[BIC-announce] MAIN 2018 is now open for registration [Montreal AI & Neuroscience International Meeting (Dec 9-12th, 2018) Université de Montréal]

[Zografos Caramanos, Mr]

Dear everyone!      -    MAIN 2018 is now open for registration !

We are delighted to announce that registration for this year's edition of the Montreal AI & Neuroscience International Meeting (Dec 9-12th, 2018) is now open<http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/2018/MAIN2018/index.php> ! This year's meeting is being once again organized with the help of the Mathematics Research Center (CRM) at Université de Montréal.

MAIN 2018 will be a unique opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research at the crossroads between neuroscience and AI. What are the latest trends in applying machine learning to improve our understanding of the human brain? And how is state-of-the-art neuroscience helping us build more efficient artificial neural networks? MAIN 2018 will consist of 2 days of lectures by leading international scientisits (Dec 9-10th), followed by 2 days of hands-on training (Dec 11-12th).[Educational Day 1: dedicated to using Keras to train deep neural networks on neuroimaging and genetics data, Educational Day 2: applying machine learning to neuroimaging using Scikit Learn and nilearn] - (space is limited)

➤  Registration  - IMPORTANT
Last year, MAIN reached full capacity in less than 5 days, so we recommend you register as fast as you can to secure a seat this year (you have been warned). Note that registration for the lectures and for the educational workshop are separate. We have worked hard to keep registration fees as low as possible: 120$ for students and 180$ for postdocs, researchers and professionals; 50$ for the educational courses.

➤➤ Register now<http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/2018/MAIN2018/index.php>

Call for posters
The deadline for abstract submission is 23/11/2018 (midnight- MTL time). In keeping with the scope of the meeting, and for space reasons, we will only consider poster proposals for research that combines AI and Neuroscience. (Date of notification of acceptance : 29/11/2018)

Confirmed speakers for MAIN 2018 include:
Yoshua Bengio, MILA, Computer Science and Operations Research Dept, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Blake Richards, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Irina Rish, AI Foundations Learning, IBM T.J. Watson Research, NY, USA
Sebastian Stober, Machine Learning in Cognitive Science Group, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Danilo Bzdok, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Yves Fregnac, Unité de Neurosciences, Information et Complexité, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Pascal Vincent, MILA, Computer Science and Operations Research Dept, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Michael Mozer, Univ Boulder Colorado, USA
Radoslaw Martin Cichy, Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Group, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Pamela Douglas, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States
Susanne Still, Machine Learning Laboratory, Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alexandre Gramfort, INRIA, Parietal Team , Université Paris Saclay, France
Doina Precup, McGill and DeepMind, Montreal, Canada
Daniel Yamins, NeuroAILab, Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, CA, USA
+ more TBA

This year's instructors for the hands-on training sessions are: Joseph Paul Cohen, Thomas Funck, Andrew Doyle, Pierre Bellec, Amal Boukhdhir, Elizabeth DuPré, Greg Kiar, Basile Pinsard & Jacob Vogel.


➤ Sponsors
MAIN 2018 is still seeking additional sponsors for this year's edition. To find out about opportunities for partnerships please contact karim.jerbi at umontreal.ca<mailto:karim.jerbi at umontreal.ca>

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See you @ MAIN 2018 and please share this email with friends and colleagues!

MAIN 2018 Organizing Committee
Karim Jerbi, Jean-Marc Lina, Pierre Bellec, Guillaume Lajoie, Bratislav Misic, Andrea Green & Pascal Vincent


PS: MAIN 2018  ➤➤   http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/2018/MAIN2018/index.php

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