[Neuro-IT] BAYESIAN COGNITION Winter School

[Jean-Marc Bollon]

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BAYESIAN COGNITION Winter School
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January 6-11, 2008

Chamonix - Mont-Blanc, France

Web : http://bayesian-cognition.org

Rationale:
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Animals and artificial systems alike are faced with the problem of  =

making inferences about their environments and choosing appropriate  =

responses based on incomplete, uncertain and noisy data.

Probabilistic models and algorithms are flourishing in both life  =

sciences and information sciences as ways of understanding the  =

behavior of subjects and the neural processing underlying this  =

behavior, and building robots and artificial agents that can function  =

effectively in such circumstances.

The objective of this winter school is to present the latest advances  =

in this subject.

This winter school is a prolongation of the Bayesian Cognition  =

workshop held in Paris in January 2006 (Bayesian-Cognition.org)

Program:
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The school is made of 7 tutorial modules (4 hours long) covering the  =

following topics made by senior researchers in the field:
-      Probability theory as an alternative to logic (Pierre Bessi=E8re  =

- CNRS, Grenoble)
-      Satistical learning (Samy Bengio - Google, Mountain View)
-      Probabilistic models of Central Nervous System (Sophie Den=E8ve  =

- Ecole Normal Sup=E9rieur, Paris)
-      Approximate evaluation of Bayesian calculus (Vaclav Smidl -  =

UTIA, Prague)
-      Probabilistic Robotics (Wolfram Burgard - Universit=E4t Freiburg)
-      Probabilistic interpretation of physiological and  =

psychophysical data (Jacques Droulez - Coll=E8ge de France, Paris)
-      Industrial applications (Emmanuel Mazer - ProBAYES, Grenoble)

There will be also 9 presentations (50 minutes long) made by young  =

researchers (typically Postdocs) who will present their thesis work  =

in some details.

Finally, there will be a 6 hours practical training session where  =

students will have the opportunity to design, write and run short  =

Bayesian programs using the ProBT=AE toolkit (Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin -  =

ProBAYES, Grenoble)

Main clientele:
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The winter school is mainly conceived for PhD students in cognitive  =

science and robotics interested by the variety of probabilistic  =

models and techniques used in these fields.

Master students and postdocs could also find benefits in attending  =

this school.

Accomodation:
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The accommodation will be at the Centre Jean Franco in Chamonix,  =

France: http://www.centrejeanfranco.asso.fr/

The Centre Jean Franco is the old national school of mountaineering.  =

The school moved to new buildings in Chamonix.

It is located downtown Chamonix, 200 hundred meters from the Aiguille  =

du midi cable car.

It offer accommodation for at least 60 students by room of 3.
There is a big amphitheatre for the venue of the tutorial.

Evaluation and admission criteria:
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PhD students and PostDocs: Admission will be done on a first  =

registered basis for PhD and PostDocs students in cognitive science  =

and robotics.

Master students: will be accepted only if some spare room is still  =

available on December 1st 2007.

PostDoc Call for presentation:
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There will be 9 presentations (50 minutes long) by PostDocs or young  =

researchers in the field who will have the opportunity to present in  =

details their PhD work.

Please send a short abstract of your work before November 30th, 2007.

The selected persons will have no registration fee to pay.

Registration:
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For registration please go to the Bayesian-Cognition.org web site

The registration fee (including lodging and meals for 6 days) is : 500=80

The winter school is sponsored by the EURON (European Robotics  =

Research Network - http://www.euron.org/) and consequently there is a  =

200=80 discount for any student coming from a EURON member institution.

Contact Person:
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Jean-Marc.Bollon at inrialpes.fr

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