Summer School in CogSci 99 (fwd)

---------- 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