Schedule

 Tues 27th May 2025 (UTC+1)

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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

Closing reception

Registration

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