From ioannakoroni at csd.auth.gr Wed Apr 1 05:04:31 2026 From: ioannakoroni at csd.auth.gr (Ioanna Koroni) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:04:31 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: CALL for Spring / Summer 2026 International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) course or seasonal school proposals In-Reply-To: <3b450548-2af1-432a-9ee4-e5e2f47c7746@csd.auth.gr> References: <3b450548-2af1-432a-9ee4-e5e2f47c7746@csd.auth.gr> Message-ID: *Call for Spring / Summer 2026 International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) course or seasonal school proposals* ** Dear Al Professors, Postdocs or Senior AI researchers, the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA ) offers a series of?courses?on Artificial Intelligence and related fields given by distinguished lecturers. AIDA?had an excellent AI?course?offer in the past 4 years: 106 courses?and 14 seasonal schools?with more than 4200 registrants. ?This semester (Spring / Summer 2026),?AIDA is excited to once again present an exciting selection of short, semester?courses?and web-lecture series designed to deepen your knowledge and skills. *We invite you to contribute to?AIDA?Spring semester course program (from 1^st April 2026, to September 30th, 2026) by offering?AIDA courses?and becoming part of this vibrant learning community*. The benefits for offering an AIDA course can be found in: https://www.i-aida.org/why-aida-courses/ You can participate in the?AIDA?course program by offering new or opening-up existing?courses?targeted to?AIDA?students*?and other students worldwide, according to the participation terms of your own organization. Short/Very?Short?course?formats (5-16 hours) are typically encouraged, while semester?courses, or asynchronous mode web?courses?will be considered as well. See the related AIDA pages: https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/ https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/lecture-series-2/ https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/summer-school/ Any qualified Al Professor/Postdoc or Senior AI researcher (PhD holder) can apply to offer a?course or seasonal school, no matter if she/he belongs to a host University that is an?AIDA?member or not. The?course?lecturer(s) and/or their host University/Institution define?course?fees and other?course-related issues. Course/school proposals using the AIDA course/school proposal form should be sent to: Prof. Stefano Berretti stefano.berretti at unifi.it,?and to the AIDA secretariat secretariat at i-aida.org ? They will be evaluated by the?AIDA?Educational Planning Committee. Accepted?courses?will be listed on?AIDA?website?(https://www.i-aida.org/)?and will be promoted through the AIDA/AUTH?dissemination channels reaching 50K+ AI professionals and students worldwide. Best regards S. Berretti, I. 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TAROS is the longest-running UK-hosted international conference on robotics and autonomous systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the latest advances in the field. Conference Themes and Topics We invite submissions of original full papers and posters on all areas relevant to robotics and autonomous systems research, including but not limited to: ? Advanced materials and techniques ? Advanced sensors and actuators ? Aerial robots and unmanned vehicles ? Autonomous robots and vehicles ? Assistive, service and personal robotics ? Human-robot interaction and multimodal interfaces ? Modelling, navigation, localisation and path planning ? Bioinspired and hybrid robotic systems ? Safety, verification and validation ? Swarm, collective and field robotics ? Medical and intelligent prosthetics ?and other interdisciplinary topics with robotics applications. Submission Details All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers and posters will be published in the official conference proceedings by IEEE. Important Dates Please ignore the dates on RAS papercept as these will be updated shortly with the correct ones below. Full Papers ? Paper submission deadline: 10 April 2026 -> Extended to 24 April 2026 ? Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2026 -> Extend to 16 June 2026 ? Final (camera-ready) paper submission: 16 June 2026 -> Extended to 23 June 2026 Posters ? Poster abstract deadline: 19 May 2026 -> Extended to 2 June 2026 ? Poster notification: 11 July 2026 -> Extended to 24 July 2026 ? Final poster submission: 1 August 2026 -> Extended to 14 August 2026 Conference dates: 7?9 September 2026 Submission and Contact Please submit your work through the conference online submission system using RAS Papercept: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl [ras.papercept.net]. For additional information, visit the conference website: https://taros-conference.org/ [taros-conference.org]. 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Full Papers & Summaries submission deadline: 30 March 12th April 2026 (EXTENDED) This year?s theme, ?Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems?, welcomes contributions exploring the simulation and synthesis of life, complex adaptive systems, and life as it could be in other media or environments, and we encourage submissions across the full spectrum of Artificial Life research, including embodied intelligence, synthetic biology, artificial chemistry, evolutionary systems, robotics, sustainability, ethics, and more. Full Papers (3?8 pages) will be peer reviewed and published open access in the official ALIFE 2026 Proceedings by MIT Press. Summaries (max. 2 pages) should report on previously published, peer-reviewed work. Accepted summaries will be presented at the conference but will not be included in the MIT Press proceedings. All submission types, formatting templates (Overleaf, LaTeX, MS Word), and detailed guidelines are available at: https://2026.alife.org/call-for-papers Please also note the upcoming deadline of 20 February 2026 for: Special Session Proposals Workshop & Tutorial Proposals We kindly ask you to share this call within your networks and institutions. You can also support the conference by following, sharing, and engaging with ALIFE 2026 updates on social media. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to ALIFE 2026. Sincerely, The ALIFE 2026 Organizing Committee https://2026.alife.org ----------------------------------------------------- Follow us on social media for conference updates, and don?t forget to like and share. Help us spread the word and reach as many colleagues as possible ? feel free to share within your networks and communities. https://www.linkedin.com/company/alifeconf https://bsky.app/profile/alifeconf.bsky.social https://www.facebook.com/ALIFEconf https://x.com/ALifeConf Stavros Anagnou PhD Candidate Adaptive Systems Research Group School of Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science University of Hertfordshire United Kingdom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From i.lin at ucl.ac.uk Wed Apr 1 13:04:48 2026 From: i.lin at ucl.ac.uk (I-Chun Lin) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 17:04:48 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for applications: 2026 School on Analytical Connectionism Message-ID: <30753696-6A1A-4289-824F-51E0AB63340D@ucl.ac.uk> Topical focus: Language Acquisition August 17?28 2026;?Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg https://www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2026/ Apply by 17 April 2026 ? We are delighted to announce the 4th edition of the School on Analytical Connectionism. This 2-week course will focus on analytical theories of cognition, bringing together ideas from connectionism, cognitive science, and modern theories of machine learning. This course is appropriate for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in fields from psychology and neuroscience, to physics, computer science, and mathematics.? ? This year we will discuss questions like:? - How can structured linguistic knowledge emerge from learning?? - What theoretical principles govern generalisation, compositionality, and representation in neural systems?? - How can we move beyond empirical demonstrations toward mechanistic, mathematically grounded explanations of cognitive phenomena like language acquisition?? The course will bring together neuroscience, psychology, and machine-learning communities, introducing participants to connectionist theories of higher-level cognition and psychology as well as analytical methods for neural-network analysis. Participants will work in teams, mentored by course lecturers and organisers, to develop novel research projects on topics related to analytical connectionism. Participants will present the research proposals in Week 1 and interim results at the end of the course. ? Confirmed Faculty: - Michael Biehl (University of Groningen)? - Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) - Paul Smolensky (Microsoft Research & Johns Hopkins) - Marco Baroni (ICREA & Pompeu Fabra University) - Francesco Cagnetta (SISSA) - Alex Cristia (ENS & CNRS) - Bruno Loureiro (ENS & CNRS) - Kanishka Misra (UT Austin) - Isabel Papadimitriou (University of British Columbia) - Luca Saglietti (Bocconi University) - Asad Sayeed (Gothenburg University) - Larissa Samuelson (University of East Anglia) - Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh) - Chris Summerfield (Oxford University) Organisers:?SueYeon Chung, Erin Grant, Flavio Nicoletti, Stefano Sarao Mannelli, Andrew Saxe From kerkoucheraouf at gmail.com Wed Apr 1 14:27:45 2026 From: kerkoucheraouf at gmail.com (Raouf Kerkouche) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 20:27:45 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Open_Positions=3A_Two_Marie_Sk=C5=82odo?= =?utf-8?q?wska-Curie_Postdoctoral_Fellowships?= Message-ID: Dear all, Are you looking for a postdoctoral position at one of Europe?s leading research institutes? I?m excited to announce that I am looking for *two* *talented postdoctoral researchers *to join the MAGNET team at Inria in Lille, France, through the ????? ??????????-????? ??????? (????) ???????????? ??????????. The fellows will work on one of the following research directions: ? Safe and Secure Large Language Models and Agentic AI ? Privacy-preserving Large Language Models and Agentic AI ? Limiting the proliferation of Deepfakes and Misinformation Inria offers an excellent international research environment, with strong collaborations both in academia and industry, and very supportive conditions for postdoctoral research. The positions are based in Lille, a vibrant city with a strong academic scene. Living costs are affordable, and you have easy connections to major European cities like Paris, Brussels, and London ? making it a great base for international researchers. Being awarded an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is highly prestigious and opens many future opportunities in both academia and industry. Combined with a postdoc at Inria, it gives strong visibility and valuable experience. On top of that, the salary and benefits are very competitive. At Inria, the MAGNET team provides a friendly and collaborative environment, which we believe is essential for doing meaningful and impactful research. If this opportunity interests you, please send your CV, research proposal, and motivation letter to raouf.kerkouche at inria.fr by ?? ????? ???? ?? ??:?? ???. To support applicants, Inria will provide guidance to maximize your chances of securing the MSCA fellowship. Please note that applicants must have obtained their PhD degree by the MSCA deadline of ? ????????? ????. I look forward to receiving your applications and hopefully working together soon! 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URL: From doya at oist.jp Wed Apr 1 12:44:05 2026 From: doya at oist.jp (Kenji Doya) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 16:44:05 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Research Position in Optical Quantum Neural Networks: OIST Neural Computation Unit Message-ID: <054A9ECB-A927-4E88-93E4-6EED316F9355@oist.jp> Neural Computation Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Prof. Kenji Doya) has research positions open for developing learning algorithms and use cases for the optical quantum neural networks developed by the Moonshot R&D Project in optical quantum computers (lead by Prof. Akira Furusawa): https://optical-quantum-computers.jp/en/ While most quantum computers today resort to error correction of qubits, which is highly costly, this project aims to achieve efficient system-level computation despite noisy elements, like the brain appears to be doing. The specification of the current machine is described in this preprint (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16147) and the software development kit is open in GitHub (https://github.com/HidehiroYonezawa/mqc3). The machine is being upgraded to allow nonlinear (non-Gaussian) operations. Applicants should have strong background in mathematics, computer science, and/or machine learning. Experiences in quantum physics and/or computational neuroscience are welcome. If you are interested, please send your CV, publication list, research statement, and referees (up to three names with e-mail) using the application form from our web page: https://www.oist.jp/ncu ---- Kenji Doya Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan Phone: +81-98-966-8594; Fax: +81-98-966-2891 https://www.oist.jp/ncu From roland.w.fleming at psychol.uni-giessen.de Thu Apr 2 08:51:59 2026 From: roland.w.fleming at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Roland Fleming) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 14:51:59 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: JOBS: Research Group Leader at Giessen (deadline 12th April!) Message-ID: <3898CB79-5B26-4FD6-AF50-A2752E824FB8@psychol.uni-giessen.de> We have an opening for a Research Group Leader position at Justus Liebig University Giessen, in the context of our Excellence Cluster ?The Adaptive Mind ?. 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URL: From david at irdta.eu Sat Apr 4 05:45:04 2026 From: david at irdta.eu (David Silva - IRDTA) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 11:45:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Connectionists: DeepLearn 2026: early registration April 25 Message-ID: <2005247313.582275.1775295904826@webmail.strato.com> ****************************************************** 13th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2026 Orl?ans, France July 20-24, 2026 https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/ ****************************************************** Co-organized by: University of Orl?ans Centre Val de Loire Doctoral College Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA Luxembourg/London ****************************************************** Early registration: April 25, 2026 ****************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2026 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimar?es, Lule?, Bournemouth, Bari, and Porto. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedicine and healthcare, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics and astrophysics, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, mathematical proofs, etc. etc. The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about efficiency and robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, risks and safety, as well as important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed and main challenges identified through 16 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table, and a hackathon competition among participants. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates, postgraduates and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, hence people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2026 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2026 will take place in Orl?ans, located in the heart of the Loire Valley, which was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 2000. The venue will be: University of Orl?ans Faculty of Law, Economics and Management 11 rue de Blois 45100 Orl?ans, France https://www.univ-orleans.fr/en STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their industrial developments for 10 minutes. The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), Convergence Theory: How Fast Do Discrete Diffusion Models Generate? Le Song (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Towards AI-Driven Digital Organism: A System of Multiscale Foundation Models for Biology PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate] Learning from Imbalanced Data Yuejie Chi (Yale University), [introductory/intermediate] Statistical and Algorithmic Foundations of Reinforcement Learning Bo Han (Hong Kong Baptist University), [introductory/intermediate] Trustworthy Machine Learning from Data to Models Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Structure-Guided, Theme-Based Knowledge Discovery with Large Language Models Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota), [intermediate] Modern Optimization Algorithms for Large Language Models Cho-Jui Hsieh (University of California Los Angeles), [intermediate/advanced] Optimizers for Large Language Model Training Furong Huang (University of Maryland), [advanced] Generative AI Agents Tara Javidi (University of California San Diego), [intermediate] Active Physical Intelligence for Industrial Scale Monitoring Yan Liu (University of Southern California), [intermediate] Time Series Foundation Models: From Forecasting to Reasoning Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University), [intermediate/advanced] Semantic Communications Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate] Human Centered AI: Challenges and Opportunities Suvrit Sra (Technical University of Munich), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to the Theory of Learning with Transformers Ivor Tsang (A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Long-Horizon Agentic Intelligence Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California Merced), [advanced] Recent Advances in Multimodal Understanding and Generation Tong Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University), [introductory/advanced] Generative Models: from Virtual to Physical World OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david at irdta.eu by July 12, 2026. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Abstracts have to be submitted to david at irdta.eu by July 12, 2026. HACKATHON: A hackathon will take place, where participants can voluntarily work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced by the end of August 2026. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate. SPONSORS: Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/sponsors/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Karim Abed-Meraim (Orl?ans, local co-chair) Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair) Meryem Jabloun (Orl?ans, local co-chair) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Santiago Montes (Tarragona, webpage) Sara Morales (Luxembourg, finances) Florian Nowicki (Orl?ans, social networks) Philippe Ravier (Orl?ans, local chair) David Silva (London, organization chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/registration/ The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same. ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation suggestions are available at https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/accommodation/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities (40). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. 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URL: From terry at salk.edu Sat Apr 4 13:50:59 2026 From: terry at salk.edu (Terry Sejnowski) Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:59 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: NEURAL COMPUTATION - April 2, 2016 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NEURAL COMPUTATION - Volume 38, Number 4 - April 1, 2026 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/neco/38/4 http://cognet.mit.edu/content/neural-computation Articles Inhibitory Feedback Enables Predictive Learning of Multiple Sequences in Neural Networks Martin Vinck, Matteo Saponati Potential for Reinforcement Learning in the Cerebellum Richard W Prager, Richard Apps Letters The Cooperative Network Architecture: Learning Structured Networks as Representation of Sensory Patterns Pascal Josef Sager, Jan Milan Deriu, Benjamin Friedrich Grewe, Thilo Stadelmann, and Christoph von der Malsburg Force Learning in Balanced Cortical E-I Networks Takashi Kanamaru, Kazuyuki Aihara Multiclass Linear Perceptrons With Multiplicative Margins Dmitri A. Rachkovskij, Evgeny Osipov, Olexander Volkov, Daswin De Silva, and Denis Kleyko ReBaCCA-ss: Relevance-Balanced Continuum Correlation Analysis With Smoothing and Surrogating for Quantifying Similarity Between Population Spiking Activities Xiang Zhang, Chenlin Xu, Zhouxiao Lu, Haonan Wang, and Dong Song ----- ON-LINE -- http://www.mitpressjournals.org/neco MIT Press Journals, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 Tel: (617) 253-2889 FAX: (617) 577-1545 journals-cs at mit.edu ----- From mario.pavone at unict.it Sat Apr 4 04:32:59 2026 From: mario.pavone at unict.it (Mario Francesco Pavone) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 08:32:59 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: MESS'26 Summer School: Quantum & Neuromorphic Optimization Message-ID: Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2026 - Metaheuristics Summer School ~ Emerging Computing Paradigms for Optimization: from Quantum to Neuromorphic ~ 6-10 July 2026, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2026/ mess.school at ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15th April 2026 ** https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2026/apply.html MESS 2026 offers a deep dive into the frontiers of Quantum and Neuromorphic computing. The program explores the entire technological stack, covering architectures, programming models, and advanced algorithms for complex optimization. Through a blend of theoretical lectures and hands-on sessions, participants will gain the expertise to lead innovation in next-generation computational research. The lectures will focus on the following topics for both quantum and neuromorphic computing: 1) architectures; 2) programming models; 3) optimization algorithms and applications; and 4) pratical work. The school will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures; therefore, in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students attending the summer school will can get 8 ECTS points. ** LECTURERS + Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, VSB Tech. Un. Ostrava, Czech Republic lecture1: "Introduction to Quantum Computing" lecture2: "Quantum Neural Networks: From Quantum-Inspired Framework to Quantum-Gate Framework" + Philippe Lacomme, Universit? Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS, France lecture1: "TBA" lecture2: "TBA" + Elisa Donati, Institute of Neuroinformatics UZH/ETH lecture1: "Neural networks and neural computing" lecture2: "Neuromorphic Computing and Technology" + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France lecture1: "Neuromorphic computing: A gentle introduction" lecture2: "Neuromorphic-based optimization: Algorithms based on metaheuristics and computational biology" + Jorge Cruz-Duarte & El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France lecture1: "Neuromorphic-based optimization: Software framework under Lava and Nengo" ~ More Lecturers will be announced soon ~ ** SHORT ORAL PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. The organizing committee will review the abstracts and will recommend the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published in the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted during the application by *April 15, 2026*. ** MESS 2026 DIRECTORS: - Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy - Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy - Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy - El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France - Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2026/ -- mess.school at ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy ================================================= tel: +39 095 7383034 mobile: +39 3384342147 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ================================================= Complex Intelligent Systems Research Group http://cis-lab.dmi.unict.it https://www.facebook.com/CIS.ResearchGroup complexintelligentsystems at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kerkoucheraouf at gmail.com Mon Apr 6 03:00:37 2026 From: kerkoucheraouf at gmail.com (Raouf Kerkouche) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 09:00:37 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Open_Positions=3A_Two_Marie_Sk=C5=82odo?= =?utf-8?q?wska-Curie_Postdoctoral_Fellowships?= Message-ID: Dear all, Are you looking for a postdoctoral position at one of Europe?s leading research institutes? I?m excited to announce that I am looking for *two* *talented postdoctoral researchers *to join the MAGNET team at Inria in Lille, France, through the ????? ??????????-????? ??????? (????) ???????????? ??????????. The fellows will work on one of the following research directions: ? Safe and Secure Large Language Models and Agentic AI ? Privacy-preserving Large Language Models and Agentic AI ? Limiting the proliferation of Deepfakes and Misinformation Inria offers an excellent international research environment, with strong collaborations both in academia and industry, and very supportive conditions for postdoctoral research. The positions are based in Lille, a vibrant city with a strong academic scene. Living costs are affordable, and you have easy connections to major European cities like Paris, Brussels, and London ? making it a great base for international researchers. Being awarded an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is highly prestigious and opens many future opportunities in both academia and industry. Combined with a postdoc at Inria, it gives strong visibility and valuable experience. On top of that, the salary and benefits are very competitive. At Inria, the MAGNET team provides a friendly and collaborative environment, which we believe is essential for doing meaningful and impactful research. If this opportunity interests you, please send your CV, research proposal, and motivation letter to raouf.kerkouche at inria.fr by *30* ????? ???? ?? ??:?? ??*S*?. To support applicants, Inria will provide guidance to maximize your chances of securing the MSCA fellowship. Please note that applicants must have obtained their PhD degree by the MSCA deadline of ? ????????? ????. 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VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical?and more challenging ?than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering ? Domain analysis and variability modeling ? Decision modeling and support ? Customization and personalization specification ? Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design ? Variability-aware software architectures ? Architecture-centric product line engineering ? Model-driven engineering (MDE) ? Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation ? Generative programming and code synthesis ? Modularization techniques for reusable code ? Programming languages and frameworks for variability ? Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance ? Testing and analysis of configurable systems ? Safety and security in variable systems ? Formal Methods for Software Product Lines ? Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration ? Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation ? Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems ? Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring ? Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines ? Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems ? Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods ? Machine learning for variability management ? AI-assisted product configuration ? Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories ? Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: ? Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. ? Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v17 Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix ?Changes to First-Cycle Submission? at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of ?1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) ? Paper Submission Deadline: 10 April 2026 (extended) ? Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 ? Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 ? Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs ? George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ? Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs ? Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany ? Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs ? Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway ? Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs ? Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France ? Xhevahire T?rnava, LTCI, T?l?com Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs ? Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria ? Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs ? Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark ? Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs ? Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden ? Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Universit?, France Hall of Fame Chairs ? Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany ? Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland ? 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Kate Nave?s book offers a negative answer, grounded in the enactivist tradition. Hohwy?s book offers a positive, internist and representationalist answer. By placing Nave?s and Hohwy?s opposite account in critical conversation, this double book symposium explores the Free Energy Principle and the various, opposite ways in which it can be interpreted. It also sheds light on a number of foundational topics in cognitive science, including the nature of representation, the relevance of embodiment, the complex, tangly relation between our pragmatic and epistemic grip on the world, and the normativity - biological or epistemic - governing that grip. Organized by: The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of Mind https://www.ispsmind.com ======================= Best, -- Carlos Barth https://cbarth.me "A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?" - (Unknown author) From viktor.jirsa at univ-amu.fr Tue Apr 7 02:55:58 2026 From: viktor.jirsa at univ-amu.fr (Viktor Jirsa) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 08:55:58 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Open registration announcement - EBRAINS Roadmap Symposium 21-22 May 2026 References: Message-ID: <88928C4D-0332-4C2B-AEFF-D507B6A83B5B@univ-amu.fr> Dear colleagues and friends, Please see below and note that the registration for the EBRAINS Roadmap Debates has been opened. Registration is open to all on a first come first served basis and will close on April 30th, 2026. The program is currently under construction and I will share it with you soon. It will be constructed on the basis of the 159 submissions received. Best wishes, Viktor ? Prof Dr Viktor Jirsa Directeur, Institut de Neurosciences des Syst?mes Chief Scientific Officer, EBRAINS AISBL UMR INSERM 1106 Aix-Marseille Universit? Facult? de M?decine, 27, Boulevard Jean Moulin 13005 Marseille, France tel : ++33 (0)4 91 32 42 51 http://ins-amu.fr http://ebrains.eu https://www.thevirtualbrain.org/ Call for Contributions to the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap 2026?2036 https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2025/call-for-contributions-to-the-ebrains-10-year-roadmap-2026-2036 Click here to view this email in your browser. EBRAINS Roadmap Symposium on 21-22 May, Munich: Registration Now Open ?Dear colleagues, <> We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the EBRAINS Roadmap Symposium , taking place on 21?22 May 2026, at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the LMU University Hospital in Munich, Germany. Many renowned scientists, such as Emil Kraepelin and Alois Alzheimer, made significant advances in psychiatry under its roof. This Symposium will bring together the community to co-create the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap 2026?2036, contributing to a shared vision and implementation plan for the future of digital neuroscience in Europe. REGISTRATION I. Capacity Participation is limited and registrations will be handled on a first come, first served basis. While the programme will build on contributions submitted to the Roadmap, the event is open to the entire community in digital neuroscience. II. Fees The registration fee is ?75 per participant. This contribution covers catering, on-site support, and organisational costs. Payment is processed directly through the online registration form via Stripe. Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses. No travel reimbursements will be provided for this event. III. 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You will learn how to build, validate, and analyze neuronal models with active dendrites. We will begin with foundational concepts, including neuronal structure, biophysical properties, and input integration. We will then move to hands-on model implementation using DendroTweaks and Dendrify, two modeling tools developed in the Poirazi Lab (https://dendrites.gr/). Participation is free and open to everyone. No prior modeling experience is required, but some familiarity with Python might be helpful. 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Confirmed speakers include: - Raghavendra Selvan (University of Copenhagen): title TBC - Ben van Werkhoven (Leiden University): "Accelerated Computing" - Jo Walton (University of Sussex): "Digital Humanities Perspective and DHCC" - Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow): title TBC - Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London): "Developing a sustainable institutional research computing culture" - Michael Sparks (University of Manchester): title TBC More details can be found on the event page: https://indico.cern.ch/e/sc4rc2026. Hope to see you there! Best regards, The SC4RC Organising Committee Anica Araneta University of Cambridge, UK Auroop Ganguly Northeastern University, Boston, USA Grant Hill University of Sheffield, UK Loic Lannelongue (Co-Chair) University of Cambridge, UK Rakhi Mahbubani (Co-Chair) Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Peter Millington University of Manchester, UK Ayan Paul Northeastern University, Boston, USA Karolos Potamianos University of Warwick, UK Markus Schulz CERN, Switzerland From djurikom at gmail.com Tue Apr 7 04:10:53 2026 From: djurikom at gmail.com (Nemanja Djuric) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 04:10:53 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: CfP - AdKDD @ KDD2026 Message-ID: Call for Workshop Papers The 20th Edition of AdKDD - AdKDD 2026 in conjunction with The 32st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026) Jeju, Korea, August 9th - 13th, 2026 http://www.adkdd.org As of the second quarter of 2024, the worldwide internet user spent more than 6.5 hours daily across all devices interacting with online content almost entirely sponsored by advertisements. At almost $700B global market size in 2024, and expected to reach $870B by 2027, digital advertising has already surpassed traditional ads in global spending and continues to grow. Digital advertising and in particular computational advertising is perhaps the most visible and ubiquitous application of machine learning and one that interacts directly with consumers. When done right, ads connect us to opportunities to enrich our lives and creep us out when done badly. Recently at the forefront of political battles between governments, large multinational corporations, and consumers, digital advertising remains a dynamic industry and research area. Looking at the published literature over the last few years, many researchers might consider computational advertising as a mature field. Yet, the opposite is true. Computational advertising is evolving from simple rule-based ads controlled by monolithic publishers and randomly rotating banner ads to highly personalized content experiences within native, video, and display formats on mobile devices, connected TV, and audio?all utilizing data amassed from petabytes of stored user data collected increasingly through inferred identity providers. The increasing use of sequence models and the rise of Generative AI is spawning new directions such as the auto-generation of ad creatives or pay-for-use shopping assistants. Ads are far from done. The AdKDD workshops have had a lot of interest and success in the past years. A total of eighteen workshops have been organized every year since 2007, focusing on highlighting state-of-the-art advances in computational advertising. All the workshops were well attended, often with standing room only, and very well received both by the academic community and the advertising industry. We look forward to seeing you in-person to discuss the past, present, and future of computational advertising! Topics: The workshop focuses on three main aspects of computational advertising. Evolution of computational advertising: Online advertising has progressed beyond the notion of traditional desktop ads to ads that are native, social, mobile, and contextual. In tandem, the rise of new mechanisms, such as header bidding, complex ad exchanges, repeated auctions, ad blockers, viewability trackers, and increasing application of Graph-based NN and Generative AI models, challenge the traditional notions of advertising. There also continue to exist controversial issues in advertising, such as privacy, security, fraud, ethics, and economic attribution. We invite papers that are focused on some of the above aspects. Large-scale and novel ad targeting: Recent advances in real-time, big data systems, and easier accessibility to different types of data make it possible to design more personalized and efficient ad targeting systems. We invite papers that advance the state-of-the-art in related areas of ad targeting. Deployed systems & battle scars: We particularly encourage papers that highlight experience in deploying real-time ad targeting systems, data, and audience insights, as well as position papers on the future of online advertising. Submission Instructions: Following the KDD conference tradition, reviews are single-blind, and author names and affiliations should be listed. Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, insightfulness, depth, clarity, and reproducibility. For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. In addition, for each paper we expect to have at least one author also act as a reviewer, to help reduce the reviewing load in the case of a larger number of submissions. Submissions are limited to a total of six pages, including all content and references, must be in PDF format, and formatted according to the new Standard ACM Conference Proceedings Template. Additional information about formatting and style files is available here . All accepted papers will be archived on the AdKDD website, and we are also working on having them published in official proceedings as well. Please note: All of the attendees need to register through the main conference of KDD. In addition, in line with earlier KDD workshops, we do not provide separate registration only for the workshop itself. Important Deadlines (anywhere on Earth): Submission : May 20th, 2026 Decisions : June 8th, 2026 Camera-ready : June 15th, 2026 Video Submission: July 12th, 2026 Workshop : August 10th, 2026 Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adkdd2026 Program Committee Chairs: Abraham Bagherjeiran (eBay) Nemanja Djuric (Aurora Innovation) Kuang-chih Lee (Walmart) Suju Rajan (Amazon) Vladan Radosavljevic (Spotify) For further questions please contact the organizers at organizers at adkdd.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ebalzani at flatironinstitute.org Tue Apr 7 11:21:26 2026 From: ebalzani at flatironinstitute.org (Edoardo Balzani) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 11:21:26 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: One week left to apply - Neural Data Analysis Workshop before FENS forum, Jun 3-4, 2026 Message-ID: One week left to apply to our workshop on Neural Data Analysis with pynapple & NeMoS ! This July, right before the FENS forum, the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation is hosting a hands-on workshop on neural data analysis in Barcelona, Spain. *Workshop Details:* *What: *2-day workshop on pynapple & NeMoS *When: *Jul 3?4, 2026 *Where: *Melia Barcelona Sky Hotel Pere IV, 272 - 286 Spain *Who:* Grad students & postdocs analyzing electrophysiology or calcium imaging data*. *Applicants located in Europe and Africa will be prioritized. Via live-coding and hands-on group projects, you will learn to: - Use pynapple for neural data manipulation and exploration - Build statistical models with NeMoS (powered by JAX with GPU acceleration) *Cost:* Accommodation & meals provided, no participation fees. 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Task 2 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims:Given claims, potential evidence, and possible reasoning paths, rank the reasoning paths and provide an output of verdict. Available in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Task 3 Generating Full Fact-Checking Articles:Given a claim, its veracity, and a set of evidence documents consulted for fact-checking the claim, generate a full fact-checking article. Register and participate:https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ Further information:https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ Datasets:https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab (training and validation materials released) Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV Important Dates --------------------- - 23 April 2026: Lab registration closes - 24 April 2026: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 7 May 2026 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 28 May 2026: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 29 May ? 27 June 2026: Review process of participant papers - 30 June 2026: Notification of Acceptance for working notes [CEUR-WS] - 6 July 2026: Camera Ready Copy of working note papers [CEUR-WS] - 10 July 2026: Regular Conference Registration Ends - 31 August 2026: Late Conference Registration Ends - 21-24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Best regards, The CLEF-2026 CheckThat! 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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Self-Organizing Maps and related models - Learning Vector Quantization - Prototype-based Learning - Vector Quantization - Clustering and Unsupervised Learning - Data Visualization - Embedding Techniques - Statistical Data Analysis and Machine Learning - Interpretable Models - Confidence & Transfer Learning - Hardware and Neuromorphic Hardware for LVQ & SOM We also encourage scientific and application-oriented papers demonstrating the use of these methods in areas including, but not limited to: - Data mining, including stream mining and process mining - Pattern recognition - Knowledge management - Business intelligence and financial analysis - Anomaly detection and outlier analysis - Industrial applications - Scientific applications - Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and applications in biomedicine and healthcare - Telecommunications - Transport optimization - Cognitive modeling - Language modeling - Robotics and intelligent systems - Image processing and vision - Speech processing - Text and document analysis IMPORTANT DATES: ? Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2026 ? Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2026 ? Final version due: 11 September 2026 ? Conference dates: 19-21 November 2026 SUBMISSION: Submission will be handled via the IDEAL 2026 online submission system (tbc). The dedicated submission link will be announced soon. PUBLICATION: The WSOM+ 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. FURTHER INFORMATION: For updates, please see: https://personen.fiw.thws.de/wsom/ More details on submission, registration, and program will follow soon. All the best Frank -- ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Frank-Michael Schleif School of Computer Science Technical University of Applied Sciences W?rzburg-Schweinfurt Sanderheinrichsleitenweg 20 Raum I-3.35 Tel.: +49(0) 931 351 18127 97074 W?rzburg Honorable Research Fellow The University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom - email: frank-michael.schleif at thws.de http://promos-science.blogspot.de/ https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~fschleif/ ------------------------------------------------------- From c.natali6 at campus.unimib.it Wed Apr 8 16:34:04 2026 From: c.natali6 at campus.unimib.it (Chiara Natali) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 22:34:04 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Abstracts - 3rd Workshop on Frictional Design in Hybrid Human-AI Systems | Jul 7, Brussels @ HHAI26 Message-ID: (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for abstracts) -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Third Workshop on Frictional Design in Hybrid Human-AI Systems Co-located with the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI26) July 7, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium (in-person) Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home -------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Overview** This full-day workshop explores frictional design strategies in Human?AI interaction: design patterns that deliberately create moments of reflection, critical thinking, and cognitive effort in AI-supported decision-making. While contemporary AI systems are typically optimised for efficiency and seamless interactions, growing evidence in HCI, cognitive science, and safety-critical domains shows that overly smooth interaction can promote cognitive offloading, automation bias, over-reliance, and skill erosion. Frictional design examines when and how interaction mechanisms can slow down decision-making at appropriate moments in order to support human oversight, judgement, and appropriate reliance. Example mechanisms include: - requiring users to reason themselves before accessing AI support and/or scaffold reasoning through staged or reflective interaction - introducing novel uncertainty visualisations, present explanations or evidence in ways that prompt active scrutiny - any other approach that balances or favours cognitive engagement over seamless usability and speed Building on the success of the two previous editions, this workshop aims to advance an interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars across HCI, AI, cognitive science, and AI governance. The programme will include paper presentations, a keynote, structured discussions, and collaborative activities aimed at developing a shared research agenda for stimulating cognitive engagement in human-AI interactions. **Keynote** Bogdana Rakova (DLA Piper, Data & Society Research Institute, ex-Mozilla Fellow) Talk: ?Speculative Friction: Exploring existing, speculative, and instrumental frictions in AI design and governance? **Topics of Interest** We invite extended abstracts from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on topics including (but not limited to): - Design Principles for Cognitive Engagement (Interaction strategies that balance efficiency with reflection and critical engagement) - Methods to Measure Over-Reliance and Under-Reliance (Frameworks, metrics, or empirical studies assessing how AI affects human judgement, expertise, and decision behaviour) - Trust Calibration and Transparency (Investigations of how explanations, uncertainty communication, or interface design influence trust and reliance) - Governance and Policy Approaches (Legal, regulatory, or organisational perspectives on incorporating frictional principles into AI deployment and oversight) - Applications and Case Studies (Empirical studies, prototypes, or deployments demonstrating seamful or frictional interaction patterns in practice) **Submission Details** - Submission type: Extended Abstracts (500--1,500 words - to be extended to 5 pages for the post-workshop proceedings) - Format: CEURART-WS template (see workshop website) - Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FrictionalAI2026 Accepted papers will be published in the HHAI 2026 Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in person and register for the HHAI conference (single-day registration options available). **Important Dates** (AoE) - Submission deadline: 1 May, 2026 - Notification: 29 May, 2026 - Camera-ready: 19 June, 2026 - Workshop: 7 July, 2026 **Beyond the Workshop** This workshop series aims to build a research community around frictional and cognitively engaging AI design. Authors and participants will be invited to contribute to follow-up initiatives, including collaborative publications, special issues, and future events. Interested researchers can join the mailing list: https://www.freelists.org/list/friction **Organisers** Chiara Natali, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Fabio M. Russo, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Simon W. S. 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It is expected that tutorials are self-contained. Prospective organizers should submit a 4-page (maximum) proposal containing the following information: 1. Title. 2. Abstract, appropriate for possible Web promotion of the tutorial. 3. A short list of the distinctive topics to be addressed. 4. Learning objectives (specific and measurable objectives). 5. The targeted audience (student / early stage / advanced researchers, pre-requisite knowledge, field of study). 6. Detailed description of the tutorial and its relevance to multimodal interaction. 7. Outline of the tutorial content with a tentative schedule and its duration. 8. Description of the presentation format (number of presenters, interactive sessions, practical aspects). 9. Accompanying material (repository, references) and equipment, emphasizing any required material from the organization committee (subject to approval). 10. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) together with their contact information and a list of 1-2 key publications related to the tutorial topic. 11. Previous editions: If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was delivered. Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria: - Importance of the topic and the relevance to ACM ICMI 2026. - Presenters? experience. - Adequacy of the presentation format to the topic. - Targeted audience interest and impact. - Accessibility and quality of accompanying materials (open access). Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters? own work or commercial presentations are not acceptable. However, we encourage non-academic researchers to propose tutorials. Contact Details Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2026 Tutorial Chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik at: icmi2026-tutorials-chairs at acm.org Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Important Dates Tutorial proposal deadline: April 30th, 2026 Tutorial acceptance notification: May 23th, 2026 Camera-ready version of the tutorial abstract: August 2nd, 2026 Tutorial date: October 5th or October 9th 2026 ICMI organization will provide rooms, coffee, and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer for each tutorial. From serafeim.perdikis at essex.ac.uk Thu Apr 9 02:59:50 2026 From: serafeim.perdikis at essex.ac.uk (Perdikis, Serafeim) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 06:59:50 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Essex BCI-NE webinar: EEG markers of chronic pain: repeatability challenges by Aleksandra Vuckovic Message-ID: https://www.linkedin.com/company/essex-bcine-lab/ The Essex BCI-NE Lab invites you to join our next monthly webinar: EEG markers of chronic pain: repeatability challenges Delivered by Prof Aleksandra Vuckovic James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom The webinar will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, 15th April 2026, at 2 PM UK time RSVP: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7447896566465667073 Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) holds significant potential for identifying diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic biomarkers across a range of neurological conditions. Most EEG-based biomarkers rely on developing classifiers that can distinguish individuals with specific neurological disorders. Typically, classifier performance is validated using leave-one-out or N-fold cross-validation, where training and testing datasets are collected under the same conditions?recorded in the same environment, by the same experimenters, and using the same EEG equipment. However, real-world clinical applications require accurate classification of entirely unseen datasets that do not share hidden common features with the training data. Most classifiers based on N-fold cross-validation fail to repeat performance on a new dataset. Using the example of central neuropathic pain, Prof. Vuckovic will illustrate the challenges involved in developing a machine learning approach capable of classifying unseen datasets of comparable size to the training set, collected at different times and under varying environmental conditions. Speaker Biography: Aleksandra Vuckovic holds an MEng in Engineering Physics and an MSc in Control Systems from the University of Belgrade. She received her Ph.D. from the Centre for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Denmark in 2004, where she has also served as post-doc. Between 2005 and 2007 she worked as a senior research officer at the Brain-Computer Interface Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex. Since 2008 she has been with the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. Aleksandra is interested in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) as a new form of non-muscular channel for communication between patients and their environment, which compensates a loss of sensory-motor functions or alternatively provides strengthening or modulation of preserved neuro-muscular pathways in patients with impairments of the Central Nervous System. She is in particular interested in developing and implementing patient-managed Brain-Computer Interface systems for home-based neurorehabilitation. Further areas of interest are improvements of existing rehabilitation therapies combining Brain-Computer Interface and Functional Electrical Stimulation and exploring a correlation between the recovery and changes in the brain responses i.e., brain plasticity. She also applies BCI for operant conditioning training of the brain (neurofeedback) for the treatment of Central Neuropathic pain following injuries to the Spinal Cord. Her research further focuses on EEG as a neuroimaging modality to identify markers of neuropathic pain (diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic). She uses machine learning techniques to develop transferable individualized markers of pain to aid stratified pain prevention and treatment. 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Theme *From Lab to Life: Scaling Intelligent Sensors for Personalized Health Ecosystems* We invite submissions of *full technical papers, technical abstracts, clinical abstracts, demos, and workshop proposals* that reflect the latest advances in sensing technologies, signal processing, AI/ML, digital biomarkers, and human-centered health systems. BSN 2026 will feature *keynote talks, interactive technical sessions, panels, demonstrations, and awards*, highlighting impactful contributions and translational innovations that bring sensing technologies from research prototypes to real-world healthcare. ------------------------------ Important Dates - *Workshop & Demo Proposal Deadline:* May 1, 2026 - *Paper Submission Deadline:* June 1, 2026 - *Abstract Submission Deadline:* June 1, 2026 - *Late-Breaking Abstract Deadline:* August 8, 2026 ------------------------------ Topics of Interest *(include but not limited to)* - Wearable, implantable, and multimodal body sensor systems - Digital health solutions for diagnosis, monitoring, and self-management - Flexible, stretchable, textile-based, and imperceptible sensors and systems - Contactless and ambient sensing solutions for health monitoring - Signal processing, machine learning, AI, and decision-support systems - Digital biomarkers and computational modeling for health applications - Adaptive and personalized intervention systems - Sensors and systems for wellness, rehabilitation, and athletics - On-body computing and edge intelligence for health monitoring - Ultra-low-power sensing, energy harvesting, and power optimization - Wearable robotics, assistive systems, and computational prostheses - Security, privacy, trust, and regulatory challenges in digital health - Human-centered design, usability, and participatory health technologies - Emerging topics such as Agentic AI and LLMs for computational health ------------------------------ Submission Tracks - *Full Technical Papers (4 pages)* - *Technical Abstracts (1 page)* - *Clinical Abstracts (1 page)* - *Demos* - *Workshops* Accepted submissions will be presented in *oral and poster sessions*. Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to the *IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)*. Outstanding contributions will be recognized through *best paper and student awards*. ------------------------------ Submit Your WorkSubmission instructions and the online submission portal will be available soon on the BSN 2026 website. For questions, please contact the organizing committee at ? *bsnprogramcommittee at embs.org * We look forward to welcoming you to *Porto* for *BSN 2026*! https://bsn.embs.org/2026/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Our group works at the interface of clinical neuroscience (neurostimulation and neurodegenerative diseases) and computational neuroscience (whole-brain network neural mass modeling, parameter inference, control theory), with a strong focus on translational research that connects computational methods to real-world clinical data and patient-oriented questions. Our team is young, motivated, international, and genuinely interdisciplinary, bringing together expertise from medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and quantitative sciences. We invite applications for a postdoctoral associate starting in Summer 2026 working on NeuroAI techniques, with a quantitative background and experience in interdisciplinary neuroscience research. Details can be found here: https://www.ini.rub.de/the_institute/jobs/postdoctoral_position_80-100_fmd_i n_computational_neurology_1/ , and if you have inquiries regarding the position, please reach out to me: https://computationalneurology.com via email. 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We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topic related to the broad set of research and application areas covered by the ACM CoNEXT conference. We welcome workshops on topics in network research, practice, and education. Topics that represent new research areas and directions are particularly welcome. If the workshop is accepted, the proposers agree to recruit a Program Committee for selecting papers, recruit invited speakers if applicable, and advertise the workshop in order to attract papers and attendees. The workshop chairs reserve the right to cancel workshops that do not receive a sufficient number of submissions from their open call. Furthermore, it is expected that the majority of accepted papers will originate from authors who are not members of the workshop's Technical Program Committee (TPC) and will be submitted in response to the open call. While invited papers may be included in the final program, they should constitute a minority of the accepted submissions. As an integral part of the conference, the workshops will be fully incorporated into CoNEXT's logistical and budget planning process. Workshop papers - unless opted-out - will be published in the same set of proceedings as the conference's short papers, and will be available on the ACM Digital Library. Workshop papers will not appear as part of the new journal-based proceedings (PACMNET). Detailed guidelines on how to prepare your workshop proposal submission can be found at: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2026/#!/cfw Where to Submit a Workshop Proposal Please submit your workshop proposal in a single PDF file by sending it to the Workshop Chairs over email at workshopchairs_conext2026 at auckland.ac.nz. with the subject ?CoNEXT 2026 Workshop Proposal: xxxx? (where xxxx is the acronym of your proposed workshop) by May 19, 2026. Please follow the deadlines below. Important dates (in reverse chronological order) * Workshop paper submission: July 14th, 2026 * Workshop paper abstract registration: July 7th, 2026 * Announcement of CFPs: Before June 15th, 2026 * Announcement of selected workshops: June 8th, 2026 * Submission of workshop proposals: May 19th, 2026 Note that the time between the notification of acceptance of the workshop and the announcement of the CFP is limited. Thus, we reiterate that you should contact your workshop's potential TPC members and secure the participation of most of them before submitting your proposal. Preliminary Information for Workshop Planning All deadlines will be common across workshops. * Paper submissions deadline: July 14th, 2026 * Paper acceptance notification: Before end of August, 2026 * Camera ready due: Before end of September, 2026 * Program available online: Before mid-October, 2026 * List of organisation details: Before mid-October, 2026 In order for the workshops to be synchronised with preparations for the main conference and with travel grants, the dates above must be strictly followed by all workshops. Please contact the CoNEXT 2026 Workshop co-chairs Chris Visser and Ulrich Speidel (workshopchairs_conext2026 at auckland.ac.nz) with any questions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com Thu Apr 9 07:38:47 2026 From: caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com (Caspar M. Schwiedrzik) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 13:38:47 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral researcher in statistical learning and predictive processing (intracranial EEG) Message-ID: We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to study statistical learning and predictive processing using intracranial EEG. The project investigates how the brain learns regularities in the environment and uses them to generate predictions about future events, with a particular focus on hippocampal?cortical predictive processing. It uniquely combines human intracranial recordings with causal perturbation using intracortical microstimulation, allowing direct investigation of these mechanisms in the human brain. The successful candidate will design and implement experiments using intracranial EEG recordings and intracortical microstimulation in collaboration with clinical partners and analyze these data using advanced electrophysiological and statistical approaches. The lab seeks to understand the cortical basis and computational principles of perception and experience-dependent plasticity in the brain. To this end, we use a multimodal approach including fMRI-guided electrophysiological recordings in rodents and non-human primates, and fMRI and intracranial EEG (iEEG) in humans. See https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.11.30.691163, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51543-y, and https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.17.694881 for recent examples of our work. The postdoc will play a key role in our research efforts in this area. The lab is located at Ruhr University Bochum (https://www.rub.de) and the German Primate Center in G?ttingen (http://www.dpz.eu). At both locations, the lab is embedded in interdisciplinary research centers with international faculty and students pursuing cutting-edge research in cognitive and computational neuroscience. The main site for this part of the project will be Bochum. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with the lab of Lucia Melloni at Ruhr University Bochum. Intracranial EEG data will be acquired in collaboration with clinical partners in Bochum as well as at other collaborating clinical sites. Several relevant datasets already exist and will be available for analysis. Ruhr University Bochum provides a vibrant and stimulating neuroscience community with strong expertise in both computational and experimental neuroscience. Through THINK ? Center for Theoretical and Integrative Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (THINK) at Ruhr University Bochum (https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/think/index.html.en), the postdoc will have access to dedicated computing infrastructure, including high-performance computing clusters, as well as to a state-of-the-art imaging center providing facilities for 3T MRI, EEG, virtual reality, and behavioral experimentation. Please find the official job ad and further information here: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/591390b8c5b83d217866229ff2fd94be0304b7f40 From jarsalas at inf.ufrgs.br Thu Apr 9 10:30:38 2026 From: jarsalas at inf.ufrgs.br (Jaime Andres Riascos Salas) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:30:38 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Mobile Brain-Computer Interface: Challenges, Opportunities, and Paradigms. ANT Neuro & University of Potsdam. 12-13 May 2026 Message-ID: BOOTCAMP ON MOBILE BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (MOBCI): CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND PARADIGMS. ORGANIZERS: POTSDAM EMBODIED COGNITION GROUP (PECOG) ? UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM [1] + ANT NEURO [2] BERLIN 12-13 MAY 2026 ? UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) offer a powerful method of communication with machines using brain signals (mainly EEG). However, most interfaces operate in a seated setup, restricting real-world applications. Mobile Brain Imaging (MoBI) solutions present an opportunity to overcome this by creating Mobile BCIs (MoBCI). This bootcamp is designed for early-career researchers, Master's, and PhD students focused on the challenges and applications of capturing and utilizing brain activity in real-world, mobile environments. It is structured to bridge theory and practice, allowing participants to discuss and explore the technical and methodological challenges of creating this new generation of BCI. In a series of expert-led symposiums, you will explore the complete BCI pipeline, including BCI interaction design, advanced EEG signal processing and Machine Learning, the challenges of Mobile EEG, and large-scale collaborative efforts like the EEGManyPipelines initiative. These academic sessions build a full day of hands-on application. Using ANT Neuro hardware, you will apply these concepts directly in a Mobile BCI setup, progressing from basic implementation to the complexities of MoBCI design. This bootcamp offers a unique opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the mobile BCI landscape, from theoretical paradigms to practical implementation. Connect with leading experts, develop hands-on skills, and explore the future of brain-computer interaction. TARGET: PhD students, early-career researchers interested in EEG, Neuroscience, and Brain Computer Interface. DURATION: 2 days, 9:00-17:00 (1h lunch break + 15min coffee breaks in between) LOCATION: Universit?t Potsdam, Campus I - Am Neuen Palais. Room: 1.08.0.58. Am Neuen Palais 10. 14469 Potsdam CAPACITY: 30 participants (max) CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: * Prof. PhD Fabien Lotte (INRIA, France) * Prof. PhD Maryam Alimardani (Vrije University, Netherlands). * Prof. PhD Claudia Gianelli (University of Messina, Italy). * Prof. PhD Stefan Debener (Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany) * PhD. Marius Klug (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) AGENDA: DAY 1: - Brain-Computer Interaction design: from theory to applications. FABIEN LOTTE [3] - Are EEG Foundation Models a Game Changer for BCIs? MARYAM ALIMARDANI [4] - The impact of analytical choices on EEG results: lessons learned from the EEGManyPipelines project. CLAUDIA GIANELLI [5] - Mobile EEG for Real-World Interaction. Stefan Debener [6]. DAY 2: - Hardware demo - EEG setup. ROMAN VAKHRUSHEV [7], FABIO BAROLLO [8] - Experiment design MoBCI - Hands-on session to create the interface (LSL + Psychopy). J ANDR?S RIASCOS-SALAS [9] - Running MoBCI - Hands-on session to collect EEG data. ROMAN VAKHRUSHEV [7], FABIO BAROLLO [8], J ANDR?S RIASCOS-SALAS [9] - Analyzing MoBCI - Hands-on session to pre-process and analyze the collected EEG (EEGLAB). MARIUS KLUG [10]. Be part of pushing the borders of BCI, acquiring new knowledge, connecting with peers, and having fun running a Mobile BCI. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-brain-computer-interface-challenges-opportunities-and-paradigms-tickets-1915914595129?aff=Salas [11] Please share it with colleagues or interested people. I hope to see you in Potsdam! 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ACDL 2026 Lecturers: * Lucas Beyer, Meta, Z?rich, Switzerland 3 Lectures on "Transformers & Vision Transformers" * Sven Giesselbach, T Systems International & Fraunhofer Institute - IAIS, Germany 3 Lectures on ?Agentic AI? * Anirudh Goyal, Google DeepMind & Mila, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada 3 Lectures on ?Metacognition as a Control Plane for Reasoning? * Arthur Gretton, UCL & Google DeepMind, UK 2 Lectures on "Causal Effect Estimation with Context and Confounders? * Mario Guarracino, University of Cassino and Souther Lazio, Italy Lectures TBA * Katja Hofmann, Microsoft, UK 3 Lectures on ?World Models? * Arnulf Jentzen, University of M?nster, Germany Lecture 1/3 ?Mathematical Introduction to Stochastic Gradient Descent Optimization? Lecture 2/3 ?Error Analyses for Adam and further Accelerated and Adaptive Optimizers? Lecture 3/3 ?Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations? * Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind, UK Lectures TBA * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Lectures TBA * Michal Valko, Stealth Startup, INRIA, MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay, France Lecture 1/3 ?Lightspeed RL Fine Tuning for LLMs? Lecture 2/3 ?Online and Offline RL Considerations for LLMs ? Lecture 3/3 ?New Advances on the Theory of Language Generation and Hallucination? * David van Dijk, Yale University, USA 3 Lectures TBA * Jason Weston, META, USA Lecture 1/3 ?Self-Improving Language Models? Lecture 2/3 ?Self-Improving Agents? Lecture 3/3 ?The Future of Self-Improvement & the Promise of Co-Improving AI? More Lecturers TBA ? LECTURES: ? https://acdl2026.icas.events/lectures/ ? PAST LECTURERS: ? https://acdl2026.icas.events/past-lecturers/ ? VENUE: ? https://acdl2026.icas.events/venue/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043? Tuscany? Italy p: +39-0564-928111 ? booking.events at rivadelsole.it ? https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/ PAST EDITIONS: ? https://acdl2026.icas.events/past-editions/ ? CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS: The 9th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning ? ACDL 2026 is a full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia ? Grosseto ? Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in Deep Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment. PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants.The Course will involve a total of 36?40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student ? BSc Student) attending the Course. Language: English. To participate in the ACDL 2026, all attendants must (1/2) register for the course (by April 23, 2026) and (2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by April 23, 2026); all attendants must stay at the ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?. Booking accommodation at the Riva del Sole must be made exclusively using the accommodation form attached to the registration confirmation email. No other methods must be used (if you use other booking methods the hotel will cancel the reservation). Finally, it is not possible to extend the stay, the special accommodation rates are valid only for the period of the course, no exceptions will be made. To contact the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (the course venue) use the following email: booking.events at rivadelsole.it Once accommodation has been booked at ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl at icas.cc). ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made. For privacy reasons, the Hotel can not match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with (or a double room in Hotel), please send to the Hotel ( ? booking.events at rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book a hotel room in single use. Please note that only ACDL registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the ACDL Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration number to confirm the booking. Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2026 should register as soon as possible. See you in Riva del Sole in June! ACDL 2026 Directors. ACDL 2026 Scientific & Organizing Committees. ? https://acdl2026.icas.events ? acdl at icas.cc https://x.com/TaoSciences https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10048467/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650 Obviously this is only a Call for Participation, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: ? https://acdl2026.icas.events * Apologies for multiple copies. 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URL: From info at icas.cc Fri Apr 10 04:39:17 2026 From: info at icas.cc (ICAS Organizing Committee) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:39:17 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Participation=3A_International?= =?utf-8?q?_Artificial_Intelligence_Summer_School_=E2=80=93_IAISS_2?= =?utf-8?q?026=2C_Sept_20-24=2C_Riva_del_Sole_Resort_=26_SPA_=40_Tu?= =?utf-8?q?scany_*_Registration=3A_by_May_23_*?= Message-ID: * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks! * IAISS2026, A Residential Summer School in AI & Generative AI for Science and Engineering IAISS 2026 is a full-immersion 5-day Summer School in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. Riva del Sole Resort & SPA @ Tuscany, Italy, Sept 20-24, 2026 https://2026.iaiss.cc iaiss at icas.cc LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics. Stefano V. Albrecht, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mikhail Belkin, University of California San Diego, USA Giuseppe De Giacomo, University of Oxford, UK Jamie Hayes, Google DeepMind, UK Sumi Helal, University of Bologna, Italy Marine Le Morvan, INRIA Saclay, France Bruno Lepri, FBK, Italy George Paliouras, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA More Lecturers TBA https://2026.iaiss.cc/lecturers/ https://2026.iaiss.cc/lectures/ REGISTRATION: by May 23 (AoE) https://2026.iaiss.cc/registration/ Applicant *may* submit (during the Registration Process) a research abstract (max 2 pages; any format) for presentation. School directors and the scientific committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster and/or short talk. Abstract can be submitted by May 23 during the registration process. PAST EDITIONS: https://2026.iaiss.cc/previous-editions/ IAISS Norbert Wiener Best Presentation Award in Artificial Intelligence: https://2026.iaiss.cc/best-presentation-award/ VENUE: https://2026.iaiss.cc/venue/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043? Tuscany? Italy p: +39-0564-928111 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/ CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS: The International Artificial Intelligence Summer School ? IAISS 2026 is a full-immersion five-day Summer School at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia ? Grosseto ? Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Summer School provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment. PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the IAISS attendants. The Summer School will involve a total of 36?40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student ? BSc Student) attending the Summer School. Language: English. To participate in the IAISS 2026, all attendants must (1/2) register for the school (by May 23, 2026) and (2/2) book accommodation at the school venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by July 23, 2026); all attendants must stay at the ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?. Once accommodation has been booked at ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the IAISS organizing committee (iaiss at icas.cc). IAISS is a residential school, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made. For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with, please send to the Hotel ( booking.events at rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book an apartment in single use. IAISS is organized as a non-profit scientific event. Please note that only IAISS registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the IAISS Discounted Rates. 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LODAS 2026 aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of learning and optimization to address challenges in scalability, reliability, and efficiency for distributed AI systems. We welcome contributions addressing (but not limited to): * Federated, distributed, and edge learning * Communication-efficient and resource-aware AI * Multi-objective and constrained optimization * Workflow scheduling and system-level optimization * Agentic AI and autonomous multi-agent systems * Foundation models under system constraints * Trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and robust AI * Cyber-physical systems, IoT, and digital twins ====================================== Submission Information ====================================== Submissions must be made via EasyChair (details on the workshop website). Formatting: IEEE A4 Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. ====================================== Paper types: ====================================== * Long papers: 7-8 pages (research contributions) * Short/position papers: 4-6 pages (work-in-progress or visionary ideas) * Poster papers (undergraduate): 1-2 pages ====================================== Important Dates ====================================== * Submission deadline (extended): April 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready & registration: May 15, 2026 * Workshop date: June 9-12, 2026 (exact session date to be announced) ====================================== Organizing Committee ====================================== * Jamal Toutouh - University of M?laga, Spain * Gabriel Luque - University of M?laga, Spain * Diego Daniel Pedroza-Perez - University of M?laga, Spain We warmly encourage you to submit your latest work and to share this call with colleagues and relevant research mailing lists. Best regards, LODAS 2026 Workshop Organizing Team https://jamaltoutouh.github.io/lodas2026/ From hocine.cherifi at gmail.com Fri Apr 10 08:09:36 2026 From: hocine.cherifi at gmail.com (Hocine Cherifi) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:09:36 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?=5BISCS_2026=5D_Early_Bird_Ends_April_2?= =?utf-8?q?0_=E2=80=94_Register_Now?= Message-ID: ? *Last Days for Early Bird Registration ? **ISCS 2026 * ? *La Rochelle, France* | ? *June 03?05, 2026* ? *Early Bird Deadline: April 20, 2026 (in 10 days)* Early bird registration for the *International Symposium on Complex Systems (**ISCS 2026 )* is closing soon. Join an interdisciplinary community working at the intersection of *complex systems, networks, AI, social sciences, neuroscience, and data-driven approaches*. ------------------------------ ? Keynote Speakers - Kay Axhausen ? ETH Z?rich - Johan Bollen ? University of Amsterdam & Indiana University - Tiziana Di Matteo ? King?s College London - Chiara Poletto ? 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URL: From publicity at acsos.org Fri Apr 10 10:02:10 2026 From: publicity at acsos.org (ACSOS Publicity) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:02:10 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: ACSOS 2026: Extended Deadline, Accepted Workshops, and Joint Calls Message-ID: <12418a07-1b3e-4592-82b3-e619a43afe86@acsos.org> *** IEEE ACSOS 2026 *** Main Track **Extended Deadline**, Accepted Workshops, and Joint Calls The 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) 7-11 September 2026 - Cesena, Italy https://2026.acsos.org https://linktr.ee/acsosconf https://acsos.org ======================================= The world is increasingly embracing autonomous systems: in robotics, manufacturing, software engineering, vehicles, data center systems, and precision agriculture to name just a few areas. These systems are bringing autonomy to a whole new level of dynamic decision-making under uncertainty, requiring autonomic behavior (e.g., control theory, cybernetics) and self-reference, leading to a range of self-* properties (e.g., self-awareness, self-adaptation, self-organization), and an approach in which system implementation and its environment are holistically considered. Despite this rise in autonomic and self-* systems, there remains a wide range of fundamental challenges in understanding how to design, control, reason about, and trust such systems. The IEEE ACSOS conference solicits novel research on these topics, in fundamentals and methods as well as applications for autonomic and self-* systems. The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is a premier venue for advancing research in autonomic computing, self-adaptation, and? self-organization. Established in 2020 through the merger of two influential IEEE conferences?ICAC (International Conference on Autonomic Computing) and SASO (International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization)?ACSOS builds on more than two decades of excellence in these fields. The conference serves as a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging academic and industrial perspectives across domains such as artificial intelligence, computational biology, and computer systems. ACSOS features a diverse program, including research papers, experience reports, posters, demonstrations, and a doctoral symposium, fostering innovation and knowledge exchange. All submissions are required to be formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers are submitted electronically in PDF format through the ACSOS 2026 conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2026 All times below are in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone. > ????*** Main Track *** ACSOS 2026 invites submissions on theoretical aspects, modeling, design, implementation, evaluation, verification, and practical applications of autonomic, self-adaptive, self-organizing, and multi-agent systems, algorithms, and techniques. Abstract submission deadline: April 10April 24, 2026 (Extended) Paper submission deadline:April 17May 1, 2026 (Extended) Notification to authors: June 15, 2026 Camera ready deadline:July 20, 2026 Conference:September 7-11, 2026 We solicit: Research papers (up to 10 pages) that present rigorously evaluated novel ideas and techniques. Experience reports(up to 10 pages) that report on practical experiences with deploy systems. Vision Papers(up to 6 pages) introduce groundbreaking, provocative, and even controversial ideas. We will continue the tradition of giving the best papers of the conference an opportunity to publish an extended version in a special issue on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems in Future Generation Computer System, Q1 2027. ACSOS 2026 plans to award the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award (where the primary author is a student) to papers of outstanding quality. Authors are encouraged to submit artifacts alongside their papers. Accepted artifacts can receive ACSOS badges (Available, Reviewed, Reproducible), supporting reproducibility and broader reuse of your work. Further details: https://2026.acsos.org/track/acsos-2026-papers >? ? ? ? ? ? ? *** Workshops *** The ACSOS Conference program includes two days dedicated to workshops. The workshops at ACSOS 2026 provide a forum for groups of 20-50 participants to present and discuss novel research ideas on autonomic computing, self-adaptive, and self-organizing systems. Workshops can be organized around emerging research areas such as digital twins/ explainability, challenging problems such as autonomy /self-* properties /scalability /sustainability or industrial applications such as smart mobility /Robotics /autonomous swarms. This year ACSOS 2026 will host four workshops: 13th Workshop on Self-Improving Systems Integration (SISSY) 4th International Workshop on Sustainable and Scalable Self-Organisation (SaSSO-4) 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous computing Systems (AI4AS) 1st International Workshop on AI-Driven Cyber-Resilience for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (AICR-ACS) Deadlines are specific to the workshops, find out more below. Further details: https://2026.acsos.org/track/acsos-2026-workshops >? ? ? ? ? ? ? *** Posters and Demos *** The Poster and Demo Track showcases early-stage research, ideas, prototypes, and applications in autonomic and multi-agent systems, encouraging discussion and feedback. Selected main-track papers may also be invited as posters while remaining fully published. We welcome contributions on, work in progress and emerging research directions, innovative concepts and algorithms, tool demonstrations and system implementations, practical experiences and applications. Poster/Demo submission deadline:June 25th, 2026 Poster/Demo acceptance notification: July 15th, 2026 Camera Ready submission deadline:July 22nd, 2026 Further details: https://2026.acsos.org/track/acsos-2026-posters-and-demos >? ? ? ? ? ? ? *** Artifacts *** Artifact Track promotes the creation of high-quality, reusable artifacts that support the evaluation of novel approaches for autonomic and self-* systems. The goal is to build a shared collection of evaluation setups and case studies, enabling researchers to reuse, extend, compare, and assess results across the community. Artifacts may include: Software systems, testbeds, and applications (simulated or deployable), frameworks, tools, and services implementing new methods or algorithms, datasets such as logs, traces, sensor data, or experimental results. Artifact submission deadline:June 29th, 2026 Artifact acceptance notification: July 13th, 2026 Camera Ready submission deadline:July 20th, 2026 Further details: https://2026.acsos.org/track/acsos-2026-artifacts >? ? ? ? ? ? ? *** Tutorials *** The Tutorial Track solicits contributions for tutorials on tools, applications, processes, and techniques in autonomic computing, self-adaptation, self-organization, and related topics on autonomous and self-* behavior, both practical and theoretical. Tutorials are expected to adhere to the same topics as the main track. They can either be long ?hands-on? tutorials (3 to 4 hours), or short ?overview?/?quickstart? tutorials (1 to 2 hours). Accepted tutorials are encouraged to submit an extended abstract for inclusion in the proceedings companion (ACSOS-C). Proposal Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2026 Notification for Proposals: June 15th, 2026 Ext. Abstract Submission Deadline: July 5th, 2026 Notification for Ext. Abstract: July 15th, 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline:July 20th, 2026 Further details: https://2026.acsos.org/track/acsos-2026-tutorials >? ? ? ? ? ? ? *** Doctoral Symposium *** The Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research and ideas, and network with the ACSOS community, consisting of a diverse audience of both leading experts and early career researchers in the field. The Doctoral Symposium not only offers early career researchers a chance to gain experience in presenting to an international audience but also to receive invaluable feedback about their work from members of the ACSOS community. PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract, with another page for references, using the format in the submission section below. The abstract should describe the key motivation of their research, the major contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the research stage), the research methodology, and the current status of the work. As in prior years, the Doctoral Symposium will employ a mentoring program in which every author of an accepted paper will be paired with an experienced mentor from the community. Mentors will help introduce the student to the community, offer extended discussion of their research objectives and career opportunities, and will host their student throughout the event to help them gain the best experience from an international conference. Submission deadline:July 5, 2026 Notification to author: July 13, 2026 Camera ready deadline:July 20, 2026 Further details: https://2026.acsos.org/track/acsos-2026-doctoral-symposium -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giovanni.stanco at unina.it Fri Apr 10 11:17:41 2026 From: giovanni.stanco at unina.it (GIOVANNI STANCO) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:17:41 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: CfP - IEEE MNC Special Session on AI-Native and Data-Driven Management for Next-Generation Networks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ====================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session: AI-Native and Data-Driven Management for Next-Generation Networks Part of the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement in Networking and Communications (MNC) Napoli, Italy - July 13-16, 2026 https://mnc2026.ieee-ims.org/program/special-sessions#session-1-1 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 21, 2026 ====================================================================================== We invite the submission of original research contributions to the Special Session on AI-Native and Data-Driven Management for Next-Generation Networks, organized within the framework of the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement in Networking and Communications, held in Napoli, Italy, July 13-16, 2026. AI-Native and Data-Driven Management is important and promising for Measurement in Networking since it will enable automatic optimization and network management. Over the years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become increasingly pervasive in networking and communications, playing a key role in the development, deployment, and management of next-generation networks. Current research trends show how AI can enhance 5G networks at at the RAN, Edge, and Core layers, using measured data coming from multiple entities. While AI adoption in 5G has been an evolving process, 6G is envisioned as truly AI-native. The next generation of mobile networks will embed "connected intelligence" throughout its architecture, leveraging AI for network design, optimization, and autonomous operation. In 6G, AI will not only enhance network performance but also enable and support AI-driven services running seamlessly across the entire network from the user equipment to the network core. Through this AI-native framework, the network will be capable of analyzing real-time data to jointly orchestrate functions such as scheduling, network slicing, and strategic planning. AI technologies in fact, expand new potential in the optimization of the full end-to-end chain of the physical layer, from the transmitter to the receiver, enabling self-optimization by combining advanced sensing and data collection also introducing the capability to consider network metrics, such as current spectrum, power conditions, and number of connections, evolving because of signal reflections off buildings and weather patterns for constant re-optimization. Monitoring of real-time environmental and contextual data is a promising enabler for ML-based air interface optimization, leading to more efficient spectrum use and reduced latency. Not only, nowadays, AI is now further enhanced and made more interpretable through XAI methodologies, which allow us to better understand how the algorithms operate and which features are most relevant for predictions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Measurements for 6G, beyond-5G, and next-generation communications * Trustworthy AI and explainable measurement approaches * AI/ML-driven network measurement and diagnostics * Software-defined and virtualized network measurement * Big Data analytics for network traffic, QoS, and QoE evaluation * Security, privacy, and reliability network measurements in 5G and 6G ***Timeline*** Paper registration: April 21, 2026 Initial manuscript deadline: April 21, 2026 ***Manuscript submission information*** Authors are invited to submit a Full Paper (4-6 pages) reporting original research of a theoretical or applied nature using the online submission system, EDAS. EDAS Submission Link: https://edas.info/N34568 Further information available: https://mnc2026.ieee-ims.org/author-information ***Special Session Chairs*** Prof. Giovanni Stanco University of Naples Federico II, Italy Email: giovanni.stanco at unina.it Prof. Stefania Zinno University of Naples Federico II, Italy Email: stefania.zinno at unina.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c.dovrolis at cyi.ac.cy Sat Apr 11 13:26:32 2026 From: c.dovrolis at cyi.ac.cy (Constantine Dovrolis) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:26:32 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Faculty position (open rank) at the Cyprus Institute Message-ID: Dear Connectionists, A final reminder ? we have an open-rank (Assistant/Associate/Full) Professor position at the Computational Science & Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute (CYI). https://onlinerecruitment.exelsyslive.com/?c=6E7274A2-8EBA-4BEA-905B-06F790EEB566&v=2026/0392 The selected faculty applicant will enhance the competencies of the Institute in one or more of the following research areas: (i) foundation models and efficient training/adaptation methods on HPC systems, (ii) generative AI and multimodal learning, (iii) causal representation learning and counterfactual reasoning, (iv) robustness, safety, and trustworthy ML (including interpretability and fairness), (v) continual, federated, and edge learning, (vi) ML for scientific discovery. 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As part of this project, the student would have the opportunity to work on behavioral, neuroimaging, and modeling of spatial and speech perception, and/or on modules for an auditory brain training game, and spend up to 12 months in the US with one or more of the grant collaborators (Erick Gallun at Oregon Health Science University, Aaron Seitz at Northeastern University,? Gin Best at Boston University; see project web https://pcl.upjs.sk/sav/ ). Interested candidates please contact norbert.kopco at upjs.sk with a CV and a research statement. Information about PhD student application procedures is available at https://www.upjs.sk/prirodovedecka-fakulta/en/doctoral-studies-admission/ and https://www.upjs.sk/en/faculty-of-science/foreign-students/ (deadline is 31 May 2026; flexible). -- doc. Norbert Kopco, Ph.D. Univ Professor / Senior Researcher: Inst of Computer Sci, Faculty of Science, Safarik Univ, Kosice, Slovakia Visitor: Brain Game Center, Northeastern U; Hearing Research Center, Boston U & Martinos Ctr for Biomed Imaging, Harvard Med School - Mass Gen Hospital norbert.kopco at upjs.sk, http://pcl.upjs.sk/noro From hans.ekkehard.plesser at nmbu.no Fri Apr 10 16:38:44 2026 From: hans.ekkehard.plesser at nmbu.no (Hans Ekkehard Plesser) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:38:44 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: =?windows-1252?q?NEST_Conference_2026_=97_Abstrac?= =?windows-1252?q?t_Submission_Deadline_extended_to_3_May?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The abstract submission deadline for the NEST Conference 2026 has been extended to Sunday, 3 May. We are inviting contributions to the conference, including talks, "posters" and workshops on specific topics. Do not miss out on contributing to this exciting event! The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. Take the opportunity to advance your skills in using NEST at our hands-on workshops! This year's conference will again take place as a virtual conference on Tuesday/Wednesday 16/17 June 2026. We are delighted to welcome * Marja-Leena Linne, Tampere University * Maxime Carriere and Fynn Dobler, Freie Universit?t Berlin * Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo, Forschungszentrum J?lich * Pablo Mart?nez Ca?ada, University of Granada as keynote speakers at the conference. For more information on how to submit your contribution, register and participate, please visit the conference website: https://nest-simulator.org/conference We are looking forward to seeing you all in June! 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Please forward to anybody who might be interested, thanks! * IAISS2026, A Residential Summer School in AI & Generative AI for Science and Engineering IAISS 2026 is a full-immersion 5-day Summer School in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. Riva del Sole Resort & SPA @ Tuscany, Italy, Sept 20-24, 2026 https://2026.iaiss.cc iaiss at icas.cc LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics. Stefano V. Albrecht, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mikhail Belkin, University of California San Diego, USA Giuseppe De Giacomo, University of Oxford, UK Jamie Hayes, Google DeepMind, UK Sumi Helal, University of Bologna, Italy Marine Le Morvan, INRIA Saclay, France Bruno Lepri, FBK, Italy George Paliouras, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA More Lecturers TBA https://2026.iaiss.cc/lecturers/ https://2026.iaiss.cc/lectures/ REGISTRATION: by May 23 (AoE) https://2026.iaiss.cc/registration/ Applicant *may* submit (during the Registration Process) a research abstract (max 2 pages; any format) for presentation. School directors and the scientific committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster and/or short talk. Abstract can be submitted by May 23 during the registration process. PAST EDITIONS: https://2026.iaiss.cc/previous-editions/ IAISS Norbert Wiener Best Presentation Award in Artificial Intelligence: https://2026.iaiss.cc/best-presentation-award/ VENUE: https://2026.iaiss.cc/venue/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Localit? Riva del Sole? Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043? Tuscany? Italy p: +39-0564-928111 e: booking.events at rivadelsole.it w: https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/ CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS: The International Artificial Intelligence Summer School ? IAISS 2026 is a full-immersion five-day Summer School at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia ? Grosseto ? Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Summer School provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment. PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the IAISS attendants. The Summer School will involve a total of 36?40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student ? BSc Student) attending the Summer School. Language: English. To participate in the IAISS 2026, all attendants must (1/2) register for the school (by May 23, 2026) and (2/2) book accommodation at the school venue, ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA? (by July 23, 2026); all attendants must stay at the ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?. Once accommodation has been booked at ?Riva del Sole Resort & SPA?, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the IAISS organizing committee (iaiss at icas.cc). IAISS is a residential school, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made. For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with, please send to the Hotel ( booking.events at rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book an apartment in single use. IAISS is organized as a non-profit scientific event. Please note that only IAISS registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the IAISS Discounted Rates. 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However, this growing adoption also highlights a critical need for public benchmarks and standardized evaluation frameworks that enable reproducibility, fair comparison, and robust development of NLP systems in Human Capital Management. TalentCLEF 2026 invites the community to address these challenges through shared tasks on skill and job intelligence, fostering the development of accurate, multilingual, and practically applicable solutions for Human Capital Management Key information: - Web: https://talentclef.github.io/talentclef/ - Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17625261 - Codabench Task A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14226/ - Codabench Task B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14489/ - Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ Why participate? - Evaluate your models on realistic Human Capital Management tasks - Work with multilingual and cross-lingual data (English and Spanish) - Access open, privacy-preserving datasets - Contribute to an emerging benchmark in HR/NLP - Publish a system description paper in CLEF Working Notes (CEUR-WS) - Present your work at CLEF 2026 in Jena, Germany Tasks Overview TalentCLEF 2026 is structured into two independent but complementary tasks, allowing participants to compete in one or both. - Task A - Contextualized Job-Person Matching: - Goal: Rank candidate r?sum?s for a given job offer. - This task focuses on context-aware matching between full job descriptions and candidate profiles. It is framed as an information retrieval problem, where systems must return a ranked list of r?sum?s ordered by relevance. - The task includes English, Spanish, and cross-lingual settings, reflecting real-world recruitment scenarios. - Task B - Job-Skill Matching with Skill Type Classification: - Goal: Identify and classify relevant skills for a given job title. - Participants must retrieve skills from a predefined gazetteer and classify each skill as: Core (required) and Contextual (optional). - This task emphasizes skill-based representations and the nuanced role of skills within job profiles. Important Dates - 2nd February 2026 - Development data available for Tasks A - 2nd February 2026 - Training data available for Task B - 16th February 2026 - Development data available for Task B - 2nd March 2026 - Codabench Release for Task A and Task B - 20th April - 3rd May 2026 - Evaluation Period for Task A and Task B - 23rd April - Official registration deadline - 7th May 2026 ? Publication of Official Results - 30th May 2026 ? Submission of CLEF 2026 Participant Working Notes (CEUR-WS) - 27th June 2026 - Notification of Acceptance for Participant Papers Workshop and Proceedings Teams participating in TalentCLEF will be invited to submit a system description paper for the CLEF 2026 Working Notes proceedings, published on CEUR-WS. The TalentCLEF 2026 workshop will be co-located with CLEF 2026 and held in Jena, Germany, from September 21 to 24, 2026. Participants will have the opportunity to present their approaches at the workshop. 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About CIS-RAM The IEEE International Conferences on CIS-RAM have always been held together, to exploit the synergistic relationship between both areas. CIS-RAM was first held in Singapore in 2004, followed by Thailand in 2006, Chengdu (China) in 2008, Singapore in 2010, Qingdao (China) in 2011, Manila (Philippines) in 2013, Angkor Wat (Cambodia) in 2015, Ningbo (China) in 2017, Bangkok (Thailand) in 2019, Penang (Malaysia) in 2023, and Hangzhou (China) in 2024. The 12th IEEE International Conferences on CIS-RAM will be held in Changchun, China on 5-7 August 2026 and in Noida, India (Satellite) on 3 August 2026. Programs and Topics on CIS Cybernetics Automation and Control, Cooperative Systems and Control, Computational Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Supervisory Control, Hybrid Systems, Neural Networks, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Systems Modeling & Control, Optimization, Smart Sensor Networks, Blockchain Technologies, Networked Dynamical Systems, Discrete Event Systems, Swarm Intelligence, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Systems, Decision Support Systems, System of Systems, Big Data, Internet of Things, Image Processing, Environmental Systems, Systems Biology, Cyber-physical Systems, Human/Machine Systems, Transportation Systems, Manufacturing Systems, Smart City, Resource Management, Energy Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence Generated Content, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing. Programs and Topics on RAM Robotics and Automation in Unstructured Environment, Personal and Service Robotics, Underwater Robotics, Medical Robots and Systems, Social Robotics, Robotics and Automation Applications, Sensor Design, Integration, and Fusion, Robot Vision, Deep Learning, Embodied AI, Human-Robot Interfaces, Haptics, Tele-robotics, Network Robotics, Micro/Nano, Distributed, Cellular, and Multi-robot Systems, Biologically-Inspired Robots and Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Modeling, Planning and Control, Kinematics, Mechanics, and Mechanism Design, Legged Robots, Wheeled Mobile Robots, Aerial Robotics, Dynamics, Motion Control, Force/Impedance Control, Architecture and Programming, Methodologies for Robotics and Automation, Virtual Reality, Localization & Tracking, A Fleet of AGVs. Invited Sessions The conference will feature invited sessions on specialized topics of interests. The invited sessions are intended to usher in-depth discussions in special areas relevant to the conference theme. Best Paper Awards The conference will provide three categories of awards: best conference paper, best student paper and best application paper awards. Paper Submission Papers must be written in English and should describe original work. Papers should be six pages (A4 size) in length, with up to two extra pages. The number of pages includes the references, appendices, etc. All the papers in the conference proceedings will be indexed in the IEEE Library and ISI Proceedings. Please note papers will be published in the conference proceedings only if at least one of the authors is officially registered. Accepted papers will be submitted for possible inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore?s scope and quality requirements. For more details, please check https://www.cis-ram.org/2026/OnlinePaperSubmission.html Important Dates (Rescheduled) Conference/Invited Session Paper Submission, 26 Apr 2026 Notification of Acceptance, 17 May 2026 Final Camera-Ready Deadline, 31 May 2026 Early-bird Registration Deadline, 31 May 2026 Late Breaking Reports Deadline, 14 Jun 2026 For general conference information, please contact the General Chair and the Conference Secretary: cis-ram2026 at outlook.com Sincerely Yours, Rui Ma, Hyung Jin Chang, Xin Wang and Bernard How Publicity Chairs, CIS-RAM 2026 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nian.zhang6 at gmail.com Sat Apr 11 22:08:37 2026 From: nian.zhang6 at gmail.com (Nian Ashlee Zhang) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:08:37 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: ICIST 2026, Coimbra, Portugal, October 1-6, 2026. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026 Message-ID: Following the success of previous events, the 16th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2026) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on October 1-6, 2026. Located between the two largest Portuguese cities, the conference site features a historic royal city with numerous historical buildings, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site. ICIST2026 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state-of-the-art research and applications in neural networks and related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world-renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. Technical Co-sponsor: IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore. When: October 1 - 6, 2026 (Coimbra, Portugal) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2026 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2026 Camera-ready copy and author registration: July 15, 2026 Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2026 Website: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call for Papers and Special Sessions Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ICIST2026. Additionally, proposals for special sessions within the technical scope of the conference are solicited. Special sessions, organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in specialized, focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are peer-reviewed using the same criteria as those for contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ICIST2026. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information, and brief biographical information on the organizers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Topic Areas: The topics of contributing papers include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Intelligent Control and Automation Autonomous systems, linear and nonlinear control, learning and adaptive control, intelligent control, optimization-based and optimal control, fault detection and identification, hybrid intelligent systems, networked control, fuzzy logic control, industrial automation, neural control, process control, robot control, mechatronic systems, environmental monitoring and control, intelligent manufacturing systems, microprocessor-based control, motor control, power systems, vehicle control, aerospace applications, and other applications. Intelligent Information Processing Machine learning, adaptive filtering, signal processing, audio/speech processing and coding, higher-order spectral analysis, nonlinear & blind signal processing, neural signal processing, component analysis, array signal processing, parallel and distributed processing, time series analysis, multimedia signal processing, design and implementation of signal processing systems, DSP implementations, embedded systems, image and multidimensional signal processing, image processing & understanding, computer vision & pattern recognition, bioimaging and signal processing, multimedia communications, computer vision & virtual reality, next-generation mobile communications, communication signal processing, modulation and channel coding, network coding, sensor networks, cryptography and information security, and other applications. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (8 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. 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This year's theme is 'Neuro+Symbolic AI', focusing on an emerging paradigm that combines the strengths of neural learning and symbolic reasoning, augmented with foundations in each of these. June 22-26, 2026 | Leipzig, Germany (Radisson Blu Hotel, Augustusplatz) (in person only, no online participation) Website: https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/ Early registration is open until Wednesday, April 22, registration overall until June 14 (AoE): https://pretix.eu/infai/SummerSchool2026/ Fee reduction requests received by April 14 will be decided by April 17. == Invited target audience == - Students: PhD and Master's (+ open to Bachelor's) - Academics: PostDocs and researchers - Non-Academics: Practitioners from business, industry and society == What to Expect? == The summer school features a rich program of short courses taught by leading experts, complemented by hands-on tutorials, interactive formats, and invited talks that provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances and key achievements in Neuro-Symbolic AI. A poster session and social program elements will allow for networking among the participants as well as for exploring the lively city of Leipzig. https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/scientific-program/ https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/social-program/ == Speakers == - Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh) - Vincent Derkinderen (KU Leuven) - Michael F?rber (TU Dresden) - Robert Haase (Leipzig University) - Pascal Hitzler (Kansas State University) - Yujia Hu (TU Dresden) - Filip Ilievski (VU Amsterdam) - Moa Johansson (Chalmers University Gothenburg) - Lalith Manjunath (TU Dresden) - Giuseppe Marra (KU Leuven) - Alessandra Mileo (Dublin City University) - Ostap Okhrin (TU Dresden) - Simon Razniewski (TU Dresden) - Tobias Schreieder (TU Dresden) - Daria Stepanova (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) - Marco Valentino (University of Sheffield) == Venue == Radisson Blu Hotel Leipzig, Augustusplatz 5-6, 04109 Leipzig, Germany Hotel website: https://radissonblu-leipzig.de/en/ == Fees and Registration == Registration is mandatory to attend the school. It *includes* access to the sessions, lunch, coffee breaks, social dinner and some other social items. It *does not cover* accommodation, breakfast, dinner (except for Tuesday) nor any transportation. Full Week Tickets: | Early | Late - ScaDS.AI Member | 490 ? | 600 ? - Student | 510 ? | 620 ? - Academic | 640 ? | 750 ? - Non-Academic | 800 ? | 910 ? Day Tickets: | 225 ? | 225 ? Early registration until Wednesday, April 22 (AoE) (2 months before) Late registration until Sunday, June 14 (AoE) (1 week before) Interested students can apply for a fee reduction by submitting a statement of motivation (at most ~250 words) and a brief recommendation by their supervisor (signed letter or email from supervisor?s account) by Tuesday, April 14, to scads.ai.school at uni-leipzig.de . == Organization == - Scientific Organizers: Filippo De Bortoli, Parvaneh Joharinad, Frank Loebe, Paramita Mirza, Iryna Okhrin - Local Organizers: Lucy Sonnet, Nicole Spie? - Steering Committee: Jens Meiler, Wolfgang Nagel, Gerik Scheuermann == Contact == Please write to Lucy Sonnet, Leipzig University, via scads.ai.school at uni-leipzig.de Best regards, Frank Loebe on behalf of the Organizers -- Frank Loebe, Coordinator, ScaDS.AI Graduate School, Leipzig University Phone: +49 341 97 39350 Email: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de From dhansel0 at gmail.com Sun Apr 12 11:28:14 2026 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:28:14 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?World_wide_VVTNS_series_=286th_season?= =?utf-8?q?=29=3A_Carl_van_Vreeswijk_Memorial_Lecture_=7C_Wednesday?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_April_15=2C_2026=2C_at_11=3A00_am_ET_-_Physics_of_Op?= =?utf-8?q?timal_Transport_and_Sch=C3=B6dinger_Bridges=E2=80=8B=7C_?= =?utf-8?q?Henri_Orland=2C_IPHT=2C_Saclay=2C_France?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide You are cordially invited to the CARL VAN VREESWIJK MEMORIAL LECTURE 2026 Henri Orland IPHT Saclay, France on the topic of Physics of Optimal Transport and Sch?dinger Bridges The lecture will be held on zoom on April 15 ,2026, at *11:00 am ET * To receive the link https://www.wwtns.online/register-page *Abstract: *Optimal transport is a mathematical method to define a distance between probability distributions. This is particularly useful in various domains, including physics, biology, machine learning, and economics, among others. After introducing the Optimal Transport (OT) problem at finite temperature, we show how it can be formulated as a statistical physics problem. This approach allows us to derive very efficient algorithms to effectively compute the distance between two probability distributions. The a priori unrelated Schr?dinger bridge (SB) problem is presented, and it is shown to be a dynamical version of the optimal transport problem. Indeed, the Schrodinger bridge looks for the most probable path in probability distribution space, which connects two given probabilities. The Schrodinger bridge problem, originally devised for freely diffusing particles, can be generalized to the case of interacting particles. It can be formulated in terms of functional integrals over bosonic fields, which allows us to derive partial differential equations that characterize the most probable paths in probability space. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The program covers a broad range of topics in Artificial Intelligence, offering both introductory and advanced courses. The 2026 edition will also encompass the 2nd International Summer School on Bilateral AI and will be co-located with the ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School. The summer school will provide an opportunity to: * Attend comprehensive courses covering all areas of AI * Engage with internationally renowned speakers * Participate in specialized tutorials on current research topics * Network with peers and experts from around the world * Take part in a rich social program, including events in Vienna Travel Grants A limited number of travel grants are available to support participants with limited access to other funding. Each grant amounts to 525? (covering the early student registration fee). Applicants should: * Be students or early-career researchers in Artificial Intelligence * Demonstrate the need for financial support * Please note that part of the available funding is reserved for members of EurAI member societies; however, applications from non-members are also welcome. Application Procedure: * Applications should be submitted as a single zip file containing: * A brief motivation statement (up to 500 words) * A detailed CV * A supporting letter (e.g., from supervisor, if applicable) * Further details on eligibility and required documents are available online. Important Dates: * April 17, 2026: Application deadline * April 27, 2026: Notification * April 30, 2026: Early registration deadline Further Information: https://essai2026.eu/grants.ph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is particularly useful in various domains, including physics, biology, machine learning, and economics, among others. After introducing the Optimal Transport (OT) problem at finite temperature, we show how it can be formulated as a statistical physics problem. This approach allows us to derive very efficient algorithms to effectively compute the distance between two probability distributions. The a priori unrelated Schr?dinger bridge (SB) problem is presented, and it is shown to be a dynamical version of the optimal transport problem. Indeed, the Schrodinger bridge looks for the most probable path in probability distribution space, which connects two given probabilities. The Schrodinger bridge problem, originally devised for freely diffusing particles, can be generalized to the case of interacting particles. It can be formulated in terms of functional integrals over bosonic fields, which allows us to derive partial differential equations that characterize the most probable paths in probability space. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This is particularly useful in various domains, including physics, biology, machine learning, and economics, among others. After introducing the Optimal Transport (OT) problem at finite temperature, we show how it can be formulated as a statistical physics problem. This approach allows us to derive very efficient algorithms to effectively compute the distance between two probability distributions. The a priori unrelated Schr?dinger bridge (SB) problem is presented, and it is shown to be a dynamical version of the optimal transport problem. Indeed, the Schrodinger bridge looks for the most probable path in probability distribution space, which connects two given probabilities. The Schrodinger bridge problem, originally devised for freely diffusing particles, can be generalized to the case of interacting particles. It can be formulated in terms of functional integrals over bosonic fields, which allows us to derive partial differential equations that characterize the most probable paths in probability space. *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop is free of charge and includes food throughout the day. The Workshop is *free* to attend, and *we will provide lunch, drinks, and plenty of snacks* throughout the day. More details about the workshop can be found on our website: https://www.benerl.org/workshop/2026-tilburg We are looking forward to a wide and varied participation! --- A few details --- # Registration Please register in advance if you wish to attend the Workshop, so that we can organize the facilities accordingly. You can register at https://t.ly/sI92C , or from the Workshop's website ( https://www.benerl.org/workshop/2026-tilburg ). # Invited Speakers Our workshop is privileged to host an exceptional lineup of speakers. 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Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: https://www.dia.fi.upm.es/MLAS There is a 25% discount for members of Spanish AEPIA and SEIO societies. Please, forward this information to your colleagues, students, and whomever you think may find it interesting. Best regards, Pedro Larra?aga, Concha Bielza, Bojan Mihaljevi? and Laura Gonzalez Veiga. -- School coordinators. *** List of courses and brief description *** # Week 1 (June 8th - June 3rd, 2026) ## 1st session: 9:45-12:45 ### Course 1: Bayesian Networks (15 h) Basics of Bayesian networks. Inference in Bayesian networks. Learning Bayesian networks from data. Real applications. Practical demonstration: R. ### Course 2: Metaheuristics for Optimization (15 h) Single-solution Metaheur?stics. Evolutionary Algorithms. Algorithms based on estimation of distributions. Other Population based Algorithms. Multi-Objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms. ## 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 ### Course 3: Supervised Classification (15 h) Introduction. Assessing the performance of supervised classification algorithms. Preprocessing. Classification techniques. Combining multiple classifiers. Comparing supervised classification algorithms. Practical demonstration: python. ### Course 4: Reinforcement learning (15 h) Introduction. Dynamic programming methods. Temporal-difference learning. Policy gradient methods. Causal reinforcement learning. Practical demonstration: R. ## 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 ### Course 5: Deep Learning (15 h) Introduction. Learning algorithms. Learning in deep networks. Deep Learning for Computer Vision. Deep Learning for Language. Practical session: Python notebooks with Google Colab with keras, Pytorch and Hugging Face Transformers. ### Course 6: Bayesian Inference (15 h) Introduction: Bayesian basics. Conjugate models. MCMC and other simulation methods. Regression and Hierarchical models. Model selection. Practical demonstration: R and WinBugs. # Week 2 (June 10th - June 19th, 2026) ## 1st session: 9:45-12:45 ### Course 7: Causality (15 h) Introduction. Causal graphs. Mediation analysis. Sensitivity analysis to unmeasured confounding. Counterfactual reasoning. Practical sessions: R. ### Course 8: Clustering (15 h) Introduction to clustering. Data exploration and preparation. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea. Conclusions and final advice. Practical session: R. ## 2nd session: 13:45-16:45 ### Course 9: Gaussian Processes, Bayesian Deep Learning and Bayesian Optimization (15 h) Introduction to Gaussian processes. Sparse Gaussian processes. Deep Gaussian processes. Bayesian deep learning. Introduction to Bayesian optimization. Practical demonstration: python using GPytorch, Pytorch and BOTorch. ### Course 10: Explainable Machine Learning (15 h) Introduction. Inherently interpretable models. Post-hoc interpretation of black box models. Basics of causal inference. Beyond tabular and i.i.d. data. Other topics. Practical demonstration: Python with Google Colab. ## 3rd session: 17:00-20:00 ### Course 11: Generative AI (15 h) Introduction to the course. Neural networks and deep learning. Generative AI for images. Generative AI for language. Hands-on session: Pytorch, VAEs, GANs, diffusion models, LLMs, aligning a generative LLM, using an open-source image generation model. ### Course 12: AI for the Health Domain (15 h) Introduction to AI in healthcare. AI to conversational agents and drug repurposing. From manifolds to foundation models. AI for real-world clinical data. From bernstein.conference at fz-juelich.de Wed Apr 15 03:38:16 2026 From: bernstein.conference at fz-juelich.de (Bernstein Conference) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:38:16 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Abstracts for the Bernstein Conference 2026 is now open Message-ID: <7186a28d-8e89-455d-b918-baa76e30d299@fz-juelich.de> +++ The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience invites proposals for Contributed Talks and Poster Sessions at the Bernstein Conference 2026 in Frankfurt am Main. +++ ____ *Bernstein Conference* * * ** Each year, the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs, and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries.** https://www.bernstein-conference.de/ ____ *IMPORTANT DATES* * * ** Bernstein Conference: *September 28 ? October 1, 2026* * * Deadlines: *Contributed Talk* abstract submission: *May 27, 2026 at 15:00 CEST* *Poster Session* abstract submission: *July 1, 2026 at 15:00 CEST Travel Grant *application: *July 1, 2026 at 17:00 CEST* * * Notification of acceptance: *July 2026* * * *____* * * ** *ABSTRACTS* * * ** We invite the computational neuroscience community to submit their abstracts. Submissions may be considered for either Contributed Talks or Poster Sessions. All accepted abstracts will be published online and will be citable via Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Further information can be found here: https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/abstract-submission/ ?____ *TRAVEL GRANTS* To support the participation of young researchers at the Bernstein Conference, the Bernstein Network offers up to 10 Travel Grants, each endowed with 500 ?. Further information can be found here: https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/early-career-scientists/travel-grants/ ____ *INVITED SPEAKERS* Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands) Benjamin Grewe (Institute of Neuroinformatics of the ETH and UZH, Switzerland) Andreas Herz (LMU Munich, Germany) Ewelina Knapska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland) John Krakauer (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal) Jeehyun Kwag (Seoul National University, Korea) Anna Levina (University of T?bingen, Germany) Richard Naud (University of Ottawa, Canada) Bence ?lveczky (Harvard University, USA) Sandro Romani (Janelia Research Campus, USA) ____ *CONFERENCE COMMITTEE* Stefan Rotter (Conference Chair) Matthias Kaschube (Conference Host) Tim Vogels (Program Chair) Panayiota Poirazi (Program Vice Chair) Katharina Wilmes (Workshop Chair) Juan ?lvaro Gallego(Workshop Vice Chair) & Nicolas Brunel, Alex Cayco-Gajic, Monika Jadi, Jennifer Li, Wiktor M?ynarski, Richard Naud, Joseph Raimondo, Tatyana Sharpee, Taro Toyoizumi, Eleni Vassilaki ____ For any further questions, please contact: bernstein.conference at fz-juelich.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Under the theme "Bridging scales in a principled manner", BCW 2026 will address one of the central challenges in contemporary neuroscience: the integration of knowledge across spatial and temporal scales ? from microcircuits to whole-brain dynamics, and from fast neural activity to long-term trajectories ? through principled approaches that connect models, methods, and data into coherent frameworks for understanding brain organization. In keeping with BCW tradition, the workshop will adopt a highly interactive, single-track format. The scientific programme will be largely driven by short oral presentations, primarily delivered by early-career researchers, followed by extended in-depth discussions moderated by senior experts ? a format specifically designed to foster open debate, cross-disciplinary exchange, and active participation. In this edition, we will introduce a flash e-poster session. E-posters will serve both as a forum for presenting ongoing or unpublished work and as a basis for short oral contributions, ensuring that all participants have the opportunity to actively present their research. This is particularly relevant for colleagues who require an accepted contribution in order to secure travel or institutional funding. As an incentive to foster broad participation, registration fees will be reimbursed for all selected e-poster presenters. The scientific programme includes thematic sessions on multiscale connectivity, whole-brain and biophysical modelling, multimodal data integration, dynamics and control of brain networks, and changes in connectivity across development and disease. An Educational Day will also be held in close connection with the main workshop, offering methods-oriented and pedagogical sessions for students, early-career researchers, and clinicians. Further information on registration, e-poster submissions, accommodation, and local logistics is available on the BCW 2026 websites, updated regularly: General information: www.bcw2026.org Registration and local details: https://bcw26.unimes.fr We warmly encourage you to consider participating in BCW 2026, to submit an e-poster presentation, and to join us in N?mes next June as we celebrate 25 years of BCW and collectively explore how to bridge scales in a principled manner. ? Prof Dr Viktor Jirsa Directeur, Institut de Neurosciences des Syst?mes Chief Scientific Officer, EBRAINS AISBL UMR INSERM 1106 Aix-Marseille Universit? 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The ERC project is being developed together with the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, and there may be opportunities for collaborations. This is a great opportunity for cognitive neuroscientists who want to learn computational modelling, or for computational neuroscientists who want to learn state of the art human neuroimaging. The BCBL is an international, multidisciplinary research centre in San Sebastian, a stunning coastal city renowned for its quality of life and its amazing gastronomy. The centre offers state-of-the-art neuroimaging infrastructure, including in-house MEG and fMRI machines, and strong support for work-life balance and professional development. Some details: 2-year contract, full-time Start date is flexible (up to March 2027) Application deadline: 31st May 2026 Full details and application link: https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/job-offer-postdoctoral-researcher-lpi-perceptual-inference-research Alejandro is very happy to hold informal chats about the project and the position with prospective applicants. Please contact BCBL's HR (email in the application link) for questions about the application process. Apologies for cross-posting. Best, Alejandro From jeevankumar.gochhayat at students.iiserpune.ac.in Thu Apr 16 05:48:35 2026 From: jeevankumar.gochhayat at students.iiserpune.ac.in (Jeevan Kumar Gochhayat) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:18:35 +0530 Subject: Connectionists: CAMP 2026 @IISER Pune | Applications are open Message-ID: CAMP 2026 An Intensive two-week course on Theoretical and Computational Modeling of Memory and Plasticity *Applications are Open Now | Apply by : 30**?? April, 2026* *CAMP* (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity) summer school is a two-week program that invites Ph.D. students, master?s students, final-year undergraduates, and postdocs worldwide for an intensive training in the areas of learning, memory, and plasticity in the brain. The program is scheduled from *2nd July *to* 16th July 2026* at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India (IISER Pune ). This year?s flavor of CAMP will be *Building a Memory*. The course will consist of lectures, hands?on tutorials, and research projects designed to introduce participants to the foundational and applied aspects of computational neuroscience. Accommodation and meals will be covered for the participants. Application submission deadline is *30th April,2026*. *Apply now* @camp.iiserpune.ac.in You can also follow us on X for regular updates about CAMP 2026 @camp_course . 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This is a half-day event for Integrity researchers and practitioners across academia and industry, featuring invited talks, an open call-for-papers with peer-reviewed submissions, and a panel discussion. Call for paper is now open *CFP Deadlines * - Paper Submission Opens: April 9, 2026 - Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2026 *Paper Submission format* - Short papers: 2?4 pages (excluding references) - Full papers: 5?8 pages (excluding references) - More details here *Topics *- Any topics related to Integrity are welcome. Below are some suggested ones - - Adversarial Dynamics in the GenAI Era - AI-Accelerated Coordinated Operations & Agent Dynamics - Parasocial Harms from Synthetic Entities - Open-Source Trust & Safety Toolkits - Foundational Models for Integrity - AI-Enabled Evaluation Frameworks - Data Pollution, Model Collapse & Knowledge Discovery - Human-AI Collaboration in Safety Operations - Regulatory Alignment & Global Compliance - Multimodal Safety at Scale - Safety for Autonomous Agents *Speakers* - David Freeman, Research Scientist, Central Integrity, Meta - Daniel Olmedilla, Distinguished Engineer, Trust and Safety, Linkedin - Mehmet Emre Sargin, Senior Director of Engineering, Youtube Trust and Safety, Google - Anish Das Sharma, Founder and CEO, Reinforce Labs *Panelists* - Panagiotis Papadimitrious, Senior Director of Engineering, Facebook Trust and Safety, Meta - Mehmet Emre Sargin, Senior Director of Engineering, Youtube Trust and Safety, Google - Baraa Hamodi, Software Engineer, Facebook Trust and Safety, Meta - Anish Das Sharm, Founder and CEO, Reinforce Labs *Organizers* - Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Meta - Mehmet Emre Sargin, Google - Sach Sokol, Meta - Madhu Ramanathan, Meta - Mohamed Abdelhady, Microsoft - Panayiotis Tsaparas, University of Ioannina, Greece - Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Meta - Vasilis Verroios, Meta - Daniel Olmedilla, LinkedIn - Kiran Garimella, Rutgers University, USA - Timos Sellis, Archimedes / Athena Research Center, Greece - Anish Das Sharma, Reinforce Labs Please feel free to reach out to madram at meta.com for any questions. 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Design your own translational neuroscience research ideas Perfect for those with a strong background in molecular/cellular neurobiology. Bonus: Alongside the science, there's plenty if room for networking, social activities, and exchanging ideas with peers and experts in the field. Location: Trigon Building, Nijmegen Dates: 21-28 August 2026 Application deadline: 20 April 2026 Interested? Make sure you meet the admission requirements and secure your spot, places are limited! https://www.ru.nl/en/education/education-for-professionals/overview/hands-on-course-human-stem-cell-derived-neuronal-networks-in-health-disease Check in parallel if you are eligible for also applying for a FENS/IBRO-Perc stipend! More information here: https://www.fens.org/careers/networks/nens/nens-grants/slots-in-nens-courses/2026-call Best wishes, Dirk Schubert ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Dr. Dirk Schubert, PhD Associate Professor Translational Neuroscience, Principal Lecturer & group leader "Cellular Neurophysiology" Medical Neuroscience Dept. (route 205) Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Postbus 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands Offices/visiting address: @ Medical Neuroscience Dept. (route 205): Room 02.282 Kapittelweg 29, 6525 EN Nijmegen @ Dept. Human Genetics (route 855): Room 5.17 ? http://www.schubert-neurolab.org/ Phone:? +31 24 3615039 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' From ted.carnevale at yale.edu Thu Apr 16 14:06:58 2026 From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:06:58 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: 2026 NEURON Summer Course Message-ID: <712306d0-17d0-4795-9aba-9048c7c4d969@yale.edu> Some seats remain available for the 2026 NEURON Summer Course, but they're going fast so you should act quickly if you are interested. This course will provide a thorough introduction to computational modeling of neurons and networks with NEURON, and is suitable for individuals at all levels of expertise. It will be held at Duke University in Durham, NC from Wednesday, June 10, through Monday, June 15, 2026. The registration deadline is Monday, June 1, 2026. No applications will be accepted after that date, and there will be no on-site registration. Space is limited, and applications will be considered in the order received. For more information and the on-line registration form, see 2026 NEURON Summer Course at https://www.neuron.yale.edu/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4752 or https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/discussions/3729 --Ted From taro.toyoizumi at riken.jp Fri Apr 17 02:40:11 2026 From: taro.toyoizumi at riken.jp (Taro Toyoizumi) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:40:11 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Neural Networks : Volume 199 In-Reply-To: <0100019d9a22788a-4840b66b-9719-418c-8fdc-e982eade1794-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <0100019d9a22788a-4840b66b-9719-418c-8fdc-e982eade1794-000000@email.amazonses.com> Message-ID: [wordmark] New Issue: Neural Networks New issue available on ScienceDirect [Cover Image Neural Networks] Neural Networks Volume 199, July 2026 Editorial Board Article Number 108966 Reviews ________________________________ Exploring financial sentiment analysis via fine-tuning large language model and attributed graph neural network Article Number 108620 Zongshen Mu, Yujie Wan, Yueting Zhuang, Jie Tan, Hong Cheng, Yueyang Wang Cognitive Science ________________________________ Knowledge graph-based cognitive learning with multi-fact reasoning Article Number 108747 Chengfeng Liu, Jianrui Chen, Zhihui Wang, Longjiang Guo Neuroscience ________________________________ A cortico-cerebellar neural model for task control under incomplete instructions Article Number 108648 Lanyun Cui, Ying Yu, Qingyun Wang, Guanrong Chen NG-SNN: A neurogenesis-inspired dynamic adaptive framework for efficient spike classification Article Number 108656 Jing Tang, Depeng Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhigang Zeng MS-STFNN: A multi-scale spatio-temporal fusion neural network for fMRI-based depression diagnosis Article Number 108685 Mengni Zhou, Miaofeng Wang, Rongkun Mi, Yan Niu, Xiaohong Cui, Ran Gao, Yuxi Li, Xin Wen, Jie Xiang Master-slave synchronization of heterogeneous dimensional proportional delay neural networks for image encryption Article Number 108703 Kuo Yan, Liqun Zhou InfoCAM: An information-weighted class activation mapping for explaining visual neural networks Article Number 108757 Yulong Shi, Mingwei Sun, Zengqiang Chen Learning Systems ________________________________ Lifelong knowledge graph embedding via diffusion model Article Number 108630 Deyu Chen, Caicai Guo, Qiyuan Li, Jinguang Gu, Meiyi Xie, Hong Zhu MCDNet: Morphological-conditional dual-view fusion for 3D tubular structure segmentation Article Number 108614 Zhiyan Wang, Changjian Wang, Kele Xu, Zhongshun Tang, Yan Zhuang, Jiani Zou, Fangyi Liu SCAD: A self-constrained solution to automate context-guided zero-shot image anomaly detection Article Number 108577 Siqi Wang, Guangpu Wang, Xinwang Liu, Jie Liu, Jiyuan Liu, Siwei Wang Multi-step first: A lightweight deep reinforcement learning strategy for robust continuous control with partial observability Article Number 108521 Lingheng Meng, Rob Gorbet, Michael Burke, Dana Kuli? UniSymNet: A Unified Symbolic Network with Sparse Encoding and Bi-level Optimization Article Number 108615 Xinxin Li, Juan Zhang, Da Li, Xingyu Liu, Jin Xu, Junping Yin Matrix-Transformation based Low-Rank Adaptation (MTLoRA): A brain-inspired method for parameter-efficient fine-tuning Article Number 108642 Yao Liang, Yuwei Wang, Yang Li, Yi Zeng Sonar-neus:voxel-based efficient neural implicit surface reconstruction for forward-looking sonar Article Number 108664 Shiji Qiu, Zuoqi Hu, Tiange Zhang, Zhi Liu, Junyu Dong, Qing Cai Efficient semantic segmentation via logit-guided feature distillation Article Number 108663 Xuyi Yu, Shang Lou, Yinghai Zhao, Huipeng Zhang, Kuizhi Mei HP-GAN: Harnessing pretrained networks for GAN improvement with FakeTwins and discriminator consistency Article Number 108666 Geonhui Son, Jeong Ryong Lee, Dosik Hwang Enhancing adversarial transferability via curvature-aware penalization Article Number 108665 Cheng Peng, Zeze Tao, Junyu Liu, Jinjia Peng Adaptive sample repulsion against class-specific counterfactuals for explainable imbalanced classification Article Number 108652 Yu Hao, Xin Gao, Xinping Diao, Yuan Li, Yukun Lin, Tianyang Chen, Qiangwei Li, Jiawen Lu Learning discriminative prototypes: Adaptive relation-aware refinement and patch-level contextual feature reweighting for few-shot classification Article Number 108649 Mengjuan Jiang, Fanzhang Li Cross-view contrastive representation learning on meta-path induced graphs with node features for bundle recommendation Article Number 108669 Peng Zhang, Zhendong Niu, Ru Ma, Shunpan Liang, Fuzhi Zhang Reinforcement learning via conservative agent for environments with random delays Article Number 108645 Jongsoo Lee, Jangwon Kim, Jiseok Jeong, Soohee Han Multi-timescale representation with adaptive routing for deep tabular learning under temporal shift Article Number 108670 Tianyu Wang, Maite Zhang, Mingxuan Lu, Mian Li DMPFDet: An end-to-end deformable mutual-promotion learning network for multispectral visible?infrared fusion detection Article Number 108654 Shangpo Zheng, Junfeng Liu, Jun Zeng Learnable dendrite neural P systems and applications in survival prediction of glioblastoma patients Article Number 108660 Xiu Yin, Xiyu Liu, Shulei Chang, Bosheng Song, Guanzhong Gong, Jiaxing Yin, Dengwang Li, Jie Xue Emotion-Aware multimodal deepfake detection Article Number 108675 Teng Zhang, Gen Li, Yanhui Xiao, Huawei Tian, Yun Cao Structure-missing graph-level clustering network Article Number 108682 Tianyu Hu, Renda Han, Liu Mao, Jing Chen, Xia Xie Differentially private data augmentation via LLM generation with discriminative and distribution-aligned filtering Article Number 108668 Yiping Song, Juhua Zhang, Zhiliang Tian, Taishu Sheng, Yuxin Yang, Minlie Huang, Xinwang Liu, Dongsheng Li Distilling structural knowledge from CNNs to vision transformers for data-efficient visual recognition Article Number 108601 Dingyao Chen, Xiao Teng, Xingyu Shen, Xun Yang, Long Lan Multi-Scale pattern-Aware task-Gating network for aerial small object detection Article Number 108680 Ben Liang, Yuan Liu, Chao Sui, Yihong Wang, Lin Xiao, Xiubao Sui, Qian Chen DiffMCG: A diffusion model with mask-conditioned guiding module for medical image classification Article Number 108690 Chen Guan, Haihong Ai, Weiwei Wang, Ravi P. Singh, Shiya Song BAED: A new paradigm for few-shot graph learning with explanation in the loop Article Number 108673 Chao Chen, Xujia Li, Dongsheng Hong, Shanshan Lin, Xiangwen Liao, Chuanyi Liu, Lei Chen Loyalty-SMOTE: Data synthesis algorithm for effective imbalanced data classification Article Number 108677 Shengquan Hu, Junfei Li, Zefeng Li, Zihao Zhang, Yan Feng, K. L Eddie Law Multiple interpretation ensemble distillation for graph neural networks Article Number 108674 Kang Liu, Yuqi Zhang, Shunzhi Yang, Chang-Dong Wang, Yunwen Chen, Xiaowen Ma, Zhenhua Huang A knowledge-driven self-supervised learning method for enhancing EEG-based emotion recognition Article Number 108676 Hanqi Wang, Jingyu Zhang, Peng Ye, Kun Yang, Jichuan Xiong, Xuefeng Liu, Tao Chen, Liang Song Improving policy exploitation in online reinforcement learning with instant retrospect action Article Number 108667 Gong Gao, Weidong Zhao, Xianhui Liu, Ning Jia Decomposition and transfer of individual Q-values for decision-making of multi-agent reinforcement learning with communication Article Number 108678 Xiaopeng Xu, Yadong Zhao, Dong Wang On the inherent robustness of one-stage object detection against out-of-distribution data Article Number 108683 Aitor Martinez-Seras, Javier Del Ser, Aitzol Olivares-Rad, Alain Andres, Pablo Garcia-Bringas SPD-Net: A semantic partitioned transformer with dynamic graph network for improved skeleton-based gait recognition Article Number 108679 Priyanka D, Mala T Event-triggered decentralized adaptive critic learning control for interconnected systems with nonlinear inequality state constraints Article Number 108646 Wenqian Du, Mingduo Lin, Guoling Yuan, Bo Zhao AW-EL-PINNs: A multi-task learning physics-informed neural network for Euler-Lagrange systems in optimal control problems Article Number 108694 Chuandong Li, Runtian Zeng Autorep: Automatic network search with structured reparameterized based linear operation expansion and gradient proxy guided reduction Article Number 108657 Guhao Qiu, Ruoxin Chen, Zhihua Chen, Lei Dai, Ping Li, Bin Sheng LADA: A label-aware framework for cross-domain sentiment classification Article Number 108659 Yu Tong, Ying Chen, Xupeng Mai, Lisheng Wen, Sentao Chen CGLK-GNN : A connectome generation network with large kernels for GNN based Alzheimer?s disease analysis Article Number 108689 Wenqi Zhu, Zhong Yin, Yinghua Fu Trainable-parameter-free structural-diversity message passing for graph neural networks Article Number 108711 Mingyue Kong, Yinglong Zhang, Chengda Xu, Xuewen Xia, Xing Xu CGE-GAN: Contrastive-guided evolutionary generative adversarial networks with dynamic adaptive weight sharing Article Number 108702 Kashif Iqbal, Xue Yu, Atifa Rafique, Muhammad Hamid, Khursheed Aurangzeb L2G-Net: Local-to-global feature enhancement via cluster tokens for 3D place recognition Article Number 108700 Ming Liao, Xiaoguang Di, Shaoxun Ye, Maozhen Liu Hierarchical ranking in hyperbolic space: A novel approach to metric learning Article Number 108658 Shuda Zhang, Huiying Li Graph adiabatic diffusion neural networks for distribution-shift breast tumor image classification Article Number 108686 Haoquan Lu, Zhihui Lai, Heng Kong Multi-view graph clustering via dual attention fusion and collaborative optimization Article Number 108704 Zuowei Wang, Sen Xu, Naixuan Guo, Xuesheng Bian, Xiufang Xu, Shanliang Yao, Xianye Ben, Tian Zhou Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026001668-ga1.jpg] SmooNet: Smooth operator neural network and functional differential equation Article Number 108688 Ruiyan Luo, Xin Qi TF-LLM: Enhanced time series analysis with time-frequency large language models Article Number 108687 Yuhang Zhang, Zitong Yu, Mingtong Dai, Yue Sun, Tao Tan Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026001498-ga1.jpg] A noise robust and distribution-adaptive framework for multivariate time series anomaly detection Article Number 108695 Yanling Du, Ziliang Yang, Baozeng Chang, Jingxia Gao, Xiaojia Bao, Wei Song Zero-shot temporal resolution domain adaptation for spiking neural networks Article Number 108483 Sanja Karilanova, Maxime Fabre, Emre Neftci, Ay?a ?z?elikkale A graph-based safe reinforcement learning method for multi-agent cooperation Article Number 108693 Fandi Gou, Haikuo Du, Yunze Cai An efficient and low-latency attention model for event denoising Article Number 108729 Yu Zhang, Gang Chen Edge-updating graph neural networks for modeling feature interactions in tabular data Article Number 108724 Pimwipa Charuthamrong, Colin R. Simpson, Binh P. Nguyen FreqMLNet: Non-transformer network with frequency domain reconstruction and multi-scale representation for time series forecasting Article Number 108723 Yulin He, Qiongbin Chen, Ruili Wang, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Joshua Zhexue Huang Adaptive exploration strategy in reinforcement learning based on Q-values and environmental cognition Article Number 108735 Tenglong Yang, Jingbao Hou, Peiyi Zhang, Jiawen Hu, Yixi Zhang Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026001978-ga1.jpg] Similarity-aware contrastive learning for face anti-spoofing via frequency enhancement and reconstruction Article Number 108734 Yakun Niu, Xuelin Lin Decorr: Environment partitioning for invariant learning and OOD generalization Article Number 108727 Yufan Liao, Qi Wu, Yunjin Wu, Xing Yan Contrastive knowledge embedding with discriminative self-weighted sampling Article Number 108749 Sheng Wan, Yibing Zhan, Shirui Pan, Jian Yang, Chen Gong Memory-guided mask reconstruction with central contrastive learning for robust multivariate time series anomaly detection Article Number 108731 Le He, Xin Gao, Xinping Diao, Yuan Li, Chengming Tian, Yukun Lin, Bing Xue, Taizhi Wang Enhancing progressive ensemble learning via normalized extra-Gradient initialization Article Number 108733 Zheshun Wu, Yu Pan, Dun Zeng, Qifan Wang, Zenglin Xu, Jie Liu Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026001954-ga1.jpg] GAFD-CC: Global-aware feature decoupling with confidence calibration for out-of-distribution detection Article Number 108728 Kun Zou, Yongheng Xu, Jianxing Yu, Yan Pan, Jian Yin, Hanjiang Lai Efficient multi-agent policy adaptation with Bayesian policy reuse and view-invariant contrastive awareness Article Number 108755 Ke Fu, Hao Chen, Yu Wang, Quan Liu, Jian Huang Framework for hierarchical deep reinforcement learning with conceptual embedding Article Number 108769 Yinglong Dai, Zhi Yi, Qiangfu Zhao, Ming Chen, Guojun Wang Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026002315-ga1.jpg] Self-Supervised joint flow and depth estimation via Multi-Cue uncertainty modeling Article Number 108771 Rokia Abdein, Wei Li, Yidan Chen, Chenghao Li, Sumi Helal, Moustafa Youssef A hybrid adaptive preconditioned gradient method with momentum for deep learning Article Number 108758 Zhiyang Zhou, Huisheng Zhang, Zhaoyang Chen Mathematical and Computational Analysis ________________________________ Adversarially robust neural network decision boundaries via tropical geometry Article Number 108624 Kurt Pasque, Christopher Teska, Ruriko Yoshida, Keiji Miura, Jefferson Huang Improved exponential stability of time delay neural networks via separated-matrix-based integral inequalities Article Number 108643 Yuanyuan Zhang, Xinzuo Ma, Seakweng Vong Warm-start or cold-start? A comparison of generalizability in gradient-based hyperparameter tuning Article Number 108647 Yubo Zhou, Jun Shu, Chengli Tan, Haishan Ye, Quanziang Wang, Junmin Liu, Deyu Meng, Ivor Tsang, Guang Dai HpMiX: A Disease ceRNA biomarker prediction framework driven by graph topology-constrained Mixup and hypergraph residual enhancement Article Number 108662 Xinfei Wang, Lan Huang, Yan Wang, Renchu Guan, Zhuhong You, Fengfeng Zhou, Yuqing Li, Yuan Fu Observer-based prescribed-time optimal neural consensus control for six-rotor UAVs: A novel actor-critic reinforcement learning strategy Article Number 108644 Yue Zhou, Liang Cao, Yan Lei, Hongru Ren A two-level neurodynamic approach for heterogeneous networked game under event-triggered quantized mechanism Article Number 108671 Yiyao Xu, Mengxin Wang, Ruoyu Yuan, Sitian Qin Matrix-weighted consensus of fractional-order networked systems via sampled-data control Article Number 108696 Yanyan Ye, Weiling Wang, Wenfeng Jin, Cheng Zhou, Yuanqing Wu, Zhixia Ding Fixed time synchronization of delayed fractional memristive Hopfield neural networks and its fractal dimension analysis Article Number 108722 T.M.C. 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Gowrisankar, Li Tingyi Engineering and Applications ________________________________ Resolving ambiguity in code refinement via conidfine: A conversationally-Aware framework with disambiguation and targeted retrieval Article Number 108650 Aoyu Song, Afizan Azman, Shanzhi Gu, Fangjian Jiang, Jianchi Du, Tailong Wu, Mingyang Geng, Jia Li An interactive axial feature selection network for medical image classification Article Number 108661 Shuai Pang, Chunhua Hu, Juan Zhao, Haifang Yu Dynamic bidirectional data recomposition for efficient road garbage segmentation in semi-supervised learning Article Number 108655 Suheng Peng, Jiacai Liao, Libo Cao Benchmarking autoregressive conditional diffusion models for turbulent flow simulation Article Number 108641 Georg Kohl, Li-Wei Chen, Nils Thuerey A punishment neural network-based acceleration-level joint drift-free scheme for solving constrained motion planning problem of redundant robotic manipulators Article Number 108684 Zhijun Zhang, Xitong Gao, Jinjia Guo A dimensional structure based knowledge distillation method for cross-modal learning Article Number 108672 Lingyu Si, Hongwei Dong, Fan Yang, Shouyou Huang, Junzhi Yu, Fuchun Sun Gradient-informed neural networks: Embedding prior beliefs for learning in low-data scenarios Article Number 108681 Filippo Aglietti, Francesco Della Santa, Andrea Piano, Virginia Aglietti Gender-independent kinship verification network via fuzzy disentangling and multi-metric inference Article Number 108691 Lei Li, Quan Zhou, Shanshan Gao, Chaoran Cui, Zhaoqiang Xia C3Net: A cross-modal collaborative calibration of features for object detection using frames and events Article Number 108651 Yunhua Chen, Jinyu Zhong, Yihao Guo, Zequan Xie, Jinsheng Xiao, Pinghua Chen Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026001139-ga1.jpg] RIT-HetGE: A residue interaction type-aware heterogeneous graph-embedding model for predicting protein thermal stability Article Number 108707 Lingzhi Liu, Yingying Jiang, Yanbin Gu, Shiming Zhao, Yanrui Ding Transforming tabular data into images for deep learning models Article Number 108715 Abdullah Elen, Emre Avu?lu MARINE-Transformer: A General-purpose framework for multivariate ocean time series analysis Article Number 108706 Hao Wang, Xiang Li, Xi Fu, Meihong Yang, Zhigang Zhao, Xiaoming Wu, Yinglong Wang, Prayag Tiwari State-wise linear modulation (SLim): A novel approach for steering large language models Article Number 108708 Basavaraj Sangayya Hiremath, Marco Polignano, Marco Levantesi, Giovanni Semeraro, Ernesto William De Luca, Amos Poznanski Multiplex graph prompt learning and attentive fusion for event graph completion Article Number 108730 Chao Liang, Bang Wang, Chuanhong Zhan, Wei Xiang Implicit hierarchical temporal-spatial residual model for long-term video prediction Article Number 108732 Guiqin Wang, Peng Zhao, Haoran Guo, Yun Zheng, Cong Zhao, Qinghai Guo, Shusen Yang MACTrack: Spatiotemporal context propagation with motion compensation for anti-UAV tracking Article Number 108725 Wanying Xu, Haijiang Sun, Shuai Wang, Xiaowen Zhang, Yong Ji MeshONet: A generalizable and efficient operator learning method for structured mesh generation Article Number 108746 Jing Xiao, Xinhai Chen, Jiaming Peng, Qinglin Wang, Jie Liu GSASN: a graph self-learning attention scores network for spatial modeling of network traffic matrix prediction Article Number 108699 Juan Wu, Chensheng Tong, Jinsong Hu, Hong Tang Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026001619-ga1.jpg] KE-VUM: Knowledge-enhanced video understanding model for fine-grained movie description Article Number 108773 Xiaojing Gu, Gen Xu, Xiaolu Zhang, Yijie Wang, Jiangjian Xiao Graphical abstract [http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image//1-s2.0-S0893608026002352-ga1.jpg] CURRENT EVENTS Article Number 108970 INN/ENNS/JNNS - Membership Applic. 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URL: From riccardo.guidotti at unipi.it Fri Apr 17 06:47:25 2026 From: riccardo.guidotti at unipi.it (Riccardo Guidotti) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:47:25 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: XKDD 2026 - 8th ECML PKDD International Workshop on eXplainable Message-ID: **apologies for cross-posting** XKDD and Beyond 2026 - Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th ECML PKDD International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining on the Validation of Explanations https://xkdd2026.isti.cnr.it/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- co-located with the ECML-PKDD 2026 Conference, Naples, Italy IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission deadline: June 5th, 2026 Accept/Reject Notification: July 5th, 2026 Workshop: September 7th, 2026 CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES XKDD (eXplaining Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining) is a workshop dedicated to eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Data Mining, focusing on methods that explain the behavior and outputs of complex Machine Learning models. This edition focuses on the validation of explanation methods. While numerous XAI techniques have been proposed, the field still lacks a clear and widely accepted evaluation strategy, making it difficult to determine which explanations are reliable and informative. For this reason, we invite contributions that examine how explanation methods can be evaluated and compared across models, tasks, and data distributions. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the assumptions and limitations of existing evaluation metrics and study their behavior across models, tasks, or data distributions. The interplay with ethical values is also an important topic, such as how reliably XAI methods reflect properties including faithfulness, stability, and usefulness. Beyond quantitative evaluation, the workshop also addresses qualitative validation, including expert analysis and real-world use cases. In high-stakes settings involving sensitive data, numerical metrics alone may not reveal whether explanations are faithful, understandable, or aligned with ethical principles. By focusing on validation as a core component of XAI, XKDD aims to strengthen the methodological foundations of explainability in Data Mining and Machine Learning. TOPICS XKDD 2026 invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to explore the latest advancements in explainability, trust, and evaluation of explanation. Join us in shaping the future of ethical and transparent AI-driven decision-making! Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - XAI and evaluation metrics - Qualitative approaches to validate XAI methods - Quantitative approaches to validate XAI methods - XAI for Trustworthy AI - XAI for Social AI - XAI to Align AI with Human Values - XAI for Outlier and Anomaly Detection - XAI methodologies for tabular data, images, text, and time series - XAI for ethical, fair, and transparent AI systems - XAI techniques for enabling unlearning in machine learning models - The role of XAI in privacy preservation and regulatory compliance - Case studies on XAI and unlearning applications in real-world scenarios - XAI for Federated Learning - XAI for Graph-based Approaches - XAI for Visualization - Interpretable Machine Learning - Transparent Data Mining - XAI for Fairness Checking - Multi-level XAI - Explanation, Accountability, and Liability from an Ethical and Legal Perspective XKDD 2026 is a Workshop of the ECML-PKDD Conference: https://ecmlpkdd.org/2026/ SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION The submission link is: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDDWT2026/Submission/Index (choosing the right track corresponding to XKDD 2026) Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) guidelines following the style of the main conference (format). The maximum length of either research or position papers is 16 pages references included. Overlength papers will be rejected without review (papers with smaller page margins and font sizes than specified in the author instructions and set in the style files will also be treated as overlength). We also accept 2-4 pages abstracts (including references) that outline new emerging ideas and/or already published work for presentation-only, to stimulate discussion and collaboration among participants Authors who submit their work to XKDD 2026 commit themselves to present their paper at the workshop in case of acceptance. XKDD 2026 considers the author list submitted with the paper as final. No additions or deletions to this list may be made after paper submission, either during the review period, or in case of acceptance, at the final camera ready stage. Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the workshop. Pre-proceedings will be available online before the workshop. All accepted full papers will be published as post-proceedings in LNCSI and included in the series name Lecture Notes in Computer Science. More info at: https://xkdd2026.isti.cnr.it/ PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS - Francesca Naretto, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy - Francesco Spinnato, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy - Przemyslaw Biecek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Andreas Theissler, Institut f?r Informatik, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany STEERING COMMITTEE - Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa, Italy - Anna Monreale, University of Pisa, Italy - Salvatore Rinzivillo, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - Przemyslaw Biecek, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland VENUE The event will take place at the ECML-PKDD 2026 Conference. 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URL: From krallinger.martin at gmail.com Fri Apr 17 07:35:45 2026 From: krallinger.martin at gmail.com (Martin Krallinger) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:35:45 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: 2nd CFP MultiClinSum-2 (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text Summarization Shared Task In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CFP MultiClinSum-2 (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text Summarization Shared Task https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum The MultiClinSum shared task focuses on the automatic summarization of clinical texts in 15 languages Key Information: - Web: https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum2/ - BioASQ 2026: http://bioasq.org/ - CLEF 2026 Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ - MultiClinSum-2 sample set: https://zenodo.org/records/18663291 Motivation: Iit is becoming increasingly challenging for healthcare professionals, biomedical researchers, and patients to process lengthy clinical documents to gain insights underlying patient conditions. This challenge applies not only to clinical content in English but also for other languages. Use cases of automatic clinical text summarization include summarization of EHRs into key events (diagnoses, medications, and outcomes), medical literature review (summarize key findings from scientific articles), clinical trial screening (summarization of profiles for eligibility assessment covering inclusion/exclusion criteria) or medical coding (summarization of main diagnoses, and procedures for coding workflows). MultiClinSum-2 addresses this need by focusing on the automatic summarization of clinical case reports across 15 languages representing approximately 1.6 billion native speakers globally: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Catalan, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, German, Greek, Dutch, Czech, and Swedish. For evaluation purposes, automatically-generated summaries will be compared against human-generated summaries written by the original clinical authors, using Rouge-2 scores and BERTScore for evaluation assessment. 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URL: From david.schmidt at uni-bielefeld.de Fri Apr 17 08:01:32 2026 From: david.schmidt at uni-bielefeld.de (David Schmidt) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:01:32 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [CfP] WikiKGQA: Wiki-Based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Challenge at ISWC 2026 - Deadline: June 19th (challenge) / July 17th (challenge papers) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce WikiKGQA: Wiki-Based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Challenge co-located with the 25th International Semantic Web Conference (https://iswc2026.semanticweb.org/), Bari, Italy. Challenge website: https://wikikgqa.org The competition takes place on the Codabench platform: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/15358/ Important links and dates: - Training data + challenge platform: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/15358/ - Challenge solution submission: June 19, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - Challenge results: July 10, 2026 - Paper submissions: July 17, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - Paper acceptance notification: August 21, 2026 - Workshop days: October 25 OR 26, 2026 Motivation: KGQA has a long tradition in the Semantic Web community, particularly under the Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) moniker and challenge series. With the rise of LLMs, the performance of state-of-the-art systems has improved dramatically. However, benchmark datasets in the space exhibit well-known limitations, primarily due to the manual cost of creating parallel corpora of natural language questions and structured queries. To address these issues, QAWiki (https://qawiki.org) proposes a collaboratively-edited community resource of hand-crafted question-query pairs, focusing currently on English & Spanish questions answered over Wikidata's SPARQL query service. The motivation is two-fold: (1) to evaluate KGQA systems over a hand-crafted collection of multilingual question-query pairs over Wikidata, and (2) to build a community centered around QAWiki, to expand and improve it, and thus expand and improve the resources available for training and benchmarking of KGQA systems. Task Description: Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) offers a promising alternative to end-to-end QA systems by obtaining truthful answers from trusted and well-maintained knowledge sources, such as Wikidata, without losing the flexibility of natural language input. Nevertheless, the creation of large high-quality KGQA benchmarks remains a challenge, with many benchmarks being small, containing errors or repetitive questions that are rarely fixed. Therefore, building on QAWiki, this challenge aims to make the creation of KGQA benchmarks a collaborative effort, just like Wikidata itself. For evaluation, a private test dataset will be created, which would be integrated with QAWiki after the challenge. Over the years, we aim to build an evolving high-quality KGQA dataset of increasing size. English and Spanish queries will be ranked separately, each participant can choose to participate only for one or for both languages. The task itself consists of two sub-tasks for each language: 1. KGQA using only the input question 2. KGQA using the input question together with the metadata QAWiki provides, i.e., entity and property annotations In both sub-tasks, the goal is to generate an answer set for that question based on the version of Wikidata accessible via the WikiKGQA SPARQL endpoint or using the available Wikidata dump (more details at the Codabench competition page). As an evaluation metric, Macro QALD F1 scores will be used to evaluate the result sets. The full training data is available under https://www.codabench.org/competitions/15358/ as an extended version of QALD_JSON (https://www.nliwod.org/challenge#task-1-multilingual-question-answering-over-knowledge-graphs). Submission Guidelines: We invite submissions of English challenge papers (up to 8 pages excluding references). All submissions should be formatted in the CEUR layout https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw A prerequisite for submitting a challenge paper is to submit challenge solutions of your approach to at least one of the tracks on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1535. Additionally, each participant/team has to let the organizers know their team name such that Codabench submissions can be linked to paper submissions later. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikikgqa2026 Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/15358/ Google Groups list: https://groups.google.com/g/wikikgqa-challenge-list/ The central communication platform for the challenge (aside from the website) is the corresponding Google Groups list: https://groups.google.com/g/wikikgqa-challenge-list/ For private concerns or questions, please contact David Maria Schmidt (david.schmidt at uni-bielefeld.de) or any other organizer directly. Follow us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikikgqa/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wikikgqa.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@wikikgqa Workshop Organizers: - Shakeeb Arzoo, CRISIL Ltd., S&P Global Ratings - Debayan Banerjee, Leuphana University L?neburg, Germany - Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany - Aidan Hogan, DCC, Universidad de Chile - Alberto Moya Loustaunau, DCC, Universidad de Chile - David Maria Schmidt, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany - Ricardo Usbeck, Leuphana University L?neburg, Germany -- David Maria Schmidt Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) Universit?t Bielefeld Inspiration 1 33619 Bielefeld Germany Mail: david.schmidt at uni-bielefeld.de Web: https://davidmariaschmidt.de/ From vivekatcube at gmail.com Fri Apr 17 10:47:46 2026 From: vivekatcube at gmail.com (Vivek Sharma) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:47:46 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?=F0=9F=93=A3_Exciting_news=3A_our_3-day?= =?utf-8?q?_TUS_Workshop_is_coming!?= Message-ID: ? Exciting news: our 3-day TUS Workshop is coming! Join us at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, from 3?5 June 2026 for an immersive deep dive into *transcranial ultrasound stimulation*. Whether you're starting a PhD or internship with TUS, a PI scoping out new methods, someone from industry exploring equipment, or simply curious about the field, this workshop is for you. We'll take you from the underlying physics all the way through to hands-on protocols, so no prior TUS experience is needed. The programme runs across three days, covering theory, practical training, and a closing expert symposium bringing together leading voices in ultrasonic neuromodulation. 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The selected candidate will be supervised by Jorge Almeida (University of Coimbra) and Michael Tarr (Carnegie Mellon University), and will work at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and NeuroAI. The selected candidate and the supervision team (Jorge and Mike) will jointly apply to the CMU Portugal affiliated PhD program. Project Overview: ALIGN aims to develop human-centered evaluation frameworks for artificial intelligence systems by examining how representations in AI models align with human conceptual and neural representations. The project combines behavioral experiments, fMRI, and computational modeling to study representational geometry in both biological and artificial systems. Research Topics Include: NeuroAI and human?AI representational alignment fMRI and multivariate analysis (RSA, encoding models) Vision and vision-language models (e.g., CLIP, DINO, ViT) Human conceptual representations and categorization Cross-cultural cognitive neuroscience Program Details: After a joint application, this position will be funded through the CMU Portugal Affiliated PhD Program (FCT), which provides: Full tuition coverage Monthly stipend (up to 4 years) Up to 12 months of research at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Application Deadline: The application to the CMU Portugal Affiliated PhD Program (FCT) is May 12, 2026. Interested individuals should contact Jorge Almeida and Mike Tarr ASAP and never later than April 30. Important: Applicants must ensure recognition of their Master?s degree in Portugal. 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In the hope to free more time for research they increasingly rely on generative AI, which may produce runnable code without the need to fully understand it. Such code can neither be reused nor trusted to work correctly and, as a result, scientists are hesitant to share it and publish it. In this course we will present a selection of advanced programming techniques and best practices which are standard in the industry, but especially tailored to the needs of a programming scientist. Lectures are interactive and allow participants to acquire direct hands-on experience with the topics. Participants will work in pairs throughout the school and will team up to practice the newly learned skills in a real programming project ? an entertaining computer game. We use the Python programming language for the entire course. This school is targeted at PhD students, postdocs and more senior researchers from all fields, who do a lot of programming in their academic life, but were never taught how to do so properly. Competence in programming and basic knowledge of Python and git is assumed. Participants are required to work through the proposed introductory material before. ? We strive for a welcoming and sociable atmosphere for scientists from all walks of life. In particular, we focus on recruiting an international and gender-balanced pool of students. Date & Location =============== 30 August ? 06 September, 2026. Prague Czechia Application =========== You can apply online: https://aspp.school Application deadline: 23:59 UTC, Sunday 03 May 2026. There will be no deadline extension, so be sure to apply on time. Invitations and notifications of rejection will be sent by Sunday 24 May, 2026. Participation is for free, i.e. no fee is charged! Participants however should take care of travel, living, and accommodation expenses by themselves. Program ======= ? Large-scale collaborative scientific code development with git and code forges ? Testing and debugging scientific code ? Organizing, documenting, and distributing scientific code ? Data in scientific programming ? Scientific programming patterns in Python ? What every scientist should know about computer architecture ? Writing parallel applications in Python ? Programming in teams Faculty ======= ? Aitor Morales-Gregorio, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia ? Anna-Lena Eckert, Translational Computational Psychiatry Group, University College London, UK ? Carlos Cernuda, Data Analysis and Cybersecurity, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain ? Guillermo Aguilar, Department of Computational Psychology, Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany ? Jenni Rinker, Department of Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark ? Lisa Schwetlick, Laboratoire des Syst?mes Perceptifs, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris, France ? Pamela Hathway, freelance consultant, N?rnberg, Germany ? Pietro Berkes, NAGRA Kudelski, Lausanne, Switzerland ? Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany ? Tiziano Zito, Compilers and Programming Languages, Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany ? Verjinia Metodieva, Charit??Universit?tsmedizin and Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Germany ? Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek, Amutable GmbH, Warsaw, Poland Organizers ========== Head of the organization for ASPP and responsible for the scientific program: ? Tiziano Zito, Compilers and Programming Languages, Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany Organization team in Prague: ? Aitor Morales-Gregorio, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia Funding and Sponsors ==================== ASPP2026 is hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, Czechia. Website: https://aspp.school Contact: info at aspp.school From jorgecbalmeida at gmail.com Sun Apr 19 18:17:59 2026 From: jorgecbalmeida at gmail.com (Jorge Almeida) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:17:59 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Fourth edition of the Seeing and Acting Workshop (SAW). University of Coimbra, Portugal, 24-26 September 2026 Message-ID: Dear colleague, (Sorry for the cross posting and mass email) *Registration* and *abstract submission* are now *open* for the fourth edition of the *Seeing and Acting Workshop (SAW )* that will take place at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, *September 24-26, 2026 in Coimbra, Portugal*. For the fourth edition of SAW, we have, once again, an exciting and stimulating group of Invited Speakers: ? *Marina Bedny*, Johns Hopkins University, USA ? *Jeffrey Bowers*, University of Bristol, , UK ? *Tim Kietzmann*, University of Osnabr?ck, Germany ? *Robeta Klatzky*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ? *Kami Koldewyn*, Bangor University, UK ? *Marius Peelen*, Radboud University, Netherlands ? *Elizabeth Tibbetts*, University of Michigan, USA The goal of SAW is to provide a forum for cognitive science/neuroscience researchers from a range of perspectives who are interested in Perception and Action, broadly construed, to come together to discuss their research and develop new directions and collaborations. The format of the workshop is intended to encourage extensive discussion among participants. To this end, we have scheduled only a small number of invited speakers, and there are no concurrent talks. In addition to the individual seminars, there will be a poster session for students, postdocs and other researchers to present their work. *Abstract submission for posters closes on July 30, 2026*. The five best abstracts whose first author is a student or postdoc will receive a 200 euro award sponsored by NeuroVerse. Registration for the workshop will be open in a couple of weeks. To register, submit a poster abstract, or for more information, please visit: https://www.uc.pt/cogbooster/saw/2026/ Please note that there are a limited number of places (~120), which will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. To secure your place, please register as soon as possible. Note that you can register now and submit an abstract later (but before the July 30, 2026 deadline). SAW is powered by the ERA Chair CogBooster, and by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. 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It has established itself as one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs, and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries.** https://www.bernstein-conference.de/ ____ ** *Satellite Workshops* Satellite Workshops at the Bernstein Conference 2026 provide a forum to discuss topical research questions, novel scientific approaches, and challenges in computational neuroscience and related fields. Ideally, the format should foster extensive scientific discussions and debates, and go beyond a mere series of talks. https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/call-for-satellite-workshops/ ____ ** *Important Dates* Satellite Workshops: *September 28 - 29, 2026* ?Monday, Sep 28, 14:00 - 18:30 CEST ?Tuesday, Sep 29, 8:30 - 12:30 CEST Main Conference: September 29 - October 1, 2026 Deadline for Satellite Workshop proposal submission: *April 29, 2026 at 15:00 CEST* Notification of Satellite Workshop acceptance: May 2026 ____ ** *Benefits* For each workshop, the organizers will receive *one fee waiver* for the Satellite Workshops, which they can award to one of the workshop speakers. We strongly recommend that the waiver is issued given consideration to aspects of inclusion. ** ____ *INVITED SPEAKERS* Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands) Benjamin Grewe (Institute of Neuroinformatics of the ETH and UZH, Switzerland) Andreas Herz (LMU Munich, Germany) Ewelina Knapska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland) John Krakauer (Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal) Jeehyun Kwag (Seoul National University, Korea) Anna Levina (University of T?bingen, Germany) Richard Naud (University of Ottawa, Canada) Bence ?lveczky (Harvard University, USA) Sandro Romani (Janelia Research Campus, USA) ____ *CONFERENCE COMMITTEE* Stefan Rotter (Conference Chair) Matthias Kaschube (Conference Host) Tim Vogels (Program Chair) Panayiota Poirazi (Program Vice Chair) Katharina Wilmes (Workshop Chair) Juan ?lvaro Gallego(Workshop Vice Chair) & Nicolas Brunel, Alex Cayco-Gajic, Monika Jadi, Jennifer Li, Scott Linderman, Wiktor M?ynarski, Richard Naud, Joseph Raimondo, Tatyana Sharpee, Taro Toyoizumi, Eleni Vassilaki ____ For any further questions, please contact: bernstein.conference at fz-juelich.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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AI-Native and Data-Driven Management is important and promising for Measurement in Networking since it will enable automatic optimization and network management. Over the years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become increasingly pervasive in networking and communications, playing a key role in the development, deployment, and management of next-generation networks. Current research trends show how AI can enhance 5G networks at at the RAN, Edge, and Core layers, using measured data coming from multiple entities. While AI adoption in 5G has been an evolving process, 6G is envisioned as truly AI-native. The next generation of mobile networks will embed "connected intelligence" throughout its architecture, leveraging AI for network design, optimization, and autonomous operation. In 6G, AI will not only enhance network performance but also enable and support AI-driven services running seamlessly across the entire network from the user equipment to the network core. Through this AI-native framework, the network will be capable of analyzing real-time data to jointly orchestrate functions such as scheduling, network slicing, and strategic planning. AI technologies in fact, expand new potential in the optimization of the full end-to-end chain of the physical layer, from the transmitter to the receiver, enabling self-optimization by combining advanced sensing and data collection also introducing the capability to consider network metrics, such as current spectrum, power conditions, and number of connections, evolving because of signal reflections off buildings and weather patterns for constant re-optimization. Monitoring of real-time environmental and contextual data is a promising enabler for ML-based air interface optimization, leading to more efficient spectrum use and reduced latency. Not only, nowadays, AI is now further enhanced and made more interpretable through XAI methodologies, which allow us to better understand how the algorithms operate and which features are most relevant for predictions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Measurements for 6G, beyond-5G, and next-generation communications * Trustworthy AI and explainable measurement approaches * AI/ML-driven network measurement and diagnostics * Software-defined and virtualized network measurement * Big Data analytics for network traffic, QoS, and QoE evaluation * Security, privacy, and reliability network measurements in 5G and 6G ***Timeline*** Paper registration: April 21, 2026 Initial manuscript deadline: April 21, 2026 ***Manuscript submission information*** Authors are invited to submit a Full Paper (4-6 pages) reporting original research of a theoretical or applied nature using the online submission system, EDAS. 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LODAS 2026 aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of learning and optimization to address challenges in scalability, reliability, and efficiency for distributed AI systems. We welcome contributions addressing (but not limited to): * Federated, distributed, and edge learning * Communication-efficient and resource-aware AI * Multi-objective and constrained optimization * Workflow scheduling and system-level optimization * Agentic AI and autonomous multi-agent systems * Foundation models under system constraints * Trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and robust AI * Cyber-physical systems, IoT, and digital twins ====================================== Submission Information ====================================== Submissions must be made via EasyChair (details on the workshop website). Formatting: IEEE A4 Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. ====================================== Paper types: ====================================== * Long papers: 7-8 pages (research contributions) * Short/position papers: 4-6 pages (work-in-progress or visionary ideas) * Poster papers (undergraduate): 1-2 pages ====================================== Important Dates ====================================== * Submission deadline (extended): April 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready & registration: May 15, 2026 * Workshop date: June 9-12, 2026 (exact session date to be announced) ====================================== Organizing Committee ====================================== * Jamal Toutouh - University of M?laga, Spain * Gabriel Luque - University of M?laga, Spain * Diego Daniel Pedroza-Perez - University of M?laga, Spain We warmly encourage you to submit your latest work and to share this call with colleagues and relevant research mailing lists. Best regards, LODAS 2026 Workshop Organizing Team https://jamaltoutouh.github.io/lodas2026/ From nsmattei at gmail.com Mon Apr 20 11:55:30 2026 From: nsmattei at gmail.com (Nicholas Mattei) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:55:30 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms at IJCAI 2026 Message-ID: Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms at IJCAI 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 3rd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms (SCaLA-26) will take place at IJCAI during August 2026 in Bremen, Germany. It will feature technical sessions, a keynote speaker, and opportunities to forge collaborations between researchers working in social choice and those working in machine learning. The website and submission instructions can be found at the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/scala26 The submission deadline is May 8, 2026. We encourage submissions of fully developed research projects, or extended abstracts representing preliminary explorations of novel ideas. Submissions should include components from both fields of social choice and machine learning (or closely related topics). Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Computational social choice - Fair Division - Matching - Voting theory - Sortition - Clustering - Ensemble learning - Explainable ML - Language models - Learning preferences - PAC-learning Examples of interesting connections between these topics include, but are not at all limited to: - Using machine learning to learn new mechanisms for matching - Novel uses of social choice for ensemble learning - Exploring the application of fair division concepts to clustering problems, or vice-versa - Applying multi-winner voting concepts to multi-class classification tasks Organizing Committee Ben Armstrong Saar Cohen Nicholas Mattei Zoi Terzopoulou -- *Nicholas Mattei* Associate Professor, Tulane University nsmattei at tulane.edu | www.nickmattei.net Stanley Thomas Hall | 305B +1 504 247 1416 Department of Computer Science Tulane University 6823 St Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They combine advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and edge computing, 5G/6G networks, robotics, and data science to create adaptive, efficient, and human-centered solutions. These technologies are transforming industries such as healthcare, transportation, energy, and smart cities by enabling intelligent decision-making, real-time responsiveness, and sustainable development. As they continue to evolve, emerging and intelligent systems are shaping the foundation of next-generation digital societies, offering both opportunities and challenges in terms of security, ethics, and large-scale deployment. The International Conference on Emerging and Intelligent Technologies and Systems (EITS 2026) will bring together leading researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to present and discuss the latest advances, applications, and challenges in intelligent technologies and next-generation systems. EITS 2026 serves as a premier forum for innovation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and knowledge exchange across academia and industry. We invite the submission of high-quality, original research papers describing innovative ideas, breakthrough results, and practical applications. with special interest in, but not limited to, the following: ? Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Generative AI ? Intelligent Communication, Networking and Computing Systems ? Generative AI, Foundation Models, and Large Language Models ? Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing ? Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Systems ? Artificial Intelligence Systems Security ? Computational Language and Human-Centered Systems ? Emerging Applications, Ethics, Society, and Governance ? Robotics, Intelligent Automation and Sustainable Systems *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the EITS Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. 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Please consider submitting a paper and attending SAB 2026 Best regards, Jeff and Oliver ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Animals to Animats 18: The 18th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2026) Where: TU Berlin, Germany When: 19-22 October 2026 Website: https://www.sab-conference.org Important Dates Submission deadline: 15 May 2026 Notification of acceptance:19 June 2026 Camera-ready paper version due: 17 July 2026 Conference takes place: 19-22 October 2026 Objectives: The interdisciplinary conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats (SAB) 2026 brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, robotics, behavioral biology, psychology, neuroscience, and many other fields. The conference offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas across disciplinary boundaries. We believe this exchange is necessary to advance our understanding of the mechanisms that enable general and robust behavior in natural animals and artificial agents. The conference focuses on characterizing and comparing organizational principles and architectures underlying adaptive behavior in animals and animats. Animats denote the conceptual connections between animals and synthetic agents. The conference therefore actively seeks submissions that bridge several of the aforementioned disciplines, combining their methodological foundations to arrive at novel insights and approaches. Of particular interest are research projects which connect natural behavior to synthetic agents, including those leveraging modern machine learning and deep learning techniques for behavioral modeling, analysis, and synthesis. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue in the journal Adaptive Behavior and will be published with Springer Nature. SAB accepts submissions in several tracks: - Conference papers are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings ?From Animals to Animats 18: SAB 2026? Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Nature. - Conference papers without inclusion in the proceedings. These papers will undergo a light peer-review. Papers will be included on the conference website but they will not be formally published so that your research results can still appear in your disciplinary journals. - Poster abstracts are peer-reviewed for general suitability of the content. Accepted posters will be presented at a poster session and, time permitting, will be able to present a spotlight presentation to the conference attendees. - Position papers are peer reviewed; they offer a novel, visionary perspective on the convergence of different branches of behavior-based research in both artificial and biological systems. These papers are supposed to trigger a lively discussion. - Workshop or Tutorial proposals will be peer reviewed. Workshops and Tutorials will take place on September 20. The event should be relevant to the expected audience of SAB. Topics of interest: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Computational neuroscience o Action selection, behavioral sequencing o Communication and language o Emotion and motivation o Internal models and representations o Reinforcement learning o Sensory-motor coordination, motor control o Software agents and virtual creatures Philosophical Issues o Consciousness o Ethics o Mind/Body problem Robotics o Autonomous robotics o Bio-inspired and hybrid robotics o Cognitive robotics o Developmental robotics o Humanoid robotics o Navigation and mapping o Neurorobotics Self-Organizing Systems o Body and brain co-evolution o Collective and social behavior o Dynamical systems approaches o Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches o Self-assembling and self-replication Paper and Abstract Submission: Author Guidelines for All Tracks All submissions must be written in English and formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Please refer to the LNCS Springer style guide for style templates and formatting instructions. We strongly encourage authors to prepare papers using LaTeX. The LNCS package for LaTeX and the instructions file can be downloaded directly from Springer?s website. https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines Additional Guidelines for Conference and Position Papers All submitted papers (conference papers with and without inclusion in the proceedings, as well as position papers) must not exceed 12 pages, including references. Additional Guidelines for Poster Abstracts All submitted poster abstracts must not exceed 3 pages, including references. How to Submit All submissions will be handled through the CMT (Conference Management Toolkit) system. Authors must create a CMT account before submitting their paper. (For instructions: https://sab2026.scioi.de/call-for-contributions/ ) Where to Submit SAB submission website (CMT) https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSAB2026%2FSubmission%2FIndex Paper Review & Acceptance: All submitted full papers will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, originality, quality of presentation, and technical quality. The authors of all accepted papers are kindly requested to revise their papers following the reviewers? comments. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research work either as an oral presentation or as a poster. Workshop Tutorial Proposals: We will consider proposals for workshops and tutorials. Workshops and tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference (19 October 2025) and must be held in-person. Proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee. To submit a workshop or tutorial, please follow the below template and submit here: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SAB2026/Track/6/Submission/Create Template Similar to paper submissions, please follow the LNCS Springer style guide for templates and formatting instructions. For your workshop or tutorial proposal, please include the following information, as displayed on our website. https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines https://sab2026.scioi.de/call-for-contributions/ Publication: All accepted papers (oral and poster presentations) will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. https://link.springer.com/conference/sab Program Committee: Francisco Javier Bellas Bouza ? Universidade da Coru?a Maren Bennewitz ? Universit?t Bonn Marcel Brass ? Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Lola Ca?amero ? CY Cergy Paris Universit? Nikolaus Correll ? University of Colorado Boulder Richard Jos? Duro Fern?ndez ? Universidade da Coru?a Heiko Hamann ? Universit?t Konstanz Alex Kacelnik ? University of Oxford Jens Krause ? Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Oliver Kroemer ? Carnegie Mellon University Poramate Manoonpong ? Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology Justus Piater ? Universit?t Innsbruck Tony Prescott ? University of Sheffield Pawel Romanczuk ? Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Gregor Sch?ner ? Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum Dylan Shell ? Texas A&M University Gaurav Sukhatme ? University of Southern California Jochen Triesch ? Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Elio Tuci ? Universit? de Namur Myra Wilson ? Aberystwyth University Florentin W?rg?tter ? Universit?t G?ttingen Program Chairs: Oliver Brock ? Technische Universit?t Berlin Jeff Krichmar ? University of California, Irvine The conference will be held at Science of Intelligence/TU Berlin and the Universit?t der K?nste (UDK), Berlin, Germany. We look forward to welcoming you at SAB 2026! 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As key dimensions of trustworthiness, explainability, transparency, and safety (ExTraSafe) are particularly prominent and extensive AI research has focused on developing novel methods to enhance ExTraSafe properties of AI models and systems. The goal of this workshop is to engage in transdisciplinary discussion between AI research, human-AI interaction, AI practitioners, and law. Key topics of interest are (but are not limited to): - Legal regulation of AI systems, in particular papers on the legal compliance of AI systems in certain application domains and design implications of legal regulations. - Practitioners' perspectives on ExTraSafe properties of AI systems in high-stakes application domains, e.g. automotive industry, industrial automation, healthcare, education, or agriculture. - Analysis of ExTraSafe properties across the entire system lifecycle, especially with respect to architecture considerations, algorithm design, and evaluation practices. - Approaches to social explainable artificial intelligence (sXAI), taking into account heterogeneous explanatory needs, social roles and contexts, incremental multi-step explanations, and/or multimodality. - Novel approaches to the evaluation of ExTraSafe properties, especially in user and field studies. Submission Formats We invite two types of submissions: - Research papers (up to 8 pages + references in Springer LNCS layout ; shorter papers are explicitly welcome), which will receive 10 min presentation time + 5 min discussion time in the workshop - Discussion entries (up to 5000 characters of description directly in easy chair), which whil receive 5 min presentation (impulse) time + 10 min discussion time in the workshop Submission will be possible via easychair (link will soon be available on the workshop website): https://fb-ki.gi.de/extrasafe For the research papers, we aim for a publication as workshop proceedings at CEUR. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2026 - Early-Bird Registration Deadline: June 08, 2026 - Workshop Date: August 11 or 12 (tba), 2026 Best regards Benjamin Paa?en (Bielefeld University; DFKI), bpaassen at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Main Contact Person) Vera Schmitt (TU Berlin) Thomas Kosch (Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin) Julius Sch?ning (Osnabr?ck University of Applied Sciences) Hanna Drimalla (Bielefeld University) Florian Rabe (University Erlangen Nuremberg) Tim Schrills (University of L?beck) Daniel Neider (TU Dortmund University; Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security; Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence) Peter Fettke (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI); Saarland University) -- Jun. Prof. Benjamin Paa?en Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning Faculty of Technology Bielefeld University preferred pronouns: they/them Office: CITEC 1.220 Inspiration 1 33619 Bielefeld Germany Tel: +49 521 106 87838 e-mail: bpaassen at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de website: bpaassen.gitlab.io From mattias.ohlsson at mgeo.lu.se Tue Apr 21 07:04:25 2026 From: mattias.ohlsson at mgeo.lu.se (Mattias Ohlsson) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:04:25 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Computational Science In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Community, Lund University is announcing two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Computational Science: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:915058/type:job/where:4/apply:1 In order to support the formation of a research team, resources corresponding to one doctoral studentship and one postdoctoral position, will be linked to the appointment. The successful candidate will be able to choose a suitable host environment within Lund University. One such environment is Computational Science for Health and Environment, https://www.cec.lu.se/research/research-themes/computational-science-health-and-environment, with the research groups: ? Artificial intelligence with medical applications ? ? Bionanophysics ? ? Computational biophysics ? ? Systems biology modelling ? ? Uncertainty and evidence ? ? Algorithms for spectroscopic data ? ? Quantum computing ? To apply, follow the link: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:915058/type:job/where:4/apply:1 Sincerely Yours, Professor Mattias Ohlsson Professor Anders Irb?ck Professor Carsten Peterson Mattias Ohlsson - mattias.ohlsson at mgeo.lu.se Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lund University S?lvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden N?r du skickar e-post till Lunds universitet behandlar vi dina personuppgifter i enlighet med g?llande lagstiftning. 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Call for Participation ===================================== ? 4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction @ ICRA 2026 June 5, 2026 | Vienna, Austria | Hybrid Event https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/ Dear Colleagues, Researchers, and Students, We are delighted to invite you to participate in the NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction Student Competition and Poster Presentation, held as part of the 4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026), on June 5, 2026, in Vienna, Austria. The workshop will be organized in a hybrid format, welcoming both onsite and remote participation from around the world. ===================================== ? About the Workshop ===================================== NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral psychology, robotics, artificial intelligence, wearable technologies, and human-centered design to create human-robot systems that are not only high-performing, but also intuitive, ergonomic, emotionally resonant, and cognitively aligned with the human brain and body. Rather than focusing only on technical performance, NeuroDesign emphasizes designing interactions that feel natural, adaptive, and socially meaningful. The workshop will feature cutting-edge research, live demonstrations, and interdisciplinary discussion on topics including brain-computer interfaces, wearable and assistive robotics, neuroergonomics, embodied AI, human-AI co-adaptation, affective and social robotics, soft robotics, exosuits, and human augmentation. ===================================== ? Suggested Submission Topics ===================================== We warmly welcome submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics: * Affective and Social Robotics * Brain-Machine / Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) * Wearable and Assistive Robots * Exoskeletons and Rehabilitation Systems * Human-AI Co-adaptation * Embodied AI / Large Language Models for HRI * VR/AR/XR and Metaverse-based Interaction * Haptics, Teleoperation, and Sensory Feedback * Cognitive and Physical HRI (cHRI / pHRI) * Neuroergonomics and Human Factors * Soft Robotics and Bionic Systems * Smart Environments and Pervasive Computing * Multimodal Interfaces: Gesture, Speech, Emotion Recognition * RoboEthics, Inclusion, and DEI in HRI * Adaptive Wearables, Robot Skins, and RoboFashion * Supernumerary Limbs, Human 2.0, and Intelligence Augmentation * Any work that meaningfully connects minds, bodies, and robots ===================================== ? NeuroDesign in HRI Student Competition ===================================== The NeuroDesign in HRI Student EXPO & Competition is now open for submissions. This hybrid showcase invites undergraduate, master?s, and PhD students to present innovative concepts, prototypes, systems, and exploratory studies in HRI, BCI, neuro-inspired design, and related fields. To reserve a spot for the 5-minute pitch presentation, participants may submit any one or any combination of the following: (1) Video Abstract A 100-word summary plus a 1-2 minute video overview (2) Slide Deck A 100-word summary plus 5 informative slides (3) Extended Abstract A 2-page write-up in IEEE RAS format ? Finalists and Presentation Format Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and approximately 10 projects will be selected for the final on-stage or online 5-minute pitch presentations. Finalists may participate in person, via Zoom, or by pre-recorded presentation. The selected finalists will be offered poster/demo space at the workshop venue, and posters for virtual participation will also be printed and exhibited onsite. We especially encourage submissions from students who have already presented related work at ICRA 2026 or published elsewhere, as this workshop provides an excellent opportunity to further increase the visibility of their research. ? Awards Awards for the Student Competition include: ? Best Innovation in HRI NeuroDesign * 1st Prize: ?500 * 2nd Prize: ?250 * 3rd Prize: ?125 ? Most Popular Project Award * 1st Prize: Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB RAM) * 2nd Prize: Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ (13 TOPS) In addition, the remaining finalists will each receive a ?50 honorable mention award, and all finalists will receive certificates. ? Important Dates ? Student Competition * Submission Deadline: May 3, 2026 * Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2026 * Competition Day: June 5, 2026 ? Submission Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHr36BmtfTxLbjHSmiY1CYapUiZPXHgsnDIXzXLjf0Kg_-Vw/viewform ===================================== ? Poster Track ===================================== In addition to the competition, we also welcome submissions to the Poster Track for participants who prefer not to enter the competition. Selected poster submissions will be invited for an onsite or online spotlight presentation during the workshop. The Poster Track is intended for short "original" research papers. Authors should prepare their manuscripts as short papers (6-8 pages) using the Springer Nature proceedings format. We are currently exploring the possibility of publishing the workshop proceedings with Springer Nature. Alternatively, we will publish proceedings on arXiv. Please note that these workshop proceedings are separate from the main ICRA conference proceedings. Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ? Poster Awards Top poster submissions will be recognized with special awards. The top three Poster Award winners will receive the following prizes: * 1st Prize: Full APC waiver for Frontiers in Robotics and AI (open-access journal) * 2nd Prize: ?125 * 3rd Prize: DIY Neuroscience Kit - Pro ? Important Dates ? Poster Track * Submission Deadline: May 3, 2026 * Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2026 * Workshop Day: June 5, 2026 ? Submission Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4w6Y4YC_NBpV6SKYY_5aoE0bi5dacbyqbdTlYbTIJ6jVA7g/viewform ===================================== ? Onsite Participation Travel Support ===================================== We strongly encourage onsite participation. For competition and poster presentation participants who wish to attend in person, we offer ?50 travel support to help offset travel and workshop registration costs for ICRA. ===================================== Why Participate? ===================================== The NeuroDesign in HRI Workshop offers a unique interdisciplinary platform to connect with leading researchers, industry innovators, designers, and student creators who are shaping the future of human-machine synergy. Whether you join us onsite or remotely, you will have the opportunity to share your work, receive valuable feedback, build new collaborations, and contribute to a growing community at the intersection of brains, bodies, AI, and robots. We warmly encourage students, early-career researchers, and interdisciplinary teams to submit their work and join us in Vienna for this exciting event. 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These challenges are reflected in the corresponding sub- fields of machine learning, signal processing, multi-modal techniques, and human-machine interaction. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics: ? Information retrieval for multimedia heritage ? Automated archaeology and heritage data processing ? NLP and knowledge graphs ? Multi-modal deep learning, generative modeling ? Time series analysis for heritage data ? Heritage visualization, virtualization and narratives ? Smart digitization and reconstruction of heritage data ? Open heritage data and bench-marking The scope of targeted applications is extensive and includes: ? Analysis, archaeometry of artifacts ? Diagnosis and monitoring for restoration and preventive conservation ? Geosciences / Geomatics for cultural heritage ? Inclusive education ? Smart and sustainable tourism ? Urban planning ? Digital Twins Important dates (AoE) ? Paper submission: July 16, 2026 ? Author acceptance notification: August 6, 2026 ? Camera-Ready: August 20, 2026 ? Workshop date: TBA (November 10 or 14, 2026) Special Highlights Best Paper Award. Following tradition, SUMAC 2026 will also be awarding a best paper award, accompanied with a certificate and a trophy. Submission guidelines Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work (full paper) as well as work in progress (short paper). Two submission formats are accepted: a) 4 pages plus 2-page reference (short paper); or b) 8 pages plus up to 2-page reference (full paper). They must be encoded as PDF using the ACM Article Template of the main conference ACM Multimedia 2026, see https://2026.acmmm.org/site/author-instructions.html. Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the ?double-blind? review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop papers will be published as Open Access articles. Organizers Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab, IGN Geodata Paris, Gustave Eiffel University, France) Edgar Roman-Rangel (ITAM, Mexico) Li Weng (Zhejiang Financial College, China) Looking forward to hearing from you at SUMAC! The workshop organizers -- Valerie Gouet-Brunet Senior researcher / DR1 Minist?re de la Transition Ecologique LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel, Geodata Paris, IGN (French mapping agency) https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human?s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitate the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2026 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2026 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2026 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FMEC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. 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Submit your work to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026, held in Granada, Spain, from December 2 to 4, 2026. ? Important Dates * Submission Deadline: September 2, 2026 * Tutorials: December 1, 2026 * Conference: December 2-4, 2026 ? Submission Options * ? Full Papers (max 12 pages) ? Springer Proceedings Publication * ? Extended Abstracts (max 4 pages) ? Book of Abstracts with ISBN ? Selected papers will be invited to journals including: * Applied Network Science * Advances in Complex Systems * Complex Systems * Entropy * PLOS Complex Systems * PLOS one * Social Network Analysis and Mining ? Submit your paper ? More info We look forward to your contribution to this dynamic community! Warm regards, The COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026 Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.goodman at imperial.ac.uk Wed Apr 22 13:57:07 2026 From: d.goodman at imperial.ac.uk (Goodman, Dan) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:57:07 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: neuromorphic / spiking neural network position starting Oct 2026 for 36 months Message-ID: We are hiring for a research assistant or postdoc to do energy efficient AI, spiking neural networks and neuromorphic computing, with me, Christos Bouganis and George Constantinides at Imperial College London. Deadline for applications is May 15th. Feel free to email me informally, or apply at the link below. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=27677&jobTitle=Research+Assistant+/+Research+Associate+in+Energy-Efficient+AI,+Spiking+Neural+Networks+and+Neuromorphic+Computing Some more details below (also at the link above). Dan Goodman About the role We are seeking a Research Assistant (a Masters graduate wanting to undertake a PhD) or Research Associate (a PhD graduate wanting to undertake a postdoc). Our aim is to explore new approaches to energy-efficient artificial intelligence based on temporal neural computation. The project investigates how spiking neural networks, temporal coding, and learned neural delays can enable accurate computation with extremely low-precision weights, potentially unlocking a new generation of ultra-efficient AI hardware. Working at the intersection of machine learning, computational neuroscience, and digital hardware design, the successful candidate will contribute to developing neural architectures in which time (spike timing and delays) replaces numerical precision and memory movement as the key computational resource. The project will combine algorithm development with hardware-aware modelling and evaluation on FPGA-based platforms. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help define new approaches to temporal neural computation and energy-efficient AI. This role provides an exciting opportunity to work on fundamental questions in neuromorphic and energy-efficient AI, while developing techniques that could translate into future AI accelerators and edge-AI technologies. The role will be affiliated with NeuroWare, the new national Innovation and Knowledge Centre in Neuromorphic Computation, providing the post-holder access to a rich network of industrial and academic collaborators and routes to direct impact. Pre-doctoral candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates appointed as Research Assistant will have the opportunity to register for a PhD during the appointment, subject to standard university procedures. What you would be doing In this role, you will investigate neural architectures that exploit temporal coding and learned delays to enable efficient computation on digital hardware. You will develop and evaluate spiking neural network models, explore training methods for delay-based computation, and analyse how temporal representations trade off with weight precision and memory usage. You will primarily be collaborating with three Imperial College academics: Prof Christos Bouganis, Prof George A. Constantinides and Dr Dan Goodman, who each bring leading expertise relevant to this research programme. You will implement models in software frameworks for neural simulation and machine learning, and work with hardware-aware efficiency metrics to evaluate energy, memory, and latency trade-offs. The project will also involve exploring how these architectures map to digital hardware platforms, including FPGA-based systems. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The operations are gating (does an arriving signal cross threshold into the processing cycle?), contextualization (is the admitted signal placed within the globally broadcast representation of prior completed cycles?), resolution (is the deviation between prior expectation and arriving signal computed into one definite weighted state?), and commitment (is the resolved state converted into voluntary output drive, with an efference copy configuring the gating conditions the next cycle will inherit?). A report is the observable signature of all four operations completing through a channel a clinician can read. Any neural substrate for consciousness must implement all four oper! ations, s ynchronized within the window. The architecture the preprint proposes identifies where these four operations are instantiated in cortex. The four neural loops and the operation each is proposed to implement. * Loop 1, Layer 5 pyramidal recurrent, gating via apical-basal coincidence detection (Suzuki and Larkum, 2020; N. Takahashi et al., 2016, 2020) * Loop 2, central lateral thalamocortical, contextualization via matrix-type calbindin-positive projections to supragranular cortex (Tasserie et al., 2022; Whyte et al., 2024) * Loop 3, VTA-cortical dopaminergic, resolution via phasic deviation-from-expectation encoding, and the only loop receiving input from all three others simultaneously (Schultz et al., 1997; Gardner, Schoenbaum, and Gershman, 2018; Costa et al., 2025) * Loop 4, ACC-mediodorsal thalamic, commitment and generation of the efference copy that configures the next cycle's gating conditions (Gehring et al., 1993) The necessity of each operation and the sequence between them generate the principal predictions of the architecture, that single-loop disruption produces loop-characteristic altered states rather than eliminating consciousness, that reliable elimination of consciousness requires simultaneous disruption of all four functions, and that structures outside these four loops (including the hippocampal memory system) are neither necessary nor sufficient for consciousness regardless of cognitive importance. The paper grounds each loop in primary empirical evidence from anesthesia, disorders of consciousness, dopaminergic prediction error work, and voluntary action monitoring, and generates thirteen discriminating predictions in total (eight from disrupting the loops directly, five from the subconscious systems that feed the loops and receive their output). The architecture is offered as an extension of Thalamocortical Loop theory, a correction to the anatomical specification of Global Neuronal Workspace consistent with preregistered adversarial collaboration evidence, and an operationalization of Integrated Information Theory's integration criterion that replaces phi with a testable synchronization requirement. * Consciousness Requires Four Neural Loops, Architecture, Mechanism, and Necessity, 10.5281/zenodo.19602857 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19602857 Best regards, Arthur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mario.pavone at unict.it Wed Apr 22 13:00:52 2026 From: mario.pavone at unict.it (Mario Francesco Pavone) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:00:52 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: MESS'26 Summer School: Quantum & Neuromorphic Optimization Message-ID: Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2026 - Metaheuristics Summer School ~ Emerging Computing Paradigms for Optimization: from Quantum to Neuromorphic ~ 6-10 July 2026, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2026/ mess.school at ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE: 20th May 2026 ** https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2026/apply.html MESS 2026 offers a deep dive into the frontiers of Quantum and Neuromorphic computing. The program explores the entire technological stack, covering architectures, programming models, and advanced algorithms for complex optimization. Through a blend of theoretical lectures and hands-on sessions, participants will gain the expertise to lead innovation in next-generation computational research. The lectures will focus on the following topics for both quantum and neuromorphic computing: 1) architectures; 2) programming models; 3) optimization algorithms and applications; and 4) pratical work. The school will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures; therefore, in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students attending the summer school will can get 8 ECTS points. ** LECTURERS # QUANTUM COMPUTING: + Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, VSB Tech. Un. Ostrava, Czech Republic lecture1: "Introduction to Quantum Computing" lecture2: "Quantum Neural Networks: From Quantum-Inspired Framework to Quantum-Gate Framework" + Linsey Rodenbach, Quantum Computing at NVIDIA lecture1: "TBA" lecture2: "TBA" + Philippe Lacomme, Universit? Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS, France lecture1: "TBA" lecture2: "TBA" # NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING: + Irem Boybat, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland lecture1: "TBA" lecture2: "TBA" + Elisa Donati, Institute of Neuroinformatics UZH/ETH lecture1: "Neural networks and neural computing" lecture2: "Neuromorphic Computing and Technology" + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France lecture1: "Neuromorphic computing: A gentle introduction" lecture2: "Neuromorphic-based optimization: Algorithms based on metaheuristics and computational biology" + Jorge Cruz-Duarte, University of Lille, France lecture1: "Neuromorphic-based optimization: Software framework under Lava and Nengo" ~ More Lecturers will be announced soon ~ ** SHORT ORAL PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. The organizing committee will review the abstracts and will recommend the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published in the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted during the application by *April 15, 2026*. ** MESS 2026 DIRECTORS: - Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy - Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy - Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy - El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille1, France - Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2026/ -- mess.school at ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. 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A short list of the distinctive topics to be addressed. 4. Learning objectives (specific and measurable objectives). 5. The targeted audience (student / early stage / advanced researchers, pre-requisite knowledge, field of study). 6. Detailed description of the tutorial and its relevance to multimodal interaction. 7. Outline of the tutorial content with a tentative schedule and its duration. 8. Description of the presentation format (number of presenters, interactive sessions, practical aspects). 9. Accompanying material (repository, references) and equipment, emphasizing any required material from the organization committee (subject to approval). 10. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) together with their contact information and a list of 1-2 key publications related to the tutorial topic. 11. Previous editions: If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was delivered. Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria: - Importance of the topic and the relevance to ACM ICMI 2026. - Presenters? experience. - Adequacy of the presentation format to the topic. - Targeted audience interest and impact. - Accessibility and quality of accompanying materials (open access). Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters? own work or commercial presentations are not acceptable. However, we encourage non-academic researchers to propose tutorials. Contact Details Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2026 Tutorial Chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik at: icmi2026-tutorials-chairs at acm.org Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Important Dates Tutorial proposal deadline: April 30th, 2026 Tutorial acceptance notification: May 23th, 2026 Camera-ready version of the tutorial abstract: August 2nd, 2026 Tutorial date: October 5th or October 9th 2026 ICMI organization will provide rooms, coffee, and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer for each tutorial. From roderich.gross at tu-darmstadt.de Thu Apr 23 05:01:46 2026 From: roderich.gross at tu-darmstadt.de (=?utf-8?B?R3Jvw58sIFJvZGVyaWNo?=) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:01:46 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?=5BMeetings=5D_ANTS_2026_=E2=80=93_Invi?= =?utf-8?q?ted_Talks_and_Call_for_Participation?= Message-ID: <791C18F1-B7D7-4DF4-AFFB-36D7DB7A42F6@tu-darmstadt.de> ANTS 2026 ? 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence ? Call for Participation This year?s theme, Reaching beyond ? swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities, is reflected in six talks spanning swarm robotics, networked systems, collective dynamics, AI, ethics, smart materials, and planetary futures. Invited talks Guido de Croon (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Swarms of small, autonomous drones From bio-inspired intelligence to tiny flying robots capable of exploring unknown environments. Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan, USA) Towards colloidal swarm robots Exploring how active particle systems and ?flexicles? open up new directions for emergent swarm-like robotic behaviour. Jes?s G?mez-Garde?es (University of Zaragoza, Spain) From interaction structure to collective dynamics On how interaction structure shapes collective dynamics, from spreading processes and synchronisation to cooperation in complex systems. Meeyoung Cha (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Germany; KAIST, South Korea) AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges On how global-scale data and AI can support humanitarian applications while confronting ethical risks such as bias, misinformation, and democratic harm. Thomas Watteyne (Analog Devices, USA) Swarm Robotics: A Low-Power Wireless Perspective On communication, networking, and large-scale real-world swarm experimentation through the DotBots platform. Liam Young (SCI-Arc, USA) New planetary imageries A speculative and cinematic perspective on environmental futures, storytelling, and the imaginaries that shape how we think about technology and the planet. Alongside these invited talks, ANTS 2026 will feature technical presentations, posters, demos, and opportunities for exchange across disciplines working on collective behaviour and self-organised systems, natural and artificial. We warmly invite researchers and practitioners from across swarm intelligence and related areas to join us in Darmstadt, and we would be grateful if you could share this call with colleagues and communities who may be interested. ? Darmstadt, Germany ?? 8?10 June 2026 ? Theme: Reaching beyond ? swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities ? More information and registration: https://ants2026.org Follow us on Bluesky and LinkedIn Hosted by Technical University of Darmstadt Co-sponsored by Robotics Institute Germany Organising Committee General Chair Roderich Gross, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Honorary Chair Marco Dorigo, Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Technical Program Chairs Aaron T. Becker, University of Houston, USA Gianni Di Caro, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bahar Haghighat, University of Groningen, The Netherlands M. 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Neurons communicate through synaptic inputs located on dendrites, complex, highly branched structures that shape sensory processing, memory formation, and behavior. Advances in imaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling now allow researchers to explore dendritic function across multiple scales, from single-synapse plasticity to dendritic computations driving behavior. This EMBO Workshop brings together leading scientists from molecular, biophysical, anatomical, computational, and functional neuroscience, as well as neuro-inspired AI, to advance our understanding of dendrites in cognition and disease. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to uncover fundamental principles governing dendritic computations and their broader implications, including how they may be incorporated into new AI architectures for more efficient or brain-like computation. Set on the stunning island of Crete, this EMBO Workshop is designed to encourage scientific exchange beyond traditional presentations, creating an engaging and interactive environment. Dedicated sessions will support young researchers, such as (1) work-life balance, (2) mentorship across career stages, and (3) career paths within and beyond academia. Through open discussions and collaborative experiences, this meeting will inspire new insights into the role of dendrites in brain function and dysfunction, paving the way for important future discoveries in neuroscience.* About EMBO Courses and Workshops *EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender). Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable. 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To commemorate this special occasion, the Bernstein Network will present the next Valentin Braitenberg Award during the Bernstein Conference 2026. The awardee receives ?5.000 prize money, donated by the Autonome Provinz Bozen S?dtirol, as well as an invitation to the Bernstein Conference (including registration fee, and travel and accommodation expenses). The award will be presented together with a Golden Neuron pin in a special award ceremony, followed by a lecture by the Braitenberg Awardee. Nominations may be submitted by scientists working in the field of computational neuroscience and should include the following documents: -One-page laudation, in which the scientific work of the candidate is honored with regard to the award criteria -CV and list of publications *Deadline for nominations is April 30, 2026. Please send the nomination documents via email to Dr. Alexandra Stein at**a.stein at fz-juelich.de* *.* Please note that self-nominations are not permitted. 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URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Apr 23 19:51:39 2026 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:51:39 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [Early fees ext. to May 20] ScaDS.AI School on Neuro+Symbolic AI - June 22-26, 2026 in Leipzig, Germany - 3rd Call for Participation Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Early bird rates have been extended to May 20 (Wed), hoping to ease participation a bit, in response to the global situation with its effects on travel and economy. Please visit our website at https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/ for updates since previous calls. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig cordially invites you to its 12th International Summer School on AI and Big Data. This year's theme is 'Neuro+Symbolic AI', focusing on an emerging paradigm that combines the strengths of neural learning and symbolic reasoning, augmented with foundations in each of these. June 22-26, 2026 | Leipzig, Germany (Radisson Blu Hotel, Augustusplatz) (in person only, no online participation) Website: https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/ Early registration is extended until Wednesday, May 20; overall it is open until June 14 (AoE): https://pretix.eu/infai/SummerSchool2026/ == Invited Target Audience == - Students: PhD and Master's (+ open to Bachelor's) - Academics: PostDocs and researchers - Non-Academics: Practitioners from business, industry and society == What to Expect? == The summer school features a rich program of short courses taught by leading experts, complemented by hands-on tutorials, interactive formats, and invited talks that provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances and key achievements in Neuro-Symbolic AI. A poster session and social program elements will allow for networking among the participants as well as for exploring the lively city of Leipzig. https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/scientific-program/ https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/social-program/ == Speakers == - Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh) - Vincent Derkinderen (KU Leuven) - Michael F?rber (TU Dresden) - Robert Haase (Leipzig University) - Pascal Hitzler (Kansas State University) - Yujia Hu (TU Dresden) - Filip Ilievski (VU Amsterdam) - Moa Johansson (Chalmers University Gothenburg) - Lalith Manjunath (TU Dresden) - Giuseppe Marra (KU Leuven) - Alessandra Mileo (Dublin City University) - Ostap Okhrin (TU Dresden) - Simon Razniewski (TU Dresden) - Tobias Schreieder (TU Dresden) - Daria Stepanova (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) - Marco Valentino (University of Sheffield) == Venue == Radisson Blu Hotel Leipzig, Augustusplatz 5-6, 04109 Leipzig, Germany Hotel website: https://radissonblu-leipzig.de/en/ Accommodation options: https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/local-information/ == Fees and Registration == Registration system: https://pretix.eu/infai/SummerSchool2026/ Registration is mandatory to attend the school. It *includes* access to the sessions, lunch, coffee breaks, social dinner and some other social items. It *does not cover* accommodation, breakfast, dinner (except for Tuesday) nor any transportation. Full Week Tickets: | Early | Late - ScaDS.AI Member | 490 ? | 600 ? - Student | 510 ? | 620 ? - Academic | 640 ? | 750 ? - Non-Academic | 800 ? | 910 ? Day Tickets: | 225 ? | 225 ? Early registration until Wednesday, May 20 (AoE) (4.5 weeks before) Late registration until Sunday, June 14 (AoE) (1 week before) == Organization == - Scientific Organizers: Filippo De Bortoli, Parvaneh Joharinad, Frank Loebe, Paramita Mirza, Iryna Okhrin - Local Organizers: Lucy Sonnet, Nicole Spie? - Steering Committee: Jens Meiler, Wolfgang Nagel, Gerik Scheuermann == Contact == Please write to Lucy Sonnet, Leipzig University, via scads.ai.school at uni-leipzig.de Best regards, Frank Loebe on behalf of the Organizers -- Frank Loebe, Coordinator, ScaDS.AI Graduate School, Leipzig University Phone: +49 341 97 39350 Email: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de From vonluehmann at tu-berlin.de Fri Apr 24 07:22:48 2026 From: vonluehmann at tu-berlin.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?von_L=FChmann=2C_Alexander?=) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:22:48 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: 2 day in-person + virtual CEDALION fNIRS/DOT analysis workshop in Berlin (August 2026) Message-ID: Dear all, Coming August (24-25th) the IBS Lab hosts a free 1.5-day Cedalion Workshop at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) in Berlin. We have already received over 100 registrations. The workshop focuses on machine learning/data-driven and model-based analysis of optical brain imaging data from fNIRS and DOT data in Python using the open-source Cedalion toolbox. A major Cedalion Release (v2026.05) is imminent, which includes many powerful features from freesurfer-compatible head models to multimodal signal decomposition techniques. Cedalion integrates and extends core functionality from the leading matlab fNIRS toolboxes HOMER3 and AtlasViewer, while leveraging the Python ecosystem for modern multimodal data analysis and machine learning, targeting applications in everyday-world neuroscience and brain-computer interfacing. The workshop follows the upcoming 2026 release and is paired with a comprehensive tutorial. It is co-hosted with the Boston University Neurophotonics Center. Includes a hands-on fNIRS introduction by NIRx Medical Technologies. * Free of charge * 35 in-person seats (first come, first served) - still available * Unlimited virtual participation For details and registration please see the Cedalion Workshop page - please joing us if you are interested! Kind regards, Alexander von L?hmann __________________________ Dr.-Ing. Alexander von L?hmann Head of Independent Research Group Intelligent Biomedical Sensing (IBS) BIFOLD-ML | Machine Learning Department Technische Universit?t Berlin Fakult?t IV - EECS FR 6-1 / 6th floor / Room 669 Franklinstr. 28-29, 10587 Berlin Telefon: +49 (0)30 314-77079 www.ibs-lab.com www.bifold.berlin www.ml.tu-berlin.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this first module, participants will be introduced to the basics of Bonsai ? its logic, core principles, and potential applications. The workshop will also cover how to track animals during experiments, detect their presence in ROIs, run simple closed-loop paradigms, and perform basic logical operations. To make participation easier across schedules and time zones, we are offering *two alternative sessions of the same workshop*: *Session 1:* May 8, 2026, 10:00?12:00 CEST (UTC+2) https://nenckiopenlab.org/event/introduction-to-bonsai-module-i/ *Session 2:* May 18, 2026, 16:00?18:00 CEST (UTC+2) https://nenckiopenlab.org/event/introduction-to-bonsai-module-i-2/ *Requirements:* no prior programming experience is needed. A *Windows computer* and a *webcam* are required. *Workshop fee:* EUR 10 *Fee waivers are available upon request.* *Instructor:* Mateusz Kostecki, Heidelberg University We also warmly invite you to join our *Open Lab Online Discord*, which is a space for discussion, exchange, and community around open tools and methods. All important workshop information and updates will also be shared there. Discord: https://discord.gg/z7gvyj9yrV If you would like to get involved in Open Lab Online, you can also fill out our surveys: *Organizer survey*: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRqICetBCRbKZnjM9HlmLp1RKql3nUqxgupUVsPoEsjvbm3Q/viewform *Instructor survey*: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDZioKGcDdsP7AFE6-mS6R_y7-kWTf6t2wUxqdf21eTSEOCQ/viewform If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at *openlab at nencki.edu.pl* or reach out to us on *Discord*. Best wishes, Mateusz Kostecki -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhansel0 at gmail.com Sun Apr 26 06:02:05 2026 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:02:05 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: World Wide VVTNS series (6th season): Dynamic Expectations Wednesday | April 29, 2026, at 11:00 am ET - Dvora Marciano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide You are cordially invited to the lecture Dvora Marciano The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of Dynamic Expectations The lecture will be held on zoom on April 29, 2026 at *11:00 am ET * > To receive the link > https://www.wwtns.online/register-page > > *Abstract: *Reward expectations ? one?s prediction about the likelihood of future outcomes - play a central role in shaping the satisfaction derived from those outcomes. Most existing research treats expectations as static, assuming they remain fixed in time. However, real-life expectations are often dynamic, fluctuating as new information becomes available. For example, during a soccer game, your expectations of seeing your team winning will likely rise and fall as the game unfolds. In the main part of this talk, I will present a series of studies demonstrating that human expectations can be tracked at sub-second timescales. Using slot machines as a case study, we leverage the continuous deceleration of the reels to elicit moment-by-moment fluctuations in reward expectations. To capture these dynamics, we take complementary approaches: we use the high temporal resolution of electroencephalography (EEG) to track neural signatures of evolving expectations, and we develop a novel behavioral paradigm (?Slot or Not?) designed to measure changes in expectations via betting behavior. Across four studies, we show that expectations fluctuate continuously and can be tracked both behaviorally and neurally. Extending these findings, a subsequent intracranial study shows that the human orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) encodes the moment-by-moment changes of reward expectations. In the second part of this talk, I will return to the relationship between expectations and satisfaction. If expectations shape satisfaction, and if they are best conceptualized as dynamic trajectories rather than static quantities, a key question arises: does the trajectory leading up to an outcome influence how that outcome is evaluated? I will outline a new research direction aimed at formalizing this relationship using computational modeling. This is ongoing work, and I welcome feedback on how best to formalize these ideas. Finally, I will discuss potential extensions of this framework to psychopathology, asking whether alterations in dynamic expectations may characterize conditions such as Major Depressive Disorder and Gambling disorder. Together, this work introduces a new framework for studying expectations as dynamic processes, offering a richer understanding *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Three concern the science (the multiscale architecture of brain function; digital brain twins for disease mechanisms and intervention; the relation between brains, computation, and intelligent infrastructure) and two concern translation in the broad sense (clinical and technological translation; sustainability, accessibility, and societal responsibility of the infrastructure itself). I am looking forward to welcoming you in Munich! Best wishes, Viktor ? Prof Dr Viktor Jirsa Directeur, Institut de Neurosciences des Syst?mes Chief Scientific Officer, EBRAINS AISBL UMR INSERM 1106 Aix-Marseille Universit? Facult? de M?decine, 27, Boulevard Jean Moulin 13005 Marseille, France tel : ++33 (0)4 91 32 42 51 http://ins-amu.fr http://ebrains.eu https://www.thevirtualbrain.org/ Call for Contributions to the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap 2026?2036 https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2025/call-for-contributions-to-the-ebrains-10-year-roadmap-2026-2036 Click here to view this email in your browser. EBRAINS Roadmap Symposium on 21-22 May, Munich: Registration Now Open ?Dear colleagues, <> We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the EBRAINS Roadmap Symposium , taking place on 21?22 May 2026, at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the LMU University Hospital in Munich, Germany. Many renowned scientists, such as Emil Kraepelin and Alois Alzheimer, made significant advances in psychiatry under its roof. This Symposium will bring together the community to co-create the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap 2026?2036, contributing to a shared vision and implementation plan for the future of digital neuroscience in Europe. REGISTRATION I. Capacity Participation is limited and registrations will be handled on a first come, first served basis. While the programme will build on contributions submitted to the Roadmap, the event is open to the entire community in digital neuroscience. II. Fees The registration fee is ?75 per participant. This contribution covers catering, on-site support, and organisational costs. Payment is processed directly through the online registration form via Stripe. Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses. No travel reimbursements will be provided for this event. III. Institutional participation Group registration (available for groups of 4 or more people) via invoice can be arranged by contacting: Catalina Arghir, Finance Project Manager - adminfin at ebrains.eu IV. Deadline The registration deadline is Thursday, 30 April 2026 (end of day). Register here AGENDA The Symposium agenda will be structured around thematic clusters of accepted Roadmap contributions and will be shared in the coming weeks. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For any questions related to logistics, please do not hesitate to contact: Oc?ane Collin, Events Manager ? communications at ebrains.eu We encourage early registration due to the limited capacity and look forward to welcoming you in Munich to shape the future of EBRAINS together. Best regards, Viktor Jirsa Chief Science Officer On behalf of the EBRAINS team EBRAINS is open and free. Sign up now for complete access to our Open Science Tools and Services. Create your account This is a text block. Enter and edit your text here. Share our content! EBRAINS, International non-profit association, Chauss?e de la Hulpe 166, ?Glaverbel?, First Floor, Section B, 1170 Brussels, Belgium Click here to unsubscribe or to change your Subscription Preferences. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Clinical note generation from doctor?patient conversations is an ideal stress test: the model must attend to who said what, filter environmental noise, and produce faithful structured output. On the Synth-DoPaCo dataset, end-to-end models hallucinate at alarming rates ? 99?100% of clinical claims are unsupported by the source audio, compared to 21?23% for traditional transcribe-then-summarize pipelines. BeTraC aims to close this gap. == Tracks (open-weight models only; no intermediate transcription) == * Lightweight (? 6B parameters): direct end-to-end audio-to-SOAP. No tool use, no agentic pipelines. * Heavyweight (? 36B parameters): tool use and agentic architectures permitted; only the final model generates text from audio. == Synth-DoPaCo dataset == * 8,800 synthetic doctor?patient conversations (~1,329 hours) * 66 ambient sound classes, room reverberation, Opus compression * Available on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/betrac == Key dates == * Apr 2, 2026 ? Training + dev data release (live now) * May 4, 2026 ? Open-source inclusion proposals deadline * Jun 24, 2026 ? System description submission deadline * ~Jul 1, 2026 ? Test SOAP notes due (~1 week after test audio release) * Jul 8, 2026 ? Challenge paper submission Baselines are posted; team registration is open. If you work on speech, audio understanding, or multimodal AI, we would love to have you compete. 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This is accompanied by the unprecedented advancement of Computational Language Modeling (CLM) techniques that are supporting a wide range of downstream applications. Both Generative AI and Computational Language Modeling are leading the paradigm shift we are witnessing in Artificial Intelligence. The International Generative AI and Computational Language Modeling Conference (GACLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions of this new era of Artificial Intelligence systems based on GenAI and CLM. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to GACLM, with special interest in, but not limited to, the following: ? Human-Centered Generative AI ? Natural Language Processing (NLP) ? Large Language Models (LLMs) ? Text generation, summarization, and question answering ? Sentiment analysis, misinformation detection, and emotion detection ? Machine translation and multilingual models ? Language comprehension, grammar and style checking, and complex reasoning ? Document processing and information retrieval ? Computer-Assisted Language Learning ? Adversarial machine learning and applications ? Generative adversarial networks (GANs) ? GenAI and diffusion models ? Federated and distributed learning for GenAI ? Fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) ? Synthetic data generation and data augmentation ? Explainable AI (XAI) and trustworthy AI systems ? GenAI in healthcare, education, robotics, and smart cities ? GenAI for cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) systems ? GenAI for sustainability and human good ? Computer vision, creative applications, and video generation ? GenAI ethics and governance *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the GACLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Paper Submission: *May 15, 2026* - Notification to Authors: July 10, 2026 - Camera Ready Submission: July 30, 2026 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on GACLM to: info at gaclm.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alper.yegenoglu at rwth-aachen.de Mon Apr 27 03:14:57 2026 From: alper.yegenoglu at rwth-aachen.de (Alper Yegenoglu) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:14:57 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Summer school: Foundational Models, Meet Robotics: From Language and Vision to Action Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the *IEEE Summer School on Robotics and Autonomous Systems*, which will take place *July 27?30, 2026*?at *Paderborn University, Germany*. The summer school will bring together students and researchers interested in robotics, control, and AI for autonomous systems. The program will include lectures, hands-on sessions, and discussions with leading experts, offering participants the opportunity to learn about recent advances and exchange ideas with an international community. Free accommodation will be provided for all participants in shared rooms (three people per room). In addition, a number of scholarships and financial support opportunities are available to encourage participation from outstanding students and underrepresented groups. More information about the program, speakers, and registration can be found on the official website: https://upb-rat.github.io/ieee-summer-school/ We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this announcement with interested students and colleagues. 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URL: From juffi at faw.jku.at Mon Apr 27 04:03:54 2026 From: juffi at faw.jku.at (=?UTF-8?Q?Johannes_F=C3=BCrnkranz?=) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:03:54 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Position in (Neuro-)Symbolic / Game ML Message-ID: <07b47dd0-d4c1-4cc5-b8d2-b747b409d399@faw.jku.at> On-line version: https://www.jku.at/en/institute-for-application-oriented-knowledge-processing/about-us/open-positions/ # Doctoral Student in Computational Data Analytics We currently have an opening for a half-time university assistant (doctoral student for up to 4 years) at the Computational Data Analytics group of Prof. Johannes F?rnkranz. The position is announced as a half-time University assistant, but it can be upgraded to a full-time position. We are particularly interested in researchers who will strengthen our expertise in one or more of the following areas: * Machine Learning and Game Playing * Symbolic Machine Learning * Machine Learning and Logic * Inductive Rule Learning * Neurosymbolic AI ### How to Apply Prospective applicants interested are required to apply on-line. More detailed information, including a link to the application portal can be found here: https://karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexchange/showJobOfferDetail.do?jobOfferId=8a7ec1e69cd732d5019cd88a020d077a&j=&organizationUnitId= The position is open until filled, a first deadline for applications is May 20th, 2026. If you have questions, please contact Johannes F?rnkranz (mailto:juffi at faw.jku.at). From pedroza at uma.es Mon Apr 27 05:26:51 2026 From: pedroza at uma.es (pedroza at uma.es) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:26:51 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [Last CFP] LODAS 2026 - Learning & Optimization for Distributed AI Systems @ FLICS 2026 (Valencia, June 9-12) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Apologies for any cross-posting. ====================================== *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS* LODAS 2026 - The 1st International Workshop on Learning and Optimization for Distributed AI Systems Co-located with FLICS 2026 (Valencia, Spain, June 9-12, 2026) Submission deadline (extended): *April 28, 2026 (FINAL - no further extensions)* Workshop website: https://jamaltoutouh.github.io/lodas2026/ Conference website: https://flics-conference.org/ ====================================== SCOPE ====================================== LODAS 2026 brings together researchers working at the intersection of learning and optimization for distributed AI systems, including edge, federated, and resource-constrained environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Federated, distributed, and edge learning * Communication-efficient and resource-aware AI * Multi-objective and constrained optimization * Workflow scheduling and system-level optimization * Agentic AI and autonomous multi-agent systems * Foundation models under system constraints * Trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and robust AI * Cyber-physical systems, IoT, and digital twins ====================================== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================================== Submission via EasyChair (see workshop website) * Format: IEEE A4 conference template Paper types: * Long papers: 7?8 pages * Short/position papers: 4?6 pages * Poster papers (undergraduate): 1?2 pages ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES ====================================== * Submission deadline: April 28, 2026 (FINAL) * Notification: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready & registration: May 15, 2026 * Workshop: June 9?12, 2026 (exact date TBA) ====================================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ====================================== * Jamal Toutouh ? Uiversidad de M?laga, Spain (jamal at uma.es) * Gabriel Luque ? Uiversidad de M?laga, Spain (gluque at uma.es) * Diego Daniel Pedroza-Perez ? Uiversidad de M?laga, Spain (pedroza at uma.es) We strongly encourage you to submit your latest work. We would also appreciate it if you could share this call with interested colleagues. Best regards, LODAS 2026 Organizing Team https://jamaltoutouh.github.io/lodas2026/ From robert.mcdougal at yale.edu Mon Apr 27 08:00:00 2026 From: robert.mcdougal at yale.edu (McDougal, Robert) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: 2026 NEURON Summer Course - limited seats remain available Message-ID: Some seats remain available for the 2026 NEURON Summer Course, but they're going fast so act quickly if you are interested. This course will provide a thorough introduction to computational modeling of neurons and networks with NEURON and is suitable for individuals at all levels of expertise. It will be held at Duke University in Durham, NC from Wednesday, June 10, through Monday, June 15, 2026. The registration deadline is Monday, June 1, 2026. No applications will be accepted after that date, and there will be no on-site registration. Space is limited, and applications will be considered in the order received. For more information and the on-line registration form, see 2026 NEURON Summer Course at https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/discussions/3729 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A solid publication record in top level ML venues such as NeurIPs, ICML, and ICLR. ? An interest in going beyond theory all the way to a flying prototype. Please send your CV with a brief motivation letter and 3 references to patricia.hjelt at epfl.ch Regards Pascal -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. P. Fua (Pascal.Fua at epfl.ch) Tel: 41/21-693-2623 Url: https://people.epfl.ch/pascal.fua/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * 5G Network architectures and protocols for medical applications * Wi-Fi adoption in healthcare IoT and real-time medical data transmission * AI adoption in healthcare and networks * Network advancements in telemedicine * 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and AI for Remote Patient Monitoring * AI and ML in data processing, storage, and analytics * AI for Secure and Intelligent Data Transmission for Healthcare * AI-Driven Network Optimization for Healthcare Applications * Interoperability and AI in Smart Healthcare Networks * Privacy-Preserving AI in Networks for Healthcare * Regulatory and Ethical Considerations for AI in Healthcare Networks * Cybersecurity Challenges in AI-Powered Healthcare Systems * Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Medical and Network Data * Smart resource allocation for critical healthcare services * Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks for Healthcare * eXplainable AI (XAI) in Networks for Healthcare * XAI for Trustworthy Medical Decision-Making * AI-Powered Digital Twins for Healthcare and Network Optimization * Federated Learning in Healthcare * Advancements in wireless networks for Federated Learning SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All papers accepted by a workshop will be published in the WiMob 2026 Proceedings and will be sent for inclusion in the IEEE eXplore digital library. Workshop papers must follow the guidelines and size limit as provided in the "author guidelines" on the WiMob website: http://www.wimob.org/wimob2026/guidelines.php The submission and revision process will be managed through the EDAS system (submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=35176). IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline for the workshop: July 15, 2026 * Paper acceptance for the workshop: August 15, 2026 * Camera ready & Author Registration: September 1, 2026 * Workshop: October 14, 2026 We look forward to your valuable contributions and hope to see you at the workshop. Best regards, Stefania Zinno and Giovanni Stanco Second International Workshop on AI for Mobile & Wireless Health: Advancing Explainability in the Future of Healthcare (AIMEH'26) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Priority will be given to students enrolled in a basic or medical neuroscience program, but students from other specialties will be able to participate as long as places are available. Information =========== When: Aug 27 ? Sept 5 2026 Where: Strasbourg, France Part I: Introduction to Python Programming (Thursday-Friday August 27-28) Part II: School with lectures and student projects (Monday August 31st to Saturday September 5th) Local Organizing Committee =========== - Jyotika Bahuguna, LNCA, University of Strasbourg (coord) - Demian Battaglia, LNCA, University of Strasbourg (coord) - Camille Gontier, INRIA, University of Strasbourg (coord) - Romain Goutagny, CNRS, University of Strasbourg - Axel Hutt, INRIA, University of Strasbourg - Philippe Isope, CNRS, University of Strasbourg - Antoine Valera, CNRS, University of Strasbourg Invited faculty and tutors =========== - Samy Castro, LNCA, University of Strasbourg - Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, CNRS, University of Strasbourg - Christophe Pouzat, IRMA, University of Strasbourg - Pascale Quilichini, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University - Marisa Saggio, INS , Aix-Marseille University - Yaroslav Sych, CPJ CNRS, university of Strasbourg Application =========== The summer school is free of charge. Accommodation in shared rooms and lunches are also provided. However, travel expenses are the responsibility of the applicants. For more details and information on how to apply, please see [ https://neurostra.unistra.fr/evenements/evenement/news/fall-school-advanced-tools-for-data-analyses-in-neuroscience/ | https://neurostra.unistra.fr/evenements/evenement/news/fall-school-advanced-tools-for-data-analyses-in-neuroscience/ ] Sponsors =========== This summer school is supported by ITI NeuroStra (SFRI STRAT?US project ANR-20-SFRI-0012), and the University of Strasbourg Initiative of Excellence. Website: [ https://neurostra.unistra.fr/evenements/evenement/news/fall-school-advanced-tools-for-data-analyses-in-neuroscience/ | https://neurostra.unistra.fr/evenements/evenement/news/fall-school-advanced-tools-for-data-analyses-in-neuroscience/ ] Contact: dbattaglia[at]unistra.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhansel0 at gmail.com Tue Apr 28 01:52:03 2026 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:52:03 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Fwd: [seminar.wwtns] REMINDER: World wide VVTNS series (6th season): Dynamic Expectations Wednesday | April 29, 2026, at 11:00 am ET - Dvora Marciano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide You are cordially invited to the lecture Dvora Marciano The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of Dynamic Expectations The lecture will be held on zoom on April 29, 2026 at *11:00 am ET * > https://www.wwtns.online/register-page > *Abstract: *Reward expectations ? one?s prediction about the likelihood of future outcomes - play a central role in shaping the satisfaction derived from those outcomes. Most existing research treats expectations as static, assuming they remain fixed in time. However, real-life expectations are often dynamic, fluctuating as new information becomes available. For example, during a soccer game, your expectations of seeing your team winning will likely rise and fall as the game unfolds. In the main part of this talk, I will present a series of studies demonstrating that human expectations can be tracked at sub-second timescales. Using slot machines as a case study, we leverage the continuous deceleration of the reels to elicit moment-by-moment fluctuations in rewardexpectations. To capture these dynamics, we take complementary approaches: we use the high temporal resolution of electroencephalography (EEG) to track neural signatures of evolving expectations, and we develop a novel behavioral paradigm (?Slot or Not?) designed to measure changes in expectations via betting behavior. Across four studies, we show that expectations fluctuate continuously and can be tracked both behaviorally and neurally. Extending these findings, a subsequent intracranial study shows that the human orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) encodes the moment-by-moment changes of reward expectations. In the second part of this talk, I will return to the relationship between expectations andsatisfaction. If expectations shape satisfaction, and if they are best conceptualized as dynamic trajectories rather than static quantities, a key question arises: does the trajectory leading up to an outcome influence how that outcome is evaluated? I will outline a new research direction aimed at formalizing this relationship using computational modeling. This is ongoing work, and I welcome feedback on how best to formalize these ideas. Finally, I will discuss potential extensions of this framework to psychopathology, asking whether alterations in dynamic expectations may characterize conditions such as Major Depressive Disorder and Gambling disorder. Together, this work introduces a new framework for studying expectations as dynamic processes, offering a richer understanding *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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CIBB 2026 will take place at Sapienza University of Rome from September 2 to 4, 2026. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions either to the Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) series, or to one of the Special Issues of international journals associated with the conference. The conference features 27 Special Sessions covering a broad range of topics in bioinformatics, biostatistics, and medical informatics. Best regards, CIBB 2026 General Chairs ================================================================== KEY INFORMATION ================================================================== Dates: September 2-4, 2026 Location: Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Website: https://cibb2026.teralab.ai Contact: cibb2026 at uniroma1.it Short paper submission (EasyChair): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibb2026 Poster submission: https://forms.gle/xrYJPANctiJwgs1r9 ================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================================== Short paper submission deadline: May 13, 2026 (23:59 AoE) [EXTENDED] Notification: June 15, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: July 7, 2026 ================================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS ================================================================== - Per Kragh Andersen Full Professor of Biostatistics University of Copenhagen - Marianna Rapsomaniki AI/ML for Biomedicine Group Leader Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland - Nicola Segata Full Professor of Computational Metagenomics University of Trento, Italy ================================================================== For full details on the conference, Special Sessions, submission guidelines, and the Organizing Committee, please visit: https://cibb2026.teralab.ai -- Umberto Ferraro Petrillo PhD, Full Professor Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche Universita' di Roma -- La Sapienza P.le Aldo Moro, 5 -- *Fai crescere le giovani ricercatrici e i giovani ricercatori*** *con il? 5?per?mille?alla Sapienza* Scrivi il codice fiscale dell'Universit?? *80209930587 **Cinque?per?mille * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are looking for a candidate with a completed PhD, preferably in computer science, a publication record in AI, hands-on experience with common frameworks such as PyTorch, and the ability to communicate complex technical content to interdisciplinary audiences. Very good English and German skills are required. Application deadline: May 3, 2026 Full posting, reference 2026/67: https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/265d7f8963f7ce4027264da4dab0a7de7511640f0 In addition to this opening, we expect to advertise further positions in our group soon. For questions, please contact Tom Hanika at tom.hanika at ismll.de. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Best regards, Tom Hanika -- Dr. Tom Hanika (Co-Director) Information Systems and Machine Learning Lab (ISMLL) Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, Germany http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pedroza at uma.es Tue Apr 28 04:57:13 2026 From: pedroza at uma.es (pedroza at uma.es) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:57:13 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: [Last CFP-Extended] LODAS 2026 - Learning & Optimization for Distributed AI Systems @ FLICS 2026 (Valencia, June 9-12) Message-ID: <2f360d99923f5a72ef462db7ef30435c@uma.es> Dear colleagues, Apologies for any cross-posting. ====================================== *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED)* LODAS 2026 - The 1st International Workshop on Learning and Optimization for Distributed AI Systems Co-located with FLICS 2026 (Valencia, Spain, June 9-12, 2026) Submission deadline (EXTENDED): *MAY 5, 2026* Workshop website: https://jamaltoutouh.github.io/lodas2026/ Conference website: https://flics-conference.org/ ====================================== SCOPE ====================================== LODAS 2026 brings together researchers working at the intersection of learning and optimization for distributed AI systems, including edge, federated, and resource-constrained environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Federated, distributed, and edge learning * Communication-efficient and resource-aware AI * Multi-objective and constrained optimization * Workflow scheduling and system-level optimization * Agentic AI and autonomous multi-agent systems * Foundation models under system constraints * Trustworthy, privacy-preserving, and robust AI * Cyber-physical systems, IoT, and digital twins ====================================== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================================== Submission via EasyChair (see workshop website) * Format: IEEE A4 conference template Paper types: * Long papers: 7?8 pages * Short/position papers: 4?6 pages * Poster papers (undergraduate): 1?2 pages ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES ====================================== * Submission deadline: May 5, 2026 (FINAL EXTENDED) * Notification: May 10, 2026 * Camera-ready & registration: May 20, 2026 * Workshop: June 9?12, 2026 (exact date TBA) ====================================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ====================================== * Jamal Toutouh ? Universidad de M?laga, Spain (jamal at uma.es) * Gabriel Luque ? Universidad de M?laga, Spain (gluque at uma.es) * Diego Daniel Pedroza-Perez ? Universidad de M?laga, Spain (pedroza at uma.es) We strongly encourage you to submit your latest work. We would also appreciate it if you could share this call with interested colleagues. Best regards, LODAS 2026 Organizing Team https://jamaltoutouh.github.io/lodas2026/ From paherman at kth.se Tue Apr 28 13:21:48 2026 From: paherman at kth.se (Pawel Andrzej Herman) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:21:48 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Neuromorphic Learning, and Quantum Technologies in Functional Materials Message-ID: <12aedf296eec44c4832352fa89488bd7@kth.se> Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Neuromorphic Learning, and Quantum Technologies in Functional Materials https://cossphy.web.auth.gr/?page_id=327 Dates: 1-5 June 2026 Venue: Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center, Thessaloniki, Greece We kindly invite you to attend ANQFM workshop on the convergence of neuromorphic, quantum, and AI-driven computing mediated by the materials as a substrate for the next-generation computational systems. The workshop is a joint initiative of two EU funded projects, COST Action DAEMON (https://cost-daemon.eu/) and EXTRA-BRAIN (https://www.extra-brain.eu/). Registration Registration and optional abstract submission for oral and poster presentations are now open! Register and submit your abstract at https://forms.gle/oN2MHaSuF48ZzVbo6 Organisation * Prof. Joseph Kioseoglou, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece * Prof. Kevin Rossi, TU Delft, Nederlands * Prof. Pawel Andrzej Herman, KTH, Sweden * Dr. Theodoros Pavloudis, AUTh, Thessaloniki, Greece * Dr. Konstantinos Votis, ITI, CERTH, Greece * Dr. Ilias Kalamaras, ITI, CERTH, Greece Invited Speakers * Dr. Ivor Lon?ari?, Ru?er Bo?kovi? Institute, Croatia * Dr. Ahsan Javed Awan, Ericsson Research * Prof. Federico Grasselli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy * Prof. Milica Todorovic, University of Turku, Finland * Prof. Artur Podobas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Dr. Jonathan Schmidt, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland * Dr. Srdjan Stavri?, Vin?a Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbia * Dr. Panagiotis Dimitrakis, Institute of Quantum Computing and Quantum Technology at NCSR ?Demokritos, Greece * Dr. Diego Arg?ello Ron (ICE/i4RI) * Dr. Oscar Garcia Perales (ICE/i4RI) * Prof. Sotirios Goudos, Department of Physics, AUTH, Greece -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.C.Bowes at sussex.ac.uk Tue Apr 28 12:33:11 2026 From: S.C.Bowes at sussex.ac.uk (Simon Bowes) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:33:11 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Extended CFP: Foundations of Computation Symposium, at AISB-2026, University of Sussex, UK, 1 to 2 July 2026 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As part of the AISB conference to be held at the University of Sussex, UK, 1 to 2 July 2026 The conference is organised by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) http://www.aisb.org.uk/ OVERVIEW: The symposium will be a one-day session of talks, Q&A?s, and panel discussions, structured around two themes: foundations, and applications. Each session will open with a keynote speaker (45 min presentation +15 min Q&A), include up to four further talks (15-30 min slots), and will wrap up with a panel discussion and audience questions. Confirmed speakers: * Prof. Gualtiero Piccinini * Dr. Fernando Rosas * Dr. Kate Nave * Dr. Nathaniel Virgo TOPICS OF INTEREST 1- Foundations: Foundational debates concerning the nature of computational processes, the status of formal and physical models, and the relationship between abstraction and implementation - have been reopened by both theoretical developments and increasingly powerful real-world systems. Against this backdrop, the symposium?s foundations strand invites critical reflection on the conceptual terrain of computation, motivating the following guiding questions: ? What makes a process computational? ? Are classic distinctions between syntax and semantics, or implementational, algorithmic, and computational levels of description sound? ? Is computation subjective or objective, abstract or concrete, mathematical or physical? ? What are the limits of computation? Is undecidability restricted to a mathematical realm? 2- Applications: The applications strand of the symposium will re-examine the role of computational concepts and tools across various research contexts relating to intelligence and adaptive behaviour. To further discussion of this topic, we seek contributors to address the below questions: ? What are the distinctive strengths and limitations of computational explanations ?generally, and in specific fields? ? Is cognition a computational process? If so, what makes certain computational processes cognitive, and others not? ? What is gained, and is anything lost, by treating cognition, life, and other processes computationally? ? What is the explanatory role of representations and algorithmic models in the cognitive sciences? ? What are the prospects for and obstacles to the development of a ?computational phenomenology?? SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION DETAILS We invite abstracts of up to 500 words on any of the above and related topics. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Conference, with the proviso that at least ONE author attends the symposium, in person, in order to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities. Accepted talks will be allotted 20, 30, 45-minute slots, plus a sit in the discussion panel. Submission deadline: 15/05/2026 Decision will be made and communicated to all contributors by the end of May. SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS: Adam Rostowski (a.rostowski at sussex.ac.uk), Department of Informatics, University of Sussex Ben White (b.white at sussex.ac.uk), Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. Fernando Rodriguez-Vergara (f.rodriguez-vergara at sussex.ac.uk), Sussex Neuroscience, University of Sussex SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/foundations-of-computation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uai.socials at gmail.com Wed Apr 29 06:12:29 2026 From: uai.socials at gmail.com (UAI Social Media) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:12:29 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Fwd: UAI 2026: Call for Workshops and Tutorials In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, A reminder that tutorial proposal deadline is tomorrow (30 April, EoD AoE) for the 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2026), which will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from August 17th to 21st, 2026. Tutorials will be held in person on Monday, August 17th, 2026. CALL FOR TUTORIALS We also invite proposals for tutorials to be held in person on August 17th, 2026. Tutorials may be either 1.5 hours (short) or 3 hours (long), including time for questions. Tutorials should be accessible to the broader UAI audience while maintaining sufficient rigor and technical depth. Short tutorials may have at most two presenters; long tutorials may have at most three presenters. Presenters must commit to attending UAI in person. Tutorial proposal deadline: April 30th, 2026 (EoD AoE) Notification of acceptance: May 21st, 2026 Proposals (maximum three pages, excluding references; PDF format) should include: - Title and abstract - Duration (1.5 or 3 hours) - Detailed description and outline (with time allocation) - Goals and expected learning outcomes - Target audience and required background - Presenter information and relevant expertise Tutorial proposals should be submitted via the linked submission form. We especially encourage proposals from groups that represent the diversity of our community. We look forward to receiving your proposals and to an exciting program of workshops and tutorials at UAI 2026 in Amsterdam. Best regards, Niki Kilbertus and Joshua Loftus UAI 2026 Workshop Chairs uai2026chairs+workshop at gmail.com Antonio Vergari and Julius von K?gelgen UAI 2026 Tutorial Chairs uai2026chairs+tutorial at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aapo.hyvarinen at helsinki.fi Wed Apr 29 07:29:52 2026 From: aapo.hyvarinen at helsinki.fi (=?UTF-8?Q?Aapo_Hyv=C3=A4rinen?=) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:29:52 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: Group leader position in comp neurosci and NeuroAI at U Helsinki Message-ID: <90adf8c3-faec-4074-a9bb-a835c2539610@helsinki.fi> The Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki invites applications from outstanding candidates for a position of: GROUP LEADER? with focus on computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. The position is fixed term (non tenure track) with 5 + 4 years upon succesful external mid-term evaluation. For more information, see: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-GROUP-LEADER-with-focus-on-computational-neuroscience-and-neuro-AI/1358804657/ From mihai.constantin84 at upb.ro Wed Apr 29 07:09:17 2026 From: mihai.constantin84 at upb.ro (Mihai-Gabriel CONSTANTIN (115317)) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:09:17 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: [Call-for-Registration] ESSIR2026 17th European Summer School on Information Retrieval Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************* CALL FOR REGISTRATION 17th European Summer School on Information Retrieval ESSIR2026 July 27?31, 2026 ? Bucharest, Romania https://essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro/ ******************************************************* We are inviting students and young professionals to participate in the 17th edition of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, which will take place in Bucharest, Romania, July 27?31, 2026, at the CAMPUS Research Institute, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, as a results of the cooperation with Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and CEA LIST, Paris, France. ESSIR is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students and young professionals to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world. The summer school will include, apart from the hands-on sessions, a workshop, a practical challenge/hackathon and of course the social and networking activities. PhD students can obtain ECTS credits based on the graduation of an exam organized on the last day of the school. ******************************************************* Confirmed speakers ******************************************************* We are delighted to announce the already confirmed speakers: - Prof. Henning M?ller, HES-SO & University of Geneva, Switzerland - Dr. Florina Piroi, TU Wien & CRDM, Austria - Prof. Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Lucian Gruia, Ciklum & AI Multimedia Lab, Romania - Prof. Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Prof. Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy - Prof. Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Dr. Adrian Popescu, Universit? Paris-Saclay, CEA LIST, France - Prof. Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Germany - Dr. Svitlana Vakulenko, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ******************************************************* Programme ******************************************************* The work-in-progress programme will include topics such as Introduction to IR, IR Evaluation, Knowledge Graphs, Explainable AI and IR, Domain-specific IR, Data Management for IR, LLMs, Large Model Biases in IR, and many more. Check-out the programme here https://essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro/programme/. ******************************************************* Registration ******************************************************* Early registration deadline is June 7, 2026. 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URL: From dkatsar at inf.uth.gr Wed Apr 29 13:58:10 2026 From: dkatsar at inf.uth.gr (KATSAROS Dimitrios) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:58:10 +0300 Subject: Connectionists: CFP: International Conference on Web Intelligence, Machine Intelligence and Semantics (WIMS) 2026 Message-ID: <69F246B2.4070207@inf.uth.gr> The 11th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Machine Intelligence and Semantics (WIMS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Dates: 11-14 October 2026 URL: https://conferences.sigappfr.org/wims2026/ CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 27 May 2026 The 11th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Machine Intelligence and Semantics (WIMS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, and innovators to explore the intersection of AI, web technologies, semantic systems, and intelligent data mining. As the web evolves into a dynamic, intelligent ecosystem powered by machine intelligence, knowledge graphs, and agentic systems, WIMS 2026 provides a platform to discuss cutting-edge research, applications, and societal impacts. WIMS 2026 will be co-located with the 12th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI), and the 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC). Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the corresponding research communities and submit papers to the co-located events. The conference supports online attendance for authors who cannot be present onsite. ** CONFERENCE TOPICS ** WIMS 2026 seeks contributions in the following tracks/topics: - Track 1: Web Intelligence & Agentic AI. - Track 2: Machine Intelligence & Learning Systems. - Track 3: Semantics & Knowledge Technologies. - Track 4: Human-Centered Web Intelligence. - Track 5: Web Infrastructure & Systems. - Track 6: Applications & Societal Impact. ** SUBMISSIONS & IMPORTANT DATES ** Papers must be submitted through the CMT system (follow the conference website link). - 27 May 2026: Full paper submission - 27 June 2026: Notification of acceptance - 13 July 2026: Camera-ready submission & registration ** CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES ** WIMS 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer CCIS) series. Selected papers will be invited to the WWW and SN Computer Science journals. ** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ** David Camacho, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK ** HONORARY CHAIR ** Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway ** GENERAL CHAIRS ** Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia ** PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ** Dimitrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK More details are available on: https://conferences.sigappfr.org/wims2026/ From caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 02:12:31 2026 From: caspar.schwiedrzik at googlemail.com (Caspar M. Schwiedrzik) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:12:31 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Deadine approaching: Postdoctoral researcher in statistical learning and predictive processing (intracranial EEG) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to study statistical learning and predictive processing using intracranial EEG. The deadline for application is 2026-05-05. The project investigates how the brain learns regularities in the environment and uses them to generate predictions about future events, with a particular focus on hippocampal?cortical predictive processing. It uniquely combines human intracranial recordings with causal perturbation using intracortical microstimulation, allowing direct investigation of these mechanisms in the human brain. The successful candidate will design and implement experiments using intracranial EEG recordings and intracortical microstimulation in collaboration with clinical partners and analyze these data using advanced electrophysiological and statistical approaches. The lab seeks to understand the cortical basis and computational principles of perception and experience-dependent plasticity in the brain. To this end, we use a multimodal approach including fMRI-guided electrophysiological recordings in rodents and non-human primates, and fMRI and intracranial EEG (iEEG) in humans. See https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.11.30.691163, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51543-y, and https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.17.694881 for recent examples of our work. The postdoc will play a key role in our research efforts in this area. The lab is located at Ruhr University Bochum (https://www.rub.de) and the German Primate Center in G?ttingen (http://www.dpz.eu). At both locations, the lab is embedded in interdisciplinary research centers with international faculty and students pursuing cutting-edge research in cognitive and computational neuroscience. The main site for this part of the project will be Bochum. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with the lab of Lucia Melloni at Ruhr University Bochum. Intracranial EEG data will be acquired in collaboration with clinical partners in Bochum as well as at other collaborating clinical sites. Several relevant datasets already exist and will be available for analysis. Ruhr University Bochum provides a vibrant and stimulating neuroscience community with strong expertise in both computational and experimental neuroscience. Through THINK ? Center for Theoretical and Integrative Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (THINK) at Ruhr University Bochum (https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/think/index.html.en), the postdoc will have access to dedicated computing infrastructure, including high-performance computing clusters, as well as to a state-of-the-art imaging center providing facilities for 3T MRI, EEG, virtual reality, and behavioral experimentation. Please find the official job ad and further information here: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/591390b8c5b83d217866229ff2fd94be0304b7f40 From battleday at thinkingaboutthinking.org Thu Apr 30 02:32:51 2026 From: battleday at thinkingaboutthinking.org (Ruairidh Battleday) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:32:51 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Seminar Series: Thinking About Thinking (May 7th) Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the inaugural session of the Thinking About Thinking Fellowship Seminar Series, bringing together researchers working at the forefront of computational research into intelligence across AI, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Seminar title: Automated Scientific Discovery of Mind and Behavior Date: 7 May 2026 Time: 6pm BST Link: https://luma.com/ej1jk7bo For our first session, Dr Sebastian Musslick will present a framework for automated scientific discovery in cognitive science, exploring how AI systems can support the generation and testing of theories of mind and behaviour. We?ll do these every two weeks! Please come along (link in individual talk below). ?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seminar title: Automated Scientific Discovery of Mind and Behavior Speaker: Dr Sebastian Musslick Date: Thursday 7 May 2026 Time: 6pm BST Link: https://luma.com/ej1jk7bo Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming scientific discovery across disciplines, from predicting protein structures in biology to identifying novel quantum states in physics. In the natural sciences, automated discovery systems now enable researchers to navigate vast experimental and hypothesis spaces, moving beyond the limits of human intuition. In this talk, Sebastian will explore how these methods can be adapted to the study of mind and behavior, introducing automated scientific discovery as a paradigm for cognitive science. He will present AutoRA, an open-source framework for automating key stages of empirical research, including experimental design, data collection and model inference. Through case studies in psychophysics, learning, decision-making and cognitive control, Sebastian will show how closed-loop discovery systems can support more integrative and scalable approaches to understanding human cognition. 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Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Scope Spatial intelligence, the ability to perceive, reason about, and manipulate spatial relationships, is fundamental to human cognition and essential for artificial intelligence systems operating in both physical and virtual environments. Games provide rich, controlled, and interactive testbeds for evaluating and advancing spatial intelligence in AI, offering diverse scenarios that require understanding spatial configurations, navigation, object manipulation, and communication about spatial concepts. This special session seeks contributions that use games as diagnostic tools or environments for developing and evaluating spatial intelligence in AI systems. We welcome research spanning both embodied and unembodied games, as well as multimodal and unimodal settings. Of particular interest are collaborative and interactive scenarios where spatial intelligence enables AI agents to serve as instruction followers or instruction givers, playing alongside or assisting humans in open-ended gameplay or task-specific applications such as navigation, construction/assembly, object manipulation, etc. Further, reward modeling in such domains also inherently requires spatial understanding, and we encourage work that studies this. The session is in part motivated by prior workshops such as the 4th Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics (SpLU-RoboNLP 2024), When Language meets Games Workshop (Wordplay 2025), with particular inspiration drawn from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games (https://www.dagstuhl.de/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24492). Topics of Interest We are seeking papers that present methodological contributions to relevant tasks as follows. Relevant Tasks Including, but not limited to: * Core instruction following and giving tasks (dialogue-based or single-turn) * Related sub-problems, e.g., referring expression comprehension/generation, clarification question generation, planning * Reward modeling * Novel task formulations to evaluate spatial intelligence capabilities Methodological Contributions For the above tasks, we invite contributions including, but not limited to: Data and Resources * Data collection, synthetic data generation, and simulation frameworks * Data scarcity in embodied or interactive settings * Inverse Dynamics Models and related approaches for pseudo-labeling, enabling scalable dataset creation from abundant unlabeled sources * Resources and environments for interactive/online learning Modeling Approaches * LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, agentic frameworks * Reinforcement Learning * Model design, fine-tuning strategies, in-context learning, parameter-efficient methods, and specific techniques for spatial reasoning or spatio-temporal memory representations Evaluation and Analysis * Automated metrics, human evaluation studies, and benchmark design * Games as diagnostic environments for behavioral analysis (manual or automatic) of models to uncover their strengths and limitations * Evaluating reward modeling ability itself as an effective proxy for spatial reasoning ability Program Committee members * Julia Hockenmaier ? University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Marc-Alexandre Cote ? Microsoft Research ? Montreal * Raffaella Bernardi ? Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * David Schlangen ? University of Potsdam * Manling Li ? Northwestern University * Parisa Kordjamshidi ? Michigan State University * Simon Dobnik ? University of Gothenburg * Nikolai Ilinykh ? University of Gothenburg * Vardhan Dongre ? University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Ruiyi Wang ? University of California San Diego * Sandro Pezzelle - University of Amsterdam Submission Instructions This is a call for auxiliary papers. We invite the submission of short, competition and vision papers: * Short papers (4 pages page limit) describe work in progress, smaller projects that are not yet ready to be published as a full paper, or new progress on projects that have been reported elsewhere. * Competition papers (8 pages page limit) describe research related to one of the competitions in the Games community, including the design of new competitions and in particular submissions to existing competitions. * Vision papers (8 pages page limit) describe a vision for the future of the Games field or some part of it, be based on extensive research, and include a comprehensive bibliography. Please notice that the standards for vision papers are high: literature reviews and opinion papers with speculations not grounded in research are immediately rejected. All page limits include references and appendices. All accepted auxiliary papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. NONE OF THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES WILL BE EXTENDED. All deadlines are Anytime on Earth (AoE). Relevant dates for this call are as follows: * Submission of auxiliary papers: 14th May 2026 * Notification of acceptance of auxiliary papers: 10th June 2026 * Submission of the camera-ready version of auxiliary papers: 24th June 2006 * Conference dates: 1st ? 4th September 2026 Papers must be submitted through the conference submission system available at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ieeecog2026 All paper submissions should follow the recommended IEEE conference author guidelines. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates All submitted papers will be fully peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. CoG will use a *double-anonymous review process*. 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It is a great opportunity to discover recent advances, exchange ideas, and meet colleagues from across the complex systems community. ? *Program:** https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/program_/ * ? *Registration is open:** https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/registration/ * We look forward to welcoming you in La Rochelle. Best regards, Hocine Cherifi On behalf of the ISCS 2026 Organizing Committee Join us at COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026 *-------------------------* Hocine CHERIFI Laboratoire* I*nterdisciplinaire *C*arnot de *B*ourgogne - ICB UMR 6303 CNRS Universit? Bourgogne Europe Editor in Chief Plos Complex Systems Founding & Adisory Editor Applied Network Science Editorial Board member IEEE ACCESS , Scientific Reports , Journal of Imaging , Quality and Quantity , Computational Social Networks , Complex Systems Evolutionary Intelligence -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please find the details below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AI-ML Systems 2026 The 6th International Conference on AI-ML Systems An Initiative of the COMSNETS Association October 6-9, 2026 | Lecco (Lake Como), Italy https://www.aimlsystems.org/2026/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract submission deadline: Jun 8, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE. - Full paper submission deadline: Jun 15, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE. - Author notifications: Jul 30, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE. - Camera ready deadline: Aug 31, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE. *Research Track*: https://www.aimlsystems.org/2026/callresearch/ *Industry Track*: https://www.aimlsystems.org/2026/callindustry/ *Workshop Track*: https://www.aimlsystems.org/2026/call-for-workshop-special-sessions/ ------------------ *CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS* We welcome submissions presenting original research that explores the interplay between AI/ML and system engineering. Our focus includes (but is not limited to) the following pivotal topics: 1. Scalable and Efficient AI-ML Techniques 2. System Architectures for AI-ML Applications 3. AI-ML-Driven Socio-Economic and Decision Systems 4. Domain-Specific AI-ML Solutions 5. Safe and Responsible AI Systems Further details: https://www.aimlsystems.org/2026/callresearch/ ------------------ *CALL FOR INDUSTRY PAPERS* The Industry Track solicits submissions describing AI-ML systems and solutions addressing practical, real-world problems in industry, broadly defined to include manufacturing, finance, government, and large-scale operational environments. Topics of interest include industrial AI-ML systems design, real-world deployment challenges and constraints, systems implementation, system impact, and our "Dare to Try" category for ambitious attempts and documented negative results. Further details: https://www.aimlsystems.org/2026/callindustry/ ------------------ All accepted papers (research and industry) will appear in the conference proceedings. 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The WS will be held on August 21, 2026 in Lyon, France jointly with the ICPR?2026 conference https://icpr2026.org/. Proceedings will be published together with ICPR?2026 proceedings by Springer LNCS We are witnessing the emergence of an ?AI economy and society? where AI technologies are increasingly impacting many aspects of business as well as everyday life. We read with great interest about recent advances in AI medical diagnostic systems, self-driving cars, ability of AI technology to automate many aspects of business decisions like loan approvals, hiring, policing etc. However, as evident by recent experiences, AI systems may produce errors, can exhibit overt or subtle bias, may be sensitive to noise in the data, and often lack technical and judicial transparency and explainability. These shortcomings have been documented in scientific but also and importantly in general press (accidents with self-driving cars, biases in AI-based policing, hiring and loan systems, biases in face recognition systems for people of color, seemingly correct medical diagnoses later found to be made due to wrong reasons etc.). These shortcomings are raising many ethical and policy concerns not only in technical and academic communities, but also among policymakers and general public, and will inevitably impede wider adoption of AI in society. The problems related to Ethical AI are complex and broad and encompass not only technical issues but also legal, political and ethical ones. One of the key component of Ethical AI systems is explainability or transparency, but other issues like detecting bias, ability to control the outcomes, ability to objectively audit AI systems for ethics are also critical for successful applications and adoption of AI in society. Consequently, explainable and Ethical AI are very current and popular topics both in technical as well as in business, legal and philosophy communities. Many workshops in this field are held at top conferences, and we believe ICPR has to address this topic broadly and focus on its technical aspects. Our proposed workshop aims to address technical aspects of explainable and ethical AI in general, and include related applications and case studies with the aim to address this very important problems from a broad technical perspective. **The topics comprise but are not limited to: - Naturally explainable AI methods - Post-Hoc Explanation methods of Deep Neural Networks and Transformers - Technical issues in AI ethics including automated audits, detection of bias, ability to control AI systems to prevent harm and others - Methods to improve AI explainability in general, including algorithms and evaluation methods - User interface and visualization for achieving more explainable and ethical AI - Real world applications and case studies ** Program Chairs : Marco Angelini, Univ Rome 3 Romain Bourqui, Univ. Bordeaux Jenny Benois Pineau, Univ. Bordeaux Romain Giot, Univ. Bordeaux Sebastian Lapuschkin, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute ** Important dates : Paper submission (extended): May 10th Notification of acceptance?: June 15th Camera Ready paper submission: June 20th **Workshop: August 21th ? Romain Bourqui Ma?tre de conf?rences / Associate Professor, IUT de Bordeaux & LaBRI UMR CNRS 5800 Responsable de l??quipe Bench to Knowledge and Beyond / Head of Bench to Knowledge and Beyond research team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhansel0 at gmail.com Thu Apr 30 10:20:32 2026 From: dhansel0 at gmail.com (David Hansel) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:20:32 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Fwd: Three recent VVTNS talks are available on the VVTNS YouTube channel In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [image: VVTNS.png] > > > https://www.wwtns.online > > - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide - on Youtube > New on the VVTNS YouTube Channel https://www.wwtns.online/past-seminars-2025-2026 ---------------------------------------- Neural Manifolds in Spinal Networks That Orchestrate Movement lecture delivered on March 25, 2026 by Rune Berg University of Copenhagen -------------------------- CARL VAN VREESWIJK MEMORIAL LECTURE 2026 Physics of Optimal Transport and Schr?dinger Bridges lecture delivered on April 15, 2026 by Henri Orland IPHT, Saclay, France -------------------------- Dynamic Expectations lecture delivered on April 29, 2026 by Dvora Marciano The Hebrew University of Jerusalem *About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,** are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.* ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: VVTNS.png Type: image/png Size: 41084 bytes Desc: not available URL: From S.C.Bowes at sussex.ac.uk Thu Apr 30 11:14:51 2026 From: S.C.Bowes at sussex.ac.uk (Simon Bowes) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:14:51 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: AISB 2026 @Sussex, Registration open Message-ID: [AISB Convention 2026 Banner] AISB Convention 2026 Registration is now open! (see the convention website: https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2026/, early bird rate ends 15th May) 1-2 July 2026 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK The AISB Convention is a flourishing annual conference that thrives from an interdisciplinary audience and facilitates discourse amongst a diverse set of researchers and research cultures. The 2026 convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will be held as an in-person only event on 1st and 2nd July 2026. Preceding the convention, on 30 June, we are holding a Day of celebration for the life and work of Prof Margaret Boden. This will include talks on themes related to her work, personal reflections by those who worked with her, and a panel discussion on her legacy. See: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/seminars/celebrating-margaret-boden Attendance to the day of celebration is free for attendees of the AISB Convention. Some symposia have extended deadlines for accepting abstracts. See the individual pages for more details. Programme & Tracks * AI, Consciousness and Ethics (https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/ai-research-group/news-and-events/news?id=69757) * Ethics of Generative-AI Assisted Authoring (https://sussexhumanitieslab.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/aisb-2026-symposium-1-2-july-university-of-sussex/) * Explainability and Transparency in AI (XTAI-2026) (https://xtai-symposium.github.io/) * Foundations of computation (https://sites.google.com/view/foundations-of-computation) * Is consciousness a story we tell ourselves? Internal language and consciousness after chain of thought reasoning (https://astorywetell.github.io/) * Is there still life in the Turing test? (https://turingtestlives.wordpress.com/) * Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science (https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation/) * Symposium on AI and Cognitive Sciences in Education (AICSED2026) (https://aicsed.github.io/2026/) * Varieties of free will and agency (https://freewillandagency.wordpress.com/) * Values and Preferences in Reasoning (https://www.vprsymposium.com/) There will also be a general track for individuals who would like to present their research. Send an extended abstract to the organiser, Simon Bowes (s.c.bowes at sussex.ac.uk) by May 18th. Outline Schedule 30th June ? Maggie Boden day of celebration 1st July ? Keynote: Anil Seth: Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex Conference Dinner: The Seahorse (https://seahorsebrighton.co.uk/) 2nd July ? Keynote: Philip Ball: Science Writer Breakfast (coffee & pastries) 9-9:30, a buffet lunch 13:00-14:00, and coffee 15:30-16:00 is included. Symposia run from 11:00-17:30. Submission Submission of papers for each of the symposia and the general track can be made by clicking on the symposia links above. General Information The University of Sussex campus is a modernist masterpiece surrounded by the South Downs National Park, just a few minutes by train from the vibrant and open-minded city of Brighton, with its historical beach, famous club/pub scene, and many quirky shops. Easily reachable from Gatwick (30 mins) and London (1 hour). Founded in the ?60s with a charter emphasising interdisciplinarity, in the 80?s Professor Margaret Boden established the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), a groundbreaking centre for research and teaching in AI. COGS continues to deliver interdisciplinary education and host cutting-edge research. Registration Registration is available on the convention webpage: https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2026/. Registration fees Full One day Earlybird Regular Earlybird Regular Attendees ? members ?250 ?280 ?190 ?220 Attendees ? non-members ?310 ?340 ?250 ?280 Student members ?150 ?170 ?110 ?130 Student non-members ?180 ?200 ?140 ?160 Corporate rate ?600 ?660 ?450 ?510 (Earlybird rate until 15th May) Important Dates 1. Please consult the individual symposia web sites for submission deadline and related details. 2. Maggie Boden day of celebration 30th June 2026 3. Convention: 1 to 2 July 2026 Program Committee General Chair: Bertie M?ller (Swansea University) Convention Organiser: Simon Bowes (University of Sussex) Venue University of Sussex Falmer Brighton, BN1 9RH United Kingdom Travel Local Bus Services Brighton & Hove Buses (https://www.buses.co.uk/) has an extensive network of buses around town, to the campus, and onwards to Lewes and other nearby towns. Arriving By Train The Gatwick Express (https://www.gatwickexpress.com/) runs from Brighton to London. Arriving By Car Details of getting to Sussex campus by car, parking, and other transport information can be found here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/directions Accommodation VisitBrighton is the official accommodation booking provider for AISB26. They are delighted to offer specially negotiated accommodation rates for attendees at local hotel accommodation. This website will be open for bookings until 24 June 2026 but we advise early booking in order to guarantee your preferred hotel. Through this website you can book, modify or cancel your hotel reservations at any time. On the website you can also find links to information on travel, food and entertainment in the city. We look forward to seeing you. 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