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What is the IK?
 
The Interdisciplinary College (IK) is a one-week spring school on all brain & intelligence related sciences. It offers a dense, state-of-the-art course program in Neurobiology, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science/Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence/Robotics. The IK is aimed at students, postgraduates and researchers from academia and industry. By combining Science, Technology and Humanities it endeavours to intensify dialogue and connectedness across the various disciplines. Moreover, the IK is a unique social event with a very special atmosphere: minds meet, music is played, and friends are made in long evening and night sessions in the welcoming conference site at Lake Möhne.
 
The IK 2007
 
Each IK has a special focus theme. In addition to up-to-date introductions into the four main fields of the IK, i.e. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics, in-depth courses and discussions of specific topics related to the focus theme are offered. The focus theme of the IK 2007 will be Embodied Minds. It is reflected in a number of courses that deal, among others, with the following topics:
-        Modelling Animal Behavior
-        Engineering Humanoid Robots
-        Active Sensing and Action Selection
-        Cognitive Neurology of Embodiment
-        Mirror Systems and the Embodied Visual Systems
-        Spatial Cognition and Situation Models
-        Embodying AI in Robotics and Evolving Robots
-        Embodied Conversational Agents
-        Grounding, Situatedness, and Contextual Computing
-        Non-verbal Communication
-        Prosthetics and Cortical Control of Robotic and Prosthetic Systems
-        Body and Mind in Philosophy
-        Special Event Courses on Embodied Meditation in Aikido and African Drumming
 
Detailed information about focus theme, program, history, conference site, organizers, and registration are available at http://www.ik2007.de

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Prof. Dr. Ansgar Büschges
Zoologisches Institut
Universität zu Köln
Weyertal 119
50923 Köln
Germany

Tel. 0221-470-2607
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