International Master's in Robotics and Intelligent Systems

120 ECTS points, 2 years, Örebro University, AASS Research Center, SWEDEN

Örebro University offers an exciting two-year Master’s program for students seeking to gain high-profile competence in Robotics and Intelligent Systems. The program provides solid practical and theoretical knowledge in intelligent systems with a particular emphasis on robotic systems. Its vision is to create a new generation of highly competitive research leaders, ready to engage in successful careers in modernized industry, service organizations or academia.

Applications open for Fall semester 2012

Non-Swedish applicants must apply at www.universityadmissions.se
deadline: Jan 16th, 2012

Swedish applicants must apply at www.studera.nu
deadline: April 15th, 2012

Editorial

After the successful ISOEN’2011 Conference in New York, ISOCS is moving forward. Exciting short courses in Austria (winter) and Spain (summer) are announced. A few places are still available for the winter course. Do not miss this opportunity!!

Message from the President

It is a pleasure and an honour to introduce myself as the new ISOCS president for the next two years. I have been serving as Vice-President for the last two years, doing my best to support our former President Julian W. Gardner. I was proposed by the ISOCS Executive in the General Assembly held on 3rd May 2011, at the Rockefeller University, New York, with the occasion of the 14th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose. Previous presidents Prof. J. Gardner and Prof. U. Weimar, have been long-lasting leaders of our community, much before the actual foundation of ISOCS. I remember my first oral presentation in chemical sensors in Eurosensors, Budapest-1993, as a fresh post-doc, being just after Prof. Gardner talking about the history of electronic noses. I believe that the best way to thank them is to keep working towards the advancement and consolidation of our community. In this spirit, I gladly accept this responsibility, and I hope to count on your help for an exciting bi-annual term.

Data Analysis, Robotics and Mobile Applications of Chemical Sensors

12-17 January 2012 - Kühtai, Austria

The ISOCS Short Course Winter 2012 will be held in Kühtai, the highest ski resort in Austria just 30km west of Innsbruck.

The school took place at Sporthotel Kühtai: http://www.sporthotel-kuehtai.com

Download the flyer:  isocs_short_course_winter_2012_flyer.pdf (696kB) updated!

Download the program:  isocs_short_course_winter_2012_programme.pdf (370kB)

Lecture notes, pictures and videos are now available!

The Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK, Sept 7 -10, 2011

Conference Chairpersons: Prof. Krishna Persaud, Prof. Matthew Cobb

The 21st ECRO Congress hosted in Manchester UK, addresses research in the field of chemoreception, spanning all aspects from invertebrates to humans. The expected audience is formed by scientists, students, young researchers and industrialists from a wide variety of disciplines with interests in chemoreception.

The format of the congress includes oral presentations in the form of organised symposia,  thematically organised oral sessions of voluntary papers, as well as poster sessions. 

More information is available at: www.ecro-online.info

Gas sensors based on semiconducting metal oxides: basic understanding & applications

6-7 June 2011 - Tübingen, Germany

Please register at: www.gospel-network.org

Workshop organizers:

Nicolae Barsan(1), Kengo Shimanoe(2) and Udo Weimar(1)

1. University of Tübingen, Germany;   2. - Kyushu University, Japan

Barcelona, Spain,  March 9-11, 2011

Organized by the University of Barcelona (UB)  and the Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia (IBEC).

The main goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of the ability of bioinspired signal processing methods to target real-world problems.

The focus of the workshop will be on signal processing techniques inspired on the olfactory system and on the computational models of the biological olfactory pathway.

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2011

Message from the President

It is a great pleasure to bring to you the first electronic ISOCS Newsletter. The ISOCS management team feel that this is a much more cost effective way to reach out to you and also a “greener” way. I was elected as President in April 2009 and so this has been my first year as ISOCS President. It has been an enjoyable 12 months with a number of events to report. First of all we held a week long Summer School in Barcelona (Spain) in September 2009 on “Artificial Olfaction” and this was followed by a Winter School in Val Gardena (Italy) in February 2010 on the topic of “Smart Circuits, Systems and Micro-technologies for Chemical and Biological Sensing. This was followed by the first Spring School (in Rimini Italy) in May on the topic of “MOX gas sensor technology”. In addition to these Schools we have sponsored four workshops on related topics and helped promote the activities of our members.

ISOEN 2011 - International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose

Rockefeller University, New York City, USA, May 2 - 5, 2011

This event was organised by Dr Perena Gouma with the help of ECI.

The key themes of the conference were:

• nanomedicine and selective chemo-sensing,
• artificial olfaction in quality control
• applications of sensor arrays in safety and defence.
  Date: 

  Monday, May 2, 2011 (All day) - Thursday, May 5, 2011 (All day)