From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 01 04:17:00 1999 Path: biosci!WSUNIX.WSU.EDU!arthurr From: arthurr@WSUNIX.WSU.EDU (art roberts) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Cool site with many molecular biology and genetics links :@!!! Date: 31 Aug 1999 22:17:37 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 45 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <37CCB5CE.B59A0A8F@wsunix.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Great, innovative, and expanding site found at http://www.biotech-resource.com Features -------- Bioethics/ Legal Issues - What are the ethical and legal issues in biotechnology today? Best sites in Biotechnology - It is a list of the Best Biotechnology Sites in the World. Employment opportunities - Employment opportunities in the Biotechnology/Biology field. Search Engine - this simple search engine allows access to all links and the information in the site. Add-A-Link - add your favorite link to my website. 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From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 02 08:57:00 1999 Path: biosci!rz.uni-jena.de!Johannes.Woestemeyer From: Johannes.Woestemeyer@rz.uni-jena.de (Johannes Woestemeyer) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Fungal Phylogeny for PhD students Date: 2 Sep 1999 02:57:10 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 62 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990902114911.006c10c4@pop3.uni-jena.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear colleagues! Please forward this job offer to all those in your vicinity who could be interested in working on molecular phylogeny of fungi: In a project financed by 'Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft' we work on family and order structure of zygomycetes. Based on sequences of protein coding genes from the cellular functions 'cell cycle control', 'cytoskeleton' and 'translational apparatus' we want to add the phylogenetic dimension to a wealth of taxonomic knowledge and expertise in this important fungal group. The position is to be filled beginning of October at the earliest and end of the Winter term at the latest. Knowledge of German language is not required. Experimental working conditions are good. We are technically well equipped and have sound expertise at all levels of cloning and sequencing. Primers for the required genes have been developed and checked in screening experiments. Research is institutionally linked to an independent group at the institute of General Microbiology and Microbial Genetics, the 'Fungal Reference Centre' (FRC). The PhD candidate will be supervised by the FRC leader, Dr. Kerstin Voigt and by myself in close cooperation. Both supervisors have their experimental skills in this and other fields and perform experiments themselves within the project. We expect a highly motivated young colleague, integration into a vivid multidisciplinary institute, some expertise in Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as a feeling for evolutionary biology. Special taxonomic knowledge of fungi is not requested at the beginning. If interested, please send your details to Dr. Voigt or to me: Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena Lehrstuhl fuer Allgemeine Mikrobiologie und Mikrobengenetik Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena Email applications are also possible: please direct to b5wojo@rz.uni-jena.de I will call back for further details or in order to make appointments for a personal date, ideally beginning of October. Best wishes, Johannes Woestemeyer ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Johannes Woestemeyer Institute of General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena - Germany Tel. : +49 (0)3641 949310/1 Fax : +49 (0)3641 949312 E-Mail : b5wojo@rz.uni-jena.de Homepage: http://www.uni-jena.de/biologie/mikrobio/ -------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 02 09:03:00 1999 Path: biosci!rz.uni-jena.de!Johannes.Woestemeyer From: Johannes.Woestemeyer@rz.uni-jena.de (Johannes Woestemeyer) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Doktorandenstelle: Phylogenie der Pilze Date: 2 Sep 1999 03:03:25 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 66 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990902115526.006c10c4@pop3.uni-jena.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen sowie alle Interessentinnen an einer Arbeit im Bereich Molekulare Phylogenie! Mit der Bitte um Weitergabe an Interessierte schicke ich Ihnen die folgende Ausschreibung: Die DFG foerdert uns ein Projekt, in dem es um die Neubewertung der Familien- und Ordnungsstruktur in einer grossen Gruppe von Pilzen (Zygomyceten) geht. Anhand der Sequenzen Protein-kodierender Gene aus 'Zellzyklus-Steuerung', 'Translationsapparat' und 'Cytoskelett' soll endlich das nicht geringe taxonomische Wissen ueber diese Pilze in einen phylogenetischen Kontext gebracht werden. Wir wollen die Stelle fruehestens zum 1. Oktober und (aller)spaetestens zum Ende des Wintersemesters besetzen. Bezahlung wie ueblich nach BAT IIa/2. Die experimentellen Voraussetzungen sind gut, da wir fuer alle benoetigten Gene passende Primerpaare erprobt haben. Apparativ sind wir im Hinblick auf PCR und Sequenzierung gut ausgestattet. Experimentell-technisches know-how ist bei allen Mitarbeitern im Haus vorhanden. Die Arbeit ist angesiedelt an einer selbstaendigen Abteilung am Institut, dem 'Pilz-Referenz-Zentrum Jena' (PRZ), das auf der Forschungsseite den Schwerpunkt auf der Molekularen Phylogenie der Pilze hat. Die Arbeit wird in enger Abstimmung von mir und Dr. Kerstin Voigt als Leiterin des PRZ betreut. Beide Betreuer/innen experimentieren auch selbst innerhalb des Projektrahmens. Wir erwarten von der Neuen oder dem Neuen hohe Motivation, Integration in ein reges, wissenschaftlich vielschichtiges Institut, Vorkenntnisse in Genetik und Molekularbiologie, sowie ein Feeling fuer Evolutionsbiologie. Spezielle taxonomische Kenntnisse sind erst einmal nicht erforderlich. Wenn Sie Interesse haben, bitte ich um Ihre Bewebungsunterlagen an Dr. Voigt oder mich unter der Adresse: Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena Lehrstuhl fuer Allgemeine Mikrobiologie und Mikrobengenetik Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena Email-Berwerbungen an b5wojo@rz.uni-jena.de sind ebenfalls moeglich. Ich melde mich dann bei Ihnen wegen weiterer Auskuenfte oder eines Gespraechstermins, der im Idealfall Anfang Oktober stattfinden sollte, bei Ihnen zurueck. Mit freundlichem Gruss, Joh. Woestemeyer ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Johannes Woestemeyer Institute of General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena - Germany Tel. : +49 (0)3641 949310/1 Fax : +49 (0)3641 949312 E-Mail : b5wojo@rz.uni-jena.de Homepage: http://www.uni-jena.de/biologie/mikrobio/ -------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 02 10:58:00 1999 Path: biosci!rz.uni-jena.de!Johannes.Woestemeyer From: Johannes.Woestemeyer@rz.uni-jena.de (Johannes Woestemeyer) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Assi-Stelle in Jena: Cell cycle Date: 2 Sep 1999 04:58:59 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 58 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990902135055.006d0c18@pop3.uni-jena.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Liebe Kolleginnen, ich bitte um Bekanntgabe der folgenden Stellenausschreibung (auch erschienen in 'Die Zeit' vom 19. August) in Ihrem Umfeld. Mit herzlichem Dank, Johannes Woestemeyer Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena Zum naechstmoeglichen Termin, fruehestens zum 1.10.1999, ist die Stelle eines/einer Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters/-in am Lehrstuhl fuer Allgemeine Mikrobiologie und Mikrobengenetik zu besetzen. Schwerpunktaufgaben: Uebernahme mikrobiologischer Grundkurse fuer den Studiengang Diplom-Biologie; Beteiligung am Grosspraktikum im Hauptstudium mit Schwerpunkten im Bereich Molekularbiologie und Genetik von pilzen. Forschungsthema ist die Klonierung und Charakterisierung von Zellcyclus-Genen endogener Mykorrhiza-Pilze. Die Einbindung in das Schwerpunktprogramm 'Mykorrhiza' der DFG wird angestrebt. Qualifikation: Promotion in Biologie oder Chemie/Biochemie Gewuenschte Expertise: Interesse fuer Pilz/Pflanze-Interaktionen; PCR- und Klonierungskenntnisse. Verguetung gemaess BAT-O/IIa; die Stelle ist zunaechst fuer zwei Jahre befristet. Bewerbungen von Frauen werden ausdruecklich begruesst. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt beruecksichtigt. Bewerbungen mit vollstaendigen Bewerbungsunterlagen unter Angabe der Reg-No. 88/99 richten Sie bitte an: FSU Jena Lehrstuhl fuer Allg. Mikrobiologie und Mikrobengenetik Prof. J. Woestemeyer Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Johannes Woestemeyer Institute of General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena - Germany Tel. : +49 (0)3641 949310/1 Fax : +49 (0)3641 949312 E-Mail : b5wojo@rz.uni-jena.de Homepage: http://www.uni-jena.de/biologie/mikrobio/ -------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 02 10:59:00 1999 Path: biosci!rz.uni-jena.de!Johannes.Woestemeyer From: Johannes.Woestemeyer@rz.uni-jena.de (Johannes Woestemeyer) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Assi-Stelle in Jena: Cell cycle Date: 2 Sep 1999 04:59:18 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 58 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990902135125.006d0c18@pop3.uni-jena.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Liebe Kolleginnen, ich bitte um Bekanntgabe der folgenden Stellenausschreibung (auch erschienen in 'Die Zeit' vom 19. August) in Ihrem Umfeld. Mit herzlichem Dank, Johannes Woestemeyer Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena Zum naechstmoeglichen Termin, fruehestens zum 1.10.1999, ist die Stelle eines/einer Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters/-in am Lehrstuhl fuer Allgemeine Mikrobiologie und Mikrobengenetik zu besetzen. Schwerpunktaufgaben: Uebernahme mikrobiologischer Grundkurse fuer den Studiengang Diplom-Biologie; Beteiligung am Grosspraktikum im Hauptstudium mit Schwerpunkten im Bereich Molekularbiologie und Genetik von pilzen. Forschungsthema ist die Klonierung und Charakterisierung von Zellcyclus-Genen endogener Mykorrhiza-Pilze. Die Einbindung in das Schwerpunktprogramm 'Mykorrhiza' der DFG wird angestrebt. Qualifikation: Promotion in Biologie oder Chemie/Biochemie Gewuenschte Expertise: Interesse fuer Pilz/Pflanze-Interaktionen; PCR- und Klonierungskenntnisse. Verguetung gemaess BAT-O/IIa; die Stelle ist zunaechst fuer zwei Jahre befristet. Bewerbungen von Frauen werden ausdruecklich begruesst. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt beruecksichtigt. Bewerbungen mit vollstaendigen Bewerbungsunterlagen unter Angabe der Reg-No. 88/99 richten Sie bitte an: FSU Jena Lehrstuhl fuer Allg. Mikrobiologie und Mikrobengenetik Prof. J. Woestemeyer Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena ------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Johannes Woestemeyer Institute of General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Neugasse 24 D-07743 Jena - Germany Tel. : +49 (0)3641 949310/1 Fax : +49 (0)3641 949312 E-Mail : b5wojo@rz.uni-jena.de Homepage: http://www.uni-jena.de/biologie/mikrobio/ -------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 10 08:50:00 1999 Path: biosci!ucl.ac.uk!w.jordan From: w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk (William Jordan) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Conservation Genetics Date: 10 Sep 1999 02:49:36 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 46 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199909100949.CAA29219@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN CONSERVATION GENETICS (EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL) The Institute of Zoology invites applications for two Research Fellowships in Conservation Genetics. We wish to appoint highly motivated scientists who have the potential to develop vigorous research programmes relevant to conservation biology. A strong publication record is required, as is the potential to obtain funding from research councils and other grant-giving bodies. We welcome applications from any field of population/quantitative genetics or phylogenetics. However, for one post preference will be given to candidates applying molecular genetic techniques to answer questions at the individual and population level. For the other post, our preference will be for applicants developing theoretical models or statistical methods for the analysis of molecular genetic data, e.g. microsatellites or SNPs. Appointees will be members of the academic staff of the Institute (equivalent to a Junior Lecturer position in a university department). Salary will be in the range £19,064-23,276 including London weighting (pay award pending), depending on relevant experience. The appointments will be for three years initially, with a possibility of extension. Applicants should send a CV (including a brief outline of research interests and future directions), a letter of application and the names and addresses of three professional referees to the Personnel Department, Zoological Society of London, Regentıs Park, London NW1 4RY. Telephone 0171 449 6253. Further details are available from Dr Bill Jordan in the Institute of Zoology at the same address or by email (Bill.Jordan@ioz.ac.uk). Closing date for applications: one month from publication. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr W C Jordan Institute of Zoology Regent's Park London NW1 4RY Tel: 0171 449 6631 Fax: 0171 586 2870 email: w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk or bill.jordan@ioz.ac.uk http://www.zsl.org/ioz/ ----------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Sep 10 09:04:00 1999 Path: biosci!ucl.ac.uk!w.jordan From: w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk (William Jordan) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Conservation Genetics Date: 10 Sep 1999 03:04:33 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 48 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199909101004.DAA01507@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Apologies for reposting, but this version has the closing date included. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN CONSERVATION GENETICS (EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL) The Institute of Zoology invites applications for two Research Fellowships in Conservation Genetics. We wish to appoint highly motivated scientists who have the potential to develop vigorous research programmes relevant to conservation biology. A strong publication record is required, as is the potential to obtain funding from research councils and other grant-giving bodies. We welcome applications from any field of population/quantitative genetics or phylogenetics. However, for one post preference will be given to candidates applying molecular genetic techniques to answer questions at the individual and population levels. For the other post, our preference will be for applicants developing theoretical models or statistical methods for the analysis of molecular genetic data, e.g. microsatellites or SNPs. Appointees will be members of the academic staff of the Institute (equivalent to a Junior Lecturer position in a university department). Salary will be in the range £19,064-23,276 including London weighting (pay award pending), depending on relevant experience. The appointments will be for three years initially, with a possibility of extension. Applicants should send a CV (including a brief outline of research interests and future directions), a letter of application and the names and addresses of three professional referees to the Personnel Department, Zoological Society of London, Regentıs Park, London NW1 4RY. Telephone 0171 449 6253. Further details are available from Dr Bill Jordan in the Institute of Zoology at the same address or by email (Bill.Jordan@ioz.ac.uk). Closing date for applications: 15 October 1999. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr W C Jordan Institute of Zoology Regent's Park London NW1 4RY Tel: 0171 449 6631 Fax: 0171 586 2870 email: w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk or bill.jordan@ioz.ac.uk http://www.zsl.org/ioz/ ----------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Sep 11 08:01:00 1999 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Sep 1999 02:00:39 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 239 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199909110900.CAA02240@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 14-AUG-99) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- All BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. 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From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 15 09:43:00 1999 Path: biosci!ucl.ac.uk!w.jordan From: w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk (William Jordan) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Conservation Genetics - change of address Date: 15 Sep 1999 03:41:35 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 26 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199909151040.DAA20007@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear All, I recently posted details of two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Conservation Genetics available in the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London. Unfortunately, shortly after the message was posted our email server (ioz.ac.uk) suffered a major fault and has been down for a few days. As I am unsure about when it will be in action again, please send any requests for further information on the positions to me at w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk (rather than Bill.Jordan@ioz.ac.uk). Apologies to anyone who has been waiting for a response to a message sent to me at the ioz.ac.uk address. Bill Jordan ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr W C Jordan Institute of Zoology Regent's Park London NW1 4RY Tel: 0171 449 6631 Fax: 0171 586 2870 email: w.jordan@ucl.ac.uk or bill.jordan@ioz.ac.uk http://www.zsl.org/ioz/ ----------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 15 22:31:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Mark A. McPeek" Newsgroups: bionet.women-in-bio,bionet.population-bio,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.jobs.offered Subject: EVOLUTIONARY GENETICIST Position Date: 15 Sep 1999 16:31:00 -0700 Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 34 Sender: nospam@net.bio.net Approved: news@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <37DD5572.98B027A2@dartmouth.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: biosci bionet.women-in-bio:8853 bionet.population-bio:3242 bionet.molbio.evolution:7360 bionet.jobs.offered:13611 EVOLUTIONARY GENETICIST Department of Biological Sciences Dartmouth College Applications are invited for a tenured or tenure-track position at open rank to begin in the fall of 2000. We seek a person using modern molecular techniques to address important questions in evolutionary biology. We are particularly interested in those examining questions concerning molecular evolution, the evolutionary genetics of development, population genetics, or phylogeography. This is the first of four positions in evolutionary biology to be filled over the next few years. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a vigorous, externally funded research program and teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Ph.D. or equivalent and postdoctoral experience are required. Please submit curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, recent reprints, and three letters of recommendation to: Mark A. McPeek, Chair Evolutionary Genetics Search Committee Department of Biological Sciences Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3576 USA. Review of applications will begin on 8 October 1999. Although applications can be submitted initially by FAX to (603) 646-1347, original documents are also required. For more information on the department, please see http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/biology/index.html. Women and minority applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Sep 16 01:16:00 1999 Path: biosci!pravda.ucr.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!gondor!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!xmission!nnrp.xmission!not-for-mail From: Stevan Harnad Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.psychology.announce,bionet.general,sci.bio.evolution,bionet.neuroscience,bionet.population-bio,sci.stat.edu,sci.stat.math Subject: Intelligence g Factor/Jensen: PSYC Call for Multiple Book Reviewers Date: 15 Sep 1999 22:22:11 -0400 Organization: Southampton University Lines: 146 Approved: grohol@netscape.net Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: internet1.cmhcsys.com X-Trace: news.xmission.com 937447738 12096 207.87.223.152 (16 Sep 1999 02:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Sep 1999 02:08:58 GMT Xref: biosci bionet.general:33767 bionet.neuroscience:31691 bionet.population-bio:3243 PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS Below is the Abstract of the Precis of "The g Factor" by Arthur Jensen. This book has been selected for multiple review in PSYCOLOQUY. If you wish to submit a formal book review please write to psyc@pucc.princeton.edu indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the book if you were selected to review it. (If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply to all accepted reviews. The Full Precis of the book is available at these URLs (bot note that the Reviews are to be of the BOOK, not the Precis: : http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.023 or ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1999.volume.10/ psyc.99.10.023.intelligence-g-factor.1.jensen Full Psycoloquy book review instructions at: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ Relevant excerpts: Psycoloquy reviews are of the book not the Precis. Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All references that are electronically accessible should also have URLs. AUTHOR'S RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING COMMENTARY The g factor arises from the empirical fact that scores on a large variety of independently designed tests of extremely diverse cognitive abilities all turn out to be positively correlated with one another. The g factor appears to be a biological property of the brain, highly correlated with measures of information-processing efficiency, such as working memory capacity, choice and discrimination reaction times, and perceptual speed. It is highly heritable and has many biological correlates, including brain size, evoked potentials, nerve conduction velocity, and cerebral glucose metabolic rate during cognitive activity. It remains to investigate and explain its neurobiological basis. Commentary is invited from psychometricians, statisticians, geneticists, neuropsychologists, psychophysiologists, cognitive modellers, evolutionary psychologists and other specialties concerned with cognitive abilities, their measurement, and their cognitive and neurobiological basis. psycoloquy.023.intelligence-g-factor.1.jensen Wed Sep 15 1999 ISSN 1055-0143 (70 paragraphs, 12 references, 905 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1999 Arthur Jensen Precis of : THE G FACTOR: THE SCIENCE OF MENTAL ABILITY [Praeger, 1998 xiv + 648 pp. ISBN 0-275-96103-6 ISSN 1063-2158] Arthur R. Jensen Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley Nesnejar@aol.com ABSTRACT: The g factor is the highest-order common factor that can be extracted in a hierarchical factor analysis from a large battery of diverse tests of various cognitive abilities. It is the most important psychometric construct in the study of individual differences in human cognitive abilities. Since its discovery by Spearman in 1904, the g factor has become so firmly established as a major psychological construct in terms of psychometric and factor analytic criteria that further research along these lines is very unlikely either to disconfirm the construct validity of g or to add anything essentially new to our understanding of it. In fact, g, unlike any of the primary, or first-order, factors revealed by factor analysis, cannot be described in terms of the knowledge content of cognitive test items, or in terms of skills, or even in terms of theoretical cognitive processes. It is not essentially a psychological or behavioral variable, but a biological one, a property of the brain. But although not itself a cognitive ability, g is what causes positive correlations among individual differences in performance, even on cognitive tasks that differ greatly with respect to sensory motor modality, brain modularity, and learned cognitive skills and knowledge. The g factor derived from conventional nonspeeded psychometric tests shows higher correlations than any other factors independent of g with various measures of information-processing efficiency, such as working memory capacity, choice and discrimination reaction times, and perceptual speed. A test's g loading is the best predictor of its heritability and its sensitivity to inbreeding depression. Psychometric g also has more direct biological correlates than any other independent source of test variance, for example brain size, brain evoked potentials, nerve conduction velocity, and the brain's glucose metabolic rate during cognitive activity. The ultimate arbiter among various "theories of intelligence" must be the physical properties of the brain itself. The current frontier of g research is the investigation of the anatomical and physiological features of the brain that cause g. Research has reached the point at which the only direction left in which to go is that presaged by Spearman himself, who wrote that the final understanding of g must "come from the most profound and detailed direct study of the human brain in its purely physical and chemical aspects" (1927, p.403). KEYWORDS: behavior genetics, cognitive modelling, evoked potentials, evolutionary psychology, factor analysis, g factor, heritability, individual differences, intelligence, IQ, neurometrics, psychometrics, psychophyiology, skills, Spearman, statistics The Full Precis of the book is available at these URLs (bot note that the Reviews are to be of the BOOK, not the Precis: : http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.023 or ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1999.volume.10/ psyc.99.10.023.intelligence-g-factor.1.jensen Full Psycoloquy book review instructions at: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ Relevant excerpts: Psycoloquy reviews are of the book not the Precis. Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All references that are electronically accessible should also have URLs. 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From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 28 15:48:00 1999 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!faramarz From: faramarz@CNS.BU.EDU ("Faramarz Valafar") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Graduate Program, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Date: 28 Sep 1999 09:47:49 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 1669 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <008901bf09cf$f95c28b0$af3dc580@bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0086_01BF09AE.70726D50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable PLEASE POST ******************************************************************* GRADUATE TRAINING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS) AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY ******************************************************************* The Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems offers comprehensive graduate training in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of technological problems. Applications for Fall, 2000, admission and financial aid are now being accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs. To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of application materials, write, telephone, or fax: DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 617/353-9481 (phone) 617/353-7755 (fax) or send via e-mail your full name and mailing address to the attention of Mr. Robin Amos at: inquiries@cns.bu.edu Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by the Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Late applications will be considered until May 1; after that date applications will be considered only as special cases. Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in the candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may be waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD candidates, but absence of these scores will decrease an applicant's chances for admission and financial aid. Non-degree students may also enroll in CNS courses on a part-time basis. Stephen Grossberg, Chairman Gail A. Carpenter, Director of Graduate Studies Description of the CNS Department: The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. Students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and neuromorphic systems, including the brain mechanisms of vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language understanding; recognition, learning, categorization, and long-term memory; cognitive information processing; self-organization and development; navigation, planning, and spatial orientation; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement and motivation; attention; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; biological rhythms; consciousness; mental disorders; and the mathematical and computational methods needed to support advanced modeling research and applications. The CNS Department awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees. The CNS Department embodies a number of unique features. It has developed a curriculum that consists of eighteen interdisciplinary graduate courses, each of which integrates the psychological, neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information needed to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind and brain processes and the applications of neural networks to technology. Additional advanced courses, including research apprenticeship and seminar courses, are also offered. Each course is typically taught once a week in the afternoon or evening to make the program available to qualified students, including working professionals, throughout the Boston area. Students develop a coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes courses in areas such as biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS curriculum. The CNS Department interacts with colleagues in several Boston University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most closely linked to the department is the Center for Adaptive Systems. Students interested in neural network hardware can work with researchers in CNS, at the College of Engineering, and at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. Other research resources include distinguished research groups in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology across the Boston University Charles River Campus and Medical School; in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and neuromuscular research within the College of Engineering; in dynamical systems within the Mathematics Department; in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science Department; and in biophysics and computational physics within the Physics Department. Key colleagues in these units hold appointments in CNS. In addition to its basic research and training program, the department conducts a seminar series, as well as conferences and symposia, which bring together distinguished scientists from both experimental, theoretical, and applied disciplines. The department is housed in its own new four-story building which includes ample space for faculty and student offices and laboratories (computational neuroscience, visual psychophysics, psychoacoustics, speech and language, sensory-motor control, neurobotics, computer vision), as well as an auditorium, classroom and seminar rooms, a library, and a faculty-student lounge. The department has a powerful computer network for carrying out large-scale simulations of behavioral and brain models. Below are listed departmental faculty, courses and labs. FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS AND CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS Jelle Atema Professor of Biology Director, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) PhD, University of Michigan Sensory physiology and behavior. Aijaz Baloch Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Development Engineer, Nestor, Inc. PhD, Electrical Engineering, Boston University Visual motion perception, computational vision, adaptive control, and financial fraud detection. Helen Barbas Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the neocortex. Jacob Beck Research Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Psychology, Cornell University Visual perception, psychophysics, computational models. Daniel H. Bullock Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Experimental Psychology, Stanford University Sensory-motor performance and learning, voluntary control of action, serial order and timing, cognitive development. Gail A. Carpenter Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Learning and memory, synaptic processes, pattern recognition, remote sensing, medical database analysis, machine learning, differential equations. Laird Cermak Director, Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Medicine Professor of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College PhD, Ohio State University Memory disorders. Michael A. Cohen Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Computer Science PhD, Psychology, Harvard University Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural modeling, dynamical systems. H. Steven Colburn Professor of Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Audition, binaural interaction, signal processing models of hearing. Howard Eichenbaum Professor of Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Michigan Neurophysiological studies of how the hippocampal system mediates declarative memory. William D. Eldred III Professor of Biology PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center Visual neuralbiology. Paolo Gaudiano Research Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Computational and neural models of robotics, vision, adaptive sensory-motor control, and behavioral neurobiology. Jean Berko Gleason Professor of Psychology PhD, Harvard University Psycholinguistics. Sucharita Gopal Associate Professor of Geography PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara Neural networks, computational modeling of behavior, geographical information systems, fuzzy sets, and spatial cognition. Stephen Grossberg Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Director, Center for Adaptive Systems PhD, Mathematics, Rockefeller University Theoretical biology, theoretical psychology, dynamical systems, and applied mathematics. Frank Guenther Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University MSE, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Speech production, speech perception, and biological sensory-motor control. Catherine L. Harris Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD, Cognitive Science and Psychology, University of California at San Diego Visual word recognition, psycholinguistics, cognitive semantics, second language acquisition, computational models of cognition. Michael E. Hasselmo Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Electrophysiological studies of neuromodulatory effects in cortical structures, network biophysical simulations of memory function in hippocampus and piriform cortex, behavioral studies of amnestic drugs. Thomas G. Kincaid Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Signal and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive testing. Mark Kon Professor of Mathematics PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Functional analysis, mathematical physics, partial differential equations. Nancy Kopell Professor of Mathematics PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Dynamical systems, mathematical physiology, pattern formation in biological/physical systems. Jacqueline A. Liederman Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Rochester Dynamics of interhemispheric cooperation; prenatal correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders. Ennio Mingolla Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Connecticut Visual perception, mathematical modeling of visual processes. Joseph Perkell Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Research Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Motor control of speech production. Alan Peters Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine PhD, Zoology, Bristol University, United Kingdom Organization of neurons in the cerebral cortex; effects of aging on the primate brain; fine structure of the nervous system. Andrzej Przybyszewski Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester PhD, Warsaw Medical Academy Electrophysiology of the primate visual system, mathematical and computer modeling of the neuronal networks in the visual system. Adam Reeves Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University PhD, Psychology, City University of New York Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision. Mark Rubin Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Physics, University of Chicago Pattern recognition; artificial and biological vision. Michele Rucci Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy Computational neuroscience, vision and audition, learning, sensory-motor control. Elliot Saltzman Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action University of Connecticut, Storrs Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Minnesota Modeling and experimental studies of human sensorimotor control and coordination of the limbs and speech articulators, focusing on issues of timing in skilled activities. Robert Savoy Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science Experimental Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color, form, and motion perception. Teaching about functional MRI and other brain mapping methods. Eric Schwartz Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering; and Anatomy and Neurobiology PhD, High Energy Physics, Columbia University Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural modeling. Robert Sekuler Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center Frances and Louis H. Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis = University PhD, Psychology, Brown University Visual motion, visual adaptation, relation of visual perception, memory, and movement. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Psychoacoustics, audition, auditory localization, binaural hearing, sensorimotor adaptation, mathematical models of human performance. Malvin Teich Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics PhD, Cornell University Quantum optics and imaging, photonics, wavelets and fractal stochastic processes, biological signal processing and information transmission. Lucia Vaina Professor of Biomedical Engineering Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine PhD, Sorbonne (France); Dres Science, National Politechnique Institute, Toulouse (France) Computational visual neuroscience, biological and computational = learning, functional and structural neuroimaging. Faramarz Valafar Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Bioinformatics, adaptive systems (artificial neural networks), data mining and modeling in medicine, medical decision making, pattern recognition and signal processing in biomedicine, biochemistry, and glycoscience. Takeo Watanabe Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Behavioral Sciences, University of Tokyo Perception of objects and motion and effects of attention on perception using psychophysics and brain imaging (f-MRI). Allen Waxman Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory PhD, Astrophysics, University of Chicago Visual system modeling, multisensor fusion, image mining, parallel computing, and advanced visualization. James Williamson Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Development of cortical receptive fields; perceptual grouping; pattern recognition. Jeremy Wolfe Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Dept. Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract = Research PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visual attention, preattentive and attentive object representation. Curtis Woodcock Professor of Geography Director, Geographic Applications, Center for Remote Sensing PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara Biophysical remote sensing, particularly of forests and natural vegetation, canopy reflectance models and their inversion, spatial modeling, and change detection; biogeography; spatial analysis; = geographic information systems; digital image processing. CNS DEPARTMENT COURSE OFFERINGS CAS CN500 Computational Methods in Cognitive and Neural Systems CAS CN510 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling I CAS CN520 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling II CAS CN530 Neural and Computational Models of Vision CAS CN540 Neural and Computational Models of Adaptive Movement Planning and Control CAS CN550 Neural and Computational Models of Recognition, Memory and Attention CAS CN560 Neural and Computational Models of Speech Perception and = Production CAS CN570 Neural and Computational Models of Conditioning, = Reinforcement, Motivation and Rhythm CAS CN580 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience GRS CN700 Computational and Mathematical Methods in Neural Modeling GRS CN710 Advanced Topics in Neural Modeling GRS CN720 Neural and Computational Models of Planning and Temporal = Structure in Behavior GRS CN730 Models of Visual Perception GRS CN740 Topics in Sensory-Motor Control GRS CN760 Topics in Speech Perception and Recognition GRS CN780 Topics in Computational Neuroscience GRS CN810 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Event = Perception GRS CN811 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Perception GRS CN911,912 Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Pattern Recognition GRS CN915,916 Research in Neural Networks for Vision and Image Processing GRS CN921,922 Research in Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing GRS CN925,926 Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning and Control GRS CN931,932 Research in Neural Networks for Conditioning and Reinforcement Learning GRS CN935,936 Research in Neural Networks for Cognitive Information Processing GRS CN941,942 Research in Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Networks GRS CN945,946 Research in Technological Applications of Neural Networks GRS CN951,952 Research in Hardware Implementations of Neural Networks CNS students also take a wide variety of courses in related departments. In addition, students participate in a weekly colloquium series, an = informal lecture series, and student-run special interest groups, and attend = lectures and meetings throughout the Boston area; and advanced students work in = small research groups. LABORATORY AND COMPUTER FACILITIES The department is funded by fellowships, grants, and contracts from federal agencies and private foundations that support research in life sciences, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and engineering. Facilities include laboratories for experimental research and computational modeling in visual perception; audition, speech and language processing; and sensory-motor control and robotics. Data analysis and numerical simulations are carried out on a state-of-the-art computer network comprised of Sun workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations, Macintoshes, and PCs. A PC farm running Linix operating systems is available as a distributed computational environment. All students have access to PCs or UNIX workstation consoles, a network of SGI machines, and standard modeling and mathematical simulation packages such as Mathematica, VisSim, Khoros, and Matlab. The department maintains a core collection of books and journals, and has access both to the Boston University libraries and to the many other collections of the Boston Library Consortium. In addition, several specialized facilities and software are available for use. These include: Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Laboratory The Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Lab is comprised of an electronics workshop, including a surface-mount workstation, PCD fabrication tools, and an Alterra EPLD design system; a light machine shop; an active vision lab including actuators and video hardware; and systems for computer aided neuroanatomy and application of computer graphics and image processing to brain sections and MRI images. Neurobotics Laboratory The Neurobotics Lab utilizes wheeled mobile robots to study potential applications of neural networks in several areas, including adaptive dynamics and kinematics, obstacle avoidance, path planning and navigation, visual object recognition, and conditioning and motivation. The lab currently has three Pioneer robots equipped with sonar and visual sensors; one B-14 robot with a moveable camera, sonars, infrared, and bump sensors; and two Khepera miniature robots with infrared proximity detectors. Psychoacoustics Laboratory The Psychoacoustics Lab houses a newly installed, 8 ft. =A5 8 ft. sound-proof booth. The laboratory is extensively equipped to perform both traditional psychoacoustic experiments and experiments using interactive auditory virtual-reality stimuli. The major equipment dedicated to the psychoacoustics laboratory includes two Pentium-based personal computers; two Power-PC-based Macintosh computers; a 50-MHz array processor capable of generating auditory stimuli in real time; programmable attenuators; analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters; a real-time head tracking system; a special-purpose, signal-processing hardware system capable of generating "spatialized" stereo auditory signals in real time; a two-channel oscilloscope; a two-channel spectrum analyzer; various cables, headphones, and other miscellaneous electronics equipment; and software for signal generation, experimental control, data analysis, and word processing. Sensory-Motor Control Laboratory The Sensory-Motor Control Lab supports experimental studies of motor kinematics. An infrared WatSmart system allows measurement of large-scale movements, and a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet allows studies of handwriting and other fine-scale movements. Equipment includes a 40-inch monitor that allows computer display of animations generated by an SGI workstation or a Pentium Pro (Windows NT) workstation. A second major component is a helmet-mounted, video-based, eye-head tracking system (ISCAN Corp, 1997). The latter's camera samples eye position at 240Hz and also allows reconstruction of what subjects are attending to as they freely scan a scene under normal lighting. Thus the system affords a wide range of visuo-motor studies. Speech and Language Laboratory The Speech and Language Lab includes facilities for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog software conversion. Ariel equipment allows reliable synthesis and playback of speech waveforms. An Entropic signal processing package provides facilities for detailed analysis, filtering, spectral construction, and formant tracking of the speech waveform. Various large databases, such as TIMIT and TIdigits, are available for testing algorithms of speech recognition. For high speed processing, supercomputer facilities speed filtering and data analysis. Visual Psychophysics Laboratory The Visual Psychophysics Lab occupies an 800-square-foot suite, including three dedicated rooms for data collection, and houses a variety of computer controlled display platforms, including Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Onyx RE2, SGI Indigo2 High Impact, SGI Indigo2 Extreme, Power Computing (Macintosh compatible) PowerTower Pro 225, and Macintosh 7100/66 workstations. Ancillary resources for visual psychophysics include a computer-controlled video camera, stereo viewing glasses, prisms, a photometer, and a variety of display-generation, data-collection, and data-analysis software. Affiliated Laboratories Affiliated CAS/CNS faculty have additional laboratories ranging from visual and auditory psychophysics and neurophysiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology to engineering and chip design. 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GRADUATE TRAINING IN THE

DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS)

AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

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The Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems

offers comprehensive graduate training in the neural and = computational

principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and

animal behavior, and the application of neural network = architectures

to the solution of technological problems.

Applications for Fall, 2000, admission and financial aid are now = being

accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs.

To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of = application

materials, write, telephone, or fax:

DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

Boston University

677 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02215

617/353-9481 (phone)

617/353-7755 (fax)

or send via e-mail your full name and mailing address to the = attention

of Mr. Robin Amos at:

inquiries@cns.bu.edu

Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by = the

Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Late

applications will be considered until May 1; after that date

applications will be considered only as special cases.

Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if = applicable,

graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and = Graduate

Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in = the

candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may = be

waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD

candidates, but absence of these scores will decrease an = applicant's

chances for admission and financial aid.

Non-degree students may also enroll in CNS courses on a part-time

basis.

Stephen Grossberg, Chairman

Gail A. Carpenter, Director of Graduate Studies

Description of the CNS Department:

The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) provides = advanced

training and research experience for graduate students interested = in

the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and

architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the

application of neural network architectures to the solution of

outstanding technological problems. Students are trained in a = broad

range of areas concerning computational neuroscience, cognitive

science, and neuromorphic systems, including the brain mechanisms = of

vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and = language

understanding; recognition, learning, categorization, and = long-term

memory; cognitive information processing; self-organization and

development; navigation, planning, and spatial orientation;

cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term = memory;

reinforcement and motivation; attention; adaptive sensory-motor

control and robotics; biological rhythms; consciousness; mental

disorders; and the mathematical and computational methods needed = to

support advanced modeling research and applications. The CNS

Department awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees.

The CNS Department embodies a number of unique features. It has

developed a curriculum that consists of eighteen = interdisciplinary

graduate courses, each of which integrates the psychological,

neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information = needed

to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind = and

brain processes and the applications of neural networks to

technology. Additional advanced courses, including research

apprenticeship and seminar courses, are also offered. Each course = is

typically taught once a week in the afternoon or evening to make = the

program available to qualified students, including working

professionals, throughout the Boston area. Students develop a

coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes

courses in areas such as biology, computer science, engineering,

mathematics, and psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS

curriculum.

The CNS Department interacts with colleagues in several Boston

University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area

scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most = closely

linked to the department is the Center for Adaptive Systems.

Students interested in neural network hardware can work with

researchers in CNS, at the College of Engineering, and at M.I.T.

Lincoln Laboratory. Other research resources include = distinguished

research groups in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and = neuropharmacology

across the Boston University Charles River Campus and Medical = School;

in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems

engineering, and neuromuscular research within the College of

Engineering; in dynamical systems within the Mathematics = Department;

in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science

Department; and in biophysics and computational physics within = the

Physics Department. Key colleagues in these units hold = appointments

in CNS.

In addition to its basic research and training program, the

department conducts a seminar series, as well as conferences and

symposia, which bring together distinguished scientists from both

experimental, theoretical, and applied disciplines.

The department is housed in its own new four-story building which

includes ample space for faculty and student offices and = laboratories

(computational neuroscience, visual psychophysics, = psychoacoustics,

speech and language, sensory-motor control, neurobotics, computer

vision), as well as an auditorium, classroom and seminar rooms, a

library, and a faculty-student lounge. The department has a = powerful

computer network for carrying out large-scale simulations of

behavioral and brain models.

Below are listed departmental faculty, courses and labs.

 

FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL

SYSTEMS AND CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

Jelle Atema

Professor of Biology

Director, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP)

PhD, University of Michigan

Sensory physiology and behavior.

Aijaz Baloch

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Senior Development Engineer, Nestor, Inc.

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Boston University

Visual motion perception, computational vision, adaptive control,

and financial fraud detection.

Helen Barbas

Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School

of Medicine

PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University

Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the = neocortex.

Jacob Beck

Research Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Psychology, Cornell University

Visual perception, psychophysics, computational models.

Daniel H. Bullock

Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and = Psychology

PhD, Experimental Psychology, Stanford University

Sensory-motor performance and learning, voluntary control of

action, serial order and timing, cognitive development.

Gail A. Carpenter

Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cognitive and Neural = Systems

PhD, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Learning and memory, synaptic processes, pattern recognition, = remote

sensing, medical database analysis, machine learning, = differential

equations.

Laird Cermak

Director, Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston Veterans

Affairs Medical Center

Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Medicine

Professor of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College

PhD, Ohio State University

Memory disorders.

Michael A. Cohen

Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and

Computer Science

PhD, Psychology, Harvard University

Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural

modeling, dynamical systems.

H. Steven Colburn

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of = Technology

Audition, binaural interaction, signal processing models of = hearing.

Howard Eichenbaum

Professor of Psychology

PhD, Psychology, University of Michigan

Neurophysiological studies of how the hippocampal system mediates

declarative memory.

William D. Eldred III

Professor of Biology

PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center

Visual neuralbiology.

Paolo Gaudiano

Research Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

Computational and neural models of robotics, vision, adaptive

sensory-motor control, and behavioral neurobiology.

Jean Berko Gleason

Professor of Psychology

PhD, Harvard University

Psycholinguistics.

Sucharita Gopal

Associate Professor of Geography

PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara

Neural networks, computational modeling of behavior, geographical

information systems, fuzzy sets, and spatial cognition.

Stephen Grossberg

Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering

Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Director, Center for Adaptive Systems

PhD, Mathematics, Rockefeller University

Theoretical biology, theoretical psychology, dynamical systems,

and applied mathematics.

Frank Guenther

Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

MSE, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Speech production, speech perception, and biological = sensory-motor

control.

Catherine L. Harris

Assistant Professor of Psychology

PhD, Cognitive Science and Psychology, University of California

at San Diego

Visual word recognition, psycholinguistics, cognitive semantics,

second language acquisition, computational models of cognition.

Michael E. Hasselmo

Associate Professor of Psychology

PhD, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

Electrophysiological studies of neuromodulatory effects in = cortical

structures, network biophysical simulations of memory function in

hippocampus and piriform cortex, behavioral studies of amnestic = drugs.

Thomas G. Kincaid

Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering,

College of Engineering

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of = Technology

Signal and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive

testing.

Mark Kon

Professor of Mathematics

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Functional analysis, mathematical physics, partial differential

equations.

Nancy Kopell

Professor of Mathematics

PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley

Dynamical systems, mathematical physiology, pattern formation in

biological/physical systems.

Jacqueline A. Liederman

Associate Professor of Psychology

PhD, Psychology, University of Rochester

Dynamics of interhemispheric cooperation; prenatal correlates of

neurodevelopmental disorders.

Ennio Mingolla

Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and = Psychology

PhD, Psychology, University of Connecticut

Visual perception, mathematical modeling of visual processes.

Joseph Perkell

Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Senior Research Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics and = Department

of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of = Technology

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Motor control of speech production.

Alan Peters

Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine

PhD, Zoology, Bristol University, United Kingdom

Organization of neurons in the cerebral cortex; effects of aging = on

the primate brain; fine structure of the nervous system.

Andrzej Przybyszewski

Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School,

Worcester

PhD, Warsaw Medical Academy

Electrophysiology of the primate visual system, mathematical and

computer modeling of the neuronal networks in the visual system.

Adam Reeves

Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University

PhD, Psychology, City University of New York

Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision.

Mark Rubin

Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Physics, University of Chicago

Pattern recognition; artificial and biological vision.

Michele Rucci

Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Computational neuroscience, vision and audition, learning,

sensory-motor control.

Elliot Saltzman

Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

and Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action

University of Connecticut, Storrs

Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT

PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Minnesota

Modeling and experimental studies of human sensorimotor

control and coordination of the limbs and speech articulators,

focusing on issues of timing in skilled activities.

Robert Savoy

Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science

Experimental Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University

Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color,

form, and motion perception. Teaching about functional MRI

and other brain mapping methods.

Eric Schwartz

Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Electrical, Computer

and Systems Engineering; and Anatomy and Neurobiology

PhD, High Energy Physics, Columbia University

Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural

modeling.

Robert Sekuler

Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of = Engineering,

BioMolecular Engineering Research Center

Frances and Louis H. Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis = University

PhD, Psychology, Brown University

Visual motion, visual adaptation, relation of visual perception,

memory, and movement.

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and = Biomedical

Engineering

PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology

Psychoacoustics, audition, auditory localization, binaural = hearing,

sensorimotor adaptation, mathematical models of human = performance.

Malvin Teich

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical

Engineering, and Physics

PhD, Cornell University

Quantum optics and imaging, photonics, wavelets and fractal

stochastic processes, biological signal processing and = information

transmission.

Lucia Vaina

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine

PhD, Sorbonne (France); Dres Science, National Politechnique = Institute,

Toulouse (France)

Computational visual neuroscience, biological and computational = learning,

functional and structural neuroimaging.

Faramarz Valafar

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

Bioinformatics, adaptive systems (artificial neural networks), = data

mining and modeling in medicine, medical decision making, pattern

recognition and signal processing in biomedicine, biochemistry, = and

glycoscience.

Takeo Watanabe

Associate Professor of Psychology

PhD, Behavioral Sciences, University of Tokyo

Perception of objects and motion and effects of attention on

perception using psychophysics and brain imaging (f-MRI).

Allen Waxman

Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Senior Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

PhD, Astrophysics, University of Chicago

Visual system modeling, multisensor fusion, image mining,

parallel computing, and advanced visualization.

James Williamson

Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

Development of cortical receptive fields; perceptual grouping;

pattern recognition.

Jeremy Wolfe

Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Dept.

Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract = Research

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visual attention, preattentive and attentive object = representation.

Curtis Woodcock

Professor of Geography

Director, Geographic Applications, Center for Remote Sensing

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biophysical remote sensing, particularly of forests and natural

vegetation, canopy reflectance models and their inversion, = spatial

modeling, and change detection; biogeography; spatial analysis;=20 geographic

information systems; digital image processing.

 

CNS DEPARTMENT COURSE OFFERINGS

CAS CN500 Computational Methods in Cognitive and Neural Systems

CAS CN510 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling = I

CAS CN520 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling = II

CAS CN530 Neural and Computational Models of Vision

CAS CN540 Neural and Computational Models of Adaptive Movement = Planning

and Control

CAS CN550 Neural and Computational Models of Recognition, Memory = and

Attention

CAS CN560 Neural and Computational Models of Speech Perception and=20 Production

CAS CN570 Neural and Computational Models of Conditioning, = Reinforcement,

Motivation and Rhythm

CAS CN580 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

GRS CN700 Computational and Mathematical Methods in Neural = Modeling

GRS CN710 Advanced Topics in Neural Modeling

GRS CN720 Neural and Computational Models of Planning and Temporal=20 Structure

in Behavior

GRS CN730 Models of Visual Perception

GRS CN740 Topics in Sensory-Motor Control

GRS CN760 Topics in Speech Perception and Recognition

GRS CN780 Topics in Computational Neuroscience

GRS CN810 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Event = Perception

GRS CN811 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual = Perception

GRS CN911,912

Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Pattern Recognition

GRS CN915,916

Research in Neural Networks for Vision and Image Processing

GRS CN921,922

Research in Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing

GRS CN925,926

Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning

and Control

GRS CN931,932

Research in Neural Networks for Conditioning and Reinforcement = Learning

GRS CN935,936

Research in Neural Networks for Cognitive Information Processing

GRS CN941,942

Research in Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Networks

GRS CN945,946

Research in Technological Applications of Neural Networks

GRS CN951,952

Research in Hardware Implementations of Neural Networks

CNS students also take a wide variety of courses in related = departments.

In addition, students participate in a weekly colloquium series, an=20 informal

lecture series, and student-run special interest groups, and attend=20 lectures

and meetings throughout the Boston area; and advanced students work = in=20 small

research groups.

 

LABORATORY AND COMPUTER FACILITIES

The department is funded by fellowships, grants, and contracts = from

federal agencies and private foundations that support research in

life sciences, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and = engineering.

Facilities include laboratories for experimental research and

computational modeling in visual perception; audition, speech and

language processing; and sensory-motor control and robotics. Data

analysis and numerical simulations are carried out on a = state-of-the-art

computer network comprised of Sun workstations, Silicon Graphics

workstations, Macintoshes, and PCs. A PC farm running Linix = operating

systems is available as a distributed computational environment.

All students have access to PCs or UNIX workstation consoles, a = network

of SGI machines, and standard modeling and mathematical = simulation

packages such as Mathematica, VisSim, Khoros, and Matlab.

The department maintains a core collection of books and journals, = and

has access both to the Boston University libraries and to the = many

other collections of the Boston Library Consortium.

In addition, several specialized facilities and software are

available for use. These include:

Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Laboratory

The Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Lab is comprised of = an

electronics workshop, including a surface-mount workstation, PCD

fabrication tools, and an Alterra EPLD design system; a light = machine

shop; an active vision lab including actuators and video = hardware;

and systems for computer aided neuroanatomy and application of

computer graphics and image processing to brain sections and MRI

images.

Neurobotics Laboratory

The Neurobotics Lab utilizes wheeled mobile robots to study = potential

applications of neural networks in several areas, including = adaptive

dynamics and kinematics, obstacle avoidance, path planning and

navigation, visual object recognition, and conditioning and

motivation. The lab currently has three Pioneer robots equipped = with

sonar and visual sensors; one B-14 robot with a moveable camera,

sonars, infrared, and bump sensors; and two Khepera miniature = robots

with infrared proximity detectors.

Psychoacoustics Laboratory

The Psychoacoustics Lab houses a newly installed, 8 ft. =A5 8 ft.

sound-proof booth. The laboratory is extensively equipped to = perform

both traditional psychoacoustic experiments and experiments using

interactive auditory virtual-reality stimuli. The major equipment

dedicated to the psychoacoustics laboratory includes two

Pentium-based personal computers; two Power-PC-based Macintosh

computers; a 50-MHz array processor capable of generating = auditory

stimuli in real time; programmable attenuators; analog-to-digital = and

digital-to-analog converters; a real-time head tracking system; a

special-purpose, signal-processing hardware system capable of

generating "spatialized" stereo auditory signals in real time; a

two-channel oscilloscope; a two-channel spectrum analyzer; = various

cables, headphones, and other miscellaneous electronics = equipment;

and software for signal generation, experimental control, data

analysis, and word processing.

Sensory-Motor Control Laboratory

The Sensory-Motor Control Lab supports experimental studies of = motor

kinematics. An infrared WatSmart system allows measurement of

large-scale movements, and a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet

allows studies of handwriting and other fine-scale movements.

Equipment includes a 40-inch monitor that allows computer display = of

animations generated by an SGI workstation or a Pentium Pro = (Windows

NT) workstation. A second major component is a helmet-mounted,

video-based, eye-head tracking system (ISCAN Corp, 1997). The

latter's camera samples eye position at 240Hz and also allows

reconstruction of what subjects are attending to as they freely = scan

a scene under normal lighting. Thus the system affords a wide = range

of visuo-motor studies.

Speech and Language Laboratory

The Speech and Language Lab includes facilities for = analog-to-digital

and digital-to-analog software conversion. Ariel equipment allows

reliable synthesis and playback of speech waveforms. An Entropic

signal processing package provides facilities for detailed = analysis,

filtering, spectral construction, and formant tracking of the = speech

waveform. Various large databases, such as TIMIT and TIdigits, = are

available for testing algorithms of speech recognition. For high

speed processing, supercomputer facilities speed filtering and = data

analysis.

Visual Psychophysics Laboratory

The Visual Psychophysics Lab occupies an 800-square-foot suite,

including three dedicated rooms for data collection, and houses a

variety of computer controlled display platforms, including = Silicon

Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Onyx RE2, SGI Indigo2 High Impact, SGI = Indigo2

Extreme, Power Computing (Macintosh compatible) PowerTower Pro = 225,

and Macintosh 7100/66 workstations. Ancillary resources for = visual

psychophysics include a computer-controlled video camera, stereo

viewing glasses, prisms, a photometer, and a variety of

display-generation, data-collection, and data-analysis software.

Affiliated Laboratories

Affiliated CAS/CNS faculty have additional laboratories ranging = from

visual and auditory psychophysics and neurophysiology, anatomy, = and

neuropsychology to engineering and chip design. These facilities = are

used in the context of faculty/student collaborations.

 

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DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

GRADUATE TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT

Boston University

677 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02215

Phone: 617/353-9481

Fax: 617/353-7755

Email: inquiries@cns.bu.edu

Web: http://cns.bu.edu/

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------=_NextPart_000_0086_01BF09AE.70726D50-- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Sep 28 17:08:00 1999 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cindy From: cindy@CNS.BU.EDU (Cynthia Bradford) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: ICCNS 2000 Date: 28 Sep 1999 11:08:27 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 200 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199909281451.KAA16678@retina.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Enclosed below is a conference announcement. If you would prefer not to receive further emails of this type from us, please email me back and your name will be removed from our mailing list. Please accept our apologies in advance if you had asked to be removed from this mailing list at an earlier time. There was some miscommunication with our previous computer systems manager, but please be assured that you will be removed this time, should you make such a request. Sincerely, Cynthia Bradford Department Administrator email: cindy@cns.bu.edu ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Tutorials: May 24, 2000 Meeting: May 25-27, 2000 Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/ Sponsored by Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems This interdisciplinary conference has drawn about 300 people from around the world each time that it has been offered. Last year's conference was attended by scientists from 30 countries. The conference is structured to facilitate intense communication between its participants, both in the formal sessions and during its other activities. As during previous years, the millennium conference will focus on solutions to the fundamental questions: How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? The conference will include invited tutorials and lectures, and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Abstract submissions encourage submissions of the latest results. Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of meeting handouts and social events. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * spatial mapping and navigation * object recognition * neural circuit models * image understanding * neural system models * audition * mathematics of neural systems * speech and language * robotics * unsupervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * supervised learning * neuromorphic VLSI * reinforcement and emotion * industrial applications * sensory-motor control * cognition, planning, and attention * other Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 28, 2000. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 29, 2000. A meeting registration fee of $50 for regular attendees and $35 for students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted abstracts will be returned on request only until April 14, 2000. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract; corresponding author and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address; and a first and second choice from among the topics above, including whether it is biological (B) or technological (T) work. Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice: neural system models (B). (Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, and VCR facilities will be available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. 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REGISTRATION FORM Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 24, 2000 Meeting: May 25-27, 2000 FAX: (617) 353-7755 http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/ (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: _____________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: __________________________________________ Phone and Fax: _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. 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Name as it appears on the card: _____________________________________ Type of card: _______________________________________________________ Account number: _____________________________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________________________________ Signature: __________________________________________________________ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Sep 29 22:09:00 1999 Path: biosci!ACCESSONE.COM!hinrich From: hinrich@ACCESSONE.COM ("Richard A. Hinrichsen") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Population Waves Date: 29 Sep 1999 16:09:41 -0700 Organization: Hinrichsen Consulting Lines: 112 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <37F237A8.A1B722EC@accessone.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I have a question about population waves. Leslie matrices are being used by the National Marine Fisheries Service to model the dynamics of salmon populations that are nearly extinct. The goal is to find strategies that increase the Perron eigenvalues. It occurred to me that population waves will also be important in determining whether a population will persist. The difference equation governing the dynamics of the age-structured population is: v(t+1) = L*v(t), where L is a Leslie matrix, and v(t) is the age-specific population vector for year t (the intial age-specific vector is v(0)). As usual, the first row of L contains the age-specific fecundities, and the diagonal below the main diagonal contains the age-specific survival probabilities (See Leslie 1945 for further information). The entries of the nxn matrix L are nonnegative as are the entries of the nx1 vectors v(0),v(1),... . I wonder what form of the initial age population vector gives rise to the greatest oscillations? This could be used to get an upper bound on the importance of fluctuations to extinction risk. The matrices we use are primitive, the eigenvalues are distinct and come in conjugate pairs (except for the Perron eigenvalue). My intuition is that the initial vector will have a single nonzero entry. An example of a Leslie matrix we are using is L = 0 0 0 9.023 48.779 0.0582 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0.652 0 Which is "close" to an imprimitive matrix since the birth rate in the last age group is much greater than the others. This means that population waves (oscillations) will be important. We can show that the population trajectory is v(t) = w1*c1*lambda1^t +(r2)^t*{cos(theta2*t)(c2*w2+c3*w3)+isin(theta2*t)*(c2*w2-c3*w3)} +(r4)^t*{cos(theta4*t)(c4*w4+c5*w5)+isin(theta4*t)*(c4*w4-c5*w5)} where v(0) = c1*w1 + c2*w2 + c3*w3 + c4*w4+c5*w5 (such a linear combination of the eigenvectors with weights c1, c2, ..., c5 is possible because the e.vectors are linearly independent). In the above, lambda1 is the Perron eigenvalue, r2 is the modulus of the second and third eigenvalues, and r4 is the moduls of the fourth and fifth eigenvalues. w1,w2,w3,w4,w5 are eigenvectors corresponding to the five distinct eigenvalues, such that w2=Conj(w3), w4=Conj(w5), and the weights are such that c2=Conj(c3), c4=Conj(c5), and c1 is positive and real. (w1 is real and can be chosen to have positive entries). theta2 is the the angle that the 2nd eigenvalue makes with the positive x axis in the complex plane, and theta4 is the angle of the 4th eigenvalue. The eigenvalues are such that lambda2=Conj(lambda3) and lambda4=Conj(lambda5). The problem is to choose v(0) to excite the greatest population waves in the salmon population (waves of maximum amplitude), given that ||v(0)||=1, where ||.|| is the l2 (Euclidean) norm. The waves are associated with the terms in the {} in the above equation.(Note that v(0), the initial vector, must be nonnegative). Are there general rules for choosing v(0) based on the entries of L? For discussion of population waves, see Bernadelli (1941). Thanks in advance. Reference: Leslie, P.H. 1945. On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics. Biometrika 33:183-212. Bernadelli, H. 1941. Population waves. Journal of Burma Research Society 31: 1-18. -- Richard A. Hinrichsen Lakeview Medical Dental Building 3216 NE 45TH PLE STE 303W Seattle, WA 98105-4028 (206) 527-8991 hinrich@accessone.com