whycare@athena.mit.edu (nemo) (07/03/90)
Subject:More Questions on DNA Purification Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 03:49:56 GMT Lines: 43 1. How would the salt in a mixture of DNA, protein, and 70% ethanol affect the charge on the protein? I ask this because I'm still wondering why the phenol denatures the protein (i.e. how the phenol disrupts the noncovalent interactions between peptide chains) 2. Does the phenol disrupt disulfide bridges? 3. What is the approximate pH of a mixture of DNA, protein, 70% ethanol, and 2.5 M ammonium acetate? 4. Does the ethanol partition into the organic phase in a standard protein extraction? 5. Why doesn't the DNA partition into the organic phase? Someone explained that it was due to the phosphodiester bonds of the DNA, but that doesn't explain how the charges on the molecule interact with the charges on the phenol and the chloroform. 6. Specifically, why is protein amphipathic? What parts of proteins, what structural motifs allow it to behave in such a manner? 7. What is the charge distribution on phenol and chloroform molecules? I'm getting confused assuming that there is positive charge delocalizing into the phenol ring and that the carbon molecule of chloroform is extremely positive. These assumptions bother me, because it seems that if they were true, some DNA would get trapped in interface along with the protein. This leads me to the next questions: 8. What would happen if no salt were used in the purification of DNA? Would a lot of DNA get trapped right below the organic phase along with the protein? 9. Is high salt concentration solely used to precipitate the DNA? Or is it used to stabilize the molecule as well? Indeed, if the salt were used only to precipitate the DNA, then it hardly seems necessary to put DNA in a salt solution before the protein were removed if DNA were inherently hydrophobic to the organic phase. The addition of the salt would only be necessary when one wanted to force the DNA into a concentrated pellet. Any answers to the above questions are welcome. Mechanistic details are very happily received. Send e-mail to whycare@athena.mit.edu.
whycare@athena.mit.edu (diable) (10/14/90)
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ci.misc Subject: CNS Program at BU Hiring 2 Assistant Professors Message-ID: <67404@bu.edu.bu.edu> From: mike@bucasb.bu.edu Date: 30 Oct 90 19:31:46 GMT Reply-To: mike@bucasb.UUCP () Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Followup-To: bu.cns.general,bu.general,bu.seminars,bu.seminars,ne.seminars,bionet.followup,bionet.population-bio,bionet.sci-resources,bionet.technology.conversion,comp.theory.self-org-sys,comp.theory.dynamic-sys,sci.bio,sci.math,sci.math.stat,sci.physics, sci.research, Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems Lines: 28 Xref: cerritos.edu bionet.general:136 bionet.population-bio:27 bionet.sci-resources:20 bionet.technology.conversion:5 comp.theory.self-org-sys:49 comp.theory.dynamic-sys:172 sci.bio:1380 sci.math:4854 sci.math.stat:780 sci.physics:5123 sci.research:369 sc i.misc:691 Boston University seeks two tenure track assistant or associate professors starting in Fall, 1991 for its M.A. and Ph.D. Program in Cognitive and Neural Systems. This program offers an intergrated curriculum offering the full range of psychological, neurobiological, and computational concepts, models, and methods in the broad field variously called neural networks, connectionism, parallel distributed processing, and biological information processing, in which Boston University is a leader. Candidates should have extensive analytic or computational research experience in modelling a broad range of nonlinear neural networks, especially in one or more of the areas: vision and image processing, speech and language processing, adaptive pattern recognition, cognitive information processing, and adaptive sensory-motor control Candidates for associate professor should have an international reputation in neural network modelling. Send a complete curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to Search Committee, Cognitive and Neural Systems Program, Room 240, 111 Cummington Street, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, preferably by November 15, 1990 but no later than January 1, 1991. Boston University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. -- Boston University (617-353-7857) Email: mike@bucasb.bu.edu Smail: Michael Cohen 111 Cummington Street, RM 242 Center for Adaptive Systems Boston, Mass 02215 Boston University
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ci.misc Subject: Neural Network Conference, Call for Papers Message-ID: <69062@bu.edu.bu.edu> From: mike@bucasb.bu.edu Date: 20 Nov 90 23:36:26 GMT Reply-To: mike@bucasb.UUCP () Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Followup-To: bu.cns.general Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems Lines: 615 Xref: cerritos.edu bionet.general:140 bionet.population-bio:28 bionet.sci-resources:21 bionet.technology.conversion:6 comp.theory.self-org-sys:50 comp.theory.dynamic-sys:178 sci.bio:1500 sci.math:5205 sci.math.stat:814 sci.physics:5518 sci.research:380 sc i.misc:728 BOSTON UNIVERSITY A World Leader In Neural Network Research and Technology Presents Two Major Events on the Cutting Edge NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS, MAY 5-10, 1991 A self-contained systematic course by leading neural architects. NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, MAY 10-12, 1991 An international research conference presenting INVITED and CONTRIBUTED papers, herewith solicited, on one of the most active research topics in science and technology today. Special student registration rates are available. Sponsored by: Boston University's Wang Institute, Center for Adaptive Systems, and Graduate Program in Cognitive and Neural Systems, with partial support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS MAY 5-10, 1991 This self-contained systematic five-day course is based on the graduate curriculum in the technology, computation, mathematics, and biology of neural networks developed at the Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the graduate program in Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) of Boston University. The curriculum refines and updates the successful course held at the Wang Institute in May, 1990. The course will be taught by CAS/CNS faculty, as well as by distinguished guest lecturers at the beautiful and superbly equipped campus of the Wang Institute. An extraordinary range and depth of models, methods, and applications will be presented with ample opportunity for interaction with the lecturers and other participants at the daily discussion sections, meals, receptions, and breaks that are included with registration. At the 1990 Course, participants came from 20 countries and 35 states of the U.S. Boston University tutors are STEPHEN GROSSBERG, GAIL CARPENTER, ENNIO MINGOLLA, MICHAEL COHEN, DAN BULLOCK, AND JOHN MERRILL. Guest tutors are FEDERICO FAGGIN, ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, MICHAEL JORDAN, ANDY BARTO, AND ALEX WAIBEL. DAY 1 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 6, 1991) PROFESSOR GROSSBERG: Historical Overview, Cooperation and Competition, Content Addressable Memory, and Associative Learning. PROFESSORS CARPENTER, GROSSBERG, AND MINGOLLA: Associative Learning Continued, Neocognitron, Perceptrons, and Introduction to Back Propagation. PROFESSOR JORDAN: Recent Developments of Back Propagation. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 2 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 7, 1991) PROFESSORS GROSSBERG AND MINGOLLA: Adaptive Pattern Recognition. PROFESSORS CARPENTER AND GROSSBERG: Introduction to Adaptive Resonance, Theory and Analysis of ART 1. PROFESSOR CARPENTER: Analysis of ART 2, ART 3, Predictive ART, and Self-Organization of Invariant Pattern Recognition codes. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 3 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 8, 1991) PROFESSORS GROSSBERG AND MINGOLLA: Vision and Image Processing. PROFESSORS BULLOCK AND GROSSBERG: Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning and Control. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 4 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 9, 1991) PROFESSORS COHEN, GROSSBERG, AND WAIBEL: Speech Perception and Production. PROFESSORS BARTO, GROSSBERG, AND MERRILL: Reinforcement Learning and Prediction. DR. HECHT-NIELSEN: Recent Developments in the Neurocomputer Industry. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 5 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 10, 1991) DR. FAGGIN: VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks. END OF COURSE (at 1:30 PM). RESEARCH CONFERENCE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING MAY 10-12, 1991 This international research conference on a topic at the cutting edge of science and technology will bring together leading experts in academe, government, and industry to present their results on vision and image processing in INVITED LECTURES and CONTRIBUTED POSTERS. Topics range from visual neurobiology and psychophysics through computational modelling to technological applications. CALL FOR PAPERS - VIP POSTER SESSION: A featured 3-hour poster session on neural network research related to vision and image processing will be held on May 11, 1991. Attendees who wish to present a poster should submit three copies of an abstract (one single-spaced page), postmarked by March 1, 1991, for refereeing. Include with the abstract the name, address, and telephone number of the corresponding author. Mail to: Poster Session, Neural Networks Conference, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879. Authors will be informed of abstract acceptance by March 31, 1991. DAY 1 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 10, 1991, 5:00-7:30 PM) PROFESSOR JOHN DAUGMAN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: "High-Confidence Personal Identification System Built from Quadrature Neural Filter" PROFESSOR DAVID CASASENT, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: "CMU Hybrid Optical/ Digital Neural Net for Scene Analysis" DR. ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, HNC,: "Neurocomputers for Image Analysis" DAY 2 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 11, 1991) PROFESSOR V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO: "Interactions Between `Channels' Concerned with the Perception of Motion, Depth, Color, and Form" PROFESSOR STEPHEN GROSSBERG, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "A Neural Network Architecture for 3-D Vision and Figure-Ground Separation" PROFESSOR ENNIO MINGOLLA, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "A Neural Network Architecture for Visual Motion Segmentation" PROFESSOR GEORGE SPERLING, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: "Two Systems of Visual Processing" DR. ROBERT DESIMONE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH: "Attentional Control of Visual Perception: Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms" PROFESSOR GAIL CARPENTER, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "Neural Network Architectures for Attentive Learning, Recognition, and Prediction" DR. RALPH LINSKER, IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER: "New Approaches to Network Learning and Optimization" PROFESSOR STUART ANSTIS, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: "My Recent Research on Motion Perception" POSTER SESSION DAY 3 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 12, 1991) PROFESSOR JACOB BECK, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: "Preattentive Visual Processing" PROFESSOR JAMES TODD, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: "Neural Analysis of Motion" DR. ALLEN M. WAXMAN, MIT LINCOLN LAB: "Extraction" PROFESSOR ERIC SCHWARTZ, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: "Biologically Motivated Machine Vision" PROFESSOR ALEX PENTLAND, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: "The Optimal Observer: Design of a Dynamically-Responding Visual System" DISCUSSION END OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE (at 1 PM) CNS FELLOWSHIP FUND: Net revenues from the course will endow fellowships for Ph.D. candidates in the CNS Graduate Program. Corporate and individual gifts to endow CNS Fellowships are also welcome. Please write: Cognitive and Neural Systems Fellowship Fund, Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. STUDENT REGISTRATION: A limited number of spaces at the course and conference have been reserved at a subsidized rate for full time students. These spaces will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Completed registration form and payment for students who wish to be considered for the reduced student rate must be received by April 15, 1991. YOUR REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES: COURSE CONFERENCE Five days of tutorials Admission to all invited lectures Course notebooks for all tutorials Admission to poster session All guest lectures One reception Sunday evening reception Two continental breakfasts Five continental breakfasts One lunch Five lunches One dinner Four dinners Daily morning/afternoon Daily morning/afternoon coffee coffee service service Evening discussion sessions with leading neural architects CANCELLATION POLICY: Course fee, less $100, and the research conference fee, less $60, will be refunded upon receipt of a written request postmarked before March 31, 1991. After this date no refund will be made. Registrants who do not attend and who do not cancel in writing before March 31, 1991 are liable for the full amount of the registration fee. You must obtain a cancellation number from our registrar in order to make the cancellation valid. HOW TO REGISTER: ADVANCE REGISTRATION: To register by telephone, call (508) 649-9731 with VISA or Mastercard between 8:00-5:00 PM (EST). To register by fax, complete and fax back the Registration Form to (508) 649-6926. To register by mail, complete the registration form and mail it with your full form of payment as directed. Make check payable in U.S. dollars to Boston University. ON-SITE REGISTRATION: Those who wish to register for the course and the research conference on-site may do so on a space-available basis. SITE: The Wang Institute of Boston University possesses excellent conference facilities in a beautiful 220-acre setting. It is easily reached from Boston's Logan Airport and Route 128. HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Sheraton Tara, Nashua, NH (603) 888-9970; Red Roof Inn, Nashua, NH (603) 888-1893; or Stonehedge Inn, Tyngsboro, MA, (508) 649-4342. The special conference rate applies only if you mention the name and dates of the meeting when making the reservation. The hotels in Nashua are located approximately five miles from the Wang Institute. Shuttle bus service will be provided. REGISTRATION FORM: COURSE - NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS, May 5-10, 1991 RESEARCH CONFERENCE - NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, May 10-12, 1991 Name: ______________________________________________________________ Title: _____________________________________________________________ Organization: ______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City: ____________________________ State: __________ Zip: __________ Telephone: _________________________________________________________ Course: Research Conference: ( ) regular attendee $985 ( ) regular attendee $95 ( ) full-time student $275* ( ) Full-time student $75* *limited number of spaces. Student registrations must be received by April 15, 1991. Total payment enclosed: ____________________________________________ Form of payment: ( ) Check or money order (payable in U.S. dollars to Boston University). ( ) VISA ( ) Mastercard #_______________________________________Exp. Date:__________________ Signature (as it appears on card): _________________________________ Return to: Neural Networks Wang Institute of Boston University 72 Tyng Road Tyngsboro, MA 01879 Boston University's policies provide for equal opportunity and affirmative action in employment and admission to all programs of the University. From diana@park Tue Nov 20 18:19:14 1990 Return-Path: <diana@park> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 13:01:08 -0500 From: diana@park To: mike@bucasb.bu.edu BOSTON UNIVERSITY A World Leader In Neural Network Research and Technology Presents Two Major Events on the Cutting Edge NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS, MAY 5-10, 1991 A self-contained systematic course by leading neural architects. NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, MAY 10-12, 1991 An international research conference presenting INVITED and CONTRIBUTED papers, herewith solicited, on one of the most active research topics in science and technology today. Special student registration rates are available. Sponsored by: Boston University's Wang Institute, Center for Adaptive Systems, and Graduate Program in Cognitive and Neural Systems, with partial support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS MAY 5-10, 1991 This self-contained systematic five-day course is based on the graduate curriculum in the technology, computation, mathematics, and biology of neural networks developed at the Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the graduate program in Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) of Boston University. The curriculum refines and updates the successful course held at the Wang Institute in May, 1990. The course will be taught by CAS/CNS faculty, as well as by distinguished guest lecturers at the beautiful and superbly equipped campus of the Wang Institute. An extraordinary range and depth of models, methods, and applications will be presented with ample opportunity for interaction with the lecturers and other participants at the daily discussion sections, meals, receptions, and breaks that are included with registration. At the 1990 Course, participants came from 20 countries and 35 states of the U.S. Boston University tutors are STEPHEN GROSSBERG, GAIL CARPENTER, ENNIO MINGOLLA, MICHAEL COHEN, DAN BULLOCK, AND JOHN MERRILL. Guest tutors are FEDERICO FAGGIN, ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, MICHAEL JORDAN, ANDY BARTO, AND ALEX WAIBEL. DAY 1 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 6, 1991) PROFESSOR GROSSBERG: Historical Overview, Cooperation and Competition, Content Addressable Memory, and Associative Learning. PROFESSORS CARPENTER, GROSSBERG, AND MINGOLLA: Associative Learning Continued, Neocognitron, Perceptrons, and Introduction to Back Propagation. PROFESSOR JORDAN: Recent Developments of Back Propagation. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 2 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 7, 1991) PROFESSORS GROSSBERG AND MINGOLLA: Adaptive Pattern Recognition. PROFESSORS CARPENTER AND GROSSBERG: Introduction to Adaptive Resonance, Theory and Analysis of ART 1. PROFESSOR CARPENTER: Analysis of ART 2, ART 3, Predictive ART, and Self-Organization of Invariant Pattern Recognition codes. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 3 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 8, 1991) PROFESSORS GROSSBERG AND MINGOLLA: Vision and Image Processing. PROFESSORS BULLOCK AND GROSSBERG: Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning and Control. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 4 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 9, 1991) PROFESSORS COHEN, GROSSBERG, AND WAIBEL: Speech Perception and Production. PROFESSORS BARTO, GROSSBERG, AND MERRILL: Reinforcement Learning and Prediction. DR. HECHT-NIELSEN: Recent Developments in the Neurocomputer Industry. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 5 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 10, 1991) DR. FAGGIN: VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks. END OF COURSE (at 1:30 PM). RESEARCH CONFERENCE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING MAY 10-12, 1991 This international research conference on a topic at the cutting edge of science and technology will bring together leading experts in academe, government, and industry to present their results on vision and image processing in INVITED LECTURES and CONTRIBUTED POSTERS. Topics range from visual neurobiology and psychophysics through computational modelling to technological applications. CALL FOR PAPERS - VIP POSTER SESSION: A featured 3-hour poster session on neural network research related to vision and image processing will be held on May 11, 1991. Attendees who wish to present a poster should submit three copies of an abstract (one single-spaced page), postmarked by March 1, 1991, for refereeing. Include with the abstract the name, address, and telephone number of the corresponding author. Mail to: Poster Session, Neural Networks Conference, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879. Authors will be informed of abstract acceptance by March 31, 1991. DAY 1 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 10, 1991, 5:00-7:30 PM) PROFESSOR JOHN DAUGMAN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: "High-Confidence Personal Identification System Built from Quadrature Neural Filter" PROFESSOR DAVID CASASENT, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: "CMU Hybrid Optical/ Digital Neural Net for Scene Analysis" DR. ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, HNC,: "Neurocomputers for Image Analysis" DAY 2 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 11, 1991) PROFESSOR V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO: "Interactions Between `Channels' Concerned with the Perception of Motion, Depth, Color, and Form" PROFESSOR STEPHEN GROSSBERG, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "A Neural Network Architecture for 3-D Vision and Figure-Ground Separation" PROFESSOR ENNIO MINGOLLA, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "A Neural Network Architecture for Visual Motion Segmentation" PROFESSOR GEORGE SPERLING, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: "Two Systems of Visual Processing" DR. ROBERT DESIMONE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH: "Attentional Control of Visual Perception: Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms" PROFESSOR GAIL CARPENTER, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "Neural Network Architectures for Attentive Learning, Recognition, and Prediction" DR. RALPH LINSKER, IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER: "New Approaches to Network Learning and Optimization" PROFESSOR STUART ANSTIS, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: "My Recent Research on Motion Perception" POSTER SESSION DAY 3 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 12, 1991) PROFESSOR JACOB BECK, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: "Preattentive Visual Processing" PROFESSOR JAMES TODD, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: "Neural Analysis of Motion" DR. ALLEN M. WAXMAN, MIT LINCOLN LAB: "Extraction" PROFESSOR ERIC SCHWARTZ, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: "Biologically Motivated Machine Vision" PROFESSOR ALEX PENTLAND, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: "The Optimal Observer: Design of a Dynamically-Responding Visual System" DISCUSSION END OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE (at 1 PM) CNS FELLOWSHIP FUND: Net revenues from the course will endow fellowships for Ph.D. candidates in the CNS Graduate Program. Corporate and individual gifts to endow CNS Fellowships are also welcome. Please write: Cognitive and Neural Systems Fellowship Fund, Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. STUDENT REGISTRATION: A limited number of spaces at the course and conference have been reserved at a subsidized rate for full time students. These spaces will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Completed registration form and payment for students who wish to be considered for the reduced student rate must be received by April 15, 1991. YOUR REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES: COURSE CONFERENCE Five days of tutorials Admission to all invited lectures Course notebooks for all tutorials Admission to poster session All guest lectures One reception Sunday evening reception Two continental breakfasts Five continental breakfasts One lunch Five lunches One dinner Four dinners Daily morning/afternoon Daily morning/afternoon coffee coffee service service Evening discussion sessions with leading neural architects CANCELLATION POLICY: Course fee, less $100, and the research conference fee, less $60, will be refunded upon receipt of a written request postmarked before March 31, 1991. After this date no refund will be made. Registrants who do not attend and who do not cancel in writing before March 31, 1991 are liable for the full amount of the registration fee. You must obtain a cancellation number from our registrar in order to make the cancellation valid. HOW TO REGISTER: ADVANCE REGISTRATION: To register by telephone, call (508) 649-9731 with VISA or Mastercard between 8:00-5:00 PM (EST). To register by fax, complete and fax back the Registration Form to (508) 649-6926. To register by mail, complete the registration form and mail it with your full form of payment as directed. Make check payable in U.S. dollars to Boston University. ON-SITE REGISTRATION: Those who wish to register for the course and the research conference on-site may do so on a space-available basis. SITE: The Wang Institute of Boston University possesses excellent conference facilities in a beautiful 220-acre setting. It is easily reached from Boston's Logan Airport and Route 128. HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Sheraton Tara, Nashua, NH (603) 888-9970; Red Roof Inn, Nashua, NH (603) 888-1893; or Stonehedge Inn, Tyngsboro, MA, (508) 649-4342. The special conference rate applies only if you mention the name and dates of the meeting when making the reservation. The hotels in Nashua are located approximately five miles from the Wang Institute. Shuttle bus service will be provided. REGISTRATION FORM: COURSE - NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS, May 5-10, 1991 RESEARCH CONFERENCE - NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, May 10-12, 1991 Name: ______________________________________________________________ Title: _____________________________________________________________ Organization: ______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City: ____________________________ State: __________ Zip: __________ Telephone: _________________________________________________________ Course: Research Conference: ( ) regular attendee $985 ( ) regular attendee $95 ( ) full-time student $275* ( ) Full-time student $75* *limited number of spaces. Student registrations must be received by April 15, 1991. Total payment enclosed: ____________________________________________ Form of payment: ( ) Check or money order (payable in U.S. dollars to Boston University). ( ) VISA ( ) Mastercard #_______________________________________Exp. Date:__________________ Signature (as it appears on card): _________________________________ Return to: Neural Networks Wang Institute of Boston University 72 Tyng Road Tyngsboro, MA 01879 Boston University's policies provide for equal opportunity and affirmative action in employment and admission to all programs of the University. -- Boston University (617-353-7857) Email: mike@bucasb.bu.edu Smail: Michael Cohen 111 Cummington Street, RM 242 Center for Adaptive Systems Boston, Mass 02215 Boston University
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ci.misc Subject: Neural Network Conference, Call for Papers Message-ID: <69766@bu.edu.bu.edu> From: caroly@bucasb.bu.edu Date: 30 Nov 90 20:19:02 GMT Reply-To: caroly@bucasb.UUCP () Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Followup-To: bu.cns.general Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems Lines: 87 Xref: cerritos.edu bionet.general:145 bionet.population-bio:29 bionet.sci-resources:22 bionet.technology.conversion:7 comp.theory.self-org-sys:53 comp.theory.dynamic-sys:183 sci.bio:1619 sci.math:5472 sci.math.stat:832 sci.physics:5660 sci.research:397 sc i.misc:748 (please post) *********************************************** * * * GRADUATE PROGRAM IN * * COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS) * * AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY * * * *********************************************** Gail A.Carpenter & Stephen Grossberg, Co-Directors The Boston University graduate program in Cognitive and Neural Systems offers comprehensive advanced training in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underly human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. Applications for Fall, 1991 admissions and financial aid are now being accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs. To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of application materials, write or telephone: Cognitive & Neural Systems Program Boston University 111 Cummington Street, Room 240 Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-9481 or send a mailing address to: caroly@park.bu.edu Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by the Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in the candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may be waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD candidates, but absence of these scores may decrease an applicant's chances for admission and financial aid. Description of the CNS Program: The Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) Program provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underly human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. Students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning cognitive and neural systems, including vision and image processing; speech and language understanding; adaptive pattern recognition; associative learning and long-term memory; cognitive information processing; self-organization; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement, motivation, and attention; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; and biological rhythms; as well as the mathematical and computational methods needed to support advanced modeling research and applications. The CNS Program awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees. The CNS Program embodies a number of unique features. Its core curriculum consists of eight interdisciplinary graduate courses each of which integrates the psychological, neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information needed to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind and brain processes and the applications of neural networks to technology. Each course is taught once a week in the evening to make the program available to qualified students, including working professionals, throughout the Boston area. Students develop a coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes courses in areas such as Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS core curriculum. The CNS Program prepares Ph.D. students for thesis research with scientists in one of several Boston University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most closely linked to the Program is the Center for Adaptive Systems. The Center for Adaptive Systems is also part of the Boston Consortium for Behavioral and Neural Studies, a Boston-area multi-institutional Congressional Center of Excellence. Another multi-institutional Congressional Center of Excellence focussed at Boston University is the Center for the Study of Rhythmic Processes. Other research resources include distinguished research groups in dynamical systems within the mathematics department; in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science Department; in biophysics and computational physics within the Physics Department; in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and neuromuscular research within the Engineering School; and in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology at the Medical School.
klas@dick.imb.uh.edu (Klas Hedenstierna) (02/27/91)
and Biophysical Sciences Subject: Re: Twitching/Pimples Keywords: Twitching In article <515@spam.ua.oz>, jcoleman@spam.ua.oz (James L Coleman) writes: |> Does anybody know why people twitch as they are falling asleep? In article <1991Feb26.143844.12561@lonex.radc.af.mil>, vanderwerkend@lonex.radc.af.mil (Dan Vanderwerken) writes: |> I often find that the medical community doesn't have solid answers |> for questions |> like these...maybe because twitching doesn't cause serious |> harm/death, and |> if it's not that serious why worry about it? I've twitched and |> jumped a |> few times in the past just prior to falling asleep and this is what |> I've |> noticed: |> |> * I usually twitch in response to a dream. For example, my most |> violent |> jumps have been a response to a dream that I've fallen down (just as |> I'm |> drifting off to sleep). I have heard this phenomenon described, but I can't remember where or what it is called. It is, as Dan Vanderwerken notes, usually associated with a feeling of falling. I experience it myself a few times per month. I remember that my source speculated that it could have something to do with the fact that at some time during our evolutionary history we used to sleep in trees just as chimpanzees and, I believe, many other Primates do. Our present day twitch could then perhaps be a remnant of some ancient reflex that allowed our ancestors to quickly wake up and prevent a fall. Klas Hedenstierna University of Houston Department of Biochemical and Biohysical Sciences klas@dick.imb.uh.edu