Schedule
Tues 27th May 2025 (UTC+1)
Check in and registration
09:40 Conference opening remarks
Session 1: Neural Data
Chair: Dr Valeria Fascianelli (Columbia)
Chair: Dr Francesca Mignacco (CUNY)
10:00 Keynote: Professor Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universitat Graz)
10:40 Dr Jenelle Feather (Flatiron Institute)
11:00 Break
11:40 Professor Alex Cayco-Gajic (ENS)
12:00 Dr Joao Barbosa (Institute for Neuromodulation)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Professor Eve Marder (Brandeis University)
14:40 Tejas Ramdas (Harvard University)
15:00 Neural Data Spotlights x 6
15:40 Break (set up posters)
16:00 Poster session
Welcome reception
Weds 28th May 2025 (UTC+1)
Session 2: Neural theory
Chair: Dr James Whittington (Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra)
Chair: Yasmine Ayman (Harvard University)
10:00 Keynote: Professor Christine Constantinople (NYU)
10:40 Dr Juan Gallego (Imperial)
11:00 Break
11:40 Professor Vijay Namdoodiri (UCSF)
12:00 Professor Annegret Falkner (Princeton)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Dr Kim Stachenfeld (Google DeepMind)
14:40 Dr Chris Hillar (New Theory AI)
15:00 Neural Theory Spotlights x 6
15:40 Break (set up posters)
16:00 Panel: Big open problems in computational neuroscience
17:00 Poster session 2
Neuromonster Arts Salon (Hosted by Taylor Beck)
Thurs 29th May 2025 (UTC+1)
Session 3: Cognitive science
Chair: Professor Bill Thompson
Chair: Dr Maria Eckstein
10:00 Keynote: Professor Kanaka Rajan (Harvard)
10:40 Professor Bonan Zhao (Edinburgh)
11:00 Break
11:40 Professor Lisa-Marie Vortmann (Groningen)
12:00 Dr Mathias Sablé-Meyer (UCL)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Dr Ida Momennejad (Microsoft)
14:40 Felix Sosa (Harvard)
15:00 CogSci Spotlights x 6
15:40 Break (set up posters)
16:20 Professor Eran Eldar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
16:40 Poster session 3
Boats leave for Conference Dinner
Fri 30th May 2025 (UTC+1)
Session 4: Artificial intelligence
Chair: Professor Ilia Sucholutsky (NYU)
Chair: Mike Lepori (Brown)
10:00 Keynote: Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford)
10:40 Dr Chen Sun (Mila)
11:00 Break
11:40 Dr Umang Bhatt (NYU)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Professor Jakob Foerster (Oxford and Meta)
14:40 Dr Lio Wong (Stanford)
15:00 AI/ML Spotlights x 6
15:40 Break (set up posters)
16:00 Panel: Open Challenges in AI
17:00 Poster session 4