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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
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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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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:COGS Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Boden What is Generative Art? PEV1-1A7
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SUMMARY:COGS Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Adam Kilgariff The Long Road from Text to Meaning PEV1-1A7
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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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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:ALERGIC IDS
DESCRIPTION:Drink and chat in IDS bar
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:CCNR lab meeting
DESCRIPTION:in CCNR
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:NAME
DESCRIPTION:David Waxman -- Random Genetic Drift in Populations PEV1-1A7 http://newapproaches.blogspot.com
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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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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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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Mike Beaton
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-02-20
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Joel Parthemore
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-02-27
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Bill Sharpe
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-03-12
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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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SUMMARY:Alergic/NAME
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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UID:X-30Boxes-65036524
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-07-24
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Virgo
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UID:X-30Boxes-65794128
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-10-22
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind seminar in PEV1-2A03
DESCRIPTION:Lorenzo Grespan PEV1-2A03 Investigating the role of movement in the constitution of spatial perception using the Enactive Torch
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-11-12
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SUMMARY:Alergic Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Room ARUN-410 Alergic intro before the Life & Mind seminar
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar Daniel Franks, JMS4D14
DESCRIPTION:http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4D14
DESCRIPTION:Claudia Harflett http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4D14
DESCRIPTION:Libby John http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4D14
DESCRIPTION:Nigel Raine http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4D14
DESCRIPTION:Liz Hill http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4D14
DESCRIPTION:David Lent http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-11-27
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4S14
DESCRIPTION:Dave Fisher Barham and Jonathan Green http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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UID:X-30Boxes-65853517
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-12-04
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SUMMARY:EEEB seminar @ JMS 4D14
DESCRIPTION:Joel Peck http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/1-1.php
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UID:X-30Boxes-65853524
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-12-11
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Between Life + Mind + Art
DESCRIPTION:http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/SOA/Between_Life+Mind+Art.html  Location: Inqbate, Pevensey 3, Sussex http://www.inqbate.co.uk/content/view/33/97/  Co-organiser: http://www.annadumitriu.com/
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UID:X-30Boxes-65853570
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-10-29
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:The artist Rosalyn Driscoll will present her work as a warm-up to the Between Life&Mind&Art event that evening.
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-10-29
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Joint Alergic - Life and Mind - Manuel Bedia
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Bedia, Visiting Research Fellow. Title TBA Room Pev1 1A1
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SUMMARY:Alergic Talk
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 James Dyke "The Evolution of Gaia: Developments of Daisyworld and other models of biologically-mediated regulation"
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UID:X-30Boxes-66064484
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-11-19
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:Marek McGann
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DTSTART:20081203T163000
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UID:X-30Boxes-66091285
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-12-03
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SUMMARY:Alergic
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Cristiano Solarino Towards Programmable Organisms  Abstract:  Awareness of the potential for application of biotic (and some abiotic) processes is growing within the research community. The challenges inherent in the employment of biological organisms to perform tasks (e.g. as control systems) motivates an investigation of the possibility of programming organic processes. I will argue for a theoretical treatment of this problem that views the programming paradigm as more than just a metaphor in the context of bio-based systems. For this I will propose the Adaptive Reflection System (AReS) perspective to support a theory of what I call Problem-Solving, Organic Processes (PSOPs). I will then sketch basic elements of a promising direction of investigation based on the AReS perspective: a morphological theory of PSOPs inspired by work in Cybernetics, Domain Theory and Mathematical
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UID:X-30Boxes-66107955
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-01-21
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life & Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:PEV1-2A03 Hanne De Jaegher Social understanding through direct perception? Yes, by interacting
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UID:X-30Boxes-66148062
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-11-26
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Alergic/Computational neuroscience seminar: Adam Barrett
DESCRIPTION:Postdoc from van Rossum lab in Edinburgh, ARUN-401.  Title and abstract TBA.
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DTSTART:20090114T163000
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UID:X-30Boxes-66289394
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-01-14
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SUMMARY:Alergic/Computational Neuroscience: Prof. Henry Abarbanel
DESCRIPTION:Arundel 401 Prof. Abarbanel is a specialist in nonlinear time series analysis and will talk on how to determine model parameters from experimental data
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UID:X-30Boxes-66347239
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-02-18
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14/13 Joel Peck: "Is life impossible? Information, mutation, and the origin of complex organisms"
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DTSTART:20091022T130000
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UID:X-30Boxes-68490716
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-10-22
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Mechanosensory transduction in Drosophila. Genome Seminar Room
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UID:X-30Boxes-68471937
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-10-19
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SUMMARY:Alergic: Matthew Egbert
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Egbert: Extending Autopoiesis to Incorporate Behavior  "Bare" autopoiesis fails to fully address behavior and explains only direct self-maintenance (Di Paolo, 2005).  As a case in point, up until recently, most computational models of autopoiesis fail to demonstrate any behavior beyond direct self-maintenance.  One of the first models of autopoiesis to demonstrate behavior is that by Suzuki and Ikegami (2004,2006) which extends Varela, Maturana and Uribe's original 1974 model with a few extra rules, resulting in a chemotactic autopoietic unity.  The way that Suzuki and Ikegami extended the original model resulted in a highly entangled organization of behavior and autopoiesis -- that is to say, the mechanism of behavior and of autopoiesis are one and the same.  I will describe some limitations of this kind of organization and outline some alternative more "decoupled" organiza
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UID:X-30Boxes-66662961
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-02-04
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Charles Lenay
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DTSTART:20090325T163000
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UID:X-30Boxes-66662709
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-03-25
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Life and Mind: Thor M
DESCRIPTION:Thor Magnusson
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DTSTART:20090211T163000
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UID:X-30Boxes-66664177
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-02-11
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Alergic talks: (1) Richard Goldstein (NIMR) (2) Dov Stekel, Birmingham
DESCRIPTION:Alergic talks arranged by Chrisantha Fernando 1. Richard Goldstein (NIMR) 2. Dov Stekel (Systems Biology Center, Birmingham University)  to give talks about the "In Silico Biology" workshop we are holding on the Big Island PSB conference in January 2010.  They will talk about systems biology, and give 20-25 minute talks each.
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UID:X-30Boxes-66986304
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Chrisantha
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Charles
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk - Saqib Khan
DESCRIPTION:PEV1-2A1 (note nonstandard room/time) Title: Neural Basis of Motion Perception and Visual Navigation  Abstract: Perception of visual motion yields important information for controlling action. Neurophysiological studies of the visual motion pathway in primates have been well documented. A number of neural models (e.g. Simoncelli & Heeger, 1998,  Perrone & Stone, 1994) illustrate how motion-relevant information is processed at different stages within the cortex. I have developed a hierarchal system for the computation and use of optic flow information for navigation. The first stage is based on Fourier decomposition of motion signals (Adelson & Bergen, 1985; Watson & Ahumada, 1985), the second stage estimates local velocity and the third pools local information for an estimate of global parameters of the optic flow field. The model is tested on the task of heading determination for naviga
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SUMMARY:Alergic Talk: Dr Joanna Bryson
DESCRIPTION:Memetics and cultural evolution
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Massimiliano in Arun-401
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SUMMARY:Extra Alergic talk
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Renan Moioli Preview of talk to be presented at Conf on Evol Compn following week, paper co-authored with Vargas & Husbands.   A Multiple Hormone Approach to the Homeostatic Control of Conflicting Behaviours in an Autonomous Mobile Robot  Abstract: In this talk I'll present a biologically inspired system for the coordination of multiple and possible conflicting behaviours in an autonomous mobile robot, devoted to explore novel scenarios while ensuring its internal variables dynamics. The proposed Evolutionary Artificial Homeostatic System, derived from the study of how an organism would self-regulate in order to keep its essential variables within a limited range (homeostasis), is composed of an artificial endocrine system, including two hormones and two hormone receptors, and also three previously evolved NSGasNet artificial neural networks. It will be shown that the integrati
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary music research seminars Pev 1 1A01
DESCRIPTION:We would like to announce a new series of seminars, based around   research into music and sound across different academic fields. Sussex has many researchers working on different   aspects of music and sound, from a number of different departments. It is our intention to bring this   diverse group of interested researchers together to share and discuss   their work.  The initial meeting is on Monday 11th May at 2pm-3.30pm, in Pevensey 1   room 1A01. People from various   departments will give an overview of current research activities in   their department that are music/sound-related. The purpose of this is   to give people a general idea of projects going on at Sussex that may   be of interest to them, and also to allow people to meet.  Mailing list: https://lists.sussex.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/intermus    - please sign up if you are interested in this or future seminars.
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SUMMARY:Alergic/Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Julie Haas, Harvard, GDSC Seminar Room
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SUMMARY:Geoffrey Hinton Talk
DESCRIPTION:Alergic talk, room ARUN-401 "Deep learning for object recognition and motion generation"  Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto  I will describe how multiple layers of non-linear features can be learned one layer at a time from unlabeled images. The multiple layers of features form a good generative model of images and the highest level features are very good for object recognition.  I will show how the same learning methods can be applied to high-dimensional sequential data to produce good generative models of  people walking in many different styles.
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary music/sound research seminar Pev 1 1A01
DESCRIPTION:The seminar will consist of two 30 minute talks.  The first talk will be by Thor Magnusson from Music Informatics and ixi audio (http://www.ixi-software.net), based on work in his recent PhD thesis that addressed digital musical systems as epistemic tools.  The second talk will be from Julian Broughton at the Centre for Continuing Education, with Anna Dumitriu, the Artist-In-Residence in CCNR. Julian and Anna will be talking about the 'Sounding the Site' installations, which took place at Sussex campus in late April. Sounding the Site took parts of the campus such as corridors and walkways, to reinvent them as creative spaces using sound, movement, words and images.  All welcome.   This seminar series is aimed at sharing music-related research across a variety of academic disciplines. There is a mailing list at https://lists.sussex.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/
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SUMMARY:Alergic Seminar - Dr beim Graben (Reading)
DESCRIPTION:Room ARUN-401
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SUMMARY:'Alergic' -- Upcoming Conference Talks
DESCRIPTION:Lucas Wilkins and Matthew Egbert will present their recent work in two separate 15-20 minute talks.  More details to follow by email.
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SUMMARY:Alergic 16:30, Arundel 401 Fabiano Baroni
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind
DESCRIPTION:Tom Froese
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SUMMARY:Large Scale Neuroscience Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:PEVENSEY 1, Room: 1A01
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SUMMARY:Opening ALERGIC session
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk: Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, University of Coimbra
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Studying novelty in reaction networks: From novelty in artificial chemistries to novelty in artificial life  Abstract: We shall first investigate how reaction networks are at the base of the various disciplines in artificial life. We will then learn a method (Chemical Organization Theory) that helps us to study novelty in reaction networks, and see what results this method gives us inside the various sub-fields of artificial life and related systems; from artificial chemistries to simulated ecologies, to agent based models, to the most general system: chemistry. Chemical Organization Theory was derived by Walter Fontana's work on Constructive Dynamical Systems. We modified the definition to fit a more general framework, and thus cover a wider range of phenomenon. Evolution of those systems will also be presented.
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED**SEE BELOW**Alergic talk: - Chrisantha Fernando
DESCRIPTION:This talk has been postponed until later, due to a clash with "The Essential Informatics Doctoral Student Event 2009"  ARUN-401 The Evolution of Neuronal Representations   I consider some ideas about how evolutionary computation in the brain might be able to exploit neuronal networks to structure exploration distributions in difficult search problems. I try to think about how neuronal replicators may play a part in cognitive architectures. I am interested in the evolution of concise representations, and the evolution of structured exploration operators.
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SUMMARY:Alergic/Life & Mind, Ezequiel Di Paolo
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Title: Shallow and deep embodiment: Reasons for embracing enactivism  Research in cognitive science today (as in most areas of psychology, neuroscience and AI) is done within a functionalist framework. This generally takes the form of a computational/representational view of cognition as something performed in the head, informed by the world and for actions in the world, but in itself, decoupled from the world.  ... Full Abstract on http://alergic.pbworks.com/Shallow-and-deep-embodiment:-Reasons-for-embracing-enactivism
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SUMMARY:Alergic: Dan Bush
DESCRIPTION:Computational Neuroscience talk -- Title/abstract to follow
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SUMMARY:Add a new event here
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SUMMARY:Large Scale Neurodynamics Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The subject of this weeks discussion will be the default state. Access the CoNveRGe website (www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/converge) or contact Xabier Barandarian or Dan Bush for further details
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SUMMARY:Alergic -- CCNR mini-talks
DESCRIPTION:Series of mini-talks by researchers in the CCNR -- time and place to be confirmed
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SUMMARY:Alergic: James Dyke
DESCRIPTION:to be confirmed
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SUMMARY:Genes Development and Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS John Maynard Smith Bldg, Room 4D14 Prof Corne Kros. Development of cochlear hair cell function and its disruption by deafness genes
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SUMMARY:Genes Development and Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Isabelle Delon: Integrin adhesion and organisation of macro cytoskeletal structures during development
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SUMMARY:Genes, Development and Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Change of Venue to SHAWCROSS BUILDING, ROOM AS01 Prof Claudio Stern: From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation
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SUMMARY:Genes, Development and Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Sarath Janga: Dynamic and evolutionary constraints imposed on transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks
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SUMMARY:Genes, Development & Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Derek Stemple: Genetic Dissection of Vertebrate Sarcomere Assembly
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SUMMARY:Genes, Development & Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Jichen Guck: Do cells care about Physics?
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SUMMARY:Genes, Development and Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Hilary Ashe: Cell-fate specification in Drosophila
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SUMMARY:Genes, Development & Evolution seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Prof Dennis Bray: Intracellular Signalling in a Molecular Jungle: Insights from Bacterial Chemotaxis
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SUMMARY:Gens, Development & Evolution Seminar
DESCRIPTION:JMS Rm 4D14 Elio Sucena: From gene expression to morphology: approaching the basis for evolutionary novelty
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-12-16
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SUMMARY:Continu..um? meeting
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group in PEV1-A2. Continu..um? is a discussion group set up specifically to discuss the mathematics of dynamical systems. Our first meeting of the year will be a general introduction to continuous dynamical systems. We shall be going through, as a group, some simple examples from physics, chemistry and biology. More specifically we shall look at:  Chemical Equilibria Pendulums (torsional and maybe gravitational) A Predator-Prey Model (Lotka-Volterra) A Neural Model (TBC)  with the aim of understanding the underlying techniques of analysis, how these may generalise to larger or more complex systems, and to get a feel for what is and isn't analytically tractable.  All are welcome.
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SUMMARY:Robotics Takeover -- Komedia
DESCRIPTION:Robotics/computing/social event at The Komedia, Brighton, -- £5 benefit gig for BuildBrighton www.buildbrighton.com  Tickets from http://komediabrighton.ticketsolve.com/shows/23097003/events
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UID:X-30Boxes-68497594
URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-10-30
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience seminar
DESCRIPTION:GDSC Seminar Room Hans Crombag, Sussex "Pavlovian Conditioning"
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-10-26
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar
DESCRIPTION:GDSC Seminar Rm Prof Pietro Ghezzi (BSMS) From blood to brain: erythropoietin in neuroprotection.     Abstract: EPO, the erythrocyte differentiation factor, does more than that and several papers have shown that it can act as a neuroprotective agent. It does so by preventing death of injured neurons , diminishing inflammation, promoting neurogenesis and mobilization of progenitor cells. However, it is not clear whether these effects are all mediated by the same mechanisms and receptors implicated in erythropoiesis. Safety issues may even make desirable to separate the erythropoietic activity of EPO from the neuroprotective ones.
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-11-02
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Informatics Doctoral Students Event
DESCRIPTION:"The Essential Informatics Doctoral Student Event 2009" Chichester 1 Foyer 16:00-18:00 Wed
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SUMMARY:Continu..um lotka volterra dynamics - PEV1 2C01
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk - Chris Buckley
DESCRIPTION:ARUN-401 Details to be confirmed
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SUMMARY:COGS Res Seminar: Xabier Barandiaran
DESCRIPTION:Pevensey1-1A7 Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry and Spatio-temporality in Action
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UID:X-30Boxes-68589746
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SUMMARY:Alergic talk - ARUN-401
DESCRIPTION:Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0 Authors: Anna Dumitriu and Blay Whitby    “Life did not take over the globe by combat but by networking” (Margulis, 1997)   Cybernetic Bacteria, an ongoing transdisciplinary investigation brings together an artist, a philosopher, a microbiologist, an artificial life programmer and an interactive media specialist, to investigate the relationship of the emerging science of bacterial communication to our own digital communications networks, looking in particular at ‘packet data’ and bacterial quorum sensing.    The project seeks to extend the notion of the technological sublime into a kind of microbiological sublime, reflecting the far greater complexity of the communication that is taking place at a microscopic level in comparison with human communication technologies such as the Internet.
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Music/Sound Research Seminar (Pev1 1A01)
DESCRIPTION:Pev 1 1A01 Chris Thornton Music Making with Hierarchical Markov Models
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SUMMARY:Anil Seth at cafe scientifique
DESCRIPTION:http://www.cafe-scientifique-brighton.org.uk/
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UID:X-30Boxes-68603003
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Quantitative EEG as a decision support system for the diagnosis of psychopathologies
DESCRIPTION:November 20  14:00-15:00, Arundel Bd, Rm: 401
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind -- Laura Nuño de la Rosa
DESCRIPTION:Laura Nuño de la Rosa,  Developing organisms. The organisation of development and the development of organisation ARUNDEL BUILDING Room 211
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind -- Tom Froese
DESCRIPTION:ARUNDEL BUILDING  Room 404
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SUMMARY:Life and Mind -- Xabier Barandiaran
DESCRIPTION:Building ARUNDEL BUILDING  Room 211 TITLE: Failed intentions, or why adaptive behavior is not sufficient for cognition.  ABSTRACT: First, I will analyse the “Cognition = Behaviour” and show how it is insufficient to account for cognition as a specific phenomenon different to any dynamical systems (call it “agent”) coupled to another one (call it “environment”). Then I will introduce the idea, defended by many, that the biological grounding of sensorimotor interactions can solve the problems posited by a purely behaviouristic account of cognition. Next, I will try to show that the existing formulations of the necessity and sufficiency of biology for cognition have not been formulated with precision and that additional requirements need to be added. Thus, I will expand the “Cognition = Adaptive Behaviour” into “Cognition = Adaptive Behaviour + X + Y + Z” where X, Y and
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URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-12-07
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Seminar - Information flow control by echolocating bats
DESCRIPTION:Genome Centre Seminar Room Information flow control by echolocating bats in vegetation corridors  Marc W. Holderied (University of Bristol)  The echoes of natural habitats are highly complex and for an echolocator converting a stream of multiple overlapping echoes into a workable spatial representation of the environment requires elaborate information selection and processing both by internal and external mechanisms. Behaviourally, call design, calling behaviour and flight patterns can be adjusted to maintain workable information flow. We studied vespertilionid bats in a natural flight corridor along a forest road, which was experimentally narrowed in several steps by a camouflage net. We used laser scanning as well as acoustic tracking to relate the bats' flight and echolocation behaviour to the corridor dimensions. Echolocation and flight behaviour were then analysed using two percept
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