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[Registration for Attendance | Program]: 3rd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (3ICEAI)

by steven gouveia

[Registration for Attendance] 3rd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (3ICEAI) University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores 19-25 September 2024 (19-20 Online, 23-25 In-Person) About: The 3rd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (3ICEAI) focuses on the intricate moral and societal questions posed by AI technologies. This conference aims to dissect the ethical challenges inherent in AI, such as decision-making processes, biases, privacy concerns, and the broader implications for human rights and social justice. As AI continues to permeate various facets of our daily lives, it becomes imperative to address these ethical dimensions thoughtfully and proactively. Ethical AI development necessitates ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability within algorithms and systems. Our goal is to bring together a diverse group of experts, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to foster an in-depth and informed exploration of these ethical issues with the aim of promoting responsible and fair AI practices. The third edition of this conference will be organized into two distinct segments. The first segment, scheduled for September 19-20, 2024, will be conducted exclusively online, featuring virtual presentations. The second segment, taking place from September 23-25, 2024, will consist solely of in-person sessions. ETHICS OF AI AWARD 2024 (in-person talks only): The Winner of the Ethics of AI Award 2024 is Dr. Jordan Wadden (Unity Health Toronto, Canada). Dr. Wadden will present the Ethics of AI Award Talk “Naming and Diffusing the Understanding Objection in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence”. The community is invited to register for ATTENDANCE until September 18th, 2024. Full program is available here: ivory-meggi-90.tiiny.site KEYNOTES SPEAKERS: * Pekka Mäkelä is an is a Research Coordinator in the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH) at the University of Helsinki and the co-leader of the RADAR Group. * Ariane Hanemaayer is an Associate Professor at Brandon University, Canada, in the departments of Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies, and Affiliate Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. * Raul Hakli is a university researcher in practical philosophy and co-leader of the RADAR group. * Eleanor Drage is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. * Hasse Hämäläinen is AI Scientist at Mehiläinen, holding a PhD in Philosophy in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. * Veridiana Cordeiro is a sociologist, a Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, and a research fellow at the Center for Artificial Intelligence (IBM-Sao Paulo Research Foundation). * ATTENDANCE REGISTRATION: * Online Segment (19-20 September 2024, via Zoom): 30,00€ * In-Person Segment (23-25 September 2024, Uni. Azores): 30,00€ * Online + In-person Segment (19-20 September 2024, online + 23-25 September 2024, Uni. Azores): 50,00€ * Registration process: sent an email to interconfethicsofai(a)gmail.com<mailto:interconfethicsofai@gmail.com> with the title “Attendance 3ICEAI”. In the message, specify which modality you are interested in (Online only, In-Person only, or Both) and the details for registration will be sent right after. Any doubts or concerns can be addressed to: interconfethicsofai(a)gmail.com<https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/interconfethicsofai@gmail.com> Venue: University of Azores | Address: Rua da Mãe de Deus, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores. Organization: Mind, Language and Action Group | Institute of Philosophy | University of Porto Center for Humanistic Studies | University of the Azores Organizing Committee Steven S. Gouveia (Chair) Rui Sampaio da Silva (Local Organizer) Sofia Miguens Jaroslav Malík Romeu Ivolela Liberty Severs Support: CEEC Project by FCT 2022.02527.CEECIND TL Modern & Contemporary Philosophy RG Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG) Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto – UIDB/00502/2020 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Reitoria da Universidade do Porto + Center for Humanistic Studies University of the Azores

Sept. 7, 2024

Faculty positions in Neurosci. and Comp. Sci. in Alberta, Canada

by Luczak, Artur

University of Lethbridge has 2 faculty positions open: 1. Neuroscience Assistant Professor. This is in Neurosci Dept which has multiple faculty with Comp. Neurosci. background, thus someone with similar interests may fit well there ( https://www.ulethbridge.ca/artsci/neuroscience/our-faculty ) https://uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/7721 1. Assistant Professor in Computer Science. A review of candidates already started, but you can try to submit a late application, and maybe notify Dr. Wendy Osborn (Co-chair Computer Science, wendy.osborn(a)uleth.ca<mailto:wendy.osborn@uleth.ca>) to ensure that the search com. is aware of your late submission. https://uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/7483 Best, Artur Luczak https://people.uleth.ca/~luczak/

Sept. 6, 2024

Open-rank Faculty Position in Computational and Behavioral Neuroscience in the UCLA Department of Psychology

by MARIO DIPOPPA

Dear Colleagues, The UCLA Department of Psychology is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, or tenured faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor specializing in computational neuroscience and the use of advanced mathematical methods and theoretical approaches to understand behavior and brain processes. The application deadline is October 31, 2024. Please find the online ad at this link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09740. Potential applicants with questions about how their specialization aligns with the position can inquire to Prof. Kate Wassum, search committee chair, at SearchCommittee(a)psych.ucla.edu. === Mario Dipoppa, PhD Assistant Professor University of California, Los Angeles Department of Neurobiology David Geffen School of Medicine

Sept. 6, 2024

Reminder: Virtual neuroscience conference for trainees and early career researchers/professionals

by Pranjal Garg

*NeuroNovember Convention 2024* We invite you to join us for a virtual weekend-long neuroscience conference for trainees and early-career professionals on November 9-10, 2024. *About the Convention* NeuroNovember is a joint venture between Project Encephalon <https://www.projectencephalon.org/> and Simply Neuroscience <https://www.simplyneuroscience.org/>, designed to make quality, world-class science accessible to everyone, regardless of their ability to travel and attend in-person events. This collaboration represents a unique opportunity to amplify our collective impact on neuroscience education and awareness globally. NeuroNovember will feature scientific talks, workshops, abstract presentations, and various other opportunities to interact and network with prominent professionals, organizations, and ventures actively shaping the future of neuroscience. More details can be found at https://www.neuronovember.org/ *Abstract Submissions* Early-career researchers, trainees, scholars, and professionals are invited to submit abstracts for poster and oral presentations in neuroscience and related fields. More details can be found at https://www.neuronovember.org/abstracts Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024, 11:59 PM EST Please feel free to reach out to info(a)neuronovember.org with any queries or comments. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Sept. 5, 2024

Call for Papers NeurIPS Workshop on Symmetry, Geometry and Neural Representations (NeurReps)

by Simone Azeglio

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the NeurReps Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (www.neurreps.org) The workshop invites submissions contributing novel research incorporating symmetry, geometry, or topology into the design of artificial neural networks, the analysis of neural data, or theories of neural computation. Key Details: - Submission Deadline: September 13, 2024 11:59 PM AoE - Author Notification: October 9, 2024 11:59 PM AoE - Two submission tracks: 1. Proceedings Track (up to 9 pages, to be published in PMLR) 2. Extended Abstract Track (up to 4 pages) Themes of particular interest include: - Theory and methods for learning invariant and equivariant representations - Statistical learning theory in the context of topology, geometry, and symmetry - Representational geometry in neural data - Equivariant world models for robotics - Topological deep learning and topological data analysis - Geometric structure in language - Symmetries, dynamical systems, and learning We welcome both theoretical contributions and applied results in domains such as vision, motor control, navigation, and language. For full details on the call for papers, submission instructions, and LaTeX templates, please visit: https://www.neurreps.org/call-for-papers If you have any questions, please contact organizers(a)neurreps.org. We look forward to your submissions! Best regards, Simone Azeglio & NeurReps Workshop Organizers

Sept. 5, 2024

OPEN FACULTY POSITIONS, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan

by Taro Toyoizumi

OPEN FACULTY POSITIONS (Brain science in general) https://cbs.riken.jp/career-brain-science-2024/index.html The RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) was launched in April 2018 following the strong 20-year foundation of its predecessor, the Brain Science Institute (BSI). CBS aims to meet society’s ever-growing expectations for brain research. (For the four main goals of CBS, please visit, https://cbs.riken.jp/en/about/ ) We are currently seeking outstanding neuroscientists for Team Leader positions (junior principal investigators). However, applications from internationally established neuroscientists may be considered. To promote diversity, a strength of CBS, we proactively recruit women when the candidate's research skills are deemed equal. At RIKEN CBS, Team Leaders have full intellectual independence, generous internal funds including a highly competitive start-up package and access to ample communal facilities in a collaborative environment. Successful candidates for the Team Leader position must have demonstrated the ability to develop an original, independent and internationally competitive research program. We encourage applications from all disciplines of neuroscience, particularly in (1) research areas of neurological/psychiatric disorders and (2) theoretical and computational neuroscience. Successful candidates will hold a research management position, and as the head of a laboratory, they will provide leadership and guidance to laboratory members to conduct research. For details, please refer to the following website. https://cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/20240904_w24139_pi.html Application and letters of recommendation must arrive by 5 pm on November 15, 2024 (JST). Applicants should submit electronic files of a cover letter with a brief summary of their research program and future plans, curriculum vitae, list of research achievements and publications, list of acquired research funding, current research and achievements to date, future research plans, and reprints of five major publications maximum, through the application form. Three letters of recommendation must be directly submitted from the referees. Please see the website above for more details. --- Taro Toyoizumi, PhD Team Leader RIKEN Center for Brain Science https://toyoizumilab.riken.jp/taro/

Sept. 5, 2024

Postdoc in modeling cerebellar function

by Erik De Schutter

A postdoctoral position is available in the Computational Neuroscience Unit (https://groups.oist.jp/cnu) of Prof. Erik De Schutter at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology for a researcher interested in modeling to help better understanding of cerebellar properties and function. Candidates should have good knowledge of cerebellar anatomy and physiology related to previous modeling work, and be open to an explorative approach. Depending on prior experience and interest the focus can be on modeling the cerebellum and its neurons and/or on analyzing experimental data obtained through collaboration. The postdoc will interact with other researchers and students in the lab who are working on cerebellar modeling projects. We offer attractive working conditions in an English language graduate university, located on a beautiful subtropical island. Starting date any time before end 2024. Send curriculum vitae, summary of research interests and experience, and the names of two referees to Prof. Erik De Schutter at erik(a)oist.jp <mailto:erik@oist.jp>

Sept. 3, 2024

Release of laMEG: a toolbox for laminar MEG

by James Bonaiuto

Dear colleagues, Apologies for the cross-posting. I'm extremely pleased to announce the first release of laMEG: a toolbox for performing non-invasive inference of laminar-specific activity with MEG. My collaborators and I have been working on methods for laminar MEG for several years now, and we've finally put them all together in an easy-to-install toolbox. It includes test data, and tutorial jupyter notebooks to reproduce the simulations and analyses in all of our key papers: - Laminar inference using model comparison with either free energy or cross validation error, as well as power-based ROI analysis Bonaiuto, James J., Holly E. Rossiter, Sofie S. Meyer, Natalie Adams, Simon Little, Martina F. Callaghan, Fred Dick, Sven Bestmann, and Gareth R. Barnes. "Non-invasive laminar inference with MEG: Comparison of methods and source inversion algorithms." *Neuroimage* 167 (2018): 372-383. Bonaiuto, James J., Sofie S. Meyer, Simon Little, Holly Rossiter, Martina F. Callaghan, Frederic Dick, Gareth R. Barnes, and Sven Bestmann. "Lamina-specific cortical dynamics in human visual and sensorimotor cortices." *Elife* 7 (2018): e33977. - Free energy model comparison in a sliding time window with priors Bonaiuto, James J., Simon Little, Samuel A. Neymotin, Stephanie R. Jones, Gareth R. Barnes, and Sven Bestmann. "Laminar dynamics of high amplitude beta bursts in human motor cortex." *NeuroImage* 242 (2021): 118479. - Surface post-processing, following up from FreeSurfer recon-all, to downsample multiple surfaces and compute link vectors to constrain dipole orientations Bonaiuto, James J., Fardin Afdideh, Maxime Ferez, Konrad Wagstyl, Jérémie Mattout, Mathilde Bonnefond, Gareth R. Barnes, and Sven Bestmann. "Estimates of cortical column orientation improve MEG source inversion." *Neuroimage* 216 (2020): 116862. laMEG includes the ability to run any of these analyses on an arbitrary number of layer surfaces (not just pial versus white matter), interactive 3d surface visualization, an experimental "CSD" laminar analysis, and SPM compiled as a python library - no matlab license required. Github: https://github.com/danclab/laMEG Documentation: https://danclab.github.io/laMEG/ PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/lameg/ Best wishes, Jimmy Bonaiuto --------------------- James Bonaiuto Group leader | Institut des Sciences Cognitives | CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon DANC lab <http://danclab.com> | @danc_labo <https://twitter.com/danc_labo>

Sept. 2, 2024

Travel Awards Announced - Reminder Call for Papers: The First Workshop on NeuroAI @ NeurIPS 2024

by Forough Habibollahi

*Call** for Papers: The First Workshop on NeuroAI @ NeurIPS 2024: Fusing Neuroscience and AI for Intelligent Solutions* We are excited to announce that we are organizing the First Workshop on NeuroAI @ NeurIPS 2024, which will showcase research at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers to present their latest findings in NeuroAI. *Topics of Interest:* - Explainable and interpretable AI in neuroscience - Self-supervised systems in NeuroAI - Neuro-inspired architectures, and computations - Neuronally-plausible learning regimes - Neuro-inspired reasoning and decision-making - Cognitive functions in AI The topics above are NOT exhaustive, and we encourage the submission of research related to how principles and insights from neuroscience can lead to better artificial intelligence and vice versa. Our aim is to foster groundbreaking interdisciplinary research that advances both fields. *Submission Details:* We invite researchers in the field of NeuroAI to submit their papers to this workshop. Submissions should adhere to a page limit of *5 pages *(excluding references and supplementary materials) and must use the NeurIPS 2024 LaTeX template <https://media.neurips.cc/Conferences/NeurIPS2024/Styles.zip>. Authors are encouraged to submit their NeurIPS main conference submissions concurrently to this workshop (excluding any completed and already published work). *Travel Awards:* The NeurIPS workshop registration fee will be covered for one student author from each of the three spotlight papers chosen by our reviewers. Additionally, one student author from the top paper will have their airfare covered. Early-career researchers are encouraged to submit their work and take advantage of this opportunity. *Important Dates:* · Submission Deadline: September 7, 2024 · Submission Portal: NeuroAI Workshop Submission Portal <https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2024/Workshop/NeuroAI> *The top 3 highly scored submissions will be chosen for spotlight talks.* *Event Details:* · Date: During NeurIPS 2024, 14 or 15 December 2024 (to be confirmed) · Location: In-person in Vancouver, Canada *Keynote Speakers:* · *Karl Friston (UCL)* · *Eva Dyer (Georgia Institute of Technology)* · *Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)* · *Max Welling (University of Amsterdam)* · *Ila Fiete (MIT)* *Highlight:* Our workshop will feature an in-person panel discussion between the two pioneers in AI and Neuroscience: Yoshua Bengio and Karl Friston *Enquiries:* For further information, please contact: neuroai.neurips2024(a)gmail.com For more information about the details of the workshop schedule, lineup of speakers, etc. and to stay updated, please check the workshop website: NeuroAI Workshop Website <https://neuroai-workshop.github.io/> We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you at NeurIPS 2024! On behalf of the organizing committee, *Forough Habibollahi, Moein Khajehnejad, Adeel Razi, Jason Eshraghian, Noor Sajid, Anthony Zador, Yoshua Bengio*

Aug. 30, 2024

ReservoirChat Beta: a Large Language Model for Reservoir Computing

by Xavier Hinaut

Hello, We are pleased to announce the launch of ReservoirChat, our new tool designed to enhance your experience with Reservoir Computing and ReservoirPy. - Expert Knowledge: Access detailed information on Reservoir Computing. - Coding Support: Suggestions to code reservoirs using ReservoirPy. - Exclusive Access: This beta version will be available for a few weeks only! ReservoirChat beta version: https://chat.reservoirpy.inria.fr/ * Use-cases examples: - Beginner: You don't know what is Reservoir Computing and why to try it? —> ReservoirChat can explain it to you! - Expert but don't know ReservoirPy —> don't need to read all the documentation, ReservoirChat will help you! We look forward to your participation in this beta phase and to your valuable feedback. Follow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/reservoirpy Best regards, Xavier Hinaut Inria Research Scientist — www.xavierhinaut.com -- +33 5 33 51 48 01 -- https://x.com/neuronalX Mnemosyne team, Inria, Bordeaux, France -- https://team.inria.fr/mnemosyne & LaBRI, Bordeaux University -- https://www4.labri.fr/en/formal-methods-and-models & IMN (Neurodegeneratives Diseases Institute) -- http://www.imn-bordeaux.org/en — Our Reservoir Computing library: https://github.com/reservoirpy/reservoirpy

Aug. 29, 2024