Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2015)
University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
August 31st to September 11th, 2015
Join us for the annual "Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology
summer school - BCBT2015 " (see http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/home) to be held
from August 31st to September 11th, 2015
in Barcelona Spain.
The BCBT summer school is part of a series of events organized by the Convergent
Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (http://csnetwork.eu/) and is positioned at the interface between biology and
future and emerging technologies with an emphasis on the principles
underlying brains and their translation to avant-garde technologies. BCBT
promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of
the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems.
This
is the 8th year of BCBT, which has ran with great success in previous
years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see bcbt.upf.edu
for previous editions of the school). BCBT lectures are available online (see http://csnetwork.eu/) as well as the CSN Podcast
interviews with many of the BCBT
speakers.
BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in the ambit of “BIO-ICT convergence”, "Brain Inspired ICT", “Cognitive systems-robotics”.
BCBT will offer up to 30 student slots for the practical workshops while as many researchers can register to attend the presentations and discussion sessions, as they are interested.
The atmosphere of the BCBT summer school is
informal with the goal to stimulate in-depth discussion. There are presentations
in the morning, usually 2, with the afternoons reserved for tutorials and
projects for student participants and road-mapping workshops or further
discussion for senior scientists.
For the 2015 edition we plan a 1st week of the school addressing Evolutionary
and Developmental aspects of nervous systems and behavior while the 2nd week will include presentations
aimed at the investigation of Decision
making. Friday 11 is reserved for the presentation of the student projects
to which everybody is invited.
Application deadline: July 27th, 2015
For more information on to apply, please go to http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/participate
BCBT2015 is supported by the Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and
Neurotechnology (http://csnetwork.eu/).