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<div class="moz-forward-container">BMI has extended the deadline
for 7 days for BMI Admission application (<span
class="color-in-selected-button">to get admitted so that you
can register</span>) <br>
which was due last Sunday, April 6, 2014. Please note that the
paper deadline is this Sunday.<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
credits.
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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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