[Bmi] Brain-Mind Institute Summer School and ICBM Conference 2013

[Juyang Weng]

Dear all, sorry, the due date for BMI course application is Sunday, 
April 28, 2013.  The following has corrected the date error.

-John

On 3/30/13 4:34 PM, Juyang Weng wrote:
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>       Brain-Mind Institute (BMI) <http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/>
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>       Programs: Summer 2013
>       <http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-summer-2013.html>
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> *Summer School June 17 - July 5, August 15 - August 2, 2013
> International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), July 27 - 28, 2013
> Michigan State University <http://www.msu.edu/>, East Lansing 
> <http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/>, Michigan 
> <http://www.michigan.org/> USA <http://www.history.com/topics/states>
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> This is the 2nd year of BMI after the successful BMI 2012.  BMI 2013 
> has two parts, summer school and conference.
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> *Important dates*:
> Full papers: by Sunday, April 14, 2013
> Abstracts: by Sunday, April 21, 2013
> Course applications (to get admitted so that you can register): by 
> Sunday, April 28, 2013
> Advance registration: Sunday, April 28, 2013
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>         Call for BMI Course Applications
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> BMI summer courses will have two 3-week sessions, the 1st session 
> (Cognitive Science) June 17 - July 5, 2013 and the 2nd session 
> (Computational Brain-Mind) July 15-August 2, 2013.
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>   * Due to the need of 6-discipline scope, the BMI courses are
>     designed for anybody who has at least a bachelor degree, including
>     faculty, senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers, and
>     graduate students in any discipline. Exceptional undergraduate
>     student can be considered on a case by case basis.
>   * On-site participation of ICBM in the same year is required for all
>     course related activities (except BMI 871) as part of the
>     requirements of the BMI 6DC program, including one-course
>     enrollment, two-course enrollment, and non-course subject tests.
>   * Those who do not take a BMI course can also register for only ICBM.
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>         Call for ICBM Papers and Abstracts
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> BMI Internal Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM) calls for papers in all 
> subjects related to brain or mind to be presented during Saturday and 
> Sunday. The subjects of interest include, but not limited to:
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>  1. *Genes*: inheritance, evolution, species, environments, nature vs.
>     nurture, and evolution vs. development.
>  2. *Cells*: cell models, cell learning, cell signaling, tissues,
>     morphogenesis, and tissue development.
>  3. *Circuits*: features, clustering, self-organization, cortical
>     circuits, Brodmann areas, representation, classification, and
>     regression.
>  4. *Streams*: pathways, intra-modal attention, vision, audition,
>     touch (including kinesthetics, temperature), smell, and taste.
>  5. *Brain ways*: neural networks, brain-mind architecture,
>     inter-modal attention, multisensory integration, and neural
>     modulation (punishment/serotonin/pain,
>     reward/dopamine/pleasure/sex,
>     novelty/acetylcholine/norepinephrine, higher emotion).
>  6. *Experiences/learning*: training, learning, development,
>     interaction, performance metrics, and functions of genome.
>  7. *Behaviors:* actions, motor development, concept learning,
>     abstraction, languages, decision making, reasoning, and creativity.
>  8. *Societies/multi-agent*: joint attention, swarm intelligence,
>     group intelligence, genders, races, science of organization,
>     constitutions, and laws.
>  9. *Diseases*: depression, ADD/ADHD, drug addiction, dyslexia,
>     autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
>     vision loss, and hearing loss.
> 10. *Applications*: image analysis, computer vision, speech
>     recognition, pattern recognition, robotics, artificial
>     intelligence, instrumentation, and prosthetics.
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> Accepted full papers and abstracts will be presented orally at ICBM, 
> available online and searchable.  Each paper will be maximum 8 pages. 
> Each abstracts must be no longer than 500 words plus as many as 4 
> bibliographic citations (4000 characters total).
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> Juyang (John) Weng, Professor
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program
> 428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
> Tel: 517-353-4388
> Fax: 517-432-1061
> Email:weng at cse.msu.edu
> URL:http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/
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Juyang (John) Weng, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program
428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
Tel: 517-353-4388
Fax: 517-432-1061
Email: weng at cse.msu.edu
URL: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/
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