Connectionists: Call for Participation: Autonomous Learning Summer School 2014, Leipzig, Germany

[Marc Toussaint]

Summer School on Autonomous Learning
September 1-4, 2014
Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig
supported by the DFG Priority Programme 1527

Autonomous Learning research aims at understanding how autonomous
systems can efficiently learn from the interaction with the environment,
especially by having an integrated approach to decision making and
learning, allowing systems to autonomously decide on actions,
representations, hyperparameters and model structures for the purpose of
efficient learning.

In this summer school international and national experts will introduce
to the core concepts and related theory for autonomous learning in
real-world environments. We hope to foster the enthusiasm of young
researchers for this exciting research area, giving them the opportunity
to meet leading experts in the field and similarly interested students.
The tutorials are structured around three themes:

1. learning representations,
2. acting to learn (exploration), and
3. learning to act in real-world environments (robotics).

This course is free of charge, but participants have to cover their own
travel, room and board. Registration is possible with the application
form on this website until *May 31*. More information at the Priority
Programme website and at MPI MiS Leipzig:

http://autonomous-learning.org/summer-school-2014-on-autonomous-learning/

http://www.mis.mpg.de/calendar/conferences/2014/al.html


Speakers:

 * Shun-ichi Amari
   <http://www.brain.riken.jp/labs/mns/amari/home-E.html> (RIKEN,
   Japan) 
 * Satinder Singh <http://web.eecs.umich.edu/%7Ebaveja/> (University of
   Michigan, USA)
 * Tamim Asfour <http://h2t.anthropomatik.kit.edu/21_66.php> (KIT
   Karlsruhe) 
 * Michael Beetz <http://ai.uni-bremen.de/team/michael_beetz> (Bremen
   University) 
 * Matthias Bethge <http://bethgelab.org/people/> (University of
   Tübingen, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Bernstein Center for
   Computational Neuroscience)
 * Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi <http://personal-homepages.mis.mpg.de/zahedi/>
   (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences)
 * Thomas Martinetz <http://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/index.php?id=107>
   (University of Lübeck)
 * Helge Ritter <http://ni.www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/people/helge/>
   (Bielefeld University)
 * Friedrich Sommer <http://redwood.berkeley.edu/wiki/Fritz_Sommer>
   (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley)
 * Marc Toussaint <http://www.marc-toussaint.net/> (Stuttgart
   University) 


Scientific Organizers:

Nihat Ay <http://www.mis.mpg.de/ay/homepages/nay/> (MPI for Mathematics
in the Sciences Leipzig)
Marc Toussaint <http://www.marc-toussaint.net/> (Stuttgart University)


Hope to see you in Leipzig!
Marc