<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">please feel free to circulate this post.</font></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are looking forward to seeing you at Living Machines 2022 in July!</font></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">---------------------------------------------------------- </font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Living Machines. The 11<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">. 19 – 22, July 2022</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></font></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">To be hosted by</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> NeuroNex </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">at the </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Case Western Reserve University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">, US</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Accepted papers will be published in Springer <i>Lecturer Notes in Artificial Intelligence</i></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Submission deadline: 01 April 2022</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="ES"><a href="http://livingmachinesconference.eu/2022" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US">http://livingmachinesconference.eu/2022</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">__________________________________________________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ACTIVITIES</font></span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The main conference has a <b>three-day single-track oral presentations program</b>, <b>20 July to 22 July 2022,</b> to be hosted online by C3NS NeuroNex at Case Western Reserve University (US). </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The conference program will include <b>three plenary lectures</b> from leading international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems and the demonstrations of state-of-the-art living machine technologies. </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The full conference will be preceded by a one-day </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Satellite Event</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> hosted online.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">SUBMITTING TO LIVING MACHINES 2022</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We invite both <b>full papers</b> and <b>extended abstracts </b>in areas related to the conference themes. All contributions will be refereed, and accepted papers will appear in the Living Machines Proceedings, published in the<b> Springer-Verlag <i>Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence</i>.</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Full papers (minimum 8 pages, up to 12 pages) are invited from researchers at any stage in their career and should present significant findings and advances in biomimetic or biohybrid research. More preliminary work is better suited for short paper submission (minimum 4 pages, with a maximum of ten references and no more than three self-citations). Full papers will be accepted for either podium talks (single track) or short podium talks. Extended abstracts will be accepted for short podium talks only.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Authors of the best full papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of the <b>IOPscience journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics</b>.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">SATELLITE EVENTS</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Active researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems are invited to propose topics for full or half-day<b> tutorials, symposia </b>or <b>workshops </b>on related themes to be held on <b>19 July 2022.</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The content and organization are flexible for these events. Please contact us if you are interested in organizing a satellite event!</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">EXPECTED DEADLINES</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">1 April 2022. Paper submission deadline</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">10 May 2022. Notification of acceptance</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">31 May 2022. Camera-ready copy</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">July 19, 20-22, 2022. Workshops and Conference</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kind Regards,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Program Chairs Alex Hunt, Vicky Vouloutsi</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">LIVING MACHINES 2022</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2022/">https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2022/</a><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-size:11px">______________________</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"Arial Narrow""><font size="2">Dr. Anna Mura - PhD</font></span></div><div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><font size="1"><a href="http://www.specs-lab.com/" target="_blank">SPECS (Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems)</a></font></font></div><div><a href="http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/specs" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:11px" target="_blank">http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/specs</a></div><div><div><span style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">@SPECS-lab</span></div><div></div><font color="#666666" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)<br></font><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Av. Eduard Maristany, 16 08019 Barcelona<br></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Campus Diagonal Besòs, Edifici C, floor 6</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" color="#999999">Joins us </font></div><div><div><font color="#797979" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px"><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2022/" target="_blank">11th Living Machines conference</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#797979" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px"><a href="https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/" target="_blank">13th Barcelona Cognition, Brain, Technology summer school</a></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>