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Open call for postdoctoral applications in areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Robotics

by Ajaz Bhat

Apologies for any cross-posting! Dear all We at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) are inviting open applications for postdoctoral positions in various areas including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cognition and Cognitive Robotics. As a postdoctoral fellow, you may work on a research theme of your own or join one of my existing research projects. You will also be able to apply for joint grant proposals within UBD. If you are interested in areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cognition and Cognitive Robotics, please email me your interests and CV at ajaz.bhat [AT] ubd.edu.bn. For more details on the postdoctoral scheme and benefits, please visit https://research.ubd.edu.bn/?page_id=3797 Ajaz A. Bhat, PhD Programme Leader for AI and Robotics, Applied AI and Data Science School of Digital Science (SDS), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Web: https://expert.ubd.edu.bn/ajaz.bhat

June 9, 2023

Three studentships in biomimetic embodied AI

by Thomas Nowotny

Dear Comp-Neuro community, We are offering 3 PhD studentships in our unique be.AI doctoral training centre in biomimetic embodied AI (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai) at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Apply online: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/apply Full details at https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1403-Leverhulm…. Kind regards, Thomas -- Prof. Thomas Nowotny Head of AI Research Group CCNR, Sussex Neuroscience Phone: +44-1273-678593 Engineering and Informatics, Fax: +44-1273-877873 University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ sussex.ac.uk/informatics/tnowotny<http://sussex.ac.uk/informatics/tnowotny> <../../owa/redir.aspx?C=9e11bb0e527242938402b42d9b5498ea&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsussex.ac.uk%2finformatics%2ftnowotny> I support the University of Sussex Community Pledge, as I continue to help those around me during the pandemic. Small acts of collaboration, kindness and integrity can make a big difference. www.sussex.ac.uk/community-pledge<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/community-pledge>

June 8, 2023

Late-breaking poster abstract submission for the 32nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting ends on June 15

by Rubchinsky, Leonid L

Dear Colleagues, We would like to remind that the late-breaking poster abstracts submission at CNS*2023 ends on June 15. CNS*2023, 32nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, will be in Leipzig, Germany, on July 15-19, 2023. The information about the meeting and abstract submission can be found here: Registration: https://ocns.memberclicks.net/cns-2023-registration Abstract submission: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2023-abstract-submission CNS*2023 information: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2023 With kind regards, Leonid Rubchinsky OCNS Vice President *********************** Leonid Rubchinsky, PhD Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine 402 N. Blackford St Indianapolis, IN 46202-3216 lrubchin(a)iupui.edu http://www.math.iupui.edu/~lrubchin ***********************

June 8, 2023

Modellers Workshop for the Brain Dynamics Toolbox (Final Call)

by Stewart Heitmann

Final call for the Modeller’s Workshop for the Brain Dynamics Toolbox. This is an online course for researchers, students and instructors who wish to build custom dynamical models using the Brain Dynamics Toolbox. The course has a practical focus on programming bespoke models and visualising the dynamics. Topics include Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Delay Differential Equations, Stochastic Differential Equations, Auxiliary Plot Functions and command-line tools. Example code is provided in all cases. Study time is 8 hours. Course Website https://bdtoolbox.teachable.com/p/modellers-workshop Toolbox Website https://bdtoolbox.org Important Information The course is limited to 25 students. Enrolments close Sun 11th Jun 2023.

June 8, 2023

Professorship in AI at Bristol University

by Conor Houghton

The Faculty of Engineering in Bristol University is looking to appoint a professor in AI; this opening isn't specific to computational neuroscience but candidates from the AI / ML part of computational neuroscience or cognitive science would certainly be considered, the Neural Computation group in Bristol are involved in the search and will be part of any discussion about who to appoint. Neural Computation is an important part of the machine learning community in Bristol, we are involve in teaching AI and are recognized as contributing a lot to the research profile of the university in this area. We are very keen that strong candidates for our community consider applying! https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=313360&jobTitle=Professo… The deadline is 25 June. All the best Con ______________________________ Conor Houghton Computer Science, Bristol University. Merchant Vulturers Building, Woodland Road BS8 1UB, Bristol conorhoughton.github.io pronouns: he / him [cid:a899a289-67ea-4622-b7b1-ad158d51af85]

June 7, 2023

CFP COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023 Menton Riviera France November 28 - 30, 2023

by Hocine Cherifi

*12* *th **International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications* Menton Riviera <https://www.menton-riviera-merveilles.co.uk/>, France November 28 - 30, 2023 COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023 <https://complexnetworks.org/> You are cordially invited to submit your contribution until *September 02, 2023*. *SPEAKERS* · Michael Bronstein <https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.bronstein/> University of Oxford UK · Kathleen Carley <https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/directory/bios/carley-kathleen.html> Carnegie Mellon University USA · Manlio De Domenico <https://manliodedomenico.com/> University of Padua Italy · Danai Koutra <http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~dkoutra/> University of Michigan USA · Romualdo Pastor-Satorras <http://www.fen.upc.edu/~romu/> Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya Spain · Tao Zhou <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MXgWgmEAAAAJ&hl=en> USTC China *TUTORIALS* · Tiago de Paula Peixoto <https://skewed.de/tiago> CEU Vienna Austria · Maria Liakata <https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/maria-liakata> Queen Mary University of London UK *PUBLICATION* Full papers (not previously published up to 12 pages) and Extended Abstracts (about published or unpublished research up to 4 pages) are welcome. · *Papers *will be included in the conference *proceedings edited by Springer* · *Extended abstracts* will be published in the *Book of Abstracts (with ISBN)* Extended versions will be invited for publication in *special issues of international journals:* o Applied Network Science <https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/> edited by Springer o Advances in Complex Systems <https://www.worldscientific.com/toc/acs/24/02> edited by World Scientific o Complex Systems <https://www.complex-systems.com/about/> o Entropy <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy> edited by MDPI o PLOS <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/> one <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/> o Social Network Analysis and Mining <https://link.springer.com/journal/13278> edited by Springer *SUBMISSION* https://complexnetworks.org/submission/ *TOPICS* *Topics include, but are not limited to: * o Models of Complex Networks o Structural Network Properties and Analysis o Epidemics o Community Structure o Motifs o Network Mining o Network embedding o Machine learning with graphs o Dynamics and Evolution Patterns of Complex Networks o Link Prediction o Multilayer Networks o Controllability o Synchronization o Visual Representation o Large-scale Graph Analytics o Social Reputation, Influence, and Trust o Information Spreading in Social Media o Rumour and Viral Marketing in Social Networks o Recommendation Systems o Financial and Economic Networks o Mobility o Biological and Technological Networks o Mobile call Networks o Bioinformatics o Earth Sciences Applications o Resilience and Robustness of Complex Networks o Networks for Physical Infrastructures o Networks, Smart Cities and Smart Grids o Political networks o Supply chain networks o Complex networks and information systems o Complex networks and CPS/IoT o Graph signal processing o Cognitive Network Science o Network Medicine o Network Neuroscience o Quantifying success through network analysis o Temporal and spatial networks o Historical Networks o Graph-Based Natural Language Processing *GENERAL CHAIRS* Hocine Cherifi (University of Burgundy, France) Luis M. Rocha (Binghamton University, USA)

June 7, 2023

Autumn School at Ulster University

by O'Donnell, Cian

The Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) from Ulster University, Derry~Londonderry campus is delighted to announce that the international Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI (ISRC-CN3) Autumn School will be held again for the third time this year. The school will be organised in a hybrid mode, providing facilities for both in-person and online attendees. Supported by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Brain and other sponsors, this year's Autumn School will run from the 25th October to 31st October, inclusively. The topics covered in the seven-day ISRC-CN3 Autumn School include: * mathematical foundations in neuroscience * computational modelling of neural-glial systems, neuromodulators and cognition * neural data science * neurotechnology * neuromorphic computing and self-repaired intelligent machines * spiking neural networks and applications * cognitive robotics * ethics in neurotechnology and AI * entrepreneurship in neurotechnology and AI This ISRC-CN3 Autumn School is unique not only in the range and types of topics covered but it will also be delivered in an integrated way, from pedagogical to advanced levels. The school is primarily targeted at PhD student level but we also welcome applications from MSc students, postdoctoral researchers, academic faculty, and industrial researchers. Registration is made highly affordable, and bursaries may be available. Academic researchers at the ISRC and invited external speakers will contribute to the delivery of this seven-day School, which will consist of lectures, labs and group projects. Attendees will have the opportunity to present their group work on the final day, and awards will be given to the top presenters. Partial travel bursary will be provided to selected attendees. For more information and application, please visit the website at: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/computing-engineering-and-the-built-envi… Application for the Autumn School is now opened for both in-person and online attendees. The deadline for in-person application is 20th July 2023 and online application is 15th September. For further information, queries, or sponsorship (and its benefits), please do not hesitate to contact Dr Saugat Bhattacharyya (s.bhattacharyya(a)ulster.ac.uk<mailto:s.bhattacharyya@ulster.ac.uk>). This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager at postmaster(a)ulster.ac.uk and delete this email immediately. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ulster University. The University's computer systems may be monitored and communications carried out on them may be recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. Ulster University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of a separate attachment, the text of email is not intended to form a binding contract. Correspondence to and from the University may be subject to requests for disclosure by 3rd parties under relevant legislation. The Ulster University was founded by Royal Charter in 1984 and is registered with company number RC000726 and VAT registered number GB672390524.The primary contact address for Ulster University in Northern Ireland is Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry BT52 1SA

June 6, 2023

Invitation for Hands-on Tutorial on PyNN at CNS*2023

by CHITARANJAN MAHAPATRA

*Dear all,* *We are delighted to announce that a half-day tutorial titled "Hands-on Tutorial on PyNN: A Simulator-Independent Language for Building Neuronal Network Models" will be held at the 32nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2023 conference) in Leipzig, Germany. We invite all registered participants to join the tutorial, which will take place on the first day of the meeting, 15 July 2023, just before the main event.* *Computational neuroscientists have developed a diversity of software platforms for simulating neural network models at different scales. However, each simulator has its own programming or configuration language, leading to considerable difficulty in porting models from one simulator to another. A common programming interface to multiple simulators would help to reduce or eliminate the problems of simulator diversity while retaining the benefits. PyNN is such an interface, making it possible to write a simulation script once, using the Python programming language, and run it without modification on any supported simulator (currently including NEURON, NEST, Brian, and the SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS neuromorphic hardware systems).* *Prerequisites:* *Basic familiarity with the Python programming language* *Useful links:* *Main website: https://ebrains.eu/service/pynn/ <https://ebrains.eu/service/pynn/>* *Documentation: http://neuralensemble.org/docs/PyNN/ <http://neuralensemble.org/docs/PyNN/>* *Download: https://pypi.org/project/PyNN/ <https://pypi.org/project/PyNN/>* *Organizers:* *Chitaranjan Mahapatra (Neuroinformatics Group, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, France)* *Shailesh Appukuttan (Neuroinformatics Group, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, France)* *Andrew Davison (Neuroinformatics Group, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, France)* *Speakers/Instructors:* *Chitaranjan Mahapatra, Speaker (Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, France)* *Nitin Anisetty, Instructor (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)* *We also invite all tutorial participants to create a free EBRAINS account using an institutional email address. By doing so, you will gain complete access to EBRAINS tools and services.* *Best regards,* *Chitraranjan* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chitaranjan Mohapatra

June 4, 2023

NEST Conference 2023 - registration deadline: 5 June 2023

by Hans Ekkehard Plesser

Dear all, This year's NEST Conference will again take place as a virtual conference on Thursday/Friday 15/16 June 2023. You can still register until Monday next week, June 5. More information on the program and how to register can be found on the conference website: https://nest-simulator.org/conference We are looking forward to seeing you all in June! Hans Ekkehard Plesser and the conference organizing committee -- Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser Head, Department of Data Science Faculty of Science and Technology Norwegian University of Life Sciences PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway Phone +47 6723 1560 Email hans.ekkehard.plesser(a)nmbu.no<mailto:hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no> Home http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser

June 2, 2023

Spanish Agency of Research (AEI): ATRAE: Seeking Leading Researchers 1 Million Euros/per position

by Serafim Rodrigues

Dear all, The Spanish Agency of Research (AEI) has recently announced a competitive call for the attraction of senior researchers to Spanish institutions. Up to 25 positions. 1M€ per position. Gross salary 80.000 – 90.000 per year, and permanent position after the grant period 3 for 4 years. https://twitter.com/AgEInves/status/1654139691644403723?s=20 https://www.aei.gob.es/convocatorias/buscador-convocatorias/ayudas-incentiv… Conditions: PhD before Jan 1st, 2016 and have been professionally associated with foreign research organisations for at least 5 years in the period between Jan 1st 2016 and the starting date for the submission of applications. The Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM, Basque Country) would like to take this opportunity to invite leading researchers (for example ERC level candidates) to apply to BCAM. Interested researchers please contact us. Sincerely Serafim -- Serafim Rodrigues Ikerbasque Research Professor Mathematical, Computational and Experimental Neuroscience (MCEN) Group Leader *BCAM - *Basque Center for Applied Mathematics Alameda de Mazarredo, 14 E-48009 Bilbao, Basque Country - Spain Tel. +34 946 567 842 srodrigues(a)bcamath.org | www.bcamath.org/srodrigues | www.ikerbasque.net/serafim-rodrigues Old Mathematicians never die They just "tend to infinity" -Anonymous *(**matematika mugaz bestalde)*

June 2, 2023