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Flight reimbursement
If your flight has been canceled the company will reimburse 100% of the flight or re-book the ticket. From Meridiana.It:
Refunds or Rebook: tickets for flights canceled due to the closure of air traffic will be fully refunded or re-booked on other flights operated by the carrier. Passengers are requested to contact the Call Center of the Company, whether in possession of tickets issued directly by Meridiana fly (on the website or through our Call Center) or contact the travel agent from whom they purchased their ticket. For more information, Meridiana fly notes that is active the number 0789 52609, the Call Center 89 29 28 and email address assistenzavoli_nubevulcanica AT meridianafly DOT com
If you booked from Expedia.it you can call 00390291483685 (hope they speak English...). Electronic voice will answer. press 1 (info for flight), then 4 (info reimbursements), then speak with the operator and communicate your 10-digits Expedia reservation number. If you book from Expedia.de you should call to the number on Expedia.de website and so on.
Time for reimbursement depends on the company, not on the travel agency, and can be about 30 days. They will reimburse on the credit card used for booking.
Taxi to airport
Interest in sharing a taxi from Capo Caccia to Alghero Airport
Saturday 8th May departure Capo Caccia at 5am to catch a flight at 7am from Alghero Airport contact Peter König pkoenig@…
Sunday 9th May to catch a flight from Alghero Airport at 7 & 8 am contact Alexandra Landsman.
Sunday 9th May to catch a flight from Alghero Airport at 10:15 am contact Borys Wrobel.
Sunday 9th May to catch a flight from Alghero Airport at 15:30 contact Michael Pfeiffer.
Monday 10th May to catch a flight from Alghero Airport at 7am contact Junmei Zhu.
SpiNNaker article in "New Scientist"
An article related to the SpiNNaker chip and Steve Furber in "New Scientist"
Python Tutorial
This is not the exact version that I used when I learned Python. It looks like Phil Spector has changed the format of the tutorial to a set of slides. The content is almost the same. I hope you find it useful....Shauki
Junior Professorship in Bielefeld
The Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Technology” at Bielefeld University combines the efforts of researchers from computer science, linguistics, biology, psychology, sports science and physics to elevate the command of technical systems to the level of cognitive interaction with humans. This entails cross-disciplinary research in the areas of motion intelligence, attention, situated communication, memory and learning. For more details, see www.cit-ec.de.
In this context we are inviting applications for a
Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track option W2) in Neuromorphic Circuits
The position will be associated with the Faculty of Technology and will comprise also resources for a research group (1-2 researchers plus consumables).
The successful candidate will explore issues relevant for CITEC, specifically targeting to computational models found in biological neural systems, which are used as inspiration for building large electronic systems in silicon. By adequate engineering, these silicon systems are made useful to cognitive robotics with the long-term goal of exploiting the resulting insights for a better design of cognitive interaction technology.
The position will be filled with an expert in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Physics. Possible research areas may include, e.g., large scale analog/digital systems in silicon, auditory (ear) and vision (eye) systems in silicon, learning and adaptation in silicon, merging of biology and technology micro-power circuit design, adaptive associative memory, and inter-chip communication.
Candidates will be expected to participate actively in the Center of Excellence and to be seriously interested in cross-disciplinary work at the interface between technology and cognition research.
Candidates should have strong teaching capabilities at the undergraduate and graduate levels and will be expected to teach in psychology and/or sports science and/or other pertinent undergraduate and graduate programs.
Candidates must hold a university and a qualified PhD degree in Engineering or Physics and have strong scientific achievements and an outstanding research record.
We welcome applications from severely handicapped people. We particularly welcome applications from women. Given equal suitability, qualifications and professional achievement, women will be given preference, unless particular circumstances pertaining to a male applicant predominate.
Applicants are asked to send their documents no later than 30.04.2010.
The following documents are requested in PDF format: curriculum vitae, publication list, copies of the three most relevant publications, brief statements of research and teaching interests, documentation of successful third-party funding and names and addresses of two references.
Applications shall be sent to:
Bielefeld University Faculty of Technology, Dean P.O. Box 10 01 31 D-33501 Bielefeld Germany Email: dekan(at)techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Further Information:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rueckert rueckert(at)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
www.uni-bielefeld.de www.cit-ec.de
2 Junior Professor positions for "Cognitive Systems" at TU Munchen, Germany
(you can talk to Jorg Conradt to obtain further information about the following positions at TUM)
The Faculty of Informatics of TU Munich (Germany) is seeking to fill two Junior Professor positions (W1) These persons will work in research and teaching in the area of Cognitive Systems.
Position 1: Cognitive Architectures Here, we are looking for a person to contribute in the area of complex, multi-sensor, cognition-oriented control with applications to industrial robotics and service robotics. Moreover, architectures for the implementation of multi-robot systems that interact with humans are of highest interest. The successful applicant should be competent in one or more of the following areas:
- General perception-action systems
- New holistic paradigms for the control of robot systems
- Bio-inspired and bio-analogue architectures for navigation, exploration and learning
- Simulation and performance evaluation, benchmarking
- Software frameworks and implementation tools
Position 2: Cognitive Control The successful candidate will have experience in the areas of learning and reasoning for cognitive control with applications to robotics, sensor-based perception, interpretation and analysis of daily human activities, and the autonomous development of sophisticated robot skills. We expect expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Learning and reasoning with/out probability models
- Knowledge representations and algorithmic methods for reasoning under uncertainty
- Methods for optimization and approximation
- Development of methods for the extraction of knowledge from the World Wide Web in order to supply cognitive technical systems with information about objects (visual form, 3D models), everyday knowledge, ontological representation, rules of social behavior, etc.
The candidate should be particularly focused on the Excellence Cluster for Cognition for Technical Systems (www.cotesys.org). Here, s/he will have the opportunity to set up funded projects and be able to present the research results in demonstrator systems. In addition, willingness to work in interdisciplinary projects within the framework of a leading university are expected along with engagement in and commitment to teaching (Bachelor and Master courses) within the scope of the faculty’s expectations. Pre-requisites of applying are a university degree or an equivalent, established and well-known technical school degree, teaching skill, and the ability to do excellent scientific research, that is typically demonstrated by an excellent PhD degree. Additional scientific achievements that can be demonstrated from performance outside of the purely academic setting are very welcome. The position of Junior Professor does not require the completion of a German habilitation degree. If a scientific position at the university is assumed before or after the Junior Professorship, the total time period (PhD training time plus time in the scientific position) may not exceed 6 years. The Junior professorship position is limited to 3 years. A positive evaluation at the end of this period may lead to a 3 year extension, the total time period not to exceed 6 years. TU Munich enjoys an excellent international reputation as an academic leader and has been consistently ranked as one of the three best universities in Germany. The Munich area itself offers high-quality of living, with unparalleled out-door recreational opportunities and a great cultural life. Within the framework of the federal (Bund) and local (Länder) Excellence Initiative, the Technische Universität München has the strategic goal of significantly increasing the percentage of women in the area of research and academics. Female researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications should include a CV, copies of official academic documents and certificates, list of publications, planned academic research and two referees. Application material should be emailed to Amy Beth Bücherl, at buecherl@… by 31st May 2010 or by regular post to Ms. Amy Bücherl Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik Robotics and Embedded Systems Boltzmannstrasse 3 85748 Garching Germany
Junior Professor (W1) for Computational Neuroscience
(you can talk to Jorg Conradt to obtain further information about the following position at TUM)
Technische Universität München
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technische Universität München will soon invite applications for the position of a
Junior Professor (W1) for Computational Neuroscience
which is to be filled as soon as possible. The position is equivalent to an assistant professorship.
The applicant should have an excellent scientific record in the area of computational neuroscience and its applications. It is expected that the applicant is an expert in at least two of the following areas:
- information processing in neuronal networks
- multimodal information processing and sensor fusion
- massive parallel recordings with multielectrode arrays
- neuroprostheses
The position requires the representation of the subject in research and teaching. The professor will be member of the Munich Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience www.bccn-munich.de. Active participation in the emerging fields of bionics http://www.bionik.tum.de and/or the Munich Hearing Research Network http://www.ei.tum.de/HEARING is welcome. Furthermore, teaching is expected in the bachelor, master, and diploma education of the department and in interdisciplinary programs like the Masterprogram Medical Engineering and the graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience. The appointment will be for an initial period of three years. Upon positive evaluation of the performance the position will be extended to an overall duration of six years.
Preconditions for employment are a degree from a university or an accredited college of applied science, pedagogical aptitude, and the qualification for academic work, which is typically proven by an excellent Ph.D./doctorate. Further academic achievements, which may have been also obtained outside the university environments, are desirable.
In cases of substantially equal eligibility, preferential consideration will be given to disabled candidates. As part of the excellence initiative of the German federal and state governments, the Technische Universität München pursues the strategic goal of substantially increasing the proportion of women in research and education and thus expressly invites qualified female scientists to apply for this position.
We expect the official announcement to be posted in April or May 2010. In this phase, please send your letters of interest to Prof. Dr. Werner Hemmert werner.hemmert @ tum.de.
Opportunities at Boston University - SyNAPSE project
A team working on a DARPA/SyNAPSE project (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) at Boston University seeks postdoctoral researchers in several research areas, including: designing components of a large-scale neural model controlling an animat in a virtual environment and analysis and testing of neural modeling and learning paradigms within the context of memristive-based neuromorphic hardware.
Quoting from the DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): “Over six decades, modern electronics has evolved through a series of major developments (e.g., transistors, integrated circuits, memories, microprocessors) leading to the programmable electronic machines that are ubiquitous today. Owing both to limitations in hardware and architecture, these machines are of limited utility in complex, real-world environments, which demand an intelligence that has not yet been captured in an algorithmic-computational paradigm. As compared to biological systems for example, today’s programmable machines are less efficient by a factor of one million to one billion in complex, real-world environments. The SyNAPSE program seeks to break the programmable machine paradigm and define a new path forward for creating useful, intelligent machines. ”
The Boston University team is based in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems ( http://cns-web.bu.edu/ ) and coordinates with a National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center called CELEST: Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology ( http://celest.bu.edu/ ). Interested candidates should see in particular http://celest.bu.edu/outreach-and-impacts/the-synapse-project . Contingent on availability of funding, positions will be filled starting early in the 2011 calendar year. Please forward a resume' and brief statement of interest to Massimiliano Versace (maxversace AT gmail.com).
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