08:00 Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr

Opening remarks

08:30 Dr Ruairidh M Battleday

Going out of book: levels and theories in computational cognitive science

09:00 Keynote: Professor Peter Dayan

Learning from scratch: Non-parametric models of task acquisition over the long run

10:00 Professor Kevin Burrage

Coping with tissue heterogeneity: modelling the electrophysiology of the human heart

10:30 Break

11:00 Dr Jonathan Mason

Setting the Benchmark Test for Archetypal Models in Mathematical Consciousness Science

11:30 Dr Lisanne Stock

Don’t sweat the micro, sweat the macro—a clinical approach to neuroscience

12:00 Remote session 1

Dr Golnaz Baghdadi

Phase Synchronization in an Oscillatory Network and Response Time Variability during a Sustained Attention Task

Dr Kamila Maria Jóźwik

Face dissimilarity judgments are predicted by representational distance in morphable and image-computable models

Orr Paradise

A Theory of Unsupervised Machine Translation Motivated by Understanding Whale Communication

Dr Aslan Satary Dizaji

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Study of Social Welfare and Fairness under Libertarian and Utilitarian Systems

Profesor Pedro Resende

The emergence of geometric worldviews in qualia space

Jamal Williams

Novel application of hidden Markov models for naturalistic event processing in high-order cortical areas

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Professor Michael Levin

Neuroscience outside the nervous system: bioelectric basis of basal cognition in morphogenesis

15:00 Dr James Whittington

Why do neurons look the way they do? From cell-types and modules to mixed selectivity and warping

15:30 Dr Ilia Sucholutsky

Learning from almost no data

16:00 Break

16:30 Dr Sophia Sanborn

Tutorial: Manifolds, Lie Groups, and Geometric Machine Learning for Neuroscience

17:00 Prize talk: Andrew Ligeralde

Geometry reveals a role of retinal waves as biologically plausible pre-training signals

17:30 Professor Carina Curto

Sequences and modularity of dynamic attractors in inhibition-dominated neural networks

18:00 Professor Marc Howard

Constructing a continuous estimate of the future

18:30 Remote session 2

Dr Hamza Giaffar

Life in the brain: statistical learning and discovery processes via Darwinian Neurodynamics

Li Xin Lim

A neurobiological inspired computational model of the interaction of multiple systems in category learning

Anja Meunier

A mathematical framework for bridging Marr's levels

Kerry Nix

Detection of Language Lateralization using Spectral Analysis of High-Density EEG

Dr Michael A. Popov

Radical thought experiments with human consciousness in Number theory

Chris Rourk

Modelling action selection in large substantia nigra pars compacta dopamine neurons