[CapoCaccia - announce] Call for 2020 Neuromorphic Cognition Engineer Workshop Topic Area Proposals - Deadline 10.01.2020

[Shih-Chii Liu]

Dear all,

The call for the Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop topic area proposals 
is open.

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      *Call for Topic Area Proposals*

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      2020 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop

Telluride, Colorado, June 28 –July 17, 2020


DEADLINE: Friday, January 10th, 2020



We are currently accepting proposals for Topic Areas in the 2020 
Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop 
<https://sites.google.com/view/telluride2020/home>. For over two 
decades, the Workshop has been influential in shaping the field of 
neuromorphic engineering and connecting multiple disciplines, including 
neuroscience, cognitive science, machine learning, robotics, control, 
computer vision and audition.


For the 2020 workshop, we seek proposals that touch on learning and 
intelligenceand with an emphasis on closing the loop between perception, 
cognition, learning, and the motor system. Projects should involve 
neuromorphic and bio-inspired concepts or connect from these areas to 
other mainstream areas such as deep learning. We support topic areas 
that touch on the following domains:


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    Neural architectures for cognitive computing

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    Applications of neuromorphic technology (sensor and computing
    platforms) on "real-world"   tasks in areas such as computer vision,
    audition, and robot control.

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    Mathematical models and algorithms for event processing including
    deep learning and signal processing algorithms

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    Higher-level cognition, language, and reasoning

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    Robotics for navigation and manipulation including control


Topic area proposals should include a list of projects and also target 
an "everyday" task that biological brains solve with ease. Projects 
should focus on those which pose significant challenges to current 
artificial computing systems. They should also have a tutorial component 
for the workshop participants. Topic areas should aim for impressive 
demonstrators as the outcome of three weeks of focused work.


Successful proposals in the past have focused on topics such as 
navigating through an unknown environment, visual and auditory 
understanding of scenes and human actions in real-time environments, 
adaptively manipulating objects in the service of a household task, 
neural network architectures for cognitive computing and their efficient 
hardware implementation, EEG-based systems to decode acoustic events, 
neuroprosthetic control, deep learning systems and transfer learning, 
etc.  Seethese example topic areas from the 2019 workshop 
<https://sites.google.com/view/telluride2019/2019-topic-areas>.


Topic area organizers are expected to be actively involved in 
coordination activities with other areas, e.g., advertising their topic 
area on the Workshop website, inviting top researchers covering 
different aspects of their project, and actively promoting the Workshop 
for applicants that could be interested in their topic area.

Topic proposals must include hands-on tutorials and educational overview 
presentations. Topic areas are meant to educate participating students, 
establish new links between disciplines, critically evaluate competing 
approaches, and encourage after-workshop collaboration between groups.


Topic area leaders will receive housing for themselves and their 
invitees (only up to 6 bedrooms), and limited travel funds.Topic area 
leaders will help to define the field of neuromorphic cognition 
engineering through the projects they pursue and the people they 
invite.  They shape their topic by inviting speakers and project staff 
(the invitees) and by initiating topic discussions  during and prior to 
the workshop. Proposals with exactly 2 topic leaders are required, and 
at least one leader must be present at any given time during the workshop.



Pre-workshop topic area choices and study assignments.

At least one week before the workshop begins, each topic area will be 
required to prepare and distribute study materials that constitute: 1) 
an introductory presentation (e.g., pptx, video, review paper) of the 
fundamental knowledge associated with the topic area that everyone at 
the workshopshould be exposed to, 2) a collection of a few critical 
papers that the participants in the topic area should read before the 
workshop, and 3) a syllabus of the first week hands-on tutorial 
exercises. The topic area should begin a group discussion of the 
projects (e.g., via the workshop wiki, Skype, email, etc).


The maximum 3-page proposals should include:


 1.

    Title of topic area.

 2.

    Names of the two topic leaders, their affiliations, and contact
    information (email addresses). Please note that there can only be
    TWO topic leaders. Other co-organizers or supporting staff can be
    named as invitees.

 3.

    A paragraph explaining the focus and goals of the topic area and its
    relation to the goals of expanding the neuromorphic community.

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    A list of possible specific topic area projects.

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    A clear plan to prepare students for the project, including a
    syllabus of lectures and hands-on tutorials at the workshop with
    preparatory material (websites, software, video lectures, etc).

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    A list of (neuromorphic or otherwise) sensors, hardware platforms,
    software packages, robots, or any other special equipment that are a
    part of your topic area project.

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    A list of planned invitees that you have contacted (up to six names
    and institutions).

 8.

    Any other material that fits within the three-page limit that will
    help us make a smart choice.


Send your topic area proposalin pdf or text format to 
neuromorph-org20 at googlegroups.com 
<mailto:neuromorph-org20 at googlegroups.com>with subject line containing 
"topic area proposal". If you do not get a response confirming receipt 
of your proposal, please contact one of the workshop organizers directly.


Proposals must be received by the deadline (see start of this document); 
proposals received after the deadline may still be considered if space 
is available.


We expect to accept 4 topic areas.We hope to have significant turn-over 
each year in the topic areas and leaders to ensure fresh new ideas and 
participants.


The workshop is organized by the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering 
<https://neuromorphs.github.io>.

See https://tellurideneuromorphic.orgfor the 2020 workshop web page.


We look forward to your topic proposals!


The 2020 Workshop Organizing Team:


Shih-Chii Liu <https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~shih/>(University of Zurich and 
ETH Zurich)

Emre Neftci <http://www.nmi-lab.org/>(University of California, Irvine)

Cornelia Fermüller <http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~fer/>(University of Maryland)

Guido Zarrella <http://www.aiguy.net>(MITRE)

Terry Stewart <http://terrystewart.ca>(National Research Council of Canada)

Andreas Andreou 
<https://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/faculty/andreou-andreas/>(John Hopkins 
University)

Tobi Delbruck <http://sensors.ini.uzh.ch/tobi.html>(University of Zurich 
and ETH Zurich)


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