BICS 2004: Outline Programme

This programme was updated 30 Sept 2004 by adding in some of the sets of slides for the tutorials and some of the plenaries.

Sunday 29 August 2004

start time	end time	event	presenter	title	location
1400	onwards	delegates arrive	-	-	-
1500	1600	Tutorial	Prof I Aleksander	Models of Consciousness: The world scene. Slides	LTB3
1600	1700	Tutorial	Prof L S Smith	Implementing neural models in silicon. Slides	LTB3
1700	1900	Registration	-	-	Room 2X1
1930	2200	Reception	-	-	Room 2X1

Monday 30 August 2004

start time	end time	event	presenter/chair	title	location
0800	0900	Registration	-	-	2X1
0900	0910	Introduction	Prof L S Smith	-	LTB4
0910	1010	Plenary Lecture	Prof R. Douglas	Fifteen years of Neuromorphic Engineering: progress, problems, and prospects	LTB4
1010	1100	Contributed paper session BIS1	Dr Bruce Graham	Audition and Robotics	LTB4
1010	1100	Contributed paper session NC1	Prof Graham Hesketh	Computational Neural Network Models: 1	LTB3
1010	1100	Contributed paper session CNS1	Prof Igor Aleksander	Attention and Emotion	LTB2
1100	1120	Tea/Coffee	-	-	2X1
1120	1245	Contributed paper session BIS1 (cont'd)	Dr Bruce Graham	Audition and Robotics	LTB4
1120	1245	Contributed paper session NC1 (cont'd)	Prof Graham Hesketh	Computational Neural Network Models: 1	LTB3
1120	1245	Contributed paper session CNS1 (cont'd)	Prof Igor Aleksander	Attention and Emotion	LTB2
1245	1345	Lunch	-	-	Atrium
1345	1545	Workshop	Dr E Sánchez and C Varela(organisers)	Information coding in early sensory stages	2B74
1345	1530	Contributed paper session BIS2	Prof Rodney Douglas	Vision1: Neuromorphic Approaches	LTB4
1345	1550	Contributed paper session NC2	Prof Erkki Oja	Computational Neural Network Models: 2	LTB3
1345	1545	Contributed paper session CNS2	Prof John Taylor	Representation and Modelling	LTB2
1545	1615	Tea/Coffee	-	-	2X1
1615	1715	Plenary	Prof John G Taylor	Attention and Consciousness as Control System Components in the Brain. Slides.	LTB4

Tuesday 31 August 2004

start time	end time	event	presenter/chair	title	location
0900	1000	Plenary Lecture	Dr. O Holland	Computation, cognition, and control. Slides	LTB4
1000	1100	Contributed paper session BIS3	Dr Steve Collins	Vision 2	LTB4
1000	1100	Contributed paper session CNS3	Prof Igor Aleksander	Controversies in CNS	LTB2
1100	1120	Tea/Coffee	-	-	2X1
1120	1245	Plenary Debate	Prof Leslie Smith	Machine Consciousness: Does it Make Sense?	LTB4
1245	1345	Lunch	-	-	Atrium
1345	1445	Contributed paper session BIS4	Prof David Willshaw	Vision 3	LTB4
1345	15:00	Contributed paper session NC4	Dr Kazushi Ikeda	Software and Hardware Implementations	LTB3
1345	1500	Contributed paper session CNS4	Dr Owen Holland	Agent Consciousness	LTB2
1500	1600	Plenary	Prof G Hesketh	Neural Nets: the hype and the reality, from an industrial perspective. Slides (large file)	LTB4
1600	1730	Poster Session with Tea/Coffee	-		2X1
1900	2200	Conference Dinner	-	-	Stirling Management Centre

Wednesday 1 September 2004

start time	end time	event	presenter/chair	title	location
0900	1000	Plenary Lecture	Prof D Willshaw	Self-Organisation in the Nervous System: the Establishment of Nerve Connections by an Inductive Mechanism	LTB4
1000	1100	Plenary Lecture	Prof E Oja	Disentangling signals blindly from nonlinear mixtures	LTB4
1100	1120	Tea/Coffee	-	-	2X1
1120	1300	Contributed paper session BIS5	Prof Rodney Douglas	Neural Modelling	LTB4
1120	1300	Contributed paper session NC5	Dr Amir Hussain	Neural Network Applications	LTB3
1120	1245	Contributed paper session CNS5	Prof Igor Aleksander	Neurological Analysis	LTB2
1245	1345	Lunch	-	-	Atrium
1345	1530	Contributed paper session BIS6	Prof Leslie Smith	Neuromorphic and spiking networks: BSS	LTB4
1530	1550	Tea/Coffee	-	-	2X1
1550	1710	Contributed paper session BIS7	Prof Leslie Smith	Novel approaches	LTB4>

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