Connectionists: Telluride 2013 Call for Participation
retienne
retienne at jhu.edu
Thu Feb 14 20:57:09 EST 2013
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2013 Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop*
*/Telluride, Colorado, June 30^th - July 20^th , 2013/*
*CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Deadline is April 15th, 2013*
NEUROMORPHIC COGNITION ENGINEERING WORKSHOP
www.ine-web.org
<https://ex.ece.umd.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d62c034fb85d41cfb28831d0fa231094&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ine-web.org>
Sunday June 30th- Saturday July 20th, 2013, Telluride, Colorado
We invite applications for a three-week summer workshop that will be
held in Telluride, Colorado. Sunday June 30th- Saturday July 20th, 2013.
The application deadline is *Monday, April 15th* and application
instructions are described at the bottom of this document.
The 2013 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering is
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Neuromorphic
Engineering, Qualcomm Corporation, The EU-Collaborative Convergent
Science Network (CNS-II), , University of Maryland - College Park,
Institute for Neuroinformatics - University and ETH Zurich, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Boston University,
University of Western Sydney and the Salk Institute.
*Directors:*
Cornelia Fermuller, University of Maryland, College Park
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University
Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich
Timothy Horiuchi, University of Maryland, College Park
*Workshop Advisory Board:*
Andreas ANDREOU (The Johns Hopkins University)
Andre van SCHAIK (University Western Sydney)
Avis COHEN (University of Maryland)
Barbara SHINN-CUNNINGHAM (Boston University)
Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH
Zurich, Switzerland)
Jonathan TAPSON (University Western Sydney, Australia)
Malcolm SLANEY (Microsoft Research)
Paul HASLER (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Shihab SHAMMA (University of Maryland)
Tobi Delbruck (Institute for Neuroinformatics, Zurich)
*Previous year workshop can be found at:*
http://ine-web.org/workshops/workshops-overview/index.html
<https://ex.ece.umd.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d62c034fb85d41cfb28831d0fa231094&URL=http%3a%2f%2fine-web.org%2fworkshops%2fworkshops-overview%2findex.html> and
last year's wiki is https://neuromorphs.net/nm/wiki/2011 .
*GOALS:*
Neuromorphic engineers design and fabricate artificial neural systems
whose organizing principles are based on those of biological nervous
systems. Over the past 18 years, this research community has focused on
the understanding of low-level sensory processing and systems
infrastructure; efforts are now expanding to apply this knowledge and
infrastructure to addressing higher-level problems in perception,
cognition, and learning. In this 3-week intensive workshop and through
the Institute for Neuromorphic Engineering (INE), the mission is to
promote interaction between senior and junior researchers; to educate
new members of the community; to introduce new enabling fields and
applications to the community; to promote on-going collaborative
activities emerging from the Workshop, and to promote a self-sustaining
research field.
*FORMAT:*
The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on
systems and cognitive neuroscience (in particular sensory processing,
learning and memory, motor systems and attention), practical tutorials
on emerging hardware design, mobile 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, some of these lectures will be tutorials, rather than
detailed reports of current research. These lectures will be given by
invited speakers. Projects and interest groups meet in the late
afternoons, and after dinner. In the early afternoon there will be
tutorials on a wide spectrum of topics, including analog VLSI, mobile
robotics, vision and auditory systems, central-pattern-generators,
selective attention mechanisms, cognitive systems, etc.
*2013 TOPIC AREAS:*
*1) Human Cognition: Decoding Perceived, Attended, Imagined Acoustic
Events and Human-Robot Interfaces*
Project Leaders: Shihab Shamma (UM-College Park), Malcolm Slaney
(Microsoft), Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Boston U), Edward Lalor (Trinity
College, Dublin)
Featuring: Chris Assad (NASA -- JPL)
*2) Recognizing Manipulation Actions in Cluttered Environments from
Vision and Sound*
Project leaders: Cornelia Fermüller (UM-College Park), Andreas Andreou (JHU)
Featuring: Bert Shi (HKUST, Hong Kong) and Ryad Benosman (UPMC, Paris)
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3) Dendritic Computation in Neurons and Engineered Devices*
Project Leaders: Klaus M. Stiefel (UWS, Australia), Jonathan Tapson
(UWS, Australia)
*4) Universal Neuromorphic Systems and Sensors for Real-Time Mobile
Robotics*
Project Leaders: Jorg Conradt (TUM, Munich), Francesco Galluppi (U.
Manchester, UK), Shih-Chii Liu (INI-ETH, Zurich) and Ralph
Etienne-Cummings (JHU)
Featuring: Bert Shi (HKUST, Hong Kong) and Ryad Benosman (UPMC, Paris)
*5) Emerging Technology and Discussion Group: * *Cognitive Computing
with Emerging Nanodevices*
Group Leaders: Omid Kavehei (U. Melbourne, Australia), Tara Julia
Hamilton (UNSW, Australia)
*6) Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute) -- Computational Neuroscience
(invitational mini-workshop)*
*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
(350 miles). 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).
Wireless 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 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 ARRANGEMENTS:*
Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around the April 30^th ,
2013.The Workshop covers all your accommodations and facilities costs
for the 3 weeks duration. You are responsible for your own travel to the
Workshop, however, sponsored fellowships will be available as described
below to further subsidize your cost.
Registration Fees:For expenses not covered by federal funds, a Workshop
registration fee is required. The fee is $1250 per participant for the
3-week Workshop.This is expected from all participants at the time of
acceptance.
Accommodations:The cost of a shared condominium, typically a bedroom in
a shared condo for senior participants or a shared room for students,
will be covered for all academic participants.Upgrades to a private
rooms or condos will cost extra. Participants from National Laboratories
and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums.
Fellowships:This year we will offer two Fellowships to subsidize your costs:
1)Qualcomm Corporation Fellowship:Three non-corporate participants will
have their accommodation and registration fees ($2750) directly covered
by Qualcomm, and will be reimbursed for travel costs up to $500.
Additional generous funding from Qualcomm will partially subsidize
accommodation ($250) and registration fees ($250) for the top 13
participants that are not chosen for the Qualcomm or EU-CSNII Fellowships.
2)EU-CSNII Fellowship (http://csnetwork.eu/) which is funded by the 7th
Research Framework Program FP7-ICT-CSNII-601167:The top 8 EU applicants
will be reimbursed for their registration fees ($1250),
subsistence/travel subsidy (up to Euro 2000) and accommodations cost
($1500). The registration and accommodations costs will go directly to
the INE (the INE will reimburse the participant's registration fees
after receipt from CSNII), while the subsistence/travel reimbursement
will be provided directly to the participants by the CSNII at the
University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
*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 women and minority candidates to apply.
Anyone interested in proposing or discussing specific projects should
contact the appropriate topic leaders directly.
The application website is (after February 15th, 2013):
http://ine-web.org/telluride-conference-2013/apply-info
<https://ex.ece.umd.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d62c034fb85d41cfb28831d0fa231094&URL=http%3a%2f%2fine-web.org%2ftelluride-conference-2010%2fapply-info>
Application information needed:
* contact email address
* First name, Last name, Affiliation, valid e-mail address.
* Curriculum Vitae (a short version, please).
* One page summary of background and interests relevant to the workshop,
including possible ideas for workshop projects. Please indicate which
topic areas you would most likely join.
* Two letters of recommendation (uploaded directly by references).
Applicants will be notified by e-mail.
15^th February, 2013 - Applications accepted on website
15^th April, 2013 - Applications Due
30^th April, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance
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Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
105 Barton Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: (410) 516 3494
Fax: (410) 516 2939
Email:retienne at jhu.edu
URL:http://etienne.ece.jhu.edu/
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