * Prof.  David Terman, Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State
    University, <http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/%7Eterman/>.

Both courses are part of the Doctorate Programme in Applied
Mathematics<http://www.upc.es/tercercicle/eng/doctorat/programes/48.htm>,
in the Graduate studies at UPC, and will run under the supervision of
Prof. Antoni Guillamon. They will be delivered from June 27 to July 1,
and will consist of 5 hours of lectures every day.

The outlines are posted on
<http://www.ma1.upc.edu/%7Etonig/Branca3cicle/JISD/indexjisd2005-I.html>. Further
information will also be posted on this web site.

The JISD2005, as well as the Doctoral Programme in Applied
Mathematics, is supported by a Spanish grant Menci?n de calidad en
programas de doctorado.Students belonging to another Spanish quality
program can apply for living and travel expenses.  There is no
registration fee. Please, reply to this email if you are interested.
Looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona.

Toni Guillamon
Dept. Matem?tica Aplicada I, EPSEB
Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
Avda. Dr. Mara??n, 44-50
08028 Barcelona




From biehl at cs.rug.nl  Wed Mar 16 06:48:07 2005
From: biehl at cs.rug.nl (Michael Biehl)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:48:07 +0100
Subject: preprint available (Efficient training of multilayer percpetrons using PCA)
Message-ID: <200503161248.07898.biehl@cs.rug.nl>


Dear Colleagues,
the following preprint is now available   online at:
                   http://www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl/prepneuro.html
(pdf format, 14 pages, 5 figures)


Efficient training of multilayer perceptrons using PCA
C. Bunzmann, M. Biehl, R. Urbanczik
(14 pages, 5 figures)

                                              Abstract 
A training algorithm for multilayer perceptrons is discussed and studied
in detail, which relates to the technique of Principal Component Analysis.
The latter is performed with respect to a correlation matrix computed from 
the example inputs and their target outputs.
Typical properties of the training procedure are investigated by means of a 
statistical physics analysis in models of learning regression and 
classification tasks. 
We demonstrate that the procedure requires by far fewer examples  for good
generalization than traditional on-line training. For networks with large 
hidden layers we derive the training prescription which achieves, within our 
model,  the optimal generalization  behavior.



------------------------------------------------------

    Michael Biehl

    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen   
    Wiskunde & Informatica
    Blauwborgje 3 
    9747 AC Groningen
    The Netherlands

    e-mail biehl at cs.rug.nl
    web    www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl




From pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu  Wed Mar 16 12:26:13 2005
From: pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu (Pierre Baldi)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:26:13 -0800
Subject: POSITIONS IN BIOINFORMATICS AND MACHINE LEARNING
Message-ID: <010d01c52a4d$407bf100$cd04c380@ics.uci.edu>


OPEN POSITIONS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE


Several NIH/NSF-sponsored postdoctoral and graduate student fellowships
in the areas of Computational Biology/Bioinformatics and Machine
Learning are available in the School of Information and Computer
Sciences www.ics.uci.edu) and the Institute for Genomics and
Bioinformatics (www.igb.uci.edu) at the University of California,
Irvine. 

Examples of areas of particular interest include: protein
structure/function prediction, molecular docking and drug design,
chemical informatics, comparative genomics, analysis of high-throughput
data (e.g. DNA microarray data), gene regulation, systems biology,
computational neuroscience, and all areas of machine learning and large
scale data analysis. 

Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV, statement
of research interests and accomplishments, and names and email addresses
of 3 referees to be sent, preferably by email, to: pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu.
Positions are available immediately. Relevant faculty in the School
include: P. Baldi, R. Dechter, D. Kibler, R. Lathrop, E. Mjolsness, M.
Pazzani, P. Smyth, H. Stern, and M. Welling. 

There are outstanding opportunities at UCI for close collaboration with
life scientists located throughout the campus in other units (School of
Biological Sciences, College of Medicine, Department of Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry) within short walking distance from the School. 

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed
to excellence through diversity. 
=============================================================
Pierre Baldi
School of Information and Computer Sciences 
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
(949) 824-5809
(949) 824-4056 FAX
pfbaldi at ics.uci.edu
www.ics.uci.edu/~pfbaldi






From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Thu Mar 17 11:18:50 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:18:50 -0000
Subject: IEEE CIG 2005 Call for Participation
Message-ID: <EC159B4211898E43ADF0C4F5C82567EE0119A675@sernt4.essex.ac.uk>


From nnrev at atr.jp  Fri Mar 18 01:35:38 2005
From: nnrev at atr.jp (Neural Networks Editorial Office)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:35:38 +0900
Subject: Neural Networks 2006 Call for Papers
Message-ID: <p06001007be6025b6d614@atr.jp>


   [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.]

************************************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 Special Issue of Neural Networks
" Neurobiology of Decision Making "
************************************************************************

Co-Editors
Shintaro Funahashi
Matthew Rushworth
Daeyeol Lee

Submission
Deadline for submission: October 31, 2005
Notification of final acceptance: April 30, 2006
Format: as for normal papers in the journal

Address for Papers
Dr. Mitsuo Kawato
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan.


Decision making is ubiquitous in our everyday life, and plays a 
central role in transforming a vast complex array of incoming sensory 
stimuli to a meaningful sequence of purposeful actions. Many of these 
decisions have important biological consequences, whereas others may 
appear to have more limited impacts. Regardless of their subjective 
qualities, people and other animals can utilize both external and 
internal cues to single out a choice among many alternatives. Often, 
these choices display features of optimally tuned systems. The neural 
mechanisms that underpin such decision making are currently the 
subject of intense investigations in cognitive and behavioural 
neurosciences.  Furthermore, many of these issues have important 
implications for developing machines designed to make optimal 
decisions in uncertain and dynamic environments. In order to 
understand the process of decision making, researchers are drawing on 
a diverse range of methodologies and theoretical approaches. In some 
cases, behavioural and ecological frameworks are necessary for 
identifying biologically important factors that influence decisions 
in different animals. Game theoretical approaches may be employed 
when decisions are made by several interacting individuals rather 
than isolated individuals acting independently. Neuropsychological 
and neuroimaging studies are useful in revealing which brain areas 
participate in decision making and how the brain works as a whole. 
Neurophysiological studies using animal models are also necessary for 
revealing network mechanisms of decision making within a particular 
brain area. Computational approaches play a critical role in 
integrating the knowledge obtained by empirical studies and may be 
essential for ultimately understanding the neural mechanisms of 
decision making.

This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in the studies of 
decision making, with special emphasis on neural mechanisms and 
computational models of decision making, the influence of emotional, 
motivational, and mnemonic factors on decision making at both 
behavioral and neural network levels, and computational and neural 
network approaches to dynamic neural processes.

Neural Networks Official home page:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/841/description
Instructions to Authors:
See Guide For Authors in the above web page

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From auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch  Fri Mar 18 05:14:28 2005
From: auke.ijspeert at epfl.ch (AUKE IJSPEERT)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:14:28 +0100
Subject: AMAM2005, final call for abstracts March 21
Message-ID: <2c1d1a2d.1a2d2c1d@imap.epfl.ch>

Dear Connectionist colleagues,

The extended deadline for AMAM 2005 (the 3rd International Symposium on
Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines, see
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/amam), March 21st 2005, is approaching fast.

To hold keynotes ("Basics & Advances in ...") we have confirmations from
the following colleagues:

Biology & Mechanics:
        Roy Ritzmann
        Martin S. Fischer
Biology & Control:
        Sten Grillner
Robotics & Control:
        Ruediger Dillmann
Robotics & Mechanics:
        Martin Buehler

If you do know a colleague who could be interested in the conference and
whom we perhaps missed to contact, please be so kind to point her or him
on the symposium's website
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/amam
or  alternately please forward the flyer which can be found at
http://wcms1.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/fakmb/fileadmin/template/amam/div/flyer.pdf

Especially contributions from the "mechanical side" (may it be "bio" or
"robotics") would be welcome, to balance out with the up to now
numerically over-represented papers on control aspects  - "embodiment"
could be represented a little bit more. Please note that we shall
realize a robot zoo, and that machine presentation in combination with
the abstract (with ISBN) will be accepted as a contribution - the offer
to have an additional long paper (with ISBN) really is an offer and no urge!

We hope to meet you in September in Ilmenau,

Auke Jan Ijspeert for the International Organizing Committee
Hartmut Witte for the Local Organizers





From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Fri Mar 18 07:38:16 2005
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:38:16 -0000
Subject: RESEARCH POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE & MUSIC COGNITION
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From nestor.parga at uam.es  Fri Mar 18 06:39:31 2005
From: nestor.parga at uam.es (Nestor Parga)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:39:31 +0100
Subject: Paper available on "neuron populations in the high conductance 
	state"
Message-ID: <423ABDF3.7060204@uam.es>


Dear colleagues,

We would like to announce the following paper:

"Membrane potential and response properties of populations of
cortical neurons in the high conductance state"

by:  Ruben Moreno-Bote and Nestor Parga

(Physical Review Letters 94: 088103, March 2005)

A version of this work is available at:

http://www.ft.uam.es/neurociencia/publications.html


Best regards

Nestor Parga

----------------------------------------------------

Title:
"Membrane potential and response properties of populations of
cortical neurons in the high conductance state"


Authors:
Ruben Moreno-Bote and Nestor Parga

Abstract:

Because of intense synaptic activity, cortical neurons are in a high
conductance state. We show that this state has important consequences
on the properties of a population of independent model neurons with
conductance-based synapses. Using an adiabaticlike approximation we
study both the membrane potential and the firing probability
distributions across the population. We find that the latter is
bimodal in such a way that at any particular moment some neurons are
inactive while others are active. The population rate and the response
variability are also characterized.


Nestor Parga
Dpto. de Fisica Teorica, C-XI
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
28049 Madrid, SPAIN
Phone :  (+34) 91-497-4542
Fax   :  (+34) 91-497-3936
E-mail:   nestor.parga at uam.es
http://delta.ft.uam.es/neurociencia/nestor/





From R.Borisyuk at plymouth.ac.uk  Thu Mar 31 04:58:41 2005
From: R.Borisyuk at plymouth.ac.uk (Roman Borisyuk)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:58:41 +0100
Subject: Connectionists: FW: CFP - IV05-MAGIC-strategies to analyze,
	visualize and understand large comple datasets
Message-ID: <52A8091888A23F47A013223014B6E9FE024BB3B1@03-CSEXCH.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk>

 

MAGIC SYMPOSIUM: Strategies to analyze visualize and understand large
datasets. 

 

In particular, the IV tools for analyzing data of experiments in
neuroscience (e.g. simultaneously recorded multiple spike-trains) will
be under intensive discussion.

MAGIC Symposium will be organized as a part of IV05: Information
Visualization 2005 -  9th IEEE International Conference on Information
Visualisation, 6-8 July 2005, London, UK

 

MAGIC represents the emerging challenges that confront Information
Visualization experts across the world. 

"MAGIC" was defined by Ben Shneiderman  at IV4 conference last year as
...

M: Marking, selection and annotation that is essential for large
datasets

A: Aggregates & summaries: automatically generated, interactively tuned

G: Graphics & Text; combinations of text and graphics e.g. use of "+" or
"-" symbols in Windows Explorer used to reveal and hide
sub-folders/hierarchies 

I: Use of Information Linguistic Summaries

C: Coordinated views: provision of multiple, coordinated (synchronised)
views within a data analysis, presentation and/or exploration
environment.

 

This year the IV05 conference is running a special session on
Information Visualization Tools that addresses "MAGIC" issues. This
symposium is not focused on the application area of research,
educational or industrial projects, but the focus is on the MAGIC
strategies (or "tricks") being developed as part of our information
visualization solutions. As these strategies are inherently
transdisciplinary in nature, this symposium provides a platform for the
distribution of ideas to/from almost any discipline/topic that exploits
information visualization. 

 

See the symposium call for participation for further information:

http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV05/

 

Submission of materials:

Accepted full papers (DEADLINE 21/03/2005) will appear in the
proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society

Accepted posters (DEADLINE 30/04/2005) will be included electronically
on the IEEE IV05 Conference materials and distributed in a hardcopy
compendium to all symposium and conference attendees. 

 

For symposia information contact the symposia chair Liz Stuart:

lstuart at plymouth.ac.uk

 

Please note the new deadlines for the full paper and poster submissions.


If you want any further details about this symposium or the conference
in general, just email to Liz Stuart and I'll be happy to help ...

 

Dr. Liz Stuart 

The Visualization Lab

Centre for Interactive Intelligent systems

 

The best way to contact me is by email! 

e: lstuart at plymouth.ac.uk <mailto:lstuart at plymouth.ac.uk>  

w: www.plymouth.ac.uk/infovis <http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/infovis>  

t: +44 (0) 1752 232 665 

f: +44 (0) 1752 232 540 

 

Campus location 

Room 331, Block B, Portland Square 

  

Postal address 

Computing, SoCCE 

Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth 

Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK


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|                                                  |
|                    ESANN'2005                    | 
|                                                  |
|              13th European Symposium             |
|           on Artificial Neural Networks          |
|                                                  |
|      Bruges (Belgium) - April 27-28-29, 2005     |
|                                                  |
|                Preliminary program               |
----------------------------------------------------

The preliminary program of the ESANN'2005 conference is now available on
the Web:
       http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann
For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related ANN
sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list;
thank you very much!

We try as much as possible to avoid multiple sendings of this message;
however please apologize if you receive this e-mail twice, despite our
precautions.

For 13 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field
of neural computation and machine learning.  ESANN is a human-size
conference focusing on fundamental aspects of machine learning and
artificial neural networks (theory, models, algorithms, links with
statistics, data analysis, biological background,...).  This year, 95
scientific communications will be presented, covering most areas of the
neural computation field.

The program of the conference can be found at the URL
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann, together with practical information
about the conference venue, registration,...  Other information can be
obtained by sending an e-mail to esann at dice.ucl.ac.be .



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ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks 
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

* For submissions of papers, reviews,...
Michel Verleysen
Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Microelectronics Laboratory
3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 
mailto:esann at dice.ucl.ac.be

* Conference secretariat
d-side conference services
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tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 
mailto:esann at dice.ucl.ac.be 
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