<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>We would like to invite you to participate in our excellence
workshop <b>‘Cortical Prostheses – Interdisciplinary Research
Towards Artificial Vision for the Blind’</b>. It will take place
<b>September 19-22, 2023 at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in
Delmenhorst (near Bremen, Germany)</b>.<br>
<br>
As you might know quite well from your own experience, it is a
huge problem to interface with the brain and to successfully
introduce artificial, meaningful signals into on-going neural
information processing. On the other hand, exciting possibilities
in medical and fundamental research are waiting to be explored and
to be realized. In particular, it becomes more and more obvious
that making communication with the brain more efficient requires a
much more profound understanding about 'normal' visual information
processing in healthy subjects. This workshop will address major
topics and challenges in this field:</p>
<p> <b>* Advances in neurotechnology</b><b><br>
</b><b> * Advances in the understanding of visual information
processing</b><b><br>
</b><b> * Novel methods for combining theory and technology</b><br>
</p>
<p>Our workshop will bring together experimentalists, technologists,
medical scientists, and theoreticians who are the experts in
getting meaningful signals into neuronal circuits actively engaged
in information processing. Speakers include <b>Diego Ghezzi,
Pieter Roelfsema, Eduardo Fernandez Jover, Bogdan Raducanu, Arto
V. Nurmikko, Umut Guclu, Christopher Pack, Michael Herzog, Avi
Caspi, Shelley I. Fried, Udo Ernst, Fabian Sinz, Carlos Ponce,
Theo Doll, Ione Fine, Daniel Yoshor, Michael Beyeler, Björn
Lüssem, Schander Andreas, Michael Schmid, and Dirk Jancke.</b><b><br>
</b><b> </b><br>
There are two options for attending the workshop:</p>
<b>a.) On-site at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst
(limited number of available slots)</b>, allowing for in-depth
discussions and presentation of your own work in a poster session.
The registration fee is 100 Euros and covers participation and
catering during the workshop. The deadline for registering for
on-site participation is the Sunday, July 23rd. The registration is
a two step process: You inform us that you are interested in
registering via the webform on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/i-see/hwk-workshop"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uni-bremen.de/i-see/hwk-workshop</a>
or via an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated
moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de</a>. You will
then be contacted by the HWK for finalizing the registration
process. <br>
<br>
b.) <b>Via Zoom at no cost</b>. You also need to register via the
webform on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/i-see/hwk-workshop"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uni-bremen.de/i-see/hwk-workshop</a>,
and we will send you your access code shortly before the start of
the workshop. <br>
<br>
For more details and information how register please visit:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/i-see/hwk-workshop"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uni-bremen.de/i-see/hwk-workshop</a><br>
<br>
Please feel free to forward the following information to anyone in
or outside of your group who you think may be interested in
attending our workshop.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<p style="font-family:arial;font-size:8pt"> <b>Dr. David
Rotermund</b><br>
<br>
<b>University of Bremen</b><br>
Institute for Theoretical Physics<br>
Faculty 01 Physics/Electrical Engineering<br>
Hochschulring 18, D-28359 Bremen<br>
Cognium, room 2450<br>
<br>
Tel. +49 421 218-62003<br>
Fax +49 421 218-62014<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:davrot@neuro.uni-bremen.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">davrot@neuro.uni-bremen.de</a><br>
<a href="https://www.neuro.uni-bremen.de" moz-do-not-send="true">www.neuro.uni-bremen.de</a>
<br>
<a href="https://www.isee.uni-bremen.de" moz-do-not-send="true">www.isee.uni-bremen.de</a>
<br>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>