Extended Deadline: AMAM 2005 in Ilmenau (Germany) September 25-30, 2005

[Auke Jan Ijspeert]

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