NeuroIT.net workshop, July 8th, Alicante

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The NeuroIT.net workshop is organized as a sattelite
workshop of the CNS2003 conference in Alicante. It is
held on July 8th. People who are visting the CNS conference
are also welcome to attend the workshop. There is no need
to register and access to the workshop is free. As the
programme shows, the workshop focusses on applications of
concepts of neuroscience in IT and engineering.
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NeuroIT.net workshop in Alicante

Location: University campus
(Universidad Miguel Hernández, Campus de San Juan de Alicante,
Carretera de  Valencia N-332 s/n)

(on the floor above the smaller rooms that will be  hosting in parallel
various workshops of the CNS*03 meeting. Transportation by bus will be
provided.)

Introduction

10.00 - 10.10  Introduction EU (Pekka Karp)
10.10 - 10.30  Neuro-IT.net (Alois Knoll)

Project presentations
10.30   - 10.50  AMOTH
A fleet of articifical chemosensing moths for distributed environmental
monitoring.

10.50   - 11.10 NEUROBIT
A bioartificial brain with an artificial body: training a cultured neural
tissue to support the purposivebehavior of an artificial body

11.10  - 11.30  APEREST
APEREST will develop a coding and representation scheme of perceptual
information based on chaotic dynamics and involving collection of data from
animal brain recordings.

11.30 - 11.50 break


11.50 - 12.10 BIOLOCH
BIOLOCH aims at understanding of perception and locomotion of animals moving
in wet and slippery areas, e.g. the gut or wetlands.

12.10 - 12.30 CYBERHAND
CYBERHAND and ROSANA cover similar areas of problems related to the
construction of neuroprostheses. ROSANA focuses on different ways of
stimulating sensorial receptors equivalent to natural stimuli and studying the
representation of such stimuli in the central nervous system. CYBERHAND  aims
at the construction of an artificial hand capable of  producing a natural
feeling of touch and  grip.

Key not
 for Brain Research)
Computational and Experimental Approaches in Neuronal Morphogenesis and
Network formation


Siesta break





Introduction
17.00 - 17.10 announcements

Project presentations
17.10 - 17.30 CIRCE
CIRCE aims at constructing a miniature bat head for active bio-inspired
echolocation.

17.30 - 17.50 CICADA
CICADA studies the mechanoreceptor hairs of a cricket and itsresponse to
predators for constructing bio-inspired MEMS devices.


17.50 - 18.10  ROSANA
See Cyberhand

18.10 - 18.30  MIRRORBOT
MirrorBot studies biomimetic multimodal learning in a mirror neuron-based
robot.

18.30 - 18.50  SENSEMAKER
SENSEMAKER aims at integration and unified representations ofmultisensory
information.

18.50 - 19.10  SPIKEFORCE
SpikeFORCE will develop with real-time spiking networks for robot control
based on a model of the cerebellum.

Key note speaker
19.10 - 19.45  Eduardo Fernandez (Universitas de Miguel Hernandez)
Designing a Brain-Machine interface for direct
communication with visual cortex neurons



Closure
19.45 - 19.55