CxAnnouncements

A 4 year postdoctoral researcher position is available now in the lab
of Dr Mark Humphries in the Faculty of Life Science, University of
Manchester, UK

The researcher will join a newly established lab group that tackles
the challenging problems of how to make sense of the deluge of
circuit-wide neural activity data, from cortical cell assemblies to
invertebrate central pattern generators. They will develop
cutting-edge analysis and data-mining techniques - based on network theory - for multi-neuron
recording and apply those techniques to analyse and interpret
experimental data from collaborators across Europe and the USA. [For
background on the methodology see: Humphries (2011) Spike-train
communities: finding groups of similar spike-trains. J Neurosci, 31,
2321-2336]

IFISC (CSIC-UIB)
Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos
Campus Universitat Illes Balears
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/jobs.php

Peerage of Science is...

…a community of Peers, formed through invitations between scientists who trust each other as scientists. The community is meant to become inclusive, so that eventually anyone considered a scientist by another scientist can join Peerage of Science. Membership in Peerage of Science is not anonymous.

…a web application offering automatically controlled, standardized, rigorous, fully anonymous peer review. In Peerage of Science, all the automatically enforced deadlines are known in advance by everyone, and the peer review is always on time. Each manuscript is peer-reviewed before submission to any journal, and only once.

Network Science is a new journal for a new discipline -- one using the network paradigm, focusing on actors and relational linkages, to inform research, methodology, and applications from many fields across the natural, social, engineering and informational sciences. Given growing understanding of the interconnectedness and globalization of the world, network methods are an increasingly recognized way to research aspects of modern society along with the individuals, organizations, and other actors within it.

ETH Zurich's Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modelling and Simulation, led by Prof. Dirk Helbing, the scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project, is looking for 2 highly motivated Postdocs

Call for Applicants
The New England Complex Systems Institute has funding for postdoctoral and predoctoral research stipends and scholarships starting immediately. We look for applicants with outstanding training in physics, mathematics or computer science. We value strong writing abilities. Candidates should be interested in contributing to a wide range of NECSI's research areas (...)

http://www.necsi.edu/education/postdocstudent.html

Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to new development in Artificial Live. By means of formal strategies that defy the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new ways of reflecting on what we understand by life.

Fundacion Telefonica announces the Vida 14.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, which for the last fourteen years has awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life.

The projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of life through current research and technology. These systems may involve attributes of agency and autonomy which display specific behaviour, are dynamic, react to their surroundings and evolve, and which question the frontiers between what is alive and what is not, between synthetic and organic life.

English version:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/survey_complex-systems_social-simulation ;

Spanish version:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/encuesta_sistemas-complejos_simulacion-social

French version:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/enquete_systemes-complexes_simulation-sociale ;

3 PhD positions on evolution of speech
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Deadline: July first 2012
Envisaged starting date: September 2012

The AI-lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is looking for three PhD students that will work on Bart de Boer’s European Research Council project “ABACUS”. The ABACUS project investigates (evolution of) cognitive mechanisms for dealing with combinatorial speech. It uses a combination of iterated learning experiments, individual learning experiments and computational modeling. For each of these lines of research, a PhD position is available. The PhDs of the different projects are expected to cooperate closely with each other.