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SUMMARY:COGS Open Lectures
DESCRIPTION:in BIOL LEC Theatre, JMS Bldg http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/open
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:LIFE & MIND
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Life-and-Mind-initial-meeting
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SUMMARY:Maggie Boden Seminar
DESCRIPTION:in PEV1-1A3 follows on from COGS Open Lec immediately before http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/open
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SUMMARY:Darwin and the Circle of Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Paul White (University of Cambridge)  Darwin and the Circle of Friendship  With a dramatised reading: Science and Private Life, The Darwin-Hooker Correspondence Dramatised by Craig Baxter Featuring Saul Dubow (History) as Charles Darwin and Jim Endersby (History) as Joseph Hooker  Wednesday 14th May 4.00-6.30 Chowen Lecture Theatre, BSMS (Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Sussex campus) All welcome
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Knowledge Through Practice Seminar
DESCRIPTION:http://knowledgethroughpractice.wordpress.com/
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Title: Using Models of Rodent Hippocampus for Robot Navigation  Speaker: Gordon Wyeth, University of Queensland  Abstract: The brain circuitry involved in spatial encoding in rodents has been extensively tested over the past thirty years, with an ever increasing body of knowledge about the neural components and wiring involved in navigation tasks. The learning and recall of spatial features is known to take place in and around the hippocampus of the rodent, where there is clear evidence of cells that encode the rodent's position and heading. Many components of hippocampus have been modelled by computer simulation, and there exist some well understood computational models that exhibit similar characteristics to the recordings from the hippocampal complex.  This talk addresses two questions: 1. Can models of rodent hippocampus match the state of the art in robot mapping? 2. Can m
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:ALERGIC IDS
DESCRIPTION:chat in IDS bar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Alergic Welcome meeting ARUN-401
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:BLIP Reconfiguration exhibition
DESCRIPTION:http://www.blip.me.uk/
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SUMMARY:BLIP Pyrophonic performance
DESCRIPTION:http://www.blip.me.uk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Lewes Bonfire Night
DESCRIPTION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Institute of Unnecessary Research
DESCRIPTION:http://www.unnecessaryresearch.org
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-10-13
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Nowotny (Sussex) Synchronization mediated by Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity In the "Genome Damage and Stability Centre"
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DTSTART:20071022T163000
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:David Lent (Sussex) Title to follow In the "Genome Damage and Stability Centre"
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Paul Tofts (BSMS) Title to follow In the "Genome Damage and Stability Centre"
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Tony Prescott (Sheffield) Title to follow Genome Damage and Stability Centre
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DTSTART:20071119T163000
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:COGS Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Boden What is Generative Art? PEV1-1A7
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DTEND:20071002T173000
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SUMMARY:COGS Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Adam Kilgariff The Long Road from Text to Meaning PEV1-1A7
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DTEND:20071009T173000
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SUMMARY:PSY Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The role of learning in flavour perception Prof John Prescott (Aus) PEV1-1B3 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:PSY Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Object categorization in infancy Gert Westermann PEV1-1B3 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/1-1.php
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DTEND:20071018T173000
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Epigenetic Robotics
DESCRIPTION:International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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SUMMARY:PSY Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The role of labels in infant categorization Kim Plunkett PEV1-1B3 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:PSY Seminar
DESCRIPTION:http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/1-1.php
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DTEND:20071101T173000
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:ALERGIC IDS
DESCRIPTION:Drink and chat in IDS bar
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DTSTART:20071017T180000
DTEND:20071017T180000
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-10-17
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:NAME-ALERGIC
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Chris Watkins    The Channel capacity of selective breeding http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Chris-Watkins-talk This talk is sponsored by NAME http://newapproaches.blogspot.com
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SUMMARY:ALERGIC IDS
DESCRIPTION:chat and drink in IDS bar
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DTSTART:20071031T180000
DTEND:20071031T180000
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UID:X-30Boxes-46981131
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:CCNR lab meeting
DESCRIPTION:in CCNR
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SUMMARY:NAME
DESCRIPTION:David Waxman -- Random Genetic Drift in Populations PEV1-1A7 http://newapproaches.blogspot.com
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-10-17
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SUMMARY:Robotics Meeting - Room 4c10
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SUMMARY:Spatiality of Human Embodiment
DESCRIPTION:COGS Seminar  - PEV1-1A7 Speaker: Roxana Baiasu http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/seminars
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SUMMARY:Prof Charlie Hooker Inaugral Lecture, Sallis Benney Theatre
DESCRIPTION:book via events@brighton.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Life & Mind -- Autopoeisis
DESCRIPTION:room Pev1 2A01 Nathaniel Virgo and Simon McGregor will be leading a discussion on:  *Life and Its Close Relatives*  IT’S ALIVE!!! (Sort of.) We propose that dissipative structures and the production of entropy should be part of the A-Life research programme, explaining why lifelike properties like self-maintenance are common in the inanimate world and deserve our attention. Examples such as hurricanes, candle flames and photocopiers are even closer to living organisms than they appear on first inspection, and they are easier to study. Inspired by the theory of autopoiesis we’ll suggest that studying these kinds of physical phenomena can give us insight into the dynamics of self-maintenance in living organisms and help us explore its relationship to cognition. We’ll display some cool simulations exploring the behaviour of some simple dissipative systems and showing just how lifelike
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SUMMARY:New Sensations Symposium -Art, Science and Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Date: 31st May 2008 10am – 5pm Venue: tactileBosch Gallery, Cardiff Cost: £10 Full £5 Concessions   To accompany the An-aesthetic exhibition at tactileBosch Gallery in Cardiff the New Sensations Symposium considers the role of contemporary Art/Science practice to current and emerging healthcare practices. Featuring nationally and internationally recognised artists and theorists the event will include talks, workshops, discussions and an opportunity for networking.  www.hybrid-art.org Organised by Anna Dumitriu
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SUMMARY:Alergic
DESCRIPTION:Alergic ARUN-401, 2 talks from ECAL2007 ======= New Models for Old Questions: Evolutionary Robotics and the 'A not B' error. Rachel Wood, Ezequiel Di Paolo -------- Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils Allister Furey, Inman Harvey http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Alergic-Talks-Wed-Nov-7th
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Alergic IDS
DESCRIPTION:Retire to IDS bar
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UID:X-30Boxes-49593231
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-11-07
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:COGS Seminar
DESCRIPTION:PEV1-1A7 Machine Ethics and Moral Agency:  Warfare as a case study Steve Torrance http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/1-4-4.html
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-11-06
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Alergic Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bjoern Brembs, FU Berlin "Genetic dissection of learning-by-doing in fruit flies"
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-11-21
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Pev1 1A01
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2007-11-14
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk: Flying Fruit Fly
DESCRIPTION:Alergic talk NOW RETIMED for Thu 29 Nov 2:30pm in PEV1-1B8      Modelling visuomotor behaviour for odour localisation in the flying fruit fly      Finlay Stewart, Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh) and Dean Baker     (University of Cambridge)      Flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are tracked in three dimensions while     flying in a cylindrical arena. The animals exhibit a distinctive     pattern of relatively straight flight segments interspersed with rapid     turns called saccades. Changing the visual patterns on the arena walls     has clear effects on the flies' flight control. In particular, the     absence of vertical contrast results in their approaching the walls     more closely before initiating avoidance saccades. This observation     prompts the question of what visual stimuli elicit saccades - the     existence of cells in the optic lobe responding to coherent     large
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:CCNR Xmas walk/party
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SUMMARY:Alergic IDS
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SUMMARY:"Dynamical Systems and Complex Networks"
DESCRIPTION:Seminar PEV1-1A7 Prof. Tianping Chen, Fudan Univ China In this talk, we will address: 1. Recurrently connected neural networks: Stability and some other dynamical behaviours. Comparisons of Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with Hopfield Neural Networks. Effects of delays on the dynamical behaviours. 2. Complex Networks: Synchronization and de-synchronization. Consensus. Geometry analysis of synchronization manifold. We also address the effects of delays for the pulse-coupled oscillators.
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SUMMARY:Wolfgang Stephan talk -- JMS Lec Th
DESCRIPTION:The Population genetics of adaptation  Wolfgang Stephan, Biocenter, University of Munich  Abstract:  Drosophila melanogaster consists of ancestral population(s) in Africa and derived populations outside Africa. The colonization of geographical regions outside Africa occurred relatively recently (for instance, in Europe about 10,000 years ago). Using the hitchhiking effect, we are studying the adaptive process associated with this “out-of-Africa” migration in non-African populations. That is, we seek to identify regions along the genome in which nucleotide variation is reduced through the recent occurrence of beneficial substitutions (“selective sweeps”). We have performed scans of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of D. melanogaster populations from Africa and Europe, using the X and the third chromosome. This allowed us to infer the recent demographic history of this species
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Room PEV1 2A03  ** Notice changed time and room **  Rob Clowes from COGS, Sussex will be speaking on:  The 'distributed' view of language: what kind of language capabilities does a robot need?  Traditionally, cognitive science has considered language as a tool for communication between fully-fledged cognitive systems, and the essence and structure of language to be dependent on 'internal' systems in some sense pre-specified by the brain. This encodingism and nativism has tended to imply certain ideas about thinking. Thought becomes figures as a 'private language', i.e. the privileged internal representational structure in which temporally extended mental processes – i.e. thinking - is carried out.    Some (fairly) recent moves in philosophy and robotics have helped us to reconceptualise language anew, in opposition to these encodingist, internalist and nativist assumptions, but a
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Giovanna Colombetti, University of Exeter (and ex-Sussex)  will lead a seminar on “Naturalism and affective science: From traditional to dynamical discrete emotions”  Abstract to follow.
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SUMMARY:Institute of Unnecessary Research Catalyst Club for Brighton Science Festival
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: *Anna Dumitriu (CCNR Artist in Residence)on The Institute of Unnecessary Research *Dr Blay Whitby (University of Sussex) on The Ethics of Art/Science Interaction   *Monia Brizzi(University of Brighton) on A Psycho-social Study of Joy  www.unnecessaryresearch.org www.brightonscience.com www.catalyst-club.com
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SUMMARY:Cybernetic Bacteria Performance
DESCRIPTION:In the Friese Greene Garden at Brighton Media Centre in Middle Street CCNR Artist in Residence Anna Dumitriu will 'talk' to bacteria around the globe using their own communications networks. Includes performance, discussion and time for questions. www.normalflora.co.uk
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:PEV1-1A1 Max Velmans Dept of Psych, Goldsmiths How Enactivism Relates to Reflexive Monism  Abstract. Dualists believe that experiences have neither location nor extension, while reductive and ‘non-reductive’ physicalists (biological naturalists) believe that experiences are really in the brain, producing an apparent impasse in current theories of mind. Enactive and reflexive models of perception try to resolve this impasse with a form of “externalism” that challenges the assumption that experiences must either be nowhere or in the brain. However, they are externalist in very different ways.  Insofar as they locate experiences anywhere, enactive models locate conscious phenomenology in the dynamic interaction of organisms with the external world, and in some versions, they reduce conscious phenomenology to such interactions, in the hope that this will resolve the “hard” proble
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Room: ENG1-AS01 Shaun Gallagher  Non-representationalism in action  Abstract: I examine the following question:  Do actions require representations? Recent work by Mark Rowlands, Michael Wheeler, and Andy Clark suggests that actions may require a minimal form of representation. I argue that the various concepts of minimal representation on offer do not apply to action per se and that a non-representationalist account that focuses on dynamic systems of self-organizing continuous reciprocal causation at the subpersonal level is superior.  I further recommend a scientific pragmatism regarding the concept of representation.
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SUMMARY:Alergic special
DESCRIPTION:Richard Vaughan and colleagues 3 talks in ENG1-AS02
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SUMMARY:Alergic Talk
DESCRIPTION:Tom Froese, CCNR and Informatics, on Modeling the dynamics of social cognition  We used an evolutionary robotics methodology to generate simulated agents capable of reliably establishing and maintaining a coordination pattern under noisy conditions. The agents were only evolved for this ability and not for their capacity to detect social contingency. However, when they were made to interact with a previously recorded, successful behavioral sequence, the coordination pattern could not be maintained. An analysis of the underlying dynamics revealed (i) that stability of the coordination pattern requires mutuality of interaction, and (ii) that the interaction process is autonomous in the sense that it is not only constituted by but also constitutive of individual behavior. We hypothesize that in many cases an explanation of the breakdown of coordination does not require the postulation of an
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SUMMARY:Alergic Talk
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Matt Egbert, CCNR and Informatics Systems of Inheritance as Endurability Enhancing Mechanisms  Abstract. The high evolvability of the genetic system of inheritance increases the endurability of life. We argue that there are other transgenerational mechanisms that also enhance endurability and that these systems, even if they are not highly evolvable on their own, are of the same class of inheritance system as the genetic system. This endurability-centric perspective on systems of inheritance enables us to see that A) the genetic system is, like all other known inheritance sys- tems, limited and B) that life can compensate for these limitations by utilizing multiple concurrent systems of inheritance. From this perspec- tive, we argue that 1) reducing inheritance mechanisms to the genetic system misses important aspects of how it works in conjunction with other inheritance process
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SUMMARY:Alergic (Fri):  Mirko Kovac, EPFL
DESCRIPTION:Room ARUN-1B Self Deploying Microglider -Biomimetic Hybrid Locomotion for Miniature Robotics  Robotics can learn, at the least, one thing from nature; how to successfully move in unstructured and rough terrain at a minimal energetic cost.  In this context, gliding flight is very powerful to overcome obstacles and to travel from one point to another. In the animal kingdom, many small animals are able to take-off by jumping, running fast or dropping down from trees. Once airborne, they recover, stabilize (passively and/or actively) and perform goal directed aerial descent (e.g. gliding frogs, flying geckos, gliding lizards, locusts, crickets, flying squirrels, gliding snakes, gliding fish, gliding ants, etc.).  In this talk, I will give an overview (and live demo) of the recent achievements in the Self Deploying Microglider project which aims at developing a novel palm sized robot that exa
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Mike Beaton
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SUMMARY:Alergic ARUN-401
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Nowotny, CCNR "Learning pattern classification from the olfactory system of insects"
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SUMMARY:Alergic shifted to Friday talk
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SUMMARY:Learning Flight of Bumblebees
DESCRIPTION:PEV1-1A1 COGS Res Sem Tom Collett  Animals (including us) often know in advance what information they need to acquire about the external world and so can facilitate their learning through innate biases and strategies. Strategies for learning can be especially obvious during spatial learning when animals move in particular ways that are likely to help them pick up information that can be used for their later navigation. The highly structured learning flights that bees and wasps perform when first leaving their nest or a feeding site are well-known examples of such purpose-built manoeuvres. These insects must learn enough about the immediate surroundings of their nest on their first departure from it so that they can find their way back to what may be no more than a barely visible hole in the ground. Learning and the associated return flights have presumably been designed in tandem. To und
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SUMMARY:Mini-Symposium: Presentations of PostDoc candidates for Pherosys project
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Joel Parthemore
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Bill Sharpe
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SUMMARY:Kite energy talk in SPRU,Allister Furey
DESCRIPTION:The wind turbine is dead! Long live kite energy!  Allister Furey, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex  There are considerable drawbacks to the use of conventional wind turbines to extract energy from wind, namely high ground area occupation, intermittency, high visual impact, and marginal economics. Ultimately, many of these drawbacks derive from the fact that these turbines literally scrape the bottom of the barrel of the wind resource, the quality of which increases dramatically with altitude. I intend to demonstrate how tethered airfoil i.e. kite technology is now sufficiently advanced to harness the high altitude wind resource safely and predictably by using kites to drive electrical generators at ground level. I will review the current crop of kite energy projects and briefly consider the work here at Sussex on kite control in the
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SUMMARY:Walking with Robots
DESCRIPTION:7pm repeated at 8:30 Part of Brighton Science Festival Friends Meeting House, Ship St, Brighton  http://www.brightonscience.com/07home.php
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SUMMARY:Brain Signal Analysis with C0 Complexity Measure
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday 14/2/2008 Venue: ARUNDEL BUILDING 208 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm  Presenter: Prof. Fanji Gu Managing Editor of Cognitive Neurodynamics Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China  Abstract: A new randomness-finding complexity measure C0 was defined, it was proved that for periodic signals, the C0 complexity approaches to 0 with the length; for random time series under some conditions, it approaches to 1 with a probability of 1; for any time series, it is a value between 0 and 1; for limited band-width signal, it is always convergent. Thus it is a reasonable degree characterising randomness of a time series. The measure was also extended to two dimensional. The concept of  higher order complexity was proposed. It is a degree of non-stationarity of a time series or array. The above measures and concept were applied to analyze EEG signals and optical i
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SUMMARY:Big Science - Brighton Science Festival
DESCRIPTION:Sallis Benny Theatre, Brighton 12pm - 7pm Some robots from the CCNR will be on display.
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SUMMARY:Aleric/NAME
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SUMMARY:Life & Mind
DESCRIPTION:Life and Mind seminar on Wednesday, the 30th of April 2008, 16:00 - 18:00, Room 1A1 JMS Building  http://lifeandmind.wordpress.com  For this seminar we are very pleased to announce that we will have a special seminar by the acclaimed author, recognized mathematician and biologist Brian Goodwin.
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind: Steve Torrance
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SUMMARY:Alergic: Andrei Zavada
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SUMMARY:Alergic Talk
DESCRIPTION:Alergic talks in ARUN-1B Paul Chorley on Closing the Sensory-Motor Loop on Dopamine Signalled Reinforcement Learning AND Peter Fine on Monostable controllers for adaptive behaviour --short talks as preview of what will be presented at SAB2008 in Japan.
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk
DESCRIPTION:Alergic Talk ARUN-401 Chrisantha Fernando Copying of Neuronal Topology by Spike-Time Dependent Plasticity and Error-Correction  We propose a mechanism for copying of neuronal networks that is of considerable interest for neuroscience for it suggests a neuronal basis for causal inference, function copying, and natural selection within the human brain. To date, no model of neuronal topology copying exists. As a proof of principle, our mechanism of topographic map formation coupled with Spike-Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP) can copy neuronal topology motifs. We also demonstrate an ancillary topological error correction mechanism that can improve neuronal copying fidelity. By demonstrating that neuronal topology replication does not require extra-ordinary mechanisms, we move closer to understanding how a natural selection algorithm could be implemented in the brain
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SUMMARY:Alergic
DESCRIPTION:Alergic practice talks ARUN-401 See http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Alergic-NAME+Practice+Talks+July+2008
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SUMMARY:Alergic
DESCRIPTION:Alergic ENG1-AS02 Practice talks, see http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Alergic-NAME+Practice+Talks+July+2008
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SUMMARY:Alergic/NAME
DESCRIPTION:Alergic/NAME ARUN-401 Practice talks, see http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Alergic-NAME+Practice+Talks+July+2008
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DESCRIPTION:Alergic/NAME ENG1-AS02 Practice talks, see http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Alergic-NAME+Practice+Talks+July+2008
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SUMMARY:Alergic
DESCRIPTION:ENG1-AS02 more practice talks, see http://alergic.pbwiki.com/Alergic-NAME+Practice+Talks+July+2008
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