ICANN 2011: Call for Workshops and Tutorials

CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

We invite researchers interested in chairing a workshop or a tutorial
at ICANN 2011, The Twentieth Anniversary International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks, to submit proposals for workshops and
tutorials.

ICANN 2011 brings together the two main sources of inspiration for
research on computational modeling of adaptive and learning systems:
– statistical and mathematical principles, and
– human brain and cognition.

VENUE:

ICANN 2011 will take place at the Aalto University School of Science
and Technology (former Helsinki University of Technology) and Dipoli
Conference Center. They are located in Espoo, Finland in the Helsinki
capital area.

DATES:

Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 3rd, 2010
Notification of workshop acceptance: December 17th, 2010
Notification of tutorial acceptance: January 7th, 2011
ICANN conference: June 14-17th, 2011

WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL ORGANIZATION:

The topics of workshops and tutorials should be related to the ICANN
research areas, including brain inspired computing, machine learning,
and applications.

Workshops are meetings for talks and informal discussion of important
problems and challenges. One full day will be allocated for workshops.
Workshop organizers are responsible for the content of a workshop and
coordinating participation.

Each tutorial should last from two to four hours.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Proposals are to be submitted by email to the address below by
December 3rd, 2010. The proposals should include:
– a title
– a short description of the problem to be addressed
– a motivation for the proposed topic
– names of proposed speakers
– names, email addresses and phone numbers of all the organizers
(please indicate the primary contact)

Tutorial proposals should in addition include a resume of the
prospective lecturer with a list of publications to establish
scholarship in the field.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Proposals or questions should be sent to
icann2011.workshops(at)cis.hut.fi (for workshops)
or
icann2011.tutorials(at)cis.hut.fi (for tutorials)