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Doctoral Position at the Institute for Neural Computation - Ruhr University Bochum

by Vinita Samarasinghe

Prof. Sen Cheng, Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr University Bochum, invites applications for a *Doctoral position (TV-L E13, 65%) in Computational Neuroscience. * The position starts as soon as possible and is funded for three years. *Job description* The research group is highly dynamic and uses diverse computationalmodeling approachesincludingbiological neural networks, cognitive modeling, and machine learning to investigatelearning and memory in humans and animals. For further information see www.rub.de/cns <http://www.rub.de/cns>. The successful candidate will develop and study computational models of episodic memory and spatial navigation. The models will be based on biologically plausible spiking neurons and will account for the generation and learning of complex behaviors. The research focus will be on modeling the influence of neuro- and psychopathologies on observable behavior. The candidate mayenrollin a doctoral program in neuroscience, psychology, physics, or electrical engineering – subject to enrollment requirements of the particular program. *Your Profile: * Candidates must have * an excellent university degreein neuroscience, psychology, physics, computer science, electrical/biomedical engineering or a related field, * relevant experience modeling biological neural networks, * excellent communication skills in English, and * the ability to work well in a team. Experience with research in neuro- and psychopathologieswould be a further asset. The Ruhr University Bochum is home to a vibrant research community in neuroscienceand cognitive science. The Institute for Neural Computation is an independent research unit and combines different areas of expertise ranging from experimental and theoretical neuroscienceto machine learning androbotics. Please send your application, including CV, transcripts and research statement electronically, as a single PDF file, to samarasinghe(a)ini.rub.de <mailto:samarasinghe@ini.rub.de>. In addition, at least two academic references mustbe sent independently to the above email address. The deadline for applications is February 29^th , 2020. The Ruhr University Bochum is committed to equal opportunity. We strongly encourage applications from qualified women and persons with disabilities. Contact person: Vinita Samarasinghe, samarasinghe(a)ini.rub.de <mailto:samarasinghe@ini.rub.de> -- Vinita Samarasinghe M.Sc., M.A. Science Manager Arbeitsgruppe Computational Neuroscience Institut für Neuroinformatik Ruhr-Universität Bochum, NB 3/26 Postfachnummer 110 Universitätstr. 150 D-44801 Bochum Tel: +49 (0)234 32 27316 Email: samarasinghe(a)ini.rub.de

Feb. 4, 2020

PhD opportunities in Bristol University

by Conor Houghton

The Bristol Computational Neuroscience Unit, University of Bristol is looking to recruit to a number of EPSRC-funded PhD studentships for a Sept/Oct 2020 start: the research areas considered include Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning. We have a vibrant Computational Neuroscience group with strong collaborative links with local and international groups working in experimental neuroscience, in machine learning and cognitive science. We have interesting projects to offer in the areas of synaptic plasticity, neural data analysis, neural coding, reinforcement learning, neurolinguistics, cortical circuit and credit assignment. More details here: https://bristolcnu.github.io/research/ http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/postgraduate/funding/sceem-studentship… Bristol is a great place to live and work and so we urge you to apply or to recommend this opportunity to suitable students. Anyone interested should contact one of us to discuss potential project and their application; there are notes on the application process below; the application would need to be submitted by 21st Feb 2020. All the best, Conor, Nathan, Cian, Rui and Laurence ___________ Note that unfortunately these studentships are subject to a UK residency requirement: (https://epsrc.ukri.org/skills/students/help/eligibility/) either home students, or EC nationals who have lived in the UK for three years prior to starting the PhD; if the three years have been spent in higher education, then they have to have been resident in the EEA or Switzerland immediately before this. Students should contact one of us before applying. The selection itself goes through a two step process, students are first accepted as PhD students and are then considered for funding. Applicants should apply via http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/ and selecting "Computer Science PhD", ensuring they submit a short research proposal outlining the research question or area they intend to focus on and a CV by the deadline.

Feb. 3, 2020

Undergraduate computational neuroscience research position

by Neymotin, Samuel (NKI)

A new paid opportunity for an Army Research Office (ARO) sponsored undergraduate research apprenticeship program (URAP) position is available for the summer of 2020 at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, NY (https://www.nki.rfmh.org/) The research will be conducted under the mentorship of Samuel Neymotin, Haroon Anwar, and Salvador Dura-Bernal to help achieve the goals of an ARO grant (PI: Neymotin) that aims to train detailed thalamocortical circuit models to play video games using biologically-plausible learning rules, and to compare the models’ performance against commonly used deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Students will have the opportunity to learn cutting edge methods in computational neuroscience, machine learning, and Python software development, and potentially publish their research results. Candidates will be considered based on their experience in computational neuroscience, machine learning, and Python programming. Candidates must be located within commuting distance to Nathan Kline Institute during the apprenticeship period. To be considered, please click the link to “Apply Now” at https://www.usaeop.com/program/urap/ Make sure to use code U803 (Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research , NY). For questions, email Samuel.Neymotin(a)nki.rfmh.org<mailto:Samuel.Neymotin@nki.rfmh.org> For more information about the URAP visit: http://www.usaeop.com/<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=1b10bbdd-47344dbc-1b1242e8-0cc47a6d17…> ________________________________ IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail is meant only for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain confidential information which is legally privileged or otherwise protected by law. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, you are strictly prohibited from reviewing, using, disseminating, distributing or copying the e-mail. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY OF THE ERROR BY RETURN E-MAIL AND DELETE THIS MESSAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEM. Thank you for your cooperation.

Jan. 31, 2020

5th EADM Summer School: Learning and decision making, 8-15 July, 2020

by Hrvoje Stojic

SAVE THE DATE! Date: 8-15 July, 2020 Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Theme: Learning and decision making Eligible: Early career researchers Applications open: 15 February, 2020 Further details available at: https://ldmss.org The 5th EADM Learning and Decision Making summer school will take place from the 8th to the 15th of July and will cover a wide range of topics related to learning and decision making, including reinforcement learning, sampling biases, decisions from experience, function learning, category learning and social learning. Participants will receive advanced training and hands-on tutoring on various computational modeling approaches in learning and decision making from experts in the field and will get feedback on their latest research ideas in poster sessions. The academic syllabus will be complemented with social activities in and around Barcelona. Applications will open on the 15th of February! Confirmed faculty include: Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute) Maarten Speekenbrink (University College London) Johannes Müller-Trede (IESE Business School) Henrik Olsson (Santa Fe Institute) G. Elliot Wimmer (University College London) Mehdi Keramati (City University) Elizaveta Konovalova (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) More coming soon! The organization team: Gael Le Mens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Emmanouil Konstantinidis (University of Warwick) Hrvoje Stojic (University College London) Pantelis P. Analytis (University of Southern Denmark) Mikhail Spektor (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Feel free to contact us at: ldmss(a)protonmail.com or on Twitter @ldmsschool ----------------------------- Hrvoje Stojic, PhD Postdoctoral researcher University College London Website: http://hstojic.re/

Jan. 31, 2020

3 Year PhD or Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience, Charles University, Prague

by Jan Antolik

The newly formed Computational System Neuroscience Group is inviting applications for several fully funded PhD or Postdoc positions in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, starting September 2020 The studentships are ideal for students who want to apply their computational and analytical skills to problems in neuroscience and related fields. Successful candidates will have a strong background in numerical sciences, such as computer science, math or physics, and a keen interest in shaping the future of neuroscience. For the PhD positions no previous experience in neuroscience is required. A broad range of topics is available (see http://antolik.net/research) including but not limited to: large-scale spiking models of the early and higher visual system, machine learning techniques in visual neuroscience, developmental models of early sensory systems and development of tools for computational modelling. We encourage applicants to explore the work of the group <http://antolik.net/projects.html> by looking at its past and present projects. Interested candidates are invited to send their CV and a brief description of their interest in this position to antolikjan(a)gmail.com, to initiate discussions about potential PhD or Postdoc projects of interest.

Jan. 31, 2020

Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge / June 22, 2020 in Bordeaux, France

by Nicolas Rougier

Dear all, There are two months left if you want to take up the "Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge” whose goal is to try to compile / run your old code (> 10 years) that accompanied one of your published article or preprint (see below). More information at: https://github.com/ReScience/ten-years/ Deadline: 01/04/2020 (https://github.com/ReScience/submissions) Workshop: 22/06/2020 (Bordeaux, France) List of declared participants: https://github.com/ReScience/ten-years/issues/1 Three papers already submitted (one published): https://github.com/ReScience/submissions/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+labe… Nicolas Rougier --- Did you ever try to run an old code that you wrote for a scientific article you published years ago? Did you encounter any problems? Were you successful? We are curious to hear your story. This is the reason why we are editing a special issue of ReScience to collect these stories. The ten years reproducibility challenge is an invitation for researchers to try to run the code they've created for a scientific publication that was published more than ten years ago. This code can be anything (statistical analysis, numerical simulation, data processing, etc.), can be written in any language and can address any scientific domain. The only mandatory condition to enter the challenge is to have published a scientific article before 2010, in a journal or a conference with proceedings, which contains results produced by code, irrespectively of whether this code was published in some form at the time or not. Note that we do not ask you to write a new version of your old code. We ask you instead to try to make your old code to run on modern hardware/software (with minimal modifications) in order to check if you can obtain the exact same results that were publised at least ten years ago. Sounds easy? We have good reasons to think this might be more difficult than you think. And maybe the first problem you'll have to solve is to find your own source code. More information at: https://github.com/ReScience/ten-years/

Jan. 31, 2020

NEURAL COMPUTATION - February 1, 2020

by Terry Sejnowski

Neural Computation - Volume 32, Number 2 - February 1, 2020 Available online for download now: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/neco/32/2 http://cognet.mit.edu/content/neural-computation ----- Article Face Representations via Tensorfaces of Various Complexities Sidney Lehky, Anh-Huy Phan, Andrzej Cichocki, and Keiji Tanaka Letters Transition Scale-spaces: A Computational Theory for the Discretized Entorhinal Cortex Nicolai Waniek From Synaptic Interactions to Collective Dynamics in Random Neuronal Networks Models: Critical Role of Eigenvectors and Transient Behavior Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Maciej A Nowak, Dante Chialvo, Jeremi K Ochab, and Wojciech Mateusz Tarnowskic Synaptic Scaling Improves the Stability of Neural Mass Models Capable of Simulating Brain Plasticity Jure Demsar, Rob Forsyth Scaled Coupled Norms and Coupled Higher Order Tensor Completion Kishan wimalawarne, Makoto Yamada, and Hiroshi Mamitsuka Improving Generalization via Attribute Selection on Out-of-the-box Data Xiaofeng Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, and Chuancai Liu ------------ ON-LINE -- http://www.mitpressjournals.org/neuralcomp MIT Press Journals, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 Tel: (617) 253-2889 FAX: (617) 577-1545 journals-cs(a)mit.edu ------------

Jan. 29, 2020

NEURONUS 2020 IBRO Neuroscience Forum (24-26 April 2020, Krakow, Poland)

by Michał Zaręba

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for NEURONUS 2020 IBRO Neuroscience Forum is open only UNTIL FEBRUARY 14! More information and registration forms can be found our website: http://neuronusforum.pl/. With prominent speakers and an unique atmosphere of one of the oldest and most beautiful Polish cities, NEURONUS IBRO Neuroscience Forums have established themselves in the European calendar of scientific events as a platform for communication between scientists from different fields of neuroscience. The program of the conference consists of numerous sessions on biological, cognitive, computational and medical aspects of neuroscience, creating a dynamic environment for sharing knowledge. The schedule of the meeting is further complemented with lectures by invited guests, and we invest a lot of effort to attract as influential neuroscientists as possible. This year’s keynote speakers include: - Karl Friston (University College London, the UK) - Pico Caroni (University of Basel, Switzerland) - Karin Roelofs (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) - Alejandro Schinder (Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Adam Hampshire (Imperial College London, the UK) - Dayu Lin (New York University School of Medicine, the USA) Furthermore, a special panel concerning the Future of Neuroscience will be held. We have confirmed participation of three pioneering researchers: - Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France) - Panayiota Poirazi (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece) - Dominik Paquet (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) During the upcoming 11th edition of the conference, we will traditionally continue to put emphasis on development of early-career researchers. The main purpose of this event is to provide means for both young and experienced neuroscientists to share the latest discoveries, knowledge and experience in neuroscience, as well as make valuable contacts with scientists representing various fields of neurobiology. We actively promote young scientists through preferentially allocating oral presentations of their experimental results. We strongly encourage you to join this special initiative, and hope to see you in the pleasant spring scenery of Krakow! On behalf of the Organising Committee, Michał Zaręba

Jan. 29, 2020

Call for submissions for the special issue on "Reaching and Grasping the Multisensory Side of Dexterous Manipulation"

by Ivan Camponogara

Dear List, In collaboration with the journal "Frontiers in Psychology", we are bringing together a selected group of international experts to contribute to an open-access article collection on: "Reaching and Grasping the Multisensory Side of Dexterous Manipulation" Guest Editors: Dr. Ivan Camponogara, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Dr. Luigi F. Cuturi, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy Dr. Simone Toma, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States Dr. Marco Santello, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States The submission deadline is 31 July 2020. Visit the collection homepage for the full description of the project: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12640 Kind Regards, Ivan Camponogara Topic Editor, Cognition Section, Frontiers in Psychology On behalf of the Topic Editors. -- Ivan Camponogara Postdoctoral Associate New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Office Tel (UAE): +971 2 628 4960 New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Campus Computational Research Building (A2), desk 144-B P.O. Box 129188 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ᐧ

Jan. 29, 2020

Postdoc position in systems neuroscience

by Tania Rinaldi Barkat

Dear colleagues, The Brain and Sound Lab at Basel University is happy to announce a postdoc position in systems neuroscience for an ambitious, smart and self-driven scientist. A background in neuroscience, physics, computer science, mathematics or engineering is desirable. For more information , please check www.brainsoundlab.com<http://www.brainsoundlab.com> or contact tania.barkat(a)unibas.ch<mailto:tania.barkat@unibas.ch>. Best regards Tania. --------------------------- Tania Rinaldi Barkat Assistant Professor in Neurophysiology Basel University Department of Biomedicine, room 7001 Klingelbergstrasse 50-70 4056 Basel Switzerland +41 61 207 1638 www.brainsoundlab.com

Jan. 28, 2020