Conferences and Congresses
Upcoming Congresses and Conferences 2020
TPBC, Theory and Practice of Blockchain, April 20-22, 2020 -Cancelled- |
The Illuminated Symposium: An Introduction to the Science of Learning for Teachers, April 28, 2020 -Cancelled- |
CHiME 2020, Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, May 4, 2020-Virtual Workshop- |
VPH Summer School, June 7-11, 2021 - New dates- |
SACMAT , ACM Symposium on Access Control, June 10-12, 2020 -Virtual Workshop- |
COLING, 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, December 8-13, 2020 -New dates- |
Former Congresses and Conferences
ACM FAT Conference 2020January 27-30, 2020 |
14th Pediatric Echo Course, October 9-12, 2019 |
2nd Barcelona Fetal Cardiac Function Symposium, October, 8, 2019 |
BSBM Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism, September 17-20, 2019 |
4th VPH, Virtual Physiological Human Research Summer School, June 10-14, 2019 |
1st Workshop on (Synchrotron) Cardiac X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging May, 13-14, 2019 |
6th Barcelona Myocardial Strain Hands-on Conference, May 9-10, 2019 |
Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN 2018) December, 20-21, 2018 The Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN) aims at showcasing the research developed by scientists in Barcelona, or who pursued part of their academic career in Barcelona. This unique meeting gathers multidisciplinary researchers in the field of deep learning, and shows the potential of the capital to become the AI hub in Southern Europe. The first edition of this symposium was held on Thursday 20th & Friday 21st December 2018, and other satellite events were organized across the city during the whole week. The UPF Poblenou Campus hosted the session on Thursday 20th with the participation of several members of the department. Find the full program here. |
20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MOBILEHCI 2018)September, 3-6, 2018 Welcome to MobileHCI 2018: the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services which is the premier forum for innovations in mobile, portable and personal devices and with the services to which they enable access. The conference chairs invite researchers, academics, students, and industry leaders working in the broad area of human computer interaction, to join us for a rich, four-days program featuring paper presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, specialized workshops, industrial case studies, doctoral consortium, and social events. MobileHCI brings together people from diverse areas which provides a multidisciplinary forum for academics, hardware and software developers, designers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with and through mobile devices, applications, and services. MobileHCI 2018 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of HCI technology, experience, methodology, and theory—or any mix thereof, and beyond, and solicits proposals for workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and industrial case study papers. |
5th Barcelona Myocardial Strain Hands-onMay, 17-18, 2018 The 5th Barcelona Myocardial Strain Hands-on will be organised in Barcelona, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th of May 2018. This course provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in myocardial strain analysis (speckle tracking as well as Tissue Doppler-based). The concepts of the strain analysis, together with tips-and-tricks for the processing, will be presented using illustrative patient cases and enriched with pathophysiologic knowledge of cardiac mechanics and ventricular remodelling to provide advanced interpretation for clinical practice or research projects. Participants get plenty of time for hands-on analysis of cases provided as well their own cases to analyse them under supervision of the experts. |
ERC Music ConferenceJune, 11-13, 2018 The European Research Music Conference will take place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona from June 11th to the 13th 2018. It will bring together a significant number of the projects funded by the European Research Council that have music as their focus. These projects come from diverse research domains and exemplify the wide variety of high-quality research related to music that is being carried out in Europe. The Conference will include talks by the Principal Investigators of the projects, plus demonstrations, short talks, and concerts by other team members. It will be a great showcase of the breadth of research topics and approaches that are being supported by the most prestigious funding program of the European Commission. The European Research Music Conference is supported by ERC=Science², which is a Europe-wide communications campaign of the projects funded by the ERC and designed to reach a wide public of specialists and non-specialists in Europe and afar. Around the Conference, a number of other events and initiatives will be organized in order to reach the widest possible audiences. |
3rd Barcelona Virtual Physiological Human Summer School 2018 (BCNVPH)June, 18-22, 2018 The 3rd VPH Summer School will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 18-22, 2018. This 3rd edition will focus on data integration, model verification and validation. Leave your e-mail here to get to know the updates in the program. The VPH Summer School series is co-organized by the Barcelona MedTEch - Universitat Pompeu Fabra and by the Virtual Physiological Human Institute. It aims to provide junior engineers and medical doctors with a complete overview of state-of-the-art VPH research, following a complete pipeline from basic science and clinical needs, to model application..The Summer School has the support of the Marie Curie ITN CardioFunXion. This Summer School provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in state-of-the-art Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research. The key concepts of this methodological and technological framework will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with hands-on analysis under supervision of the experts. The focus on this 2nd edition will be Flow Phenomena in Biomedicine. The Summer School includes a poster session with an award sponsored by Simula and a hands-on award sponsored by UPF-QUAES Chair. |
Analysis and Modeling of Complex Oscillatory Systems (AMCOS)March, 19 - 23, 2018 - Barcelona The conference on Analysis and Modeling of Complex Oscillatory Systems (AMCOS) aims to bring together theoretical and experimental researchers working on the state of the art in the field of complex oscillatory systems. AMCOS will also provide an ideal atmosphere for young researchers, enhancing scientific exchange and stimulating fruitful discussions across different fields. The main topics of the conference comprise both (a) the modeling of complex systems and the emergence of collective behavior, as well as (b) the analysis of complex data sets in order to infer the underlying structure and functionality of networks. Furthermore, particular focus will be also put on oscillatory phenomena in neuroscience. With the support of the European Union through the Marie Curie Initial Training Network COSMOS (Complex Oscillatory Systems: Modeling and Analysis). The AMCOS conference will be held at PRBB Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. |
The Second International Workshop on Data Science for Internet of ThingsOctober 22, 2017 - Orlando, Florida, USA This workshop will address techniques used for data management planning into IoT scenarios in order to optimize data acquisition, management and later discovery. |
11th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2017)September 4th-8th The only world-wide school on Information Retrieval and Search Technology, founded in 1990. Its main goal is to provide high quality teaching of information retrieval and advance search technology topics to an audience of researchers and students. Consists on a week-long event of a series of lectures and seminars delivered by top invited experts in the field, from web search engines and research institutions. Attendees also present their work in a poster session and the schedule has plenty of networking time. |
5th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism (BSBM)Sept 12-15, 2017 - Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona The Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism (BSBM) is a school intended for post-graduate students and researchers interested in an updated overview of the field in an international academic context. The teachers of the different modules are world-wide known experts who represent different disciplinary approaches and will discuss state-of-the-art research on the cognitive, linguistic and cultural aspects of bi- and multilingualism. |
Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer schoolThere are a large number of initiatives developed by the EC in the 7th framework program that support and develop research in the areas of cognitive systems, robotics and the relationship between biology and technology. These initiatives combine hundreds of research groups throughout Europe. Thus far there is no common practical platform for the exchange and dissemination of the results of these research efforts beyond short workshops and conferences. In order to fully develop the European research potential in this area such a practical platform is needed. The Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer school aims at providing this platform for both student training and the development of a common research agenda. We have positioned this summer school at the interface between neuroscience, future and emerging technologies and cognitive systems and it is supported by a number of European research consortia. BCBTs principal aim is to promote a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. With respect to FP7 this means that BCBT is catering to the research communities addressed by the “cognitive systems”, “bio-ict convergence” and related FET calls. |
2nd Barcelona VPH Summer SchoolMay 22nd-26th, 2017 - Barcelona This Summer School provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in state-of-the-art Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research. The key concepts of this methodological and technological framework will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with hands-on analysis under supervision of the experts. The focus on this 2nd edition will be Flow Phenomena in Biomedicine. The Summer School includes a poster session. |
4th Myocardial Strain Hands-on Conference
Barcelona, 18th-19th May, 2017 This course provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in myocardial strain analysis (speckle tracking as well as Tissue Doppler-based). The concepts of the strain analysis, together with tips-and-tricks for the processing, will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with pathophysiologic knowledge of cardiac mechanics and ventricular remodelling to provide advanced interpretation for clinical practice or research projects. Participants get plenty of time for hands-on analysis of cases provided as well their own cases to analyse them under super-vision of the experts. |
2017 European School of Information TheoryMadrid, May 8th, 2017. The European School of Information Theory (ESIT) is an annual educational event, organized by the IEEE Information Theory Society, for graduate students from institutes throughout Europe and beyond. In this school, the students have the opportunity to learn from distinguished lecturers by attending long-format tutorials, to present their own work to obtain feedback and to start up collaborations, and to participate in a stimulating and inviting forum of scientists. |
MWC17 Real-time Communications MeetupFebruary 28 , 2017 WebRTC is a web standard and movement to bring the power of real-time, peer-to-peer voice, video, and data communications with a few simple JavaScript APIs. With over 2 billion devices supported and deployments at companies Amazon, Google, American Express, and hundreds of others, WebRTC is rapidly turning from an obscure standard to a mainstream API. |
13th European Workshop on Reinforcement LearningDecember 3-4, 2016 The goal of the school is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental concepts and tools related to the treatment of randomness in cryptographic protocols. |
Workshop on Audiovisual Speech Processing and Language LearningNovember 28-29, 2016 This scientific meeting has been created to highlight recent research on multisensory language processing in typical and atypical populations at all stages of development. |
Summer School of Randomness and CryptographyNovember 14-18, 2016 The goal of the school is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental concepts and tools related to the treatment of randomness in cryptographic protocols. |
19 th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2016October 19-21, 2016 The main goal of this conference is to foster discussion around the last works in Artificial Intelligence which have been developed by the research community of the Catalan Countries, as well as gathering community members. |
Beyond Language LearningSeptember 29-30, 2016 This workshop intends to bring together researchers coming from neuroimaging, developmental and comparative fields to offer an enriched overview beyond language learning. |
NEUBIAS Training School in BioImage Analysis for Facilty StaffSeptember 13-16, 2016 A Training School in BioImage Analysis for Facility Staff, to enable Core Specialists to enable Core Specialists to become more proficient at custom Image Analysis and Workflows construction (theory and applications, hands-on, scientific programming, ImageJ- and Matlab- based primarily). The course was held in Barcelona on 13-16th of September, hosted and co-organized by the University Pompeu Fabra (Dr. Chong Zhang), and by the Training Workgroup within NEUBIAS (Dr. Gaby Martins and Dr. Fabrice Cordelières + co-workers) |
Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer schoolSeptember 5-16, 2016 BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. This chool addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology such as in the ambit of “Bio-ICT convergence” "Brain Inspired ICT" and “cognitive systems and robotics”. The summer school has been part of a series of events organized by the European coordination action Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (http://csnetwork.eu/). |
Demo night, European Conference on Visual PerceptionWe have positioned this summer school at the interface between neuroscience, future and emerging technologies and cognitive systems and it is supported by a number of European research consortia. BCBTs principal aim is to promote a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. With respect to FP7 this means that BCBT is catering to the research communities addressed by the “cognitive systems”, “bio-ict convergence” and related FET calls. 2nd Barcelona VPH Summer SchoolMay 22nd-26th, 2017 - Barcelona This Summer School provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in state-of-the-art Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research. The key concepts of this methodological and technological framework will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with hands-on analysis under supervision of the experts. The focus on this 2nd edition will be Flow Phenomena in Biomedicine. The Summer School includes a poster session. 4th Myocardial Strain Hands-on ConferenceBarcelona, 18th-19th May, 2017 This course provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in myocardial strain analysis (speckle tracking as well as Tissue Doppler-based). The concepts of the strain analysis, together with tips-and-tricks for the processing, will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with pathophysiologic knowledge of cardiac mechanics and ventricular remodelling to provide advanced interpretation for clinical practice or research projects. Participants get plenty of time for hands-on analysis of cases provided as well their own cases to analyse them under super-vision of the experts. 2017 European School of Information TheoryMadrid, May 8th, 2017. The European School of Information Theory (ESIT) is an annual educational event, organized by the IEEE Information Theory Society, for graduate students from institutes throughout Europe and beyond. In this school, the students have the opportunity to learn from distinguished lecturers by attending long-format tutorials, to present their own work to obtain feedback and to start up collaborations, and to participate in a stimulating and inviting forum of scientists. MWC17 Real-time Communications MeetupFebruary 28, 2017 WebRTC is a web standard and movement to bring the power of real-time, peer-to-peer voice, video, and data communications with a few simple JavaScript APIs. With over 2 billion devices supported and deployments at companies Amazon, Google, American Express, and hundreds of others, WebRTC is rapidly turning from an obscure standard to a mainstream API. 13th European Workshop on Reinforcement LearningDecember 3-4, 2016 The goal of the school is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental concepts and tools related to the treatment of randomness in cryptographic protocols. Workshop on Audiovisual Speech Processing and Language LearningNovember 28-29, 2016 This scientific meeting has been created to highlight recent research on multisensory language processing in typical and atypical populations at all stages of development. Summer School of Randomness and CryptographyNovember 14-18, 2016 The goal of the school is to provide a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental concepts and tools related to the treatment of randomness in cryptographic protocols. 19th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2016October 19-21, 2016 The main goal of this conference is to foster discussion around the last works in Artificial Intelligence which have been developed by the research community of the Catalan Countries, as well as gathering community members. Beyond Language LearningSeptember 29-30, 2016 This workshop intends to bring together researchers coming from neuroimaging, developmental and comparative fields to offer an enriched overview beyond language learning. NEUBIAS Training School in BioImage Analysis for Facility StaffSeptember 13-16, 2016 A Training School in BioImage Analysis for Facility Staff, to enable Core Specialists to become more proficient at custom Image Analysis and Workflows construction (theory and applications, hands-on, scientific programming, ImageJ- and Matlab- based primarily). The course was held in Barcelona on 13-16th of September, hosted and co-organized by the University Pompeu Fabra (Dr. Chong Zhang), and by the Training Workgroup within NEUBIAS (Dr. Gaby Martins and Dr. Fabrice Cordelières + co-workers) Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer schoolSeptember 5-16, 2016 BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. This school addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology such as in the ambit of “Bio-ICT convergence” "Brain Inspired ICT" and “cognitive systems and robotics”. The summer school has been part of a series of events organized by the European coordination action Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (http://csnetwork.eu/). Demo night, European Conference on Visual PerceptionAugust 30, 2016 The European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) is an annual meeting devoted to scientific study of human visual perception. ECVP has been held each year since 1978, and attracts a wide variety of participants from such fields as Psychology, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. To encourage the widest possible participation, particularly among students, the meeting is held in a different European location each year. |
ISIT 2016 International Symposium on Information TheoryJuly, 10-15, 2016 The 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory was held in Barcelona from July 10 through July 15, 2016. Barcelona is the most popular tourist destination in Spain, a lively city lapped by the Mediterranean and well known for its surreal modernist architecture. |
May 30- June 3, 2016 This Summer School provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in state-of-the-art Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research. The key concepts of this methodological and technological framework will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with hands-on analysis under supervision of the experts. The focus on this 2nd edition will be Flow Phenomena in Biomedicine. The Summer School includes a poster session. |
3rd Myocardial Strain Hands on ConferenceMay 26-27, 2016 This course provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in myocardial strain analysis (speckle tracking as well as Tissue Doppler-based). The concepts of the strain analysis, together with tips-and-tricks for the processing, will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with pathophysiologic knowledge of cardiac mechanics and ventricular remodelling to provide advanced interpretation for clinical practice or research projects. Participants get plenty of time for hands-on analysis of cases provided as well their own cases to analyse them under super-vision of the experts. |
International Workshop on Quality Music TherapyOctober 15, 2015 The aim of the workshop is to promote fruitful collaboration among researchers, music therapists, musicians, psychologists and physicians who are interested in music therapy and its effects, evaluated by applying quantitative and qualitative methods. The workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. We believe that this is a timely workshop because there is an increasing interest in quantitative and qualitative methods in music therapy. |
Cardiac Imaging Aquisition and Analysis Summer SchoolSeptember 21-23, 2015 |
ATC, Advance Training Course on Neurocomputational Modelling - Mid-Term Review Meeting & ATC 5 : Neurocomputational Modelling September 16-18, 2015 The Mid-Term Review meeting assesses the fulfilment of all aspects (scientific, research training, management, etc) described in Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement. Bootcamp 5 will give experience on multiple levels of neurocomputational modelling. Coverage will move from basic principles of modelling to specific worked examples applied to whole-system behaviour, fMRI, EEG, and single neuron responses. |
Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer school31 August- 11 September, 2015 BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. BCBT addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology such as in the ambit of “Bio-ICT convergence” "Brain Inspired ICT" and “cognitive systems and robotics”. BCBT2015 is organized and supported by the European project Convergence Science Network of Biomimetics and NeuroTechnology, CSNII. Students will have the opportunity to attend lectures from prominent scientists in the field of brain research, neuroscience, artificial intelligent and related fields. Students will also attend tutorials and work on projects that will be presented at the end of the 2 weeks of the summer school |
Workshop on Second Language ProcessingJune 11-12,2015 The goal of the workshop is to foster discussion about several issues related to second language acquisition and processing. |
2nd Barcelona Myocardial Strain Hands-on ConferenceMay 28-29, 2015 This course provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in myocardial strain analysis (speckle tracking as well as Tissue Doppler-based). The concepts of the strain analysis, together with tips-and-tricks for the processing, will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with pathophysiologic knowledge of cardiac mechanics and ventricular remodelling to provide advanced interpretation for clinical practice or research projects. Participants get plenty of time for hands-on analysis of cases provided as well their own cases to analyse them under super-vision of the experts. |
6th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and ModelingNovember 17-19, 2014 RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop each time attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. RNDM 2014 follows the success of the first five events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), and Almaty (2013) accordingly. |
BCBT 2014 - Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer SchoolSeptember 1-12, 2014 BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. BCBT addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology such as in the ambit of “Bio-ICT convergence” "Brain Inspired ICT" and “cognitive systems and robotics”. BCBT2013 is co-organized and supported by the European project Convergence Science Network of Biomimetics and NeuroTechnology, CSNII, and by Goal Leaders " Biologically-constrained architectures for the next generation of adaptive robots”. Students will have the opportunity to attend lectures from prominent scientists in the field of brain research, neuroscience, artificial intelligent and related fields. Students will also attend tutorials and work on projects that will be presented at the end of the 2 weeks of the summer school. |
First Myocardial Strain Hands-on CourseSeptember 4-5 , 2014 This course provides a thorough overview and hands-on experience in myocardial strain analysis (speckle tracking as well as Tissue Doppler-based). The concepts of the strain analysis, together with tips-and-tricks for the processing, will be presented using illustrative cases and enriched with pathophysiologic knowledge of cardiac mechanics and ventricular remodelling to provide advanced interpretation for clinical practice or research projects. Participants get plenty of time for hands-on analysis of cases provided as well as their own cases to analyse them under supervision of the experts. |
VP2HF, 1st Workshop, 2930 April, 2014 The primary aim of VP2HF is to bring together image and data processing tools with statistical and integrated biophysical models mainly developed in previous VPH projects, into a single clinical workflow to improve therapy selection and treatment optimization in HF. |
BrainScale WorkshopNovember 26-27, 2013 BrainScaleS (Brain-inspired multiscale computation in neuromorphic hybrid systems) was an EU FET-Proactive FP7 funded research project. The project started on 1 January 2011 and ended on 31 March 2015. It was a collaboration of 19 research groups from 10 European countries. The hardware development on the neuromorphic computing systems is continued in the Human Brain Project (HBP) in the Neuromorphic Computing Platform. |
BCBT 2013 - Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School Sept 2-13, 2013 BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. BCBT addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology such as in the ambit of “Bio-ICT convergence” "Brain Inspired ICT" and “cognitive systems and robotics”. BCBT2013 is co-organized and supported by the European project Convergence Science Network of Biomimetics and NeuroTechnology, CSNII, and by Goal Leaders " Biologically-constrained architectures for the next generation of adaptive robots”. Students will have the opportunity to attend lectures from prominent scientists in the field of brain research, neuroscience, artificial intelligent and related fields. Students will also attend tutorials and work on projects that will be presented at the end of the 2 weeks of the summer school |
Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied InteractionFebruary 10-13, 2013 TEI is an international conference dedicated to present the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. The work presented at TEI addresses HCI issues, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, hands-on studios, posters, art installations and performances. |