[robocup-humanoid] Announcing IK 2007 "Embodied Minds"

[Oskar von Stryk]

Dear Humanoid Robot Teams,

We would like to inform you about the IK 07 "Embodied Minds".
Please note the early bird registration rate.
With best regards,
Oskar von Stryk

Announcing the Interdisciplinary College 2007 (IK 07)

Time: March 9-16, 2007
Location: Guenne, a charming village at the border
          of Lake Moehne in central Germany. 
Chairs: Ansgar Bueschges (Univ. Cologne), 
        Stefan Kopp (Univ. Bielefeld) 

Website: www.ik2007.de

What is the IK?
The Interdisciplinary College (IK) is a one-week 
spring school on all brain & intelligence related
sciences. It offers a dense, state-of-the-art course 
program in Neurobiology, Neuroinformatics, Cognitive
Science/Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence/
Robotics. The IK is aimed at students, postgraduates 
and researchers from academia and industry. By combining 
humanities, science and technology, it endeavours to 
intensify dialogue and connectedness across the various 
disciplines. Moreover, the IK is a unique social event 
with a very special atmosphere: minds meet, music is 
played, and friends are made in long evening and night 
sessions in the welcoming conference site at Lake Moehne.

The IK 2007
Each IK has a special focus theme. In addition to 
up-to-date introductions into the four main fields 
of the IK, in-depth discussions of specific topics 
related to this theme are offered. The focus theme 
of the IK 2007 will be Embodied Minds. It is reflected 
in a number of courses that deal, among others, with 
the following topics:
-	Modelling Animal Behavior
-	Engineering Humanoid Robots 
-	Active Sensing and Action Selection 
-	Cognitive Neurology of Embodiment
-	Mirror Systems and the Embodied Visual System
-	Spatial Cognition and Situation Models
-	Embodying AI in Robotics and Evolving Robots
-	Embodied Conversational Agents
-	Grounding, Situatedness, and Contextual Computing
-	Non-verbal Communication
-	Prosthetics and cortical control of robotic and prosthetic systems
-	Body and Mind in Philosophy 
-	Special Event Courses on Embodied Meditation in Aikido and African Drumming

Detailed information about the program, history, 
conference site, organizers, and registration are
available at http://www.ik2007.de.