Joris Bleys: Talks, Attended Conferences and Other Activities

2010

  • Attended the Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-6), Prague (Czech Republic), 3-5 September 2010
  • Lecturer at the FCG tutorial, Prague (Czech Republic), 1-2 September 2010
  • Obtained PhD degree in Computer Science, Brussels (Belgium), 17 June 2010
  • Talk at the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang8), Utrecht (The Netherlands), 14-17 April 2010
  • Participated in ALEAR meeting, Morzine (France), 27 February - 3 March 2010
  • Participated in FCG Meeting, Brussels (Belgium), 12-14 February 2010
  • Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth (United Kingdom), 1 January - 28 February 2010

2009

  • Talk at the Spoken Dialogue and Human-Robot Interaction workshop at the RoMan 2009 conference, Toyama (Japan), 27 September - 2 October 2009
  • Talk at the ECAL 2009 conference, Budapest (Hungary), 13-16 September 2009
  • Organizing tutorial, atelier and attending the Summer School on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar, Cortona (Italy), 29 August - 4 September 2009
  • Attended the European Lisp Symposium, Milan (Italy), 27-29 May 2009
  • Participated in first annual review meeting of the ALEAR project, Berlin (Germany), 26-29 April 2009
  • Meeting on latest progress in Fluid Construction Grammar, Paris (France), 31 March - 1 April 2009
  • Off-site meeting with Sony CSL Paris, Morzine (France), 23-28 January 2009

2008

  • Participated in a large ALEAR meeting, Berlin (Germany), 3-5 November 2008
  • Participated in a joint FCG meeting with Sony CSL Paris, Motzen (Germany), 31 October - 2 November 2008
  • Participated in the FCG Barcamp, Ellezelles (Belgium), 30 June - 5 July 2008
  • Visited the VITO research centre within the framework of the Wetenschapskaravaan, Mol (Belgium), 15 April 2008
  • Organisation of 'woensdagworkshops' on Robotics for the Computer Science department using Lego Mindstorms, Brussels (Belgium), 9 and 23 April 2008
  • Presented at the 7th Evolution of Language Conference, Barcelona (Spain), 11-15 March 2008

2007

  • Member of the referee panel of the 7th Evolution of Language Conference
  • Presented at the Social Learning in Embodied Agents workshop at the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lisbon (Portugal), 10 September 2007
  • Presented at the Second Research Contact Day of the CIL Doctoral School, Leuven (Belgium), 29 August 2007
  • Attended the International School on Complexity: Course on Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Opinions, Semiotic Dynamics and Language, Erice (Italy), 14-19 July 2007
  • Assisting the Master Classes on the International Summer Atelier: Modeling Language Evolution with Computational Construction Grammar, Erice (Italy), 14-15 July 2007
  • Attended the LOT Summer School 2007, Leuven (Belgium), 11-22 June 2007

2006

  • Assisted the Flemish 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence Symposium, Brussels (Belgium), 23 November 2006
  • Organised a workshop on Robotics for the Wetenschapsweek using Lego Mindstorms, Brussels (Belgium), 23 October 2006
  • Attended the Sony CSL Intensive Science Symposium and Satellite Events, Paris (France), 6-7 October 2006
  • Presentation at the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'06) , Namur (Belgium), 5-6 October 2006
  • Poster presentation at the Research Contact Day of the Computational Intelligence & Learning Doctoral School, Brussels (Belgium), 25 September 2006, poster
  • Member of the discussion panel at the The European Researchers' Night, Brussels (Belgium), 22 September 2006
  • Attended Mediatraining sessions, Brussels (Belgium), 29 August and 14 September 2006
  • Wrote a peer review for a paper that was submitted for a on Special issue on External Symbol Grounding of the journal Interaction Studies (8:1)
  • Tony Belpaeme presented some of our joint work at and attended the Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Rome (Italy), 12-15 April 2006
  • Organised a workshop on Robotics for the Lentekamp Faculteit Wetenschappen using Lego Mindstorms, Brussels (Belgium), 1-3 March 2006
  • Represented the Department of Computer Sciences at the Studie-informatiedagen, Genk (Belgium), 16-17 February 2006

2005

  • Attended the International School on Semiotic Dynamics, Language and Complexity, Erice (Italy), 12-15 December 2005
  • Attended the Satellite Workshop Semiotic Dynamics and Emergent Grammar related to the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'05), Paris (France), 18 November 2005
  • Presentation at the 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'05), Brussels (Belgium), 17-18 October 2005
  • Attended the workshop 'Recente evoluties in wetenschappelijke communicatie', Brussels (Belgium), 3 October 2005
  • Tony Belpaeme presented some of our joint work at and attended the Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC'05) related to the AISB'05 convention (Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, Hatfield (United Kingdom), 12-15 April 2005
  • Organised together with Bart Jansen a workshop on Robotics for the Lentekamp Faculteit Wetenschappen using Lego Mindstorms, Brussels (Belgium), 30 March 2005
  • Attended 'Presentation Skills in English' workshop, Brussels (Belgium), 2005

2004

  • Attended the 16th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'04), Groningen (Netherlands), 21-22 October 2004
  • Attended the Sony CSL Open House 2004, Paris (France), 6 October 2004