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\noindent \textbf{Open call for AISB Workshops}\\

\noindent In 2015 AISB continues with its series of workshops to be held across the country. We now invite you to host your own workshop. The topic is up to you, so long as it fits within the auspices of AI, SB or related. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, you will find information on what you will need to do below.\\

\noindent Since September 2012, the AISB has been hosting a series of one or two day workshops across the country. The first two workshops were both held at Goldsmiths, the third was hosted at St Mary's University, while the most recent were held in Bournemouth University and the University of Birmingham. Further information about these previous events can be found on the AISB workshop pages listed below. A number of publications have already arisen from these events, the most recent of which was a Symposium Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies and a book published by Springer on Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory.\\
 
\noindent Events are abstract-only and free for AISB members. Light refreshments are funded by the AISB. Current non-members would be able to host or attend a workshop for the cost of AISB membership (which starts at \pounds 15 for concessionary fees and \pounds 40 for UK members per year).\\
  
\noindent In order to propose a workshop, you will need to complete a brief application with the following details:
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\item Workshop title
\item Workshop abstract (200-400 words approx.)
\item Organiser(s) and main contact (include details of expertise in proposed topic)
\item Host Institution details (name, address)
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\item Possible speakers (e.g. do you plan to invite speakers?)
\item Where you would advertise (e.g. could you create a page on your institution website?)

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\noindent If you are interested in hosting one of these events, you will find information on what you will need to do on this page:\\

http://www.aisb.org.uk/events/members-workshop-series\\

http://aisb.org.uk/media/files/AISBWorkshops.pdf\\

\noindent For more information, or to submit an application, please contact Dr Yasemin J. Erden at the following address: yj.erden@smuc.ac.uk 

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\noindent \textbf{Changes at AISB, by \emph{Andrew Martin}}\\

\noindent With the beginning of 2015 there are some changes to the AISB committee. Joining us are Janet Gibbs, Andrew Martin (myself), and Joel Parthemore.

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\noindent Janet Gibbs is currently working at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London in an administrative capacity. Her research interests include Sensorimotor Theory of Perception; Sensory Substitution and Augmentation; and in 2014 was published on the subject of Sensory Augmentation in the Virtual World. Janet's position in the committee is yet to be decided but we have every faith in her commitment and insight she will bring to any role.\\                              

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\noindent Joel Parthemore has been with the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, Lunds Univ. (Sweden) since January 2011, first as a research assistant and then, having defended his thesis in March 2011, as a postdoc. Prior to this, he was a visiting doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, from September 2009. Joel's interests include the way that concepts, signs (as semiotic resources), and language all pull apart from each other; and the use of conventionalized signs to determine moral agency, understood as being appropriately held responsible for one's actions and their consequences.\\                   

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\noindent There is one role change within the existing committee members, Kate Devlin is now Treasurer (treasurer15@aisb.org.uk). Kate will be well known to many members, chairing the symposium  "New Perspectives on Colour" with the Colour Group at AISB50, as well as being on the organising committee for AISB50 itself.\\\\

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\noindent Finally, Rodger Kibble is standing down from the committee and his role as Secretary, and I have accepted the role in his place. I will take this opportunity to thank Rodger on behalf of the entire AISB for his contributions to the society as Secretary and in many other roles, such as Publications Chair for AISB50. I will endeavour to maintain the high standard achieved by Rodger. 
My research interests are split largely into two areas of analysis of           
Stochastic Diffusion Search, which is a biologically plausible swarm            
intelligence algorithm and the compatibility of J. Kevin O'Regan's Sensorimotor Theory with Radical Enactivism.\\                                          
                                                                                
\noindent Please join me in welcoming our new committee members and wishing everyone the best for the coming year.\\


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\noindent \textbf{Andrew Martin}\\
Secretary of the AISB
PhD Candidate\\
Department of Computing\\
Goldsmiths, University of London



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