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Research Engineering Fellow to support the research of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute.
by Alistair McEwan 11 May '23

11 May '23

Dear all, we are seeking engineers or similar for a cerebral palsy focussed research in Sydney Australia. University of Sydney Career Site (myworkdayjobs.com)<https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Rese…> [https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/assets/l…]<https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Rese…> Research Engineering Fellow<https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Rese…> usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com The School of Biomedical Engineering<https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/schools/school-of-biomedical-engineer…> is seeking a talented Research Engineering Fellow to support the research of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute. Our technology work spans the lifetime from early detection and intervention to assistive devices for mobility, communication and cognition. We work across healthcare including Westmead hospital based research in neonatal intensive care, neurodevelopmental clinics, gait laboratories, speech therapy and disability services throughout NSW, Australia and in support of international research projects in this area. We seek to train and engage engineers in the areas of child development and physical and occupational therapies using the emerging technologies of robotics, bionics, virtual reality and machine learning. In this role you will: * facilitate and contribute to the fabrication of functional prototypes and experimental devices with emphasis on reliability and the provision of care * design and fabricate test apparatus, jigs, and other devices in support of the research programs * design electrical circuits, software, user interfaces and machine learning systems as required for achievement of the experimental objectives of the laboratory * participate in the coordination of experimentation (preparation, setup, execution, and post-procedure follow-up) and design experimental protocols * assist in the training, supervision and mentoring of Honours students About you The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Research Engineering Fellow who has: * a PhD or higher degree in a relevant area of engineering such as biomedical engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer science, statistics, data analytics, applied mathematics or applied physics * experience in human experimental design, familiarity with human ethics, motion and audio signal processing, predictive modelling, statistical methods, and thorough documentation * a demonstrated understanding of the disability sector and goal-directed human centered design thinking approach * experience in Computer Aided Design (CAD), ideally SolidWorks, and a basic working knowledge of electrical circuits, embedded software, user interfaces * an ability to resolve matters that may arise as part of research and the challenges relating to innovation of new ideas and concepts Experience working in the health domain with clinical data and a demonstrated track record of supporting high quality academic publications is highly desirable. This is an academic position, of which the commencement level will be determined based on the candidate’s skills, experience and knowledge. An appointment at Academic Level A, will hold the title of Postdoctoral Research Associate - Engineering. An appointment at Academic Level B, will hold the title of Research Fellow - Engineering. [https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/assets/l…]<https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Rese…> Research Engineering Fellow<https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Rese…> usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com  -- Alistair McEwan<https://sydney.edu.au/engineering/people/alistair.mcewan.php> | Cerebral Palsy Chair of Technology and Engineering Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering<https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/schools/school-of-biomedical-engineer…>, Cerebral Palsy Alliance<https://cerebralpalsy.org.au/> Brain and Mind Centre<https://sydney.edu.au/brain-mind/>, Charles Perkins Centre<https://sydney.edu.au/charles-perkins-centre/>, Sydney Nano Institute<http://sydney.edu.au/nano/> J13 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2000 +61 2 9351 7256 | +61 4489 29554 alistair.mcewan(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:alistair.mcewan@sydney.edu.au> https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-mcewan-0044781/ Cardiovascular Initiative<https://sydney.edu.au/research/centres/cardiovascular-initiative.html> @USYD_cvi https://arctcibe.org/ @InnovativBioEng

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Endowed professorship "AI-based Modeling in Neurology"
by Philipp Berens 10 May '23

10 May '23

Dear all, we are currently advertising an Endowed professorship "AI-based Modeling in Neurology" (https://www.academics.com/jobs/endowed-professor-w3-of-ai-based-modeling-in…) at the University of Tübingen. We are looking for candidates that perform innovative research on artificial intelligence (AI) methods for modelling the healthy and diseased brain from a translational and clinical perspective. This can include the development and use of brain simulations to better understand healthy brain function and the effects of neurological diseases (e.g. epilepsy, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's) and integrating simulations and clinical neurodata (e.g. functional MRI imaging, EEG, electrophysiology) with the help of machine learning. Tübingen offers a first-rate environment at the intersection of neuroscience and AI/ML research with the Excellence Cluster for Machine Learning in Science, the Tübingen AI Center, the Max Planck Institutes for Intelligent Systems and Biological Cybernetics, the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and many other institutions! We are looking forward to your application by May 19th. Best Philipp -- Professor of Data Science, Director Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen www.berenslab.org

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Job Opening: Full time Research Assistant in cognitive & systems neuroscience
by Theresa Desrochers 09 May '23

09 May '23

The Desrochers Lab (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) is looking for a full-time Research Assistant. The goal of the lab is to understand the neural bases of cognitive and behavioral sequences through research that integrates human and animal experimental models. Tasks for this position will mostly focus on a single project in the lab, and could be a great opportunity for a post-bac looking for a project doing cognitive & systems neuroscience. Detailed description and application here: https://brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-careers-brown/job/Sidney-E-… ~Theresa -- Theresa M. Desrochers, Ph.D. Rosenberg Assistant Professor of Brain Science Department of Neuroscience Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (courtesy) Carney Institute for Brain Science Brown University http://neuroscience.brown.edu/desrochers

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Lecture notes: "The Shallow and the Deep"
by Michael Biehl 08 May '23

08 May '23

Dear All. A slightly extended, revised and prettified version of my lecture notes "*The shallow and the deep - a biased introduction to neural networks* * and old school machine learning*" can be downloaded at https://hdl.handle.net/11370/e08667bd-2e84-4956-b9d3-45b9e957634d This pre-publication version is freely available for non-commercial use and teaching purposes. The copyright remains with the author. --------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Biehl Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence P.O. Box 407, 9700 AK Groningen, NL https://www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl

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Virtual CA2 Symposium - May 19th
by Tristan Stöber 08 May '23

08 May '23

Dear friends and colleagues, get ready to discuss the latest CA2 insights with us! Serena Dudek and I are thrilled to invite you to a virtual symposium on May 19th, celebrating the Hippocampus Special Issue on CA2! It's FREE of charge. For more info and registration, check out the link below [1]. Talks by Zafar Bashir, Michael Bienkowski, Liset M. de la Prida, Emma Diethorn (Gould lab), Serena M. Dudek, Ute Häussler, Hongshen He (McHugh lab), Ricardo Insausti, Eude Lepicard (Piskorowski/Chevalyre lab), Maud Muller (Piskorowski/Chevalyre lab), Katy Pannoni (Farris lab), Radha Raghuraman (Sajikumar lab) and me. With Georgia Alexander, Shannon Farris and Azahara Oliva as chairs. Looking forward to see you all there. Please spread the word. Best, Tristan Stöber [1] https://shorturl.at/CUX07

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NEST Conference 2023 — Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to 21 May
by Hans Ekkehard Plesser 05 May '23

05 May '23

Dear all, The abstract submission deadline for the NEST Conference 2023 has been extended to 21 May. We are looking forward to your contributions! The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. This year's conference will again take place as a virtual conference on Thursday/Friday 15/16 June 2023. We are inviting contributions to the conference, including talks, "posters" and workshops on specific topics. For more information on how to submit your contribution, register and participate, please visit the conference website https://nest-simulator.org/conference Important dates 21 May 2023 — Deadline for submission of contributions 26 May 2023 — Notification of acceptance 5 June 2023 — Registration deadline 15 June 2023 — NEST Conference 2023 starts 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

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CALL FOR PAPERS, Deadline May 26; CogFeel Workshop at ALIFE 2023
by Jie Mei 05 May '23

05 May '23

- Venue: ALIFE 2023, Sapporo, Japan - Date: July 25th, 2023 - Title: Cognitive feelings: Towards multi-disciplinary approaches for realizing artificial systems with cognitive capacities - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cogfeel-alife-2023/ - Workshop organizers: - Jie Mei, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo - Hiroki Kojima, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry and The University of Tokyo - Yuichi Yamashita, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry - Yukie Nagai, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, In recent years, an increasing number of cross-disciplinary approaches have been proposed to deepen our understanding of living systems and their interactive, evolutionary, and adaptive aspects. However, we have not fully achieved the emergence of intelligence and mind in artificial systems. To facilitate discussions on how cognitive capacities of artificial living systems could be improved and potentially propose a framework for exploring the origin, emergence and evolution of perception and emotions, we are organizing a workshop (CogFeel @ ALIFE 2023: https://sites.google.com/view/cogfeel-alife-2023) in conjunction with the 2023 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2023). We reinforce the role of cognitive feelings (i.e., feelings about one’s mental processes, encompassing senses of knowing, confidence, reality, and fluency, etc.) as an integrated component contributing to developmental individuality and diversity. We also recognize the difficulty in implementing (subjective) feelings in artificial systems which requires the differentiation whether these systems possess feelings or just behave as so. For a comprehensive perspective on how individual- and population-level diversity in cognitive and behavioral capacities emerges, in this workshop, we encourage discussions on methods and findings in disciplines including but not limited to: - Robotics, - Computational and behavioral neuroscience, - Psychology, - Virtual/augmented reality, and - Artificial intelligence, etc. We welcome submissions on topics within the fields of (neuro)robotics, computational and behavioral neuroscience, psychology, virtual/augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. We also encourage contributions from other relevant disciplines. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (maximum 2 pages) or research articles (maximum 8 pages). We are planning to organize a special issue in partnership with a top academic journal where extended versions of selected contributions will be published. Deadline: May 26, 2023. Please submit your contribution to cogfeelalife2023(a)gmail.com. Regards, Jie Mei

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PhD Studentship in Computational Neuroscience and Neurostimulation
by Volker Steuber 04 May '23

04 May '23

PhD Studentship in the Centre for Future Societies Research at the University of Hertfordshire Application Deadline 19 May 2023 Bursary of a minimum of £17,668 per annum, including a full tuition fee waiver for three years. https://www.herts.ac.uk/.../centre.../phd-studentships-2023<https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-future-societies-resear…> [https://www.herts.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0019/257320/uherts_40436287737.…]<https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-future-societies-resear…> PhD Studentships 2023<https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-future-societies-resear…> University of Hertfordshire www.herts.ac.uk Project title: Low-cost, accessible neurostimulation, experiments and simulations Supervisors: Dr Nada Yousif, Professor Volker Steuber Originality: The proposed project would for the first time combine experimental cerebellar stimulation and computational modelling, to show the feasibility of low-cost, accessible non-invasive neurostimulation for treating movement disorders. Significance: The cerebellum is a critical structure for movement. We have previously shown that it is central in controlling pathological activity in epilepsy (Kros et al., Annals of Neurology 2015) and essential tremor (Yousif et al., PloS Comput Biol, 2017). Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used for decades to treat tremor (Benabid et al, 1998) and more recently epilepsy (Zangiabadi et al., Frontiers Neurology, 2019). However, DBS is a highly invasive surgical technique targeting the thalamus, a structure inaccessible by non-invasive neurostimulation. Rigour: The project would involve, 1) a detailed biophysical computational model of the cerebellum, based on our previous work, but extended to involve connected structures such as the thalamus; 2) experiments with human participants involving non-invasive electrical stimulation of the cerebellum during normal movement tasks to inform, validate and test the model. Together, this will lead to theoretically based, novel stimulation paradigms for a closed-loop system. Potential Contribution to Knowledge: We propose that cerebellar stimulation could provide a method of replacing DBS and inhibiting pathological brain activity, and that a model based closed-loop system would provide an optimal approach. Volker Steuber Professor of Computational Neuroscience Biocomputation Research Group School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science University of Hertfordshire College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK biocomputation.herts.ac.uk<http://biocomputation.herts.ac.uk>

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DEADLINE EXTENDED (May15th): Call for contribution and registration to the Systems Vision Science Symposium: Aug. 22-24, 2023, in Tuebingen, Germany
by Pavlovic, Maria 03 May '23

03 May '23

Systems Vision Science Symposium Aug. 22-24, 2023 in Tübingen, Germany -------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENDED! SUBMIT CONTRIBUTIONS UNTIL MAY 15, 2023! We have extended the deadline to submit poster contributions to the Systems Vision Science Symposium to May 15, 2023! You have also the chance to register without contribution registration without contribution to the symposium will be open until capacity or deadline for organization is reached! Our symposium takes place at the end of our Systems Vision Science summer school Aug. 14-24, 2023. Presentation topics by the invited speakers will be ® Topics in Systems Vision Science ® The power of two: New perspectives on binocular vision ® Central versus peripheral vision We are pleased to announce our symposium's keynote speaker: Marty Sereno. The keynote speech will be on August 22, 2023 Invited speakers of the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium include: Assaf Breska, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer, Karl Gegenfurtner, Ziad Hafed, Tadashi Isa, Jan Koenderink, Kristine Krug, Hanspeter Mallot, Laurence Maloney, Pascal Mamassian, Antje Nuthmann, Daniel Osorio, Andrew Parker, Jenny Read, Alexander Schütz, Manuel Spitschan, Kristina Visscher, Li Zhaoping. -------------------------------- We invite you to submit contributions in form of posters to the symposium on all topics in Systems Vision Science, which combines computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions and their implementations in neural circuits. To maximize exchanges during the symposium, each poster will be displayed throughout the symposium, which includes five poster sessions (two daytime sessions and three evening sessions), in a venue next to the lecture hall and coffee breaks to give enough time for discussions, networking and knowledge exchange. To contribute, please fill out our registration form including an abstract, which can be found here: https://summerschool.lizhaoping.org/contributions-for-symposium/ -------------------------------- This years venue capacity is 100, including invited speakers and summer school participants. Information about our summer school, which takes place just before the Systems Vision Science Symposium, can be found here: https://summerschool.lizhaoping.org/ Please direct inquiries to svs.summerschool(a)tue.mpg.de <mailto:svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de> -------------------------------- Organizing team: Li Zhaoping Ulf Lüder Maria Pavlovic Junhao Liang Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics University of Tuebingen <http://www.lizhaoping.org> www.lizhaoping.org

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NeuroBridges 2023
by Ahmed El Hady 03 May '23

03 May '23

Dear colleagues, The great tradition of NeuroBridges continues. NeuroBridges 2023 is just across the corner and the deadline for applications is May 15, 2023. Please feel free to forward the call for applications ( below) to your departments and prospective students . If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you for your support, Ahmed Elhady *NeuroBridges 2023* *A Mediterranean, Middle Eastern Summer School in Neuroscience* *Deadline to apply: May 15, 2023* *NeuroBridges 2023* is a summer school which will take place between *September 3 and September 14, 2023* in Le Centre de Conferences Internationales de Cluny, France (CCIC). The school will provide an overview of theoretical and experimental frameworks used to study a variety of *decision making* processes. It will cover different model systems from rodents to humans and a plethora of decision making mechanisms. Another objective of Neurobridges is to bring together *Mediterranean and Middle Eastern scientists*, in order to promote scientific cooperation between young researchers from these countries. The organizers of NeuroBridges are convinced that such scientific collaborations can lead to personal relations, which eventually may alleviate the political distress in the Middle East. The school is intended for graduate students and postdocs, primarily, but not only, from the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, either working in their home countries or abroad. Applicants should have some background in related fields in neuroscience or cognitive psychology. *All costs of registration and accommodation will be covered by the organizers. A limited number of travel grants will be also be available*. *NeuroBridges 2023 Faculty:* Alaa Ahmed (U. Colorado), Carlos Brody (Princeton), Iain Couzin (MPI), Roozbeh Kiani (NYU), Carole Levenes (CNRS), Drazen Prelec (MIT), Rava Azeredo da Silveira (IOB and CNRS) and Yoram Yovell (Hadassah Hebrew U. Medical Center). *NeuroBridges* is co-organized by Ahmed El Hady (MPI, Konstanz, Germany), Yonatan Loewenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and David Hansel (CNRS, Paris, France). ** *NeuroBridges 2023* is supported by the Simons Foundation, the CNRS and ELSC, and is in partnership with VVTNS (https://www.wwtns.online/) For more information and application, visit our website: https://neurobridges.net/neurobridges2023.html *Contact us:* neurobridges2023(a)gmail.com

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