Connectionists: Switzerland: 5 PhD and 4 PostDoc positions in reward-based learning

[Juergen Schmidhuber]

The Swiss National Science Foundation funds a new
collaborative project involving  3 groups at the EPFL
(Wulfram Gerstner, Carmen Sandi, Michael Herzog)
as well as groups of Univ. Berne (Walter Senn) and
IDSIA in Lugano (Juergen Schmidhuber).
We are particularly interested in biologically plausible
models for learning and memory which explain animal
and human behavior. The current project aims to extend
the theory of reward-based learning in spiking neurons to
networks, link it to formal policy gradient and TD methods,
and apply it to perceptual learning, spatial navigation,
and sequence learning.

Applications should be submitted to the individual labs:

Wulfram Gerstner http://lcn.epfl.ch
Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL

Carmen Sandi  http://lgc.epfl.ch
Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics, EPFL

Michael Herzog http://lpsy.epfl.ch/
Laboratory of Psychophysics, EPFL

Walter Senn (http://www.physio.unibe.ch/Positions/)
Computational Neuroscience/Institute of Physiology, Berne

Juergen Schmidhuber http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/sinergia2008.html
IDSIA, Lugano


PS: Switzerland is a good place for scientists. It is the origin of  
special relativity (1905) and the World Wide Web (1990), is associated  
with 105 Nobel laureates, and boasts the world's highest number of  
Nobel prizes per capita, the highest number of publications per  
capita, the highest number of patents per capita, the highest citation  
impact factor, the most cited single-author paper, the biggest machine  
ever (LHC) for the most expensive experiment ever, etc.  Switzerland  
also got the highest ranking in the list of happiest countries  :-)

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