18th CIMO WINTER SCHOOL: Understanding communication: molecules, cells, minds and computers

04.10.2013

     3 - 8 March 2014, Finland

The goal of the Winter School is to enhance the mobility of young researchers and postgraduate students between Finland and the participating countries and to increase the cooperation between the universities.

The 18th CIMO Winter School is multidisciplinary - not for a particular, narrow field of science, but rather for a scientific topic. This time, the school focuses on communication including materials, molecular, cellular, network and organism level communication mechanisms. During the school also problems of bio-computing and human-computer communication will be discussed.

The school tends to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method has been specially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants’ own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind.

Tentative themes of the days:

  • Communication within living networks
  • How cells communicate and why they fail to?
  • Communication mechanisms from nano- to mega-scale
  • Bio-computing and human-computer communication

The teaching staff

  • Professor Eero Castrén, University of Helsinki, Neuroscience Center
  • Adjunct Professor Eleanor Coffey, Åbo Akademi University and Turku University, Turku Centre for Biotechnology
  • Professor Edward Haeggström, University of Helsinki, Department of Physics
  • Professor Sampsa Hautaniemi, University of Helsinki, Institute of Biomedicine and Genome-Scale Biology Research Program
  • Professor Jukka Hyönä, University of Turku, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy/Psychology
  • Academy Professor Olli Ikkala, Aalto University School of Science, Department of Applied Physics
  • Dr Leonard Khiroug, University of Helsinki, Neuroscience Center
  • Dr Susanna Narkilahti, Tampere University, Institute of Biomedical Technology
  • Professor Risto Näätänen, University of Tartu, Mailing address: University of Helsinki, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Cognitive Brain Research Unit
  • Professor Pertti Panula, University of Helsinki, Neuroscience Center and Institute of Biomedicine
  • Professor Asla Pitkänen, University of Eastern Finland, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences
  • Professor Veikko Surakka, University of Tampere, School of Information Sciences, Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction

The addresses of the teachers’ web-sites are found in the Final call for applications- pdf.

Application deadline

Call for applications was closed 21 October 2013.

Contact persons at CIMO

Centre for International Mobility CIMO
P.O. Box 343 (Hakaniemenranta 6)
00531 Helsinki
FINLAND

Phone +358 295 338 500 (switchboard)
Fax +358 9 753 1123



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