FW: Connectionist Summer School 2001

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OXFORD SUMMER SCHOOL ON CONNECTIONIST MODELLING Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford Sunday July 15th to Friday July 27th, 2001 Applications are invited for participation in a 2-week residential Summer School on techniques in connectionist modelling. The course is aimed primarily at researchers who wish to exploit neural network models in their teaching and/or research and it will provide a general introduction to connectionist modelling, biologically plausible neural networks and brain function through lectures and exercises on Macintosh's and PC's. The course is interdisciplinary in content though many of the illustrative examples are taken from cognitive and developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The instructors with primary responsibility for teaching the course are Kim Plunkett and Edmund Rolls. No prior knowledge of computational modelling will be required though simple word processing skills will be assumed. Participants will be encouraged to start work on their own modelling projects during the Summer School. The cost of participation in the Summer School is stlg950. This figure covers the cost of accommodation (bed and breakfast at St. John's College), registration and all literature required for the Summer School. Participants will be expected to cover their own travel and meal costs. A number of partial bursaries will be available for graduate students. Applicants should indicate whether they wish to be considered for a graduate student scholarship but are advised to seek further funding as well, since in previous years the number of graduate student applications has far exceeded the number of scholarships available. There is a Summer School World Wide Web page describing the contents of the 2001 Summer School available on: http://www-cogsci.psych.ox.ac.uk/summer-school/ If you are interested in participating in the Summer School, please send a brief description of your background with an explanation of why you would like to attend the Summer School (one page maximum) no later than 28th February 2001 to: Mrs Sue King Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3UD Tel: (01865) 271353 Email: susan.king(a)psy.oxford.ac.uk -- Kim Plunkett Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD Tel: 01865 271398 FAX: 01865 310447