Founding member of CTN, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, and 2013 Killam prize winner Paul Thagard has a new book out: Bots and Beasts: What makes Machines, Animals and People smart.
Category Theory for Cognitive Science will be a workshop/tutorial offered at CogSci 2022 July 27, 2022 in Toronto. Chaired by Centre Director Britt Anderson it is for all who are interested in new mathematical approaches to the problem domains of cognitive science.
To an unanticipated conflict our first colloquium speaker of the term needs to reschedule. Mayank Mehta of UCLA will now present on March 8.
Winter Term Colloquia Speakers confirmed.
Feb 22 - Richard Naud (U Ottawa)
March 8 - Mayank Mehta (UCLA)
March 22 - Karim Jerbi (UdeM)
Additional details (exact times, titles and abstracts) will follow closer to the meeting times. Currently we anticipate virtual presentations, but are still hoping that we can arrange some in-person visits for later in the term.
Thanks to Bryan Tripp for all the work coordinating these visits.
CS 479 “Neural Networks” (cross listed as CS 679) is a new course to be offered for the first time Winter 2022. The course is developed by Jeff Orchard (CTN Core member). It was developed over 4 offerings of CS 489 (“Advanced topics in CS”), and should be of interest to undergraduates and graduates with interests in theoretical neuroscience. For details and pre-requisites please consult cs479.
The CTN has moved into new space in the just finished E7 building. See the updated location information for a map. This move provides unified space for CTN faculty and students to more closely interact on a day to day basis. The space includes offices, visitor space, collaboration space, meeting space, and research space. If you're wandering by E7, come check us out on the 6th floor.
The conference was held in Guangzhou, China from November 14–18, 2017, and provided an international forum for scientists, researchers, educators, industrial professionals and students to present research results,
Congratulations to all members of the CNRG who had a paper accepted for CogSci this year! (hopefully I'm not missing anyone)