Applications Open for Estes Fund Summer School for Behavioral Modeling

The Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior (BAMB), with the support of the William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund, will offer 30 psychological scientists at the PhD and early career levels the opportunity to learn the conceptual and technical skills necessary to carry out model-based behavioral analysis.

The summer school, organized by Alex Hyafil (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Christopher Summerfield (Oxford University), and Klaus Wimmer (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica) will be held September 4 – 10, 2019 at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. The program will include lectures on the fundamentals of Bayesian analysis, standard models of decision-making, and how to integrate neural data into behavioral models; extended talks covering classical models and current research; and hands-on tutorials as well as an off-hours group project in which pairs of trainees will apply what they’ve learned to data from their own ongoing research.

The application deadline is June 3, 2019. More information on the application process is available on the BAMB website.

The Estes Fund supports training opportunities in mathematical and computational modeling for PhD students, postdocs, and advanced researchers. The fund was jointly established by APS and the Psychonomic Society in 2013 to honor the legacy of the late Bill Estes, one of the most influential psychological scientists of the past century.