ISSA Summer School 2017
The Initiative for a Synthesis in Studies of Awareness, ISSA for short, is a group of scientists and scholars advocating an integrative approach to the study of awareness.
ISSA Summer School 2017
ISSA organized a two-week Summer School, with plenary lectures in the morning and parallel sessions in the afternoon, in which the lecturers lead study groups that are aimed at producing original research of publishable quality. The lectures covered topics in various aspects of neuroscience, experimental as well as computational; theoretical physics; logic and philosophy; and various other fields in cognitive science and the study of complex systems, including artificial intelligence, artificial life, and robotics.
Date: May 22nd – June 2nd, 2017
Venue: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet)
Osaka University, Suita, Japan
First week: Fundamental lecturers and group discussions
- Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash U)
- Ryota Kanai (ARAYA Brain Imaging, YHouse)
- Larissa Albantakis (U Wisconsin-Madison)
- Dan Zahavi (U Copenhagen)
- Jun Tani (KAIST)
Second week: Special topics and hands-on exercises
- Shinji Nishimoto (CiNet)
- Kaoru Amano (CiNet)
- Noriko Yamagishi (CiNet)
- Kenji Doya (OIST)
- Yukie Nagai (CiNet)
- Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka U, ATR)
- Mariko Osaka (CiNet)
- Piet Hut (Institute for Advanced Study, ELSI, YHouse)
Application
We invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to participate in the summer school. Organizers will provide lodging for all accepted students and travel support for selected students. The applications was open till December 25, 2016 at this web site. The result of selection, based on the research interest, educational background, and the balance of gender and geographic origins, was notified by February 2017.
Co-Sponsors
- Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet) (director: Toshio Yanagida)
- CREST Artificial Consciousness Project (research director: Ryota Kanai)
- CREST Social Neuroscience Project (research director: Masahiko Haruno)
- CREST Cognitive Mirroring Project (research director: Yukie Nagai)
- Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology
- KAKENHI Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science Project (head investigator: Kenji Doya)
- KAKENHI Mental Time Project (head investigator: Shigeru Kitazawa)
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
- YHouse (executive director: Piet Hut)
Links
- ISSA Summer School 2015
Contact
Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
ncus (at) oist.jp