Connectionists: [Summer School] Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology 2017.

Sun Jul 23 10:03:52 EDT 2017

*Application deadline: August 1, 2017*
For more information on how to apply, please go to BCBT2017-Eventum UPF
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*Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School - BCBT2017*

University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

30 August - 8 September 2017

BCBT2017-Eventum UPF
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Join us for the 10th edition of *"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology
summer school - BCBT2017 *" to be held 30 August-8 September 2017 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/
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).

This year the school is supported by UPF ERC project CDAC
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that
investigates the role of consciousness in adaptive behavior combining
empirical, computational and robot-based approach. BCBT is also supported
by EPISENSE
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, a subproject of the Human Brain Project
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that investigates brain mechanisms of perception and memory; and by the
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - IBEC
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This is the 10th year of BCBT, which has run with great success in previous
years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see
bcbt.upf.edu
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for
previous editions of the school). BCBT lectures
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_user_ConvergentScienceNw_playlists&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rStC00sfV_qVWqlcnmGhKrRoTMim5rLso-FTzVW2NfNyo&m=6XvAwEt7GhmPQGfXUByD4x8nmPhmPlDq-9sVM9xzKts&s=_QTOhA5hZ7GROsfu3NjVh-wgyPA-ZKsYWu9IL7fPQ-0&e=>
are
available online with the BCBT *Podcast interviews
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*with
many of the BCBT speakers.

We are happy to announce that *Nobel Laureate Edvard Moser will join BCBT
on the 4th of September!*

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

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 2 or 3 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 2017 edition, we plan a *1st week* of the school addressing
*Neural Basis of
Consciousness *while the *2nd week* will include presentations aimed at the
investigation of *Learning and Memory, Brain Function and Behavior**.* Friday
8 is reserved for the presentation of the student projects to which
everybody is invited.
*BCBT is organized by*
Paul Verschure, ICREA, IBEC and University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES,
Tony Prescott, Sheffield University, UK
Anna Mura, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES
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