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Overview of Courses (work in progress)

Basic Courses

• BC1 Computational Neuroscience (Fred Hamker, TU-Chemnitz)
• BC2 Neurobiology (Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne & Manfred Spitzer, University of Ulm)
• BC3 Cognitive Neuroscience (Hanspeter Mallot, University of Tübingen)
• BC4 Artificial Intelligence (Michael Beetz, TU Munich)

Method Courses

• MC1 Machine Learning (Marc Toussaint, TU Berlin)
• MC2 Computational Linguistics (Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp)
• MC3 Functional Neuroimaging (Jens Schwarzbach, University of Trento – CIMeC)
• MC4 Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Achim Stephan, University of Osnabrück)

Special Courses: General

• SC1 Therapeutic Robots (Barbara Klein, University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main)
• SC2 Data Mining (Hagen Langer, University of Bremen)
• SC3 Neuro-Symbolic Integration (Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo)
• SC4 Biomechatronics and Biorobotics (Axel Schneider, University of Bielefeld)

Special Courses: “Goals, Intentions and Free Will”

• SC5 Volition and Intention (Thomas Goschke, TU Dresden)
• SC6 Intentional Agents and BDI (Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool)
• SC7 Philosophy and Neuroscience of Free Will (Michael Pauen, Humboldt University Berlin & John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center Berlin)
• SC8 Technical Intention Recognition (Sebastian Bader, Rostock University)

Special Courses: “Decisions”

• SC9 Rationality and Heuristics (Jörg Rieskamp, University of Basel)
• SC10 Models of Decision Making (Gregor Schöner, Ruhr-University Bochum)
• SC11 Decision Support Systems (Jung P. Shim, Mississippi State University)
• SC12 Neurobiology of Decisions (Tobias Donner, University of Amsterdam)

Special Courses: “Self-Regulation and Autonomy”

• SC13 From Decentralized Control to Free Will (Holk Cruse, University of Bielefeld)
• SC14 Neuroprosthetics (Wigand Poppendieck, Fraunhofer IBMT St. Ingbert)
• SC15 Robot Ethics (Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer IAIS Sankt Augustin)
• SC16 Control Theory (Jörg Raisch, TU Berlin)

Practical Courses 

• PC1 Programming Autonomy - Practical - (Nhung Nguyen & Hana Boukricha, University of Bielefeld)
• PC2 Experimental-Cognitive Music Lab (Thomas Fritz, MPI Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig and Julius Popp, Leipzig)
• PC3 Theremin (Barbara Buchholz, Berlin)
• PC4 Robotics Lab (Jochen Steil, Sebastian Wrede & Johannes Wienke, University of Bielefeld)

Evening Lectures 

• Robot Ethics (Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield)
• Pre-dinner talk (Natalie Sebanz, Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Science in the Media (Ulrich Schnabel, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg)
• Panel Discussion on Free Will (guests: Wolfgang Prinz & Gerhard Roth)