ACAIN2021: 1st International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience The Wordsworth Hotel & SPA Grasmere, UK, October 7-8, 2021 |
Conference website | https://acain2021.artificial-intelligence-sas.org |
Abstract registration deadline | April 9, 2021 |
Submission deadline | April 9, 2021 |
The ACAIN 2021 is an interdisciplinary event on AI and Neuroscience. ACAIN 2021 will be a special opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research by leading scientists in AI and Neuroscience.
The two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (October 7-8), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (October 5-6).
Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on a more efficient synergy and cooperation between the two research communities. These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium – ACAIN 2021, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 2021 will be a special opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research by leading scientists in both fields. The two days of keynote talks and oral presentations (the Symposium) will be preceded by two days of lectures (the Course) for students and newcomers to this interdisciplinary field. Moreover, ICAN 2021 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
Inside the Wordsworth Hotel & SPA – Grasmere, Lake District, England, the lecture rooms and around the fascinating atmosphere of Grasmere, Lake District – England – Great Britain the world’s leading scientists and industry experts discuss scientific challenges with a highly selected number of participants in a unique setting, nestled within the most idyllic landscapes of England, in the outskirts of Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.For one intense week you will work alongside faculty that are undisputed leaders in their own field: the result is a profound experience that fosters professional and personal development.In a proven, unique format you will be exposed to a high-impact learning experience, taking you outside the comfort zone of your own technical expertise, that will empower you with new analytical and strategic skills across areas of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.The first Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion five-day residential Course and Symposium at the Wordsworth Hotel & SPA (Grasmere, Cumbria, Lake District – England) on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researches, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.You will gain a heightened awareness for fields of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience relevant for your activity and, perhaps most important, you will gain a place within an elite global network of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience experts.The Advanced Course is suited for younger scholars, academics, early career researches, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Moreover, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic.Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless.The Course will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course.The Wordsworth Hotel & SPA – Grasmere provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Lake District landscapes. World-class beers and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience the experience of a lifetime!
Submission Guidelines
The Symposium welcomes papers on broad aspects of AI and/or Neuroscience that constitute advances in the overall field including, but not limited to, explainable AI, cognition and AI, automated reasoning and inference, case-based reasoning, commonsense reasoning, computational cognitive science, generative adversarial networks, computer vision, computational neuroscience, constraint processing, ethical AI, heuristic search, human interfaces, intelligent robotics, knowledge representation, machine learning, multi-agent systems, deep learning, natural language processing, planning and action, and reasoning under uncertainty. The Symposium accepts results achieved in addition to proposals for new ways of looking at AI and Neuroscience problems, both of which must include demonstrations of value and effectiveness.
Papers describing applications of AI are also welcome, but the focus should be on how new and novel AI methods advance performance in application areas. Papers on applications should describe a principled solution, emphasize its novelty, and present an indepth evaluation of the AI techniques being exploited.
The Symposium will also consider summary papers that describe challenges and competitions from various areas of AI and Neuroscience. Such papers should motivate and describe the competition design as well as report and interpret competition results, with an emphasis on insights that are of value beyond the competition (series) itself.
The International Symposium Proceedings will be published by Springer. Papers will appear in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
List of Topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asilomar AI Principles
- Neuroscience
- Brain-Behavior Interactions
- Cognition & Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Computing
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Cognitive Robotics
- Cognitive Science
- Computational Cognitive Science
- Computational Modeling of the Nervous System
- Computational Neuroscience
- Creativity & Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Learning
- Epistemic Planning
- Ethics for Autonomous Systems
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence
- General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Machine Learning
- Neural data Analysis Methods
- Neuroinformatics
- Neurotechnology
- Probabilistic Generative Models
- Probabilistic Programming
- Reinforcement Learning
- Robotics
- Symbolic AI & Deep Learning
- Systems Neuroscience
- Theory of Deep Learning
Committees
Program Committee
The following is the initial list of confirmed PC members:
- Andy Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
- Frederic Alexandre, INRIA, France
- Maryam Alimardani, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Giuseppe Amato, CNR, Italy
- Farhan Baluch, University of Southern California, USA
- Eleanor Batty, Columbia University, USA
- Daniel Alexander Braun, Ulm University, Germany
- Numan Celik, University of Liverpool, UK
- Carson Chow, National Institutes of Health - NIH, USA
- Wang-Zhou Dai, Imperial College London, UK
- Nishchal Dethe, Columbia University, USA
- Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK
- Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy
- A. Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London, UK
- Yu Feng, Duke University, USA
- Tapan Gandhi, IIT, India
- Martin Giese, University of Tuebingen, Germany
- Dalin Guo, University of California San Diego, USA
- Jianye Hao, MIT, USA
- Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
- Ramakrishnan Iyer, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
- Christopher M. Kim, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Giri Krishnan, University of California San Diego, USA
- Jung Hoon Lee, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
- Tai Sing Lee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Grace Lindsay, UCL, UK
- Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
- Ori Maoz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Ivan Martino, Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden
- Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
- Josh Merel, DeepMind, UK
- Florent Meyniel, INSERM-CEA, France
- Juri Minxha, Columbia University, USA
- Catalin Mitelut, Columbia University, USA
- Amin Nejatbakhsh, Columbia University, USA
- Michael Oliver, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
- Sharon Ong, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Ari Pakman, Columbia University, USA
- Xaq Pitkow, Rice University, USA
- Jaime A. Riascos Salas, Federal University Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Ueli Rutishauser, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center & CALTECH, USA
- Valentin Slepukhin, University of California Los Angeles, USA
- Giacomo Spigler, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Merav Stern, University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
- Kai Ueltzhöffer, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Jonathan Vacher, Université Paris Dauphine, France
- Sacha van Albada, Research Center Juelich, Germany
- Frank van der Velde, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Marcel van Gerven, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- Toby Walsh, The University of New South Wales, Australia
- Sang Wan Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
- Weixun Wang, Tianjin University, China
- Yueqi Wang, Columbia University, USA
- Shenghao Wu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Miao Xu, RIKEN, Japan
- Wenhao Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Yu Zhang, Stanford University, USA
Organizing committee
- Davide Bacciu, University of Pisa, Italy
- Roman Belavkin, Middlesex University London, UK
- Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA
- Alberto Castellini, University of Verona, Italy
- Piero Conca, CNR, Italy
- Jole Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Giuditta Franco, University of Verona, Italy
- Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK & Founding Director of Data Science Institute
- Giorgio Jansen, Cambridge University, UK
- Ivan Martino, Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden
- Vittorio Murino, PAVIS - Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Giuseppe Narzisi, New York University, USA
- Andrea Patanè, University of Oxford, UK
- Andrea Santoro, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Renato Umeton, Department of Informatics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA & MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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ACAIN 2021 Chair & Director:
Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy & University of Cambridge, UK
Invited Speakers
Timothy Behrens, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
Matthew Botvinick, DeepMind, UK
Claudia Clopath, Computational Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Karl Friston, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
More Speakers to be announced soon!
Publication
ACAIN2021 proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer - Nature.
Venue
The conference will be held in the Lake District - England.
The Wordsworth Hotel & Spa (****)
- address: Grasmere, Ambleside, Lake District, Cumbria, LA22 9SW, England, UK
- phone: +44-1539-435592
- email: enquiry@thewordsworthhotel.co.uk
- web: www.thewordsworthhotel.co.uk
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to acain@artificial-intelligence-sas.org