Fourth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI
Rhodes, 2023
28th September - 1st October, 2023. Old Town, Rhodes. Virtual or in-person..
Two decades into the 21st century, can we claim to be any closer to a unified model of the brain?
In this exploratory symposium, we invite submissions for short talks and posters presenting general mathematical models of brain function. We give priority to those models that can account for brain or behavioural data, or provide simulations to that effect.
Keynote Speakers
Keynote
Professor Aapo Hyvärinen
University of Helsinki
Keynote
Professor Janneke Jehee
Donders Institute
Keynote
Professor Peter Latham
Gatsby Unit, UCL
Schedule
Thurs 28th September 2023 (UTC+3)
Session: Probabilistic Models / Biocomputation
Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday and Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr
10.00Opening remarks. Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday and Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr
10.30Keynote: Professor Aapo Hyvärinen. Painful Intelligence: What AI Can Tell us About Human Suffering
11.30Dr Ruairidh Battleday (Chair; Oxford University): Probabilistic Models of Cognition and Machine Learning: Past and Future Directions
12.00Professor Bill Thompson (University of California, Berkeley): Distributed Computation by Social Learning
12.30Lunch
13.30Professor Daniel Graham (Hobart and William Smith Colleges): Collision Models of Brain Network Communication
14.00Professor Volker Tresp (Munich Center for Machine Learning): The Tensor Brain: A Unified Theory of Perception, Memory and Semantic Decoding
14.30Rahul Jain (Pomona College): You Got Hexxed: Persistence During Complex Skill Learning
15.00Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr (Chair; King's College London): Introduction
15.10Dr Steeve Laquitaine (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology): Using a Large-Scale Biophysically Detailed Neocortical Circuit Model to Map Spike Sorting Biases
15.35Jia Li (KU Leuven): Self-organization Of Log-normally Distributed Connection Strength
16.00Dr. Panagiotis Mougkogiannis (and Professor Andrew Adamatzky; University of the West of England): Towards Proteinoid Neuromorphic Computers
16.40Coffee Break
16.50Professor Marcelo Bertalmío (Spanish National Research Council): Modeling Challenging Visual Phenomena By Taking Into Account Dynamic Dendritic Nonlinearities
17.15Dr Ilias Rentzeperis (Spanish National Research Council): Modelling A Continuum Of Simple To Complex Cell Behavior In V1 With The Inrf Paradigm
17.40Hanna Derets (University of Waterloo): Distance Metrics and Minimization of Epsilon Automata, with Applications to the Analysis of EEG Microstate Sequences
18.20Professor Dan Nicolau Sr (McGill): Setting The Baseline Of What Intelligence Could Be: The Case Of Space Searching By Populations Of Filamentous Fungal Hyphae
19:00Welcome reception. Socratous Garden
Fri 29th September 2023 (UTC+3)
Lindos: Spotlights, Posters, Conference Expedition
09:30Take bus to Lindos
12:00-12:30Spotlight session 1 (in person, in Lindos, MedEast)
12:30-13:00Poster session 1 (in person, in Lindos, MedEast). Declan Campbell (Princeton): Unraveling geometric reasoning. Dr Jonathan V. Gill (NYU): The Geometry And Role Of Sequential Activity In Olfactory Processing. Sabahaddin Taha Solakoglu (Hacettepe): Synaptic Inputs Onto mPFC Dendrites. Hang Li (LMU Munich): Do Artificial Neural Networks Understand Each Other? Francesco Guido Rinaldi (SISSA): Intuitive Interpretation in Uncertain Environments
13:00-14:00Lunch (MedEast)
14:00-20:00Conference expedition. Lindos
21:30Last bus home to Old Town
Sat 30th September 2023 (UTC+3)
Session: Neurotheory
10:00Keynote: Professor Peter Latham. What's the question and how do we answer it?
11:10 - 11:40Carol Upchurch (Louisiana State University): Persistent Silencing of PV+ Inhibitory Interneurons Results from Proximity to a Subcritical Hopf Bifurcation
11:40 - 12:10Tyler Giallanza (Princeton University): Adapting To A Changing Environment With Controlled Retrieval Of Episodic Memories
12:10 - 12:20Break
12:20 - 13:00Dr James Whittington (Chair; University of Oxford; Stanford University): A Unifying Framework For Frontal And Temporal Representation Of Memory
13:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:50Dr Thomas Parr (University of Oxford): From Models to Maladies
14:50 - 15:00Break
15:00 - 15:30Dr Tommaso Salvatori (Verses.ai): On the Past, Present and Future of Prpedictive Coding
15:30 - 15:45Spotlight 1: Shivang Rawat (NYU): Coherence Influences The Dimensionality Of Communication Subspaces
15:45 - 16:00Spotlight 2: Declan Campbell (Princeton University): Unraveling Geometric Reasoning: A Neural Network Model Of Regularity Biases
16:30-17:00Spotlight session 2 (virtual). Dr Michael Popov, Dr Charles Cohen, Dr Aslan Satary Dizaji, Dr Anita Keshmirian, Arvind Saraf, Michael Yifan Li, Shirin Vafaei
17:00-18:00Poster session 2 (virtual). Dr Charles Cohen, Dr Aslan Satary Dizaji, Dr Sunder Bukya, Arvind Saraf, Jay Verma, Shivang Rawat, Michael Yifan Li, Shirin Vafaei, Asit Pal, Simon Frieder
20:00Conference dinner. Pizanias (Rhodes Old Town)
Sun 1st Oct 2023 (UTC+3)
Session: Representational alignment
10:00Keynote: Professor Janneke Jehee. Probabilistic Representations In The Human Visual Cortex
11.15Dr Ilia Sucholutsky (Chair; Princeton University): How And Why We Should Study Representational Alignment
11.45Professor Bradley Love (UCL): Aligning Embedding Spaces For Model Evaluation And Learning
12.15Professor Iris Groen (University of Amsterdam): Are Dnns Representationally Aligned With Human Scene-Selective Cortex? Elucidating The Influence Of Image Dataset, Network Training And Cognitive Task Demands
13:00Lunch
14:00Professor Mayank Kejriwal (USC): On Using Fodor's Theory Of Modularity For Situating Large Language Models Within A Larger Artificial General Intelligence Architecture
14.30Dr Andreea Bobu (Boston Dynamics AI Institute): Aligning Robot and Human Representations
15:00Final Conference Expedition and Closing Remarks. Amithia Restaurant
Topics Covered
Computational neuroscienceReinforcement learningCognition/protocognitionNeural circuits and ANNsNeural complexityBrain-machine interfacesBiocomputationMathematical approaches to consciousness
Sponsors
Google DeepMindTempleton World Charity FoundationDiverse Intelligences Institute
Conference Chairs
Chair
Prof. Dan V. Nicolau Jr
King's College London · Oxford
Chair
Dr Ruairidh Battleday
Harvard