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Winter School on Bounded Rationality in Manipal, India

Join me this January at the TAPMI-Max Planck-Chinese Academy Winter School on Bounded Rationality in Manipal, India.

Like its sister event, the Summer Institute for Bounded Rationality at the MPI in Berlin, the winter school seeks to provide an interdisciplinary platform for sharing knowledge, discussing the importance and applications of simple solutions to complex problems from the perspective of bounded rationality.

The winter school, taking place at the T.A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, India, on January 13-19, invites applications from pre- and post-docs from around the world. The accepted participants receive free accommodation and about CHF 210 towards their travel expenses.

The application deadline is October 15. You can apply here.

This year’s winter school will have a particular focus on financial decision making. Find out more at tapmi.edu.in/winterschool

 

Fifth European Summer School on Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Cognition

 

Regina and Peter attended the fifth European summer school on computational and mathematical modeling of cognition taking place in the beautiful little village of Couches (Burgundy, France) from July 7 to July 21.

The first days included a general introduction to the statistical analysis software R.

The aim of the following days was to get a profound theoretical and practical knowledge of computational modeling techniques (based on the following textbook: Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior. Cambridge University Press).
The course started with a general introduction to the conceptualization, estimation, and comparison of computational models. Whereas the focus was on Bayesian model estimation methods as well as advanced Bayesian modeling techniques (e.g. hierarchical models).
Moreover, every attendee brought his own project to work on and was supervised by an expert in the field.

The keynote lecture was held by Simon Thorpe (CNRS research director and head of the Brain and Cognition Research Centre CerCo at the University of Toulouse, France) on spiking-neuron models of cognition.

Even though the two weeks were very intense, we got insights in different application areas of computational modeling (such as models of perceptual decision-making, visual working memory, multinomial tree models, agent-based models or diffusion models as well as deep neural networks). Moreover, thanks to the hands-on work we are able to apply the learned techniques immediately in our current and future research.