[Bmi] Brain-Mind Institute 2014 Program: Offer Courses and International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM)

[Juyang Weng]

Dear colleagues:

With the great support from many colleagues, the Brain-Mind Institute 
(BMI) has successfully run for two years, with distinguished talks,
summer schools, International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), and the 
Brain-Mind Magazine (BMM).
Its 2014 summer school and ICBM will run in Beijing, China, collocating 
with WCCI 2014 <www.ieee-wcci2014.org/%3F>.

Brain-Mind Institute (BMI)
http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/

Preliminary Program: Summer 2014
Summer School, Beijing, June 16 - July 4, 2014 (weeks 1-3)
(WCCI 2014, Beijing, not a part of BMI Program, but BMI participants are 
encouraged to participate) (week 4: Saturday - Friday)
International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), Beijing, July 12 - 13, 
2014 (week 4: weekend)
Summer School, Beijing, July 14 - August 1, 2014 (weeks 5-7)

Co-Sponsored and Co-Organized by
Brain-Mind Institute and
Brainnetome Center of CASIA, Beijing, China

BMI Courses:

Session 1: BMI 831 Cognitive Science for Brain-Mind Research.  3 credits.
On-site at CASIA or distance learning. BMI 831 certificate is issued for 
those who pass the course.

Session 2: BMI 871 Computational Brain-Mind.  3 credits.
On-site at CASIA or distance learning. BMI 871 certificate is issued for 
those who pass the course.

Full-time students can apply for tuition waivers.

ICBM:
The subjects of interest include, but not limited to:

 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, laws, and cultures.
 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.

*Important dates:
*Course applications (to get admitted so that you can register): by 
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Tuition waiver applications (full-time students only, mark in your 
course application): by Sunday, April 6, 2014
ICBM full papers: by Sunday, April 13, 2014
ICBM abstracts: by Sunday, April 20, 2014
Notification of admission: April 27, 2014
Notification of tuition waiver: April 27, 2014
Advance registration: by Sunday, May 4, 2014
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