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Robotics and Neuroscience Days, ISIR, Paris, France, 29-30 november 2012

The GT8 workgroup of the Robotics GDR is organizing on November 29-30th two "Robotics and Neuroscience" days. These days will take place at ISIR, in Paris. The first day is co-organized with the GDR Neuroscience of Memory and will have the following topics: Learning, conditioning and goal-directed behaviors. The second day is specific to the GDR Robotics but will also gather neurobiologists and roboticists around the topics: Attention and saccadic eye movements.

Registration is free but mandatory by e-mail (see documents below).

Click here to download the program of Day 1 "Learning, conditioning and goal-directed behaviors".

Click here to download the program of Day 2 "Attention and saccadic eye movements".

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Best paper award to Jean Bellot at SAB 2012

Bellot, J. and Sigaud, O. and Khamassi, M. (2012). Which Temporal Difference Learning algorithm best reproduces dopamine activity in a multi-choice task? SAB 2012 Conference.

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IROS 2012 Workshop: Optimality principles and adaptation in humanoid robotics control

Serena Ivaldi and Olivier Sigaud will be co-organisers, with Francesco Nori and Bastien Berret, of a full day workshop during IROS 2012 Conference in Vilamoura, Portugal, on October 7th. The workshop will bring together optimal control and machine learning experts interested in the use of these methods in robotics, as well as computational neuroscientists interested in modeling control processes in humans, so as to generate a fruitful discussion between both communities. Official web page: http://macsi.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?perma=iros2012workshop.

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Second Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 10-11 may 2012

The second symposium on the biology of decision making took place at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, in Paris, France. It was co-organised by ISIR-UPMC. Kenji Doya gave a plenary lecture as an invited professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Other invited speakers presented different approaches (economical, behavioral, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.

The symposium was a success! Thanks to all the participants for making it a great event!

More information here : http://sbdm2012.isir.upmc.fr/

The next symposium will be organized at the same place in May 2013. More information coming soon.