Dear Fellow Neuroscientists and Students,

We would like to welcome you to a BrainCosmos Summer School titled "Neural circuit complexity: Neuroscience, Models and Robotics - Where do they lead?" organized at Lake Como, Italy from August 30-September 3, 2021.
For more info: https://brco.lakecomoschool.org/  

The BrainCosmos summer school focuses on the study of the brain, neuroscience of circuits and behavior in micro and macro scales, models, experiments, alongside topics of robotics and artificial intelligence and a perspective on brain diseases. The school primarily targets PhD students across all research disciplines, but applications from professionals, masters students and post-doctoral researchers are welcome as well. The School will also cater to early career researchers in Neuroscience and will aim to promote critical thinking within the field and beyond. The scope covers a very wide range of topics that we believe to be of interest to many fields related to neuroscience, modeling, robotics and artificial intelligence.

PARTICIPATION: The school will run in parallel with two simultaneous batches, one in presence (20 participants) and another remotely (20 participants). The lectures will be streamed. APPLY: https://brco.lakecomoschool.org/application/

FEES: There are some nominal fees for participation. In presence attendance: € 120, 22% VAT included (including lunches, coffee breaks, and all lectures and school materials). Online attendance: €100, 22% VAT included (including the possibility to participate remotely to all the lectures given during the school and to the related initiatives, and to have access to the recordings of the lessons from the school portal for a period of three months after the end of the school.

KEY DATES
Application deadline: July 20  
Acceptance notification: July 23  
Registration (only accepted students): August 3


Confirmed FACULTY list:
Anna Letizia Allegra Mascaro - LENS, Florence, Italy
Alberto Antonietti - EPFL, Swiss
Silvia Casarotto – University  of Milan, Italy
Claudia  Casellato - University of Pavia, Italy
Marco Dal Maschio – University of Padoa, Italy
Egidio D'Angelo - University of Pavia, Italy
Damien Depannemaecker - CNRS, Paris, France
Shyam Diwakar - Amrita Mind Brain Center, Amrita University, India
Kenji Doya – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Claudia Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott - University College London, UK & University of Pavia, Italy
Alice  Geminiani - University of Pavia, Italy
Michele Giugliano – SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Alberto Mazzoni - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy
Michele  Migliore - CNR Palermo, Italy
Fulvia Palesi – BCC Pavia, Italy
Alessandra Laura Giulia Pedrocchi - Politecnico Milano, Italy
Michele  Piana - University of  Genoa, Italy
Isabella Pozzi - CWI, Amsterdam Holland
Simone  Sarasso – University  of Milan, Italy


The School DIRECTORS:
Giovanni Naldi - University of Milan, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Italy. giovanni.naldi@unimi.it
Thierry Nieus - University of Milan, Italy. thierry.nieus@unimi.it
Simone Sarasso - University of Milan, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco”, Italy. simone.sarasso@unimi.it
Shyam Diwakar - Amrita Mind Brain Center, Amrita University, India. shyam@amrita.edu

Please feel free to circulate!

With best wishes,