We invite applications from PhD students and post-docs to participate in our summer school: "Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning (IMOL)" Place: Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany Dates: June 27 to July 3, 2019 Web: http://www.goal-robots.eu/announcements/events/summer-school-2019-2/ *Participation is free of charge, but participants must cover their own travel and lodging.* Topics will include: - Intrinsic Motivations - Architectures for open-ended learning - Deep reinforcement learning - Multi-task reinforcement learning - Curriculum learning - Goal self-generation - Goal-based skill learning - Modularity and hierarchies - Ethics of open-ended learning List of confirmed speakers (more to be added): Gianluca Baldassarre (organizer) Marc Bellemare Luc Berthouze Stephane Doncieux Kenji Doya Petar Kormushev Georg Martius Kathryn Merrick (organizer) Yukie Nagai Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero Kevin O'Regan Daniel Polani Elmar Rueckert Vieri Giuliano Santucci (organizer) Bertram E. Shi Céline Teulière Jochen Triesch (organizer) How to Apply: 1. Prepare a letter of intent and CV (single PDF) 2. Arrange for a letter for recommendation to be sent by your supervisor Both should be sent to: triesch@fias.uni-frankfurt.de by January 27th, 2019. The school is organized with funding from the European GOAL-Robots project: http://www.goal-robots.eu Happy learning, Jochen Triesch -- Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch Johanna Quandt Research Professor Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/ Tel: +49 (0)69 798-47531 Fax: +49 (0)69 798-47611