[Bmi] BMI Summer School 2015 and ICBM Conference

[Juyang Weng]

Dear colleagues:

The BMI summer program 2015 
<http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-summer-2015.html> is now 
available:
http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/programs.html
Courses to be offered:

BMI 831: Cognitive Science, emphasizing learning and memory.

BMI 861: BMI 861 Brain Automata Theory (new):
This course is designed for researchers and students who would like to 
learn how brain automata works. It is intended for those majoring in 
biology, neuroscience, psychology, electrical engineering, and all other 
disciplines, but also including those in computer science who would like 
to replace, or take an alternative of, a traditional automata theory 
course. Basic models of computation. Agents. Finite Automata. Turing 
Machines. Universal Turing Machines. Brain as Finite Automata. Grounded 
brains as Turing Machines. Time and space complexity. Brain perception. 
Brain cognition. Brain abstraction. Brain decision-making. Brain 
reasoning. Brain thinking. Why deep learning, convolution, and error 
back-propagation are not only biologically implausible but also 
computationally inferior to the brain automata. (Letters for credit 
transfer into your own degree program will be provided by BMI.)

BMI 871: Computational Brain-Mind

Conference ICBM: International Conference on Brain-Mind: East Lansing, 
Michigan, June 20 - 21, 2015
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 5, 2015
ICBM full papers: by Sunday, April 19, 2015
ICBM abstracts: by Sunday, April 26, 2015
Notification of admission: Monday, April 27, 2015
Advance registration: by Sunday, May 10, 2015
International Conference on Brain Mind (ICBM): June 20-21, 2015

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