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 Joao Barbosa (Institute for Neuromodulation)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Keynote: Professor Eve Marder (Brandeis University)

14:40 Dr. John Vastola (Harvard University)

15:00 Neural Data Spotlights

15:40 Poster Session 1

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 Dr. Francesca Mignacco (Princeton)

14:20 Dr. Valeria Fascianelli (Columbia)

14:40 Dr Chris Hillar (New Theory AI)

15:00 Neural Theory Spotlights

15:40 Break

16:00 Panel: “Big open problems in computational neuroscience”

17:00 Poster Session 2

7pm Conference dinner (Restoran Gusar)

Thurs 29th May 2025 (UTC+1)

Session 3: Cognitive science

Chair: Dr Ruairidh Battleday (Harvard & MIT)

Chair: Dr Colin Conwell (Harvard / MIT)

10:00 Keynote: Dr Kim Stachenfeld (Google DeepMind)

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 Research)

14:40 Dr. Dan Nicolau (King’s College)

15:00 CogSci Spotlights

15:40 Professor Eran Eldar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

18:00 Neuroethics roundtable (Cactus room, Radisson Blu - Hosted by Kevin Loi-Heng)

20:00 Neuromonster Arts Salon (Poster room, Radisson Blu - Hosted by Taylor Beck)

Fri 30th May 2025 (UTC+1)

Session 4: Artificial intelligence

Chair: Dr Ivana Kajic (Google DeepMind)

Chair: Michael Lepori (Brown University)

10:00 Keynote: Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford)

10:40 Dr Chen Sun (Google DeepMind)

11:00 Break

11:20 Dr Ivana Kajic (Google DeepMind)

11:40 Dr. Naomi Saphra (Harvard)

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Keynote: Professor Jurgen Schmidhuber

14:40 Michael Lepori (Brown University)

15:00 AI/ML Spotlights

15:40 Final panel: Open Challenges in AI

Dr James Whittington (Chair)

Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford / DeepMind)

Professor Juergen Schmidhuber (KAUST, IDSIA)

Dr Kim Stachenfeld (DeepMind)

Dr Ivana Kajic (DeepMind)

16:40 Fireside chat: Where next? Perspectives on AI research after grad school

Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, MIT)

Dr Erwann Le Lannou (XTX Markets)