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<a href="http://mindsummerschool.org/">MIND summer school</a>, in case your trainees would be interested in attending. The application deadline is
<b>April 15, 2019</b>. More information may be found below.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Vision</font></b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Computational methods are rapidly transforming psychology and neuroscience research. However, traditional psychology and neuroscience training programs have not been able to keep pace with rapid development
of methodological developments. Our vision is to help train the next generation of psychological and brain scientists in the latest mathematical modeling and analysis tools for studying the mind. Training students in computational techniques in graduate programs,
workshops, and tutorials is an extraordinarily challenging endeavor due to high levels of variability in (a) mathematical and computer backgrounds, (b) interest in theory vs applications, and (c) computer operating systems and software packages. Many existing
workshops provide hands on training in specific techniques, but this is largely introductory, merely providing superficial exposure to textbook “toy” problems, which is insufficient to allow students to apply these techniques to their own work. We strive to
provide a comfortable, inclusive, diverse, nurturing, and exciting learning environment where all participants have the opportunity to further their science. Each year we select a general theme to help frame the lectures and tutorials included in the course.
Importantly, these themes always include ties to psychological and neuroscientific questions at a broad range of scales, ranging from single neurons, to full brains, to interacting groups.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">This year’s 2019 MIND summer school will be on <b>Cognitive Maps</b> from <b>8/7/19-8/17-19</b>. Cognitive maps are most commonly associated with the representation and navigation of physical space, but the
concept of a map is more generally concerned with how experience is organized to form knowledge. Tantalizingly, it seems that the neural encoding of physical space may also underlie the organization of conceptual and social spaces. The 2019 MIND Computational
Summer School will provide participants with tools to study what principles govern the learning, organization, and application of such maps, and to probe their neural underpinnings.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Format</font></b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Our summer program takes place over 9 days, with each day organized around four types of sessions.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">- <b>Research talks</b> kick off each day by highlighting the use of a specific methods within the context of a particular research question. The goal is to spark ideas by providing inspiring examples of modeling
and analysis tools being used in research settings (~2hr/day).</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">-<b> Tutorials</b> provide introductions to specific methods, enabling students to establish intuitions about how the methods work, formulate expectations about the outputs, and gain hands-on experience applying
the methods to real datasets (~2hr/day).</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">- <b>Pop-up labs</b> are faculty-led research groups that form and evolve organically to collaborate on a variety of research problems throughout the course. This is the core activity and distinguishing feature
of our summer school (>4hr/day). Starting on the second day, faculty (and students who volunteer) pitch possible research projects to start organizing attendees into specific pop-up labs. This process continues throughout the summer school as new labs form
and reorganize around new findings and evolving interests. This setting provides a highly efficient way for the summer participants to learn from each other and receive active mentorship from course faculty on actual data analysis. At the end of the course
participants present their projects to the broader group. Each year a subset of these projects have yielded publication-quality research findings, and they often form the basis of long-term scientific collaborations.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">- <b>Breakout sessions</b> provide forums for informal tutorials and discussions for those who are interested (~1hr/day). Our 2018 sessions included discussions on practical issues in doing open science, an
introduction to time series analysis, and useful software packages shared by students and faculty.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Faculty</b> (Alphabetical Order)</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Luke Chang - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Christian Doeller - Max Planck for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Yaroslav Halchenko - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Catherine Hartley - New York University</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">James Haxby - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Jeremy Manning - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Sam McKenzie - New York University</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Meghan Meyer - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Ida Momennejad - Columbia University</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Carolyn Parkinson - University of California Los Angeles</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Rajesh Ranganath - New York University</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">David Redish - University of Minnesota</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Caroline Robertson - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Daniela Schiller - Mount Sinai School of Medicine</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Kim Stachenfeld - Google DeepMind</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Jeffrey Taube - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Mark Thornton - Princeton University</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Matthijs van der Meer - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Thalia Wheatley - Dartmouth College</font></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Robert Wilson - University of Arizona</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Application Information</font></b></div>
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<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Who: </b>Grad students, postdocs, junior faculty</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Costs: </b>We cover lodging and meals and tuition, you will be responsible for travel</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Deadline: </b>April 15th, 2019 at 11:59PM EST<b> </b></font></div>
<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Application: </b>Submit CV, 1 page statement of intent, up to 2 papers as a single file <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdL6B156A6wgNZRB42JTzIRkzBcrIj0spnv45saotVISHporA/viewform" target="_blank">here</a></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Check out our website for more information and tutorials and videos from past years <a href="http://mindsummerschool.org/" target="_blank" style="">http://mindsummerschool.org</a></font></div>
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<div style=""><b><font face="georgia, serif">Funding</font></b></div>
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<font style="" face="georgia, serif">We are thrilled to announce that MIND will be supported for the next 5 years by awards from the National Science Foundation. In addition, MIND is generously supported by the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Neukom
Institute for Computational Science, and Research Computing at Dartmouth College.</font>
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<div style=""><b><font face="georgia, serif">Organizers</font></b></div>
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<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Luke Chang</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Jeremy Manning</font></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">HB 6207 Moore Hall</font></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">Phone: 603-646-2777</font></div>
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