ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
Tudomanyfilozofia Szeminarium
________________________________________________
Aprilis 29.
12:30
6. em. 662
Kampis Gyorgy
ELTE Tudmanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Mechanizmusok, gepek, es organizmusok
Mi egy gep? Latszolag barmi leirhato lehet gepkent; ha a gepeket
mukodesi elvekkel azonositjuk, a megfelelo mukodesi elvek barmely
teruleten megtalalhatok lesznek, sot altalaban az egyik
jelensegteruletrol a masikra szabadon at is vihetok, ami a gepszeruseg
valodi hordozofuggetlenseget es ennelfogva egyetemes jelleget sugallja.
Az eloadas egy ezzel ellentetes elkepzelest fejt ki.
Az alapveto gondolat ket szalon fut. Egyreszt a gepek prototipusaikent a
mechanikus gepeket azonositjuk, es jellemezzuk ezek tulajdonsagait.
Masreszt azt a nezetet fejtjuk ki, hogy a gepek leirasa egy sajatos
nyelv hasznalatat implikalja, amelyet a mechanizmusok nyelvenek fogunk
nevezni. A mechanizmusok nyelvenek jellemzeseben elmelethianyos allapot
all fenn, annak ellenere, hogy a mechanizmusok kutatasa a biologiaban es
masutt a tudomanyos kutatas regota ismert targya. A ket gondolatmenet
talalkozasi pontja es a mechanizmusok elmeletenek kulcsgondolata az a
felismeres lesz, hogy a mechanizmusok nyelvenek sajatossagait a
mechanikai pelda sugallja es kepes ertelmezni. Ennek birtokaban a
hianyos kovetkeztetesi formak logikai elmelete segitsegevel kapcsolatot
epitunk ki a mechanizmusok segitsegevel valo gondolkodas es a tudomany
szokasosabb kovetkeztetesi formai kozott.
Vegul a biologiaban alkalmazott mechanizmusok vizsgalata reven a gepek
megbeszelt altalanos vonasai es az organizmikus felfogas ertelmeben vett
szervezetek tulajdonsagai kozott allapitunk meg a mult szazadi, reszben
elfeledett elmeleti vitak sulypontjat es a betudottan problemamenteskent
erzekelt mai hozadekukat varatlanul erinto kapcsolatot.
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A szeminarium szervezoje: Szabo E. Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
Tudomanyfilozofia Szeminarium
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Majus 6.
12:30
6. em. 662
Nemeti Istvan
MTA Matematikai Kutato Intezet
Miert pont elsorendu logikaban celszeru a tudomanyos (pl. fizikai)
elmeleteket formalizalni?
#A tudomanyos elmeletek (pl. relativitaselmelet) logikai
formalizalasakor elvben valaszthatnank tobbfele logikai rendszer kozul,
pl. kijelenteskalkulus (azaz nulladrendu logika), elsorendu logika,
magasabbrendu logika. (Persze vannak masiranyu varialasi lehetosegek is,
pl. modalis logika, kvantumlogika stb, erre majd
kiterunk.) (Valamely tudomanyos elmelet logikai formalizalasanak celja
lehet pl. az elmelet logikai analizise, vagy az elmelet jobb es melyebb
megertese, vagy Matocsi Tamas konyvenek bevezeteseben megfogalmazott
tisztanlatasi celok, vagy az elmelet logikai rekonstrukcioja, stb.) Azt
a tezist fogjuk "bizonyitani", hogy pont az elsorendu logika a jo
szint, es magasabbrendu logika hasznalata mar azt eredmenyezi, hogy
halmazelmelettol fuggetlen allitasok (pl. kontinuum hipotezis)
megjelennenek a formalizalt fizika nyelven mint (latszolagos) fizikai
allitasok. Bemutatjuk, hogy ez nem kivanatos.
#Kicsit megvizsgaljuk a matematikai elmeletek es a fizikai elmeletek
kozotti kapcsolatokat, kiterunk a Field: Science without number cimu
konyv (nominalista) programjara is, sot meg a Hawking fele TOE is
szobakerulhet. Ezek reven (pl. Field konyve) felvetodnek majd ontologiai
kerdesek is. (Mi letezik? Mirol beszelunk? Miert jo ez nekunk?)
Majus 13.
12:30
6. em. 662
Meszena Geza
ELTE, Biologiai Fizika Tanszek
Van-e celfuggvenye az evolucionak?
A termeszetes szelekcio egyreszt valamilyen ertelemben
tokeletesiti/adaptaltta teszi az elolenyeket, masreszt viszont a
kulonbozo elolenyek hallatlan valtozatossagat eredmenyezi es altalaban
nem mutatja a "fejlettebb kiszoritja a fejletlenebbet" jelenseget.
Ha az adaptaltsagot es az elet sokfeleseget egyutt akarjuk ertelmezni,
figyelembe kell vennunk, hogy az evolucio folyamatosan megvaltoztatja a
kornyezetet, s ennek kovetkezteben a kulonbozo valtozatok fitnesset. (A
fitness altalanosan a populacio exponencialis novekedesi ratajakent
ertelmezheto.) Ennek kovetklezteben az evolucionak csak lokalis, de nem
globalis celfuggvenye van.
A populacio-kornyezet rendszer egyuttes dinamikaja fixpontok
stabilitaselemzesevel egyszeruen kezbentarthato. Ez az adaptiv
dinamikanak nevezett matematikai elmelet termeszetes modon megmagyarazza
az evolucio elagazo termeszetet.
Majus 20.
12:30
6. em. 662
Szegedi Peter
ELTE, Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Kvantum Zenon-paradoxon
(avagy miert nem forr fel a tej, ha figyeljuk?)
Az alcimben jelzett kerdes egy a vonatkozo nemzetkozi irodalomban -
amely, mint jol tudjuk, lenyegeben angolszasz - gyakran szereplo
kozmondasra celoz, miszerint "a watched pot never boils". Mivel a
vilagnak ezen a tajan az emberek nem csupan teat isznak, engedtessek
meg, hogy a szo szerinti magyarra forditas helyett arra a teljesen
altalanos tapasztalatra utaljak, hogy a labasban a tej mindaddig nem
forr fel, amig ott allunk mellette es meredten nezzuk, mikor kell
elzarni alatta a gazt, megelozendo a tuzhely lesurolasanak fenyegeto
remet. (Amikor viszont, megunva a vegelathatatlan varakozast, egy
pillanatra felrenezunk, a tej termeszetesen azonnal kifut.) Van egy
masik kep is, amit a tema komoly szakemberei szivesen ideznek fel a
targyalando kvantumfizikai jelenseggel kapcsolatban, amikor a "watchdog
effect"-re hivatkoznak. Itt arra a szerencsetlen postasra gondolnak,
akit a hazorzo kutya beengedett ugyan, de bokajatol arasznyira
elhelyezkedve mindannyiszor raront, ahanyszor csak a delikvens mozdulni
akar. A boka tehat - allando megfigyeles alatt leven - nem mozdulhat.
Csak ha a gazda elviszi a kutyat, es igy a felugyelet megszakad, akkor
lelegezhet fel a szegeny (egyelore) allami alkalmazott.
Az eloadas ismerteti a QZP tortenetet es lenyeget, kulonbseget a
klasszikus Zenon aporiaktol, vegul - Ropolyi Laszloval valo kozos
munkank alapjan - megkiserli felvazolni, hogy a problemakornek megis
milyen filozofiai es kvantumfizikai relevanciaja lehet.
Majus 27.
12:30
6. em. 662
Geszti Tamas
ELTE, Kompex Rendszerek Fizikaja Tanszek
Dekoherencia es kollapszus a kvantummechanikaban
A cimben emlitett ket fogalom rokonsagban van egymassal, de messzemenoen
nem ugyanazt jelenti. A kollapszus a kvantummechanikai allapot
ugrasszeru valtozasa egy meres soran. A dekoherencia az interferencia
kepessegenek elvesztese egy rendszer allapotanak komponensei kozott. A
dekoherencianak van altalanosan elfogadott elmelete, a kollapszusnak
nincs. A ketto kapcsolatarol megis lehet annyit tudni, hogy a
dekoherenciat tulelo, makroszkopikusan stabil allapotok azok a
leszallopalyak, amelyek egyiket a kollapszus veletlenszeruen
kivalasztja.
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A szeminarium szervezoje: Szabo E. Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
W e s l e y S a l m o n (University of Pittsburgh)
SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Venue: Main Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, "Elnoki
Tanacsterem" (Budapest, Roosevelt ter 9.)
May 11, 1999, 4:00 PM
Wesley Salmon was born in 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. He received his
Ph.D. at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1950. His major
professor was Hans Reichenbach. Salmon was appointed at Brown University
(1955-63), Indiana University (1963-73) and the University of Arizona
(1973-81). At the present he is university Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Pittsburgh and President of the International Union of
History and philosophy of Science. His publications include Limitations
of Deductivism, edited with Adolf Grunbaum, University of California
Press, 1988, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation, University of
Minnesota Press, 1990, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure
of the World, Princeton University Press, 1992, and Logic, Language, and
the Structure of Scientific Theories: Proceedings of the
Carnap-Reichenbach Centennial, edited with Gereon Wolters, University of
Pittsburgh Press and the Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1993. His most
recent publication is Causality and Explanation, Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Abstract:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many philosophers and
scientists held that explanation was outside of the scope of science -
perhaps in the realm of metaphysics or theology. Now that we are near
the end of the century, philosophers and scientists believe that science
can furnish explanation and understanding of natural phenomena. This
lecture will discuss this profound philosophical change. It will also
touch on some important practical consequences of the transformation.
_________________________________
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos University,
Budapest
Hungarian National Committee of IUHPS/DLMPS
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
MEGHIVO
Dr. Jacob Steiner, a Jeruzsalemi Heber Egyetem Haddash Orvosi Kar
Oralbiologiai Tanszek professzora ket eloadast tart az ELTE Elettani
es Neurobiologiai Tanszeke szervezeseben, melyre minden erdeklodot
tisztelettel meghivunk. Az eloadasok es parametereik a kovetkezok:
1999. aprilis 29-en, csutortokon, 10 orakor a Tanszek
gyakorlotermeben (Muzeum krt 4/A, foldszint):
A SZAGLO-MUKODES ZAVARAI SZAPORODASI-ENDOKRIN
RENDELLENESSEGEKBEN cimmel, es
1999. aprilis 30-an, penteken 13 orakor az ELTE Tanari Klubjaban (V.
ker, Szerb u. 21-23, a Jogi Kar melletti epulet)
IZ- ES SZAGINGEREK HEDONIKUS HATASAINAK TUKROZODESE AZ EMBERI ES
ALLATI VISELKEDESBEN cimmel.
Steiner professzor elsokent irta le azokat a jellemzo, osi, velunk
szuletett viselkedesi mintazatokat, amelyek az alapizek es -szagok
hatasara felnott emberekben, csecsemokben, beteg es serult
gyermekekben, valamint sok allatfajban es azok kicsinyeiben egyarant
megtalalhato. A viselkedesi mintazatok megfigyelesen es leirasan
kivul sikeresen mukodott kozre azoknak a mechanizmusoknak a
felderiteseben is, amelyek e jelensegek mogott huzodnak meg.
Az eloadasok magyar nyelvuek. Minde erdeklodot szeretettel varunk!
Dr. Bardos Gyorgy Dr. Kukorelli Tibor
egyetemi docens tanszekvezeto
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Gyorgy Bardos PhD
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of Sciences
Muzeum krt. 4/A, Budapest, H-1088 Hungary
Local phone: 2670-820/2374
Internat. phone/Fax: (36-1) 2661-154
E-mail: BARDOSGY(a)LUDENS.ELTE.HU
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Tisztelt Holgyem/Uram!
Ezuton ertesitjuk, hogy a Budapesti Nemzetkozi Konyvfesztival 1999 aprilis
23-tol aprilis 25-ig lesz a Kongresszusi Kozpontban.
A Typotex Kiado standjanak szama: 321 (Masodik emeleten a lepcsonel).
E jeles esemeny alkalmaval 20%-os engedmennyel adjuk konyveinket.
Bizonyara mas kiallitoknal is sok uj, jo konyvet fog talalni.
Megjelenesere szamitunk, szivelyes udvozlettel:
Votisky Zsuzsa
Subject:
Error Condition Re: PhD kurzus
Date:
19 Apr 1999 11:55:45 -0000
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Tisztelt Kollegak!
Aprilis 23-an penteken egesz napos PhD kurzust tartunk "The neurobiology
of higher mental processes" cimmel a Debreceni orvostudomanyi Egyetemen. A
kurzussal kapcsolatos informacio a kovetkezo cimen erheto el:
http://www.biomedicine.dote.hu/courses/consc.html
A kurzusra minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk.
Szivelyes koszontessel,
Balazs Gulyas
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute
S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Voice: +46 8 728 78 58 Fax: +46 8 30 85 72 or 30 90 45
Email: balazs.gulyas(a)neuro.ki.se
Web-site: fornix.neuro.ki.se/balazs/index.htm
Az MTA Filozofiai Intezete Nyelv- es Tudomanyfilozofiai Kutatocsoportja
kovetkezo vitajat
THOMAS KUHNROL
rendezi
Szekely Laszlo "Kopernikusz es a dogmatikus Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn
tudomanyfilozofiaja a legujabb tudomanytorteneti kutatasok fenyeben"
es
Laki Janos "Racionalizalt zsenialitas. A tudomanyos folfedezes fazisai"
cimu,
a Vilagossag 1999/1-es szamaban megjelent tanulmanyaibol kiindulva
aprilis 26-en, hetfon, 14 orai kezdettel az MTA Filozofiai Intezeteben
(Bp., V. Szemere u. 10.)
MEGHIVO
A Finn-Magyar Tudomanyos Napok kereteben az MTA Pszichologiai
Intezeteben megrendezesre kerulo szimpoziumra:
PERCEPTION OF SOUND CHANGE IN THE BRAIN
April 20, 1999
Location: Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
Teréz krt. 13, Budapest VI.
9:00 Karmos, Gyorgy: Introduction
9:30 Näätänen, Risto: Representations of speech sounds in the
human brain
10:30 Winkler, Istvan: Studies of Finnish and Hungarian vowel
representations by MMN
11:00 Czigler, Istvan: Pre-attentive unitary memory trace:
event-related potential studies
11:30 Break
11:45 Paavilainen, Petri: Processing abstract sound features in
the human brain
12:15 Tervaniemi, Mari: Musical sound processing in the human
brain
12:45 Csepe, Valeria: Processing- and age related changes of
the mismatch- negativity in children
13:10 Jääskeläinen, Iiro P: Acute and chronic effects of alcohol
on involuntary attention
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article:
NEOCORTICAL DYNAMIC FUNCTION AND EEG by Paul L. Nunez
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TOWARD A QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF LARGE SCALE
NEOCORTICAL DYNAMIC FUNCTION AND EEG.
Paul L. Nunez
Permanent Address:
Brain Physics Group,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Tulane University,
New Orleans,
Louisiana 70118
pnunez(a)mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Temporary Address (6/98 - 6/00):
Brain Sciences Institute,
Swinburne University of Technology,
400 Burwood Road,
Melbourne,
Victoria 3122,
Australia
pnunez(a)mind.scan.swin.edu.au
ABSTRACT: A conceptual framework for large-scale neocortical dynamic
behavior is proposed. It is sufficiently general to embrace brain
theories applied to different experimental designs, spatial scales
and brain states. This framework, based on the work of many
scientists, is constructed from anatomical, physiological and EEG
data. Neocortical dynamics and correlated behavioral/cognitive brain
states are viewed in the context of partly distinct, but interacting
local (regionally specific) processes and globally coherent
dynamics. Local and regional processes (eg, neural networks) are
enabled by functional segregation; global processes are facilitated
by functional integration. Global processes can also facilitate
synchronous activity in remote cell groups (top down) which function
simultaneously at several different spatial scales. At the same
time, local processes may help drive (bottom up) macroscopic global
dynamics observed with EEG (or MEG).
A specific, physiologically based local/global dynamic theory is
outlined in the context of this general conceptual framework. It is
consistent with a body of EEG data and fits naturally within the
proposed conceptual framework. The theory is incomplete since its
physiological control parameters are known only approximately. Thus,
brain state-dependent contributions of local versus global dynamics
cannot be predicted. It is also neutral on properties of neural
networks, assumed to be embedded within macroscopic fields.
Nevertheless, the purely global part of the theory makes
qualitative, and in a few cases, semi-quantitative predictions of
the outcomes of several disparate EEG studies in which global
contributions to the dynamics appear substantial. Experimental data
are used to obtain a variety of measures of traveling and standing
wave phenomena, predicted by the pure global theory. The more
general local/global theory is also proposed as a "meta-theory," a
suggestion of what large-scale quantitative theories of neocortical
dynamics may be like when more accurate treatment of local and
non-linear effects is achieved.
In the proposed local/global theory, the dynamics of excitatory and
inhibitory synaptic action fields are described. EEG and MEG are
believed to provide large-scale estimates of modulation of these
synaptic fields about background levels. Brain state is determined
by neuromodulatory control parameters. Some states are dominated by
local cell groups, in which EEG frequencies are due to local
feedback gains and rise and decay times of post-synaptic potentials.
Local frequencies vary with brain location. Other states are
strongly global, with multiple, closely spaced EEG frequencies, but
identical at each cortical location. Coherence at these frequencies
is high over large distances. The global mode frequencies are due to
a combination of delays in cortico-cortical axons and neocortical
boundary conditions. Many states involve dynamic interactions
between local networks and the global system, in which case observed
EEG frequencies may involve "matching" of local resonant frequencies
with one or more of the global frequencies.
KEYWORDS: EEG, neocortical dynamics, standing waves, functional
integration, spatial scale, binding problem, synchronization,
coherence, cell assemblies, limit cycles, pacemakers
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Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
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In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only
been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because
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treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
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indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:26:33 +0300
From: CogSci Summer School <school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg>
To: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Subject: Summer School in CogSci 99
Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 99 14:25:25 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
Dear Csaba,
Please, find enclosed the Summer School announcement. I would like to ask
you to distribute it among young people who are eager to participate in it.
For participants from Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the former
Soviet Union there are scholarships available (provided by Soros' Open
Society Institute). They cover tuition, travel, and living expenses.
Thank you in advance,
Guergana Yantcheva,
administrative manager
CEE Center for Cognitive Science
6th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, New Bulgarian University
July 12 - 31, 1999
International Advisory Board
Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
William HIRST (New School for Social Sciences, NY, USA)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Courses
Each participant will enroll in 6 of the 10 courses offered thus attending
4 hours classes per day plus 2 hours tutorials in small groups plus
individual studies and participation in symposia.
Brain and Language: New Approaches to Evolution and Developmet (Elizabeth
Bates, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA)
Child Language Acquisition (Michael Tomasello, MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Germany)
Culture and Cognition (Roy D'Andrade, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA)
Understanding Social Dependence and Cooperation (Cristiano Castelfranchi,
CNR, Italy)
Models of Human Memory (Richard Shiffrin, Indiana University, USA)
Categorization and Inductive Reasoning: Psychological and Computational
Approaches (Evan Heit, Univ. of Warwick, UK)
Understanding Human Thinking (Boicho Kokinov, New Bulgarian University)
Perception-Based Spatial Reasoning (Reinhard Moratz, Hamburg University,
Germany)
Perception (Naum Yakimoff, New Bulgarian University)
Applying Cognitive Science to Instruction (John Hayes, Carnegie-Mellon
University, USA)
In addition there will be seminars, working groups, project work, discussions.
Participation
Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee on the bases of
their submitted documents:
� application form,
� CV,
� statement of purpose,
� copy of diploma; if student - academic transcript
� letter of recommendation,
� list of publications (if any) and short summary of up to three of them.
For participants from Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the former
Soviet Union there are scholarships available (provided by Soros' Open
Society Institute). They cover tuition, travel, and living expenses.
Deadline for application: April 15tht
Notification of acceptance: April 30th.
Apply as soon as possible since the number of participants is restricted.
For more information contact:
Summer School in Cognitive Science
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
Tel. (+3592) 957-1876
Fax: (+3592) 558262
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg
Web page: http://www.nbu.acad.bg/staff/cogs/events/ss99.html
