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        Dear Colleagues:<br>
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          that the ICBM papers are due this Sunday.<br>
          Abstracts are due a week after.<br>
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          Juyang Weng<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"
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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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