<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Dear students,</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">There is an exciting project related to the famous predictive coding theory available as a Bachelor's or Master's thesis at Prof. Laurenz Wiskott's group on the Theory of Neural Systems, see https://www.ini.rub.de/teaching/bachelor_master_thesis_projects/is_predictive_coding_enough_to_learn_sufficiently_rich_representations/. If you are interested, don't hesitate to get in touch with me (jan.rathjens@ini.rub.de).</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Best,</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Jan Rathjens</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">--</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Jan Rathjens</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Doctoral Student</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Tel.: (+49) 234-32-27987</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">E-Mail: </span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:jan.rathjens@ini.rub.de" class="editor-rtfLink" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">jan.rathjens@ini.rub.de</span></a></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Ruhr-Universität Bochum</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Institut für Neuroinformatik</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Universitätstr. 150</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Building NB, Room NB 3/70</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">44801 Bochum, Germany</span></p></body></html>