Grasmere, Lake District, England – UK
ACAIN 2021 : AI meets Neuroscience
“Marriage of Mind and Machine
Bringing together artificial intelligence and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields”
Nature, Vol. 571, 2019.
The ACAIN 2021 symposium is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields.
The first Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion five-day residential (or online) 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 researchers, 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.
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 continuous synergy and efficient 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 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
The Advanced Course is suited for younger scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders.
The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event.
The Wordsworth Hotel & SPA – Grasmere provides the perfect learning atmosphere that is both relaxing, and intellectually stimulating, with a stunning backdrop of the Lake District landscapes.
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
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Wednesday June 30, 2021 (AoE) - Notification of Decision for Papers (Symposium): by Friday July 30, 2021
- Early Registration (Symposium & Course): by
Tuesday August 31, 2021 - Late Registration (Symposium & Course): from Wednesday September 1, 2021
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Friday August 20, 2021 - Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation (Course): by Thursday August 26, 2021
Recent News
- November 15, 2021 — ACAIN-LOD 2021 Volume Numbers: 13163 and 13164
- November 15, 2021 — ACAIN 2021 Best Paper Award
- October 3, 2021 — Zoom link sent
- July 30, 2021 — ACAIN – LOD 2021 Program
- March 25, 2021 — ACAIN 2021: Co-located Event @ LOD 2021
- March 23, 2021 — ACAIN 2021: an Online & Onsite Event!
- March 20, 2021 — It is possible to change the mode of participation (the Registration): from Onsite → to Online and similarly from Online → to Onsite (by 4 September)
- March 17, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Jane Wang, DeepMind, UK
- March 16, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Ila Fiete, MIT, USA
- March 8, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Timothy Lillicrap – DeepMind & UCL, UK
- February 15, 2021 — New Tutorial Speaker: Dr. James C.R. Whittington – University of Oxford, UK
- February 12, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Prof. Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK
- February 12, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rosalyn Moran, Department of Neuroimaging, King’s College London, UK
- February 11, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Prof. Matthew Botvinick, DeepMind, UK
- February 11, 2021 — New Keynote Speaker: Prof. Timothy Behrens, University of Oxford, UK
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
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Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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and twinkle on the Milky Way,
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along the margin of a bay:
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tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not be but gay,
in such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.