Connectionists: Summer School in Luminy France 16-21 July 2007 - Nonlinear Dynamics in Movement and Cognitive Sciences

[Viktor Jirsa]

Please note that the website for our summer school is now available.

Best wishes, Viktor Jirsa

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Nonlinear Dynamics in Movement and Cognitive Sciences

International Summer School 2007 in Marseille, France

July 16th – 21st, 2007

The 6-day summer school is intended to provide graduate students and 
researchers in the fields of behavioral neuroscience and life sciences 
an exposure to the theory and applications of nonlinear dynamics. In 
contrast to traditional summer schools in nonlinear dynamics, our school 
merges theory and experiment in a hands-on manner. During the first few 
days the participants will be instructed in the theory of 
low-dimensional dynamic systems with a focus on modeling. In parallel, 
they will apply their new-found skills in the computational laboratories 
to develop an intuition for nonlinear concepts. In the second half of 
the school, various lecturers will provide introductions to the modeling 
of nonlinear phenomena in movement sciences and cognitive neurosciences. 
In parallel these phenomena will be experimentally explored in the 
Movement & Perception laboratories through data collection and analysis. 
The primary learning objective of our summer school is to gain hands-on 
insight into the principles of nonlinear dynamics and their transfer to 
life sciences.


Date: July 16th – 21st, 2007
Location: Luminy, Marseille

Target audience: graduate students and researchers in life and neural 
sciences

Objectives:
• Provide a course in nonlinear dynamics which is accessible to 
scientists with no explicit mathematical training, in particular
o Identify key concepts in nonlinear dynamics (fixed points, stability, 
phase space geometry, bifurcations)
o Teach basic tools in analysis of dynamic systems
o Teach computational implementation of basic tools
• Identify how concepts in nonlinear dynamics are used in applied 
research of movement and cognitive sciences
• Provide hands-on expertise in the computational laboratory and experiment
• Provide participants with computational tools for low-dimensional 
modeling and analysis for use in their home laboratories

More information: http://www.laps.univ-mrs.fr/~tng/Ecole.html

Contact: Viktor Jirsa, viktor.jirsa at univmed.fr

Local Organizers:

Theoretical Neuroscience Group (Marseille)
Institut Mouvement & Perception UMR6152
http://www.laps.univ-mrs.fr/~tng/