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    <div class="moz-forward-container">This is a friendly reminder that
      the BMI Admission application (<span
        class="color-in-selected-button">to get admitted so that you can
        register</span>) is due this Sunday, April 6, 2014. <br>
      Full time students can apply for tuition waiver.<br>
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      Brain-Mind Institute (BMI)<br>
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      <strong>Important dates</strong>: <br>
      Course applications <span class="color-in-selected-button">(to
        get admitted so that you can register)</span>: by Sunday, April
      6, 2014<br>
      Tuition waver application <span class="color-in-selected-button">(full-time

        students only, mark in your course application)</span>: by
      Sunday, April 6, 2014<br>
      ICBM full papers: by Sunday, April 13, 2014<br>
      ICBM abstracts: by Sunday, April 20, 2014<br>
      Notification of admission: April 27, 2014<br>
      Notification of tuition waiver: April 27, 2014 <br>
      Advance registration: by Sunday, May 4, 2014<br>
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      Preliminary Program: Summer 2014<br>
      Summer School, Beijing, June 16 - July 4, 2014 (weeks 1-3)<br>
      (WCCI 2014, Beijing, not a part of BMI Program, but BMI
      participants are encouraged to participate) (week 4 Saturday -
      Friday)<br>
      International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), Beijing, July 12 -
      13, 2014 (week 4 weekend)<br>
      Summer School, Beijing, July 14 - August 1, 2014 (weeks 5-6)<br>
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      Co-Sponsored and Co-Organized by<br>
      Brain-Mind Institute and<br>
      Brainnetome Center of CASIA, Beijing, China<br>
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      With the great support from many colleagues, the BMI has
      successfully run for two years, with distinguished talks,<br>
      summer schools, International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), and
      the Brain-Mind Magazine (BMM).  <br>
      Its 2014 summer school and ICBM will run in Beijing, China,
      collocating with <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="www.ieee-wcci2014.org/%3F">WCCI 2014</a>.  <br>
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      BMI Courses:
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      Session 1: BMI 831 Cognitive Science for Brain-Mind Research.  3
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      On-site at CASIA or distance learning. BMI 831 certificate is
      issued for those who pass the course.<br>
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      Session 2: BMI 871
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      Computational Brain-Mind.  3 credits. <br>
      On-site at CASIA or distance learning. BMI 831 certificate is
      issued for those who pass the course.<br>
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      ICBM:<br>
      The subjects of interest include, but not limited to:
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        <li><strong>Genes</strong>: inheritance, evolution, species,
          environments, nature vs. nurture, and evolution vs.
          development.</li>
        <li><strong>Cells</strong>: cell models, cell learning, cell
          signaling, tissues, morphogenesis, and tissue development.</li>
        <li><strong>Circuits</strong>: features, clustering,
          self-organization, cortical circuits, Brodmann areas,
          representation, classification, and regression.</li>
        <li><strong>Streams</strong>: pathways, intra-modal attention,
          vision, audition, touch (including kinesthetics, temperature),
          smell, and taste.</li>
        <li><strong>Brain ways</strong>: 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).</li>
        <li><strong>Experiences/learning</strong>: training, learning,
          development, interaction, performance metrics, and functions
          of genome.</li>
        <li><strong>Behaviors:</strong> actions, motor development,
          concept learning, abstraction, languages, decision making,
          reasoning, and creativity.</li>
        <li><strong>Societies/multi-agent</strong>: joint attention,
          swarm intelligence, group intelligence, genders, races,
          science of organization, constitutions, and laws.</li>
        <li><strong>Diseases</strong>: depression, ADD/ADHD, drug
          addiction, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's
          disease, Parkinson's disease, vision loss, and hearing loss.</li>
        <li><strong>Applications</strong>: image analysis, computer
          vision, speech recognition, pattern recognition, robotics,
          artificial intelligence, instrumentation, and prosthetics.</li>
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