Connectionists: CFP : Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School 2016

[BCBT, Bústia Compartida]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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*Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2016)*

University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

5-16 September 2016

http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16

<http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/home>


Join us for the annual *"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer
school - BCBT2016 *" (see* http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/home
<http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/home>*) to be held 5-16 September 2016 in
Barcelona Spain.

The BCBT summer school is positioned at the interface between biology and
future and emerging technologies with an emphasis on the principles
underlying brains and their translation to avant-garde technologies. BCBT
promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional
architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems.



The summer school has been part of a series of events organized by the
European coordination action Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and
Neurotechnology (*http://csnetwork.eu/ <http://csnetwork.eu/>*).

*This year the school will be supported by the EU projects socSMCs*
(Socializing
Sensorimotor Contingencies) - A FET Proactive Horizon 2020 funded research
project. (http://socsmcs.eu/)



This is the 9th year of BCBT, which has ran with great success in previous
years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see
bcbt.upf.edu for previous editions of the school). BCBT lectures are
available online (see http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/media) with the BCBT*Podcast
interviews *with many of the BCBT speakers.

BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in
the ambit of “BIO-ICT convergence”, "Brain Inspired ICT", “Cognitive
systems-robotics”.

BCBT will offer up to 30 student slots for the practical workshops while as
many researchers can register to attend the presentations and discussion
sessions, as they are interested.

The atmosphere of the BCBT summer school is informal with the goal to
stimulate in-depth discussion. There are 1 or 2 presentations in
the morning, with the afternoons reserved for tutorials and projects for
student participants and road-mapping workshops or further discussion for
senior scientists.

For the 2016 edition we plan a *1st week* of the school addressing *Neural
basis of social interaction *while the *2nd week* will include
presentations aimed at the investigation of *Socializing Sensorimotor
Contingencies*. Friday 16 is reserved for the presentation of the student
projects to which everybody is invited.


*Application deadline: July 27th, 2016*
For more information on how to apply, please go to
http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/participate



BCBT and is co-organized by

*Paul Verschure *(BCBT Chair), ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona,
ES

*Andrea Engel* (BCBT Co-Chair) University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
(UKE), DE

*Anna Mura* (BCBT Co-Chair), University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES
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