UCLA's IPAM: Graduate Summer School

Proof that I am not the only person who thinks that mathematical behavioral science is important; UCLA's Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics agrees.

FYI (from the website).

"Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind” will involve leaders from Cognitive Science and experts from Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, who are interested in making bridges to Cognitive Science. The goal is to develop a common mathematical framework for all aspects of cognition, and review how it explains empirical phenomena in the major areas of cognitive science - including vision, memory, reasoning, learning, planning, and language. The summer school is motivated by recent advances which offer the promise of modeling human cognition mathematically. These advances have occurred largely because the mathematical and computational tools developed for designing artificial systems are beginning to make an impact on theoretical and empirical work in Cognitive Science. In turn, Cognitive Science offers an enormous range of complex problems which challenge and test these theories.

Sadly I won't be able to go (teaching obligations), but if you are at all interested in this sort of thing, you should check it out. (Although, I am not sure that they still have room.) That being said, the graduate program that I am in allows one to study any or all of these areas extensively.