Talks, panels and seminar sessions.

AIs that set their own goals - learning general purpose world models for efficient planning & acting

Keynote speaker Professor Juergen Schmidhuber from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and IDSIA presents his talk "AIs that set their ow…

Panel Discussion - "Open Problems in Computational Neuroscience"

Panel discussion on the topic of “Open Problems in Computational Neuroscience” Panel guests: Dr James Whittington (Chair) Professor Wolfgang Maass (Technische U…

Interviews - Dr James Whittington (NM2025)

Interview with Dr James Whittington and Dr Ivana Kejic! We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference: XTX Markets, Google DeepMind, Context Fund, The Kav…

Interviews - Professor Eve Marder (NM2025)

Interview with Professor Eve Marder and Ashley Kim! We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference: XTX Markets, Google DeepMind, Context Fund, The Kavli F…

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

Panel discussion on the topic of “Where next? Perspectives on AI research after grad school” Panel guests: Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, MIT) Dr Erwa…

Mood as a vehicle of reinforcement learning (Professor Eran Eldar)

Professor Eran Eldar presents "Mood as a vehicle of reinforcement learning" Abstract - The science of learning and decision-making has largely evolved in isolat…

Visual Number Sense in Generative AI Models (Dr Ivana Kajic)

Dr Ivana Kajic from Google DeepMind presents her talk "Visual Number Sense in Generative AI Models" Recent years have seen a proliferation of AI models that are…

Spotlight- Dynamical systems principles underlie the ubiquity of biological data manifolds

Spotlight talk by Dr Arthur Pellegrino presents "Dynamical systems principles underlie the ubiquity of biological data manifolds" Abstract - The manifold hypoth…

Spotlight- Estimating flexible across-area communication with neurally-constrained RNNs

Spotlight talk by Philipp Werthmann presents "Estimating flexible across-area communication with neurally-constrained RNNs" Abstract - Previous work investigati…

Spotlight- Enriched experiences increase symmetrical connectivity and sparsity in association cortex

Spotlight talk by Dr Rajat Saxena presents "Enriched experiences increase symmetrical connectivity and sparsity in association cortex" Abstract - Artificial neu…

Spotlight - Algorithmic representations in the human brain that underlie schema generalisation

Spotlight talk by Svenja Küchenhoff presents "Algorithmic representations in the human brain that underlie schema generalisation" Abstract - It has been hypothe…

Spotlight - An abstract relational map emerges in the human medial prefrontal cortex with time

Spotlight talk by Dr Alon Baram presents "An abstract relational map emerges in the human medial prefrontal cortex with time" Abstract - It has been hypothesize…

Spotlight- Latent Connectivity in Prefrontal Microcircuits Reveal Independent Laminar Populations

Spotlight talk by Ruben Tammaro presents "Latent Connectivity Patterns in Prefrontal Microcircuits Reveal Independent Laminar Populations" Abstract - Neurons in…

Spotlight - Curriculum influences sharing of representations between tasks

Spotlight talk by Kai Sandbrink presents "Curriculum influences sharing of representations between tasks" Abstract? We'd like to thank our sponsors for this con…

Spotlight - Neural Networks Reveal a Cognitive Continuum Toward Human Abstraction

Spotlight talk by Li Wenjie presents "Neural Networks Reveal a Cognitive Continuum Toward Human Abstraction" Abstract - Neural networks struggle with symbolic a…

Spotlight - Combining vector synaptic architectures with tensor product representations

Spotlight talk by Dr E. Paxon Frady presents "Storing data structures in synapses combining vector synaptic architectures with tensor product representations" W…

Spotlight - Invariant probabilistic representations in neural networks

Spotlight talk by Ishan Kalburge presents "Invariant probabilistic representations in neural networks" Abstract - While mounting evidence indicates that human d…

Spotlight - Collective Moral Reasoning in Multi-Agent LLMs

Spotlight talk by Dr Anita Keshmirian presents "Collective Moral Reasoning in Multi-Agent LLMs" Abstract - As artificial intelligence systems increasingly engag…

Spotlight - Neuroethics

Spotlight talk by Kevin Loi-Heng presents "Neuroethics" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference: XTX Markets, Google DeepMind, Context Fund, The Kav…

Spotlight- Sparse autoencoders reveal temporal difference learning in large language models

Spotlight talk by Can Demircan presents "Sparse autoencoders reveal temporal difference learning in large language models" Abstract - In-context learning, the a…

Spotlight- Orthogonal task representations prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning

Spotlight talk by Andrea Albert presents "Orthogonal task representations prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning" We'd like to thank our sponsors…

Spotlight- Hierarchically modularity in neural networks improves generalization and learning

Spotlight talk by Professor Constantine Dovrolis presents "Hierarchically modularity in neural networks improves generalization and learning efficiency" Abstrac…

Spotlight- Uncertainty in latent representations of variational autoencoders for visual tasks

Spotlight talk by Domonkos Martos presents "Uncertainty in latent representations of variational autoencoders optimized for visual tasks" Abstract - Optimal com…

Spotlight- Generation is Required for Robust Perception

Spotlight talk by Jack Brady presents his talk "Generation is Required for Robust Perception" Abstract - It has been hypothesized and supported empirically that…

Spotlight- Transformer Dynamics: A neuroscientific approach to interpretability of LLMs

Spotlight talk by Jesseba Fernando presents her talk "Transformer Dynamics: A neuroscientific approach to interpretability of LLMs " As artificial intelligence…

Spotlight- Memory Enrichment via Bidirectional Replay in Complementary Learning

Spotlight talk by Albert Albesa Gonzalez presents "Memory Enrichment via Bidirectional Replay in Complementary Learning" Abstract: Semantic Enrichment of Episod…

Spotlight- Continual motor learning with closed-loop interactions

Spotlight talk by Dr Alexander Rivkind titled "Continual motor learning with closed-loop interactions" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference: XTX…

Spotlight- Towards a unified theory of value and cognitive maps in frontal cortex

Spotlight talk by Joseph Warren presents "Towards a unified theory of value and cognitive maps in the frontal cortex" Abstract: The Prefrontal Cortex is known t…

Spotlight- Dopamine reflects deep network teaching signals for individual learning

Spotlight talk by Samuel Liebana presents "Dopamine reflects deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories" We'd like to thank our sponsors…

Spotlight- Neuron morphology comparison via graph Gromov-Wasserstein and 2D embeddings

Spotlight talk by Ashley Kim presents "Neuron morphology comparison via graph Gromov-Wasserstein and optimized 2D embeddings" Abstract: High‐resolution morpholo…

From McCulloch-Pitts to Retina (Dr Chris Hillar)

Dr Chris Hillar from New Theory AI presents his talk "From McCulloch-Pitts to Retina" Theoretical constructs from biophysics have profoundly impacted signal pro…

Spotlight - Mathematical Modelling Framework for Multisensory Learning in Perceptual Decision-Making

Spotlight talk by Dr Joshua W Bolam presents "AI Driven Insights and Odd Cycle Games in Cognitive Science" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference…

Spotlight - Perfect Numbers of Synaptic Transmission

Spotlight talk by Professor Michael Popov presents "Perfect Numbers of Synaptic Transmission" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference: XTX Markets…

Spotlight - AI Driven Insights and Odd Cycle Games in Cognitive Science

Spotlight talk by Professor Michael Popov presents "AI Driven Insights and Odd Cycle Games in Cognitive Science" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this confer…

Spotlight - Investigating Neural Diversity on Bayesian Inference Using Lifespan Prediction in NENGO

Spotlight talk by Vikas Arya and D K Lobiyal presents "Investigating Neural Diversity on Bayesian Inference Using Lifespan Prediction in NENGO" We'd like to tha…

Spotlight - Interaction between sustained activity & activity-silent mechanism in PFC

Spotlight talk by Sakshi Gupta and D K Lobiyal present "A Computational Working Memory Model : Interaction between sustained activity and activity-silent mechan…

Spotlight - From Stem Cell Plasticity to Adaptive Algorithms

Spotlight talk by El Bakkali Fatima Zahrae presents "From Stem Cell Plasticity to Adaptive Algorithms" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conference: XTX…

Spotlight - Incentives to Build/Trade Houses, or Building Skills under Various Simulated Systems

Spotlight talk by Aslan Satary Dizaji presents "Incentives to Build Houses, Trade Houses, or Trade House Building Skills in Simulated Worlds under Various Gover…

Spotlight - Fractional Physics-Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Nets for 2D Mobile-Immobile Problems

Spotlight talk by Reza Mokhtari and Maryam Mohammad present "fPI-KANs: fractional Physics-Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Nets for solving 2D Mobile-Immobile Problem…

Panel Discussion - “Rebuilding the Hospital from the Tech Up: Can the UK Scale its Clinicians?”

Panel discussion on the topic of “Rebuilding the Hospital from the Tech Up: Can the UK Scale its Clinicians?” Panel guests: Prof. Dan Nicolau Jr - Chair (Profes…

Keynote - An AI Inspired View of Development, Aging and Rejuvenation (Prof. Thore Graepel)

Keynote Talk by Prof. Thore Graepel (Professor at UCL). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems fo…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - CHAINERGY

Spotlight talk by CHAINERGY This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, 2025). This su…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - Contextual AI

Spotlight talk by Contextual AI This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, 2025). Thi…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - klave

Spotlight talk by klave This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, 2025). This summit…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - Mater.AI

Spotlight talk by Mater.AI This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, 2025). This sum…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - New Generation Network (Chanci.AI)

Spotlight talk by New Generation Network (Chanci.AI) This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for A…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - TheStage.AI

Spotlight talk by TheStage.AI This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, 2025). This…

AI Startup Spotlight: New UK AI Companies to Watch - VERIPHI

Spotlight talk by VERIPHI This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, 2025). This summ…

Winning in the UK’s AI Start-up Ecosystem (Minister Kanishka Narayan)

Talk by Minister Kanishka Narayan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovatio…

Panel Discussion - “Moonshots in AI x Education”

Panel discussion on the topic of “Moonshots in AI x Education” Panel guests: Rehana Al-Soltane - Chair (Raspberry Pi Foundation) Dr Elena Dreosti (Neuroscientis…

Keynote - Nourishing human genius in the age of Superintelligence (Ed Cooke)

Keynote Talk by Ed Cooke (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MindMax). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit…

Panel Discussion - “How to Build a Trillion-Pound AI Company"

Panel discussion on the topic of “How to Build a Trillion-Pound AI Company” Panel guests: Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday - Chair (Thinking About Thinking) Emily…

Keynote - AI & The Crossroads for Society (Dex Hunter-Torricke)

Keynote Talk by Dex Hunter-Torricke - Senior Fellow at Fathom (formerly Google, Meta, SpaceX, United Nations). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation…

Panel Discussion - “How to Maximise AI-Driven Value Within Your Business”

Panel discussion on the topic of “How to Maximise AI-Driven Value Within Your Business” Panel guests: Dr Dara Sosulski - Chair (Managing Director & Head of AI a…

Panel Discussion “AI Safety: An Insider’s Perspective”

Panel discussion on the topic of “AI Safety: An Insider’s Perspective” Panel guests: Prof. Skyler Wang - Chair (Assistant Professor & Research Scientist at McGi…

Keynote- Invisible Industrial Revolution: AI’s Biggest Impact Where You Can’t See It (Kriti Sharma)

Keynote Talk by Kriti Sharma (Chief Executive Officer of IFS Nexus Black). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit…

Keynote - The recognition crisis that will define the AI economy (Ashley Ramrachia)

Keynote Talk by Ashley Ramrachia (Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Academy). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global S…

Ai x Enterprise Opening remarks (Nicolay Hagen)

Ai x Enterprise session opening remarks by Nicolay Hagen (Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Main Quest). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovati…

Ai x Safety Opening remarks (Prof. Skyler Wang)

Ai x Safety session opening remarks by Prof. Skyler Wang (Chief Ethical Officer at Thinking About Thinking/McGill & Meta) This talk was given at the Algorithmic…

Keynote - AI, cognition and society (Prof. Chris Summerfield)

Keynote Talk by Prof. Chris Summerfield (Professor & Research Director at Oxford & The AI Security Institute). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation…

Keynote - What if AGI? (Prof. Richard Susskind)

Keynote Talk by Prof. Richard Susskind (President of the Society for Computers and Law). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship…

Panel Discussion - “Getting the UK Ahead on AI Infrastructure”

Panel discussion on the topic of “Getting the UK Ahead on AI Infrastructure” Panel guests: Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday - Chair (Thinking About Thinking) Max…

Keynote - Making Government more Human with AI (Dr Laura Gilbert)

Keynote Talk by Dr Laura Gilbert (Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Glo…

Panel Discussion - “Does Industry Now Do AI Research Better?”

Panel discussion on the topic of “Does Industry Now Do AI Research Better?” Panel guests: Dr Felix Sosa -Chair (Research Scientist at Harvard & NTT) Vassia Sima…

Keynote - Era of experience (Prof. David Silver)

Keynote Talk by Prof. David Silver (Principal Research Scientist formerly at Google DeepMind & Professor of Computer Science at UCL). This talk was given at the…

Panel Discussion - “AI Algorithms: The Next Set of Challenges”

Panel discussion on the topic of “AI Algorithms: the Next Set of Challenges?” Panel guests: Dr James Whittington -Chair (Thinking About Thinking & Oxford) Prof…

Keynote- Neural Race Reduction Dynamics of feature learning in deep architectures (Prof Andrew Saxe)

Keynote Talk by Prof. Andrew Saxe (Henry Dale Fellow and Joint Group Leader at UCL). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Glob…

Keynote - Journey of Enquiry and Discovery: 10 years of Ai research (Prof Jakob Foerster)

Keynote Talk by Prof. Jakob Foerster (Associate Professor at Oxford). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Op…

Keynote- The challenge of building logical, language instructible AI systems (Prof Csaba Szepesvari)

Keynote Talk by Prof. Csaba Szepesvari (Foundations Team Lead at Google DeepMind). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global…

Keynote - Beyond Chatbots Using AI to model the unknowns (Dr Raia Hadsell)

Keynote Talk by Dr Raia Hadsell (Vice-President of Research at Google DeepMind.). This talk was given at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global…

Opening Remarks - Dr Ruairidh Battleday and Dr James Whittington

Opening remarks by Dr Ruairidh Battleday and Dr James Whittington. Dr Ruairidh Battleday (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Thinking About Thinking & Stanf…

Panel Discussion - “Open Challenges in Al"

Panel discussion on the topic of “Open Challenges in Al” Panel guests: Dr James Whittington (Chair) Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford / DeepMind) Professor Jue…

Prof. Skyler Wang - Three Questions ahead of the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Ashley Kim asks Prof. Skyler Wang about his thoughts on the Open Problems for AI. Skyler will chair the AI x Safety session of the AE Global Summit, Oct 28-30th…

Nicolay Hagen - Three Questions ahead of the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Ashley Kim asks Nicolay Hagen about his thoughts on the Open Problems for AI. Nicolay will chair the AI x Enterprise sessions of the AE Global Summit, Oct 28-30…

Dr Ruairidh Battleday - Three Questions ahead of the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Ashley Kim asks Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday about his thoughts on the Open Problems for AI. Ruairidh will chair the AI x Infrastructure and AI x Entrepreneur…

Prof Dan V. Nicolau Jr - Three Questions ahead of the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Ashley Kim asks Prof Dan V. Nicolau Jr about his thoughts on the Open Problems for AI. Dan will chair the AI x Medicine session of the AE Global Summit, Oct 28-…

Dr Felix Sosa - Three Questions ahead of the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Ashley Kim asks Dr Felix Sosa about his thoughts on the Open Problems for AI. Felix will chair the AI x Breakthroughs in Industry session of the AE Global Summi…

Dr James Whittington - Three Questions ahead of the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Ashley Kim asks Dr James Whittington about his thoughts on the Open Problems for AI. James will chair the AI x Research Breakthroughs session of the AE Global S…

Discovering symbolic cognitive models with LLMs (Dr Kim Stachenfeld)

Keynote speaker Dr Kim Stachenfeld from Google DeepMind presents her talk "Discovering symbolic cognitive models with LLMs" Symbolic models play a key role in n…

Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI 2025 (Croatia) - Opening Remarks

Opening remarks for the 6th International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI. Held in Split, Croatia in May of 2025. We'd like to thank our spon…

Everyone Knows What Attention Is (Professor Lisa Marie Vortmann)

Professor Lisa Marie Vortmann from the University of Groningen presents her talk "Everyone Knows What Attention Is" Attention is a term we use with confidence—i…

How perturbations and climate change shape dynamics of neurons and circuits (Eve Marder)

Keynote speaker Professor Eve Marder from Brandeis University presents her talk on "Perturbations and climate change shape dynamics of neurons and circuits" A f…

Memory, Planning, and Reasoning in Natural and Artificial Intelligence (Dr Ida Momennejad)

Keynote speaker Dr Ida Momennejad from Microsoft Research presents her talk "Memory, Planning, and Reasoning in Natural and Artificial Intelligence" I will firs…

How Limited Minds Scaffold Complex Concepts (Professor Bonan Zhao)

Professor Bonan Zhao from the University of Edinburgh presents her talk "How Limited Minds Scaffold Complex Concepts" The complexity of modern science and techn…

From Open-ended Experience to Wisdom: where Memories in Brains and AIs Converge (Dr Chen Sun)

Dr Chen Sun from Google DeepMind presents his talk "From Open-ended Experience to Wisdom: where Memories in Brains and AIs Converge" Humans exhibit a lifelong c…

Are People Still Smarter than Machines? (Professor Jay McClelland)

Keynote speaker Professor Jay McClelland from Stanford University presents his talk "Are People Still Smarter than Machines?" Today, AI systems are being put to…

A Language of Thought theory of geometric shape perception in the brain (Dr Mathias Sablé Meyer)

Dr Mathias Sablé Meyer from UCL presents his talk "A Language of Thought theory of geometric shape perception in the human brain" The Language of Thought hypoth…

Learning from Small Data: Powder and Pathogens (Dr. Dan Nicolau)

Dr. Dan Nicolau from King's College London presents his talk "Learning from Small Data: Powder and Pathogens" We'd like to thank our sponsors for this conferenc…

Phase Transitions, Clustering, and Random Variation in Language Model Training (Dr Naomi Saphra)

Dr Naomi Saphra from Harvard University presents her talk "You Know It Or You Don’t: Phase Transitions, Clustering, and Random Variation in Language Model Train…

Neural representational geometries reflect differences in monkeys and RNNs

Dr Valeria Fascianelli from the Zuckerman Institute (Columbia University) presents her talk at the 6th International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscien…

Revealing Hidden Similarities Between Models/Minds Using Mechanistic Interpretability (Mike Lepori)

Mike Lepori from Brown University presents his talk "More Than Meets the Eye: Revealing Hidden Similarities Between Models and Minds Using Mechanistic Interpret…

Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision-making (Professor Christine Constantinople)

Keynote speaker Professor Christine Constantinople from New York University presents her talk on "Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision-making" The…

Motor planning under uncertainty (Dr Juan Gallego)

Dr Juan Gallego from imperial University presents his talk on "Motor planning under uncertainty" Animals use feedback to rapidly correct ongoing movements in th…

Quantitative behavior to interrogate social learning during aggression (Professor Annegret Falkner)

Professor Annegret Falkner from Princeton University presents her talk "Watching the Watchers: Using quantitative behavior to interrogate social learning during…

Implications of retrospective causal learning (Professor Vijay Namdoodiri)

Professor Vijay Namdoodiri from the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF presents is talk on "Implications of retrospective causal learning" Until recently…

Impact of Behavioral Time Scale Synaptic Plasticity on Cognition Models. (Professor Wolfgang Maass)

Keynote speaker Professor Wolfgang Maass from the Institute of Machine Learning and Neural Computation (Technische Universität Graz) presents his talk on the "I…

In silico experiments unveil distributed computations during flexible behavior (Dr Joao Barbosa)

Dr Joao Barbosa who is a Junior PI at the Institut de Neuromodulation in Paris presents his talk on "Leveraging in silico experiments to unveil distributed comp…

Optimizing Stimuli to Test Models of Perception (Dr Jenelle Feather)

Dr Jenelle Feather from the Flatiron Institute presents her talk "Optimizing Stimuli to Test Models of Perception" Talk description: The past decade has given r…

Global Summit for Open Problems in AI (Day 3 - Boston)

What can generative AI learn from human gameplay? Katja Hofmann (Microsoft)

Keynote talk from Dr Katja Hofmann, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/h…

Global Summit for Open Problems in AI (Day 3 - Boston)

Global Summit for Open Problems in AI (Day 3 - Boston)

AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI - Interviews, London 23-24th Oct 2024

Promotional video for the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/program-24-au). Organized by Thinking About Thinking (https…

AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI - London 23-24th Oct 2024 (Thinking About Thinking)

Promotional video for the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/program-24-au). Organized by Thinking About Thinking (https…

AI & Medicine - Panel discussion at AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, Oct 24th 2024)

Panel discussion at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au). Chair: Professor Dan Nicolau Jr - Associate Profe…

Can tinyML Fit Efficiently on Your Wrist and Transform Your Life? Eiman Kanjo, tinyML

Keynote talk from Professor Eiman Kanjo, Research Lead at tinyML (Imperial College London & Nottingham Trent University), at the AE Global Summit on Open Proble…

The world’s first foundational dataset purpose built for AI in biology - Phoebe Oldach (Basecamp)

Keynote talk from Dr Phoebe Oldach, Head of the Global Research Programme at Basecamp Research, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.alg…

Navigating Cultural Diversity and Responsible AI Applications - Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe

Keynote talk from Dr Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe, CTDO & Co-Founder at Boon Global & Beautiful Places AI, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https…

War and Peace and AI: Developing the world's first Co-Pilot for Peacebuilders - Tarig Hilal (Akord)

Keynote talk from Tarig Hilal, AI Innovation Lead at Akord AI, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au). Org…

Rewiring Britain: AI, Human Potential, and the Race to Future-Proof Our Workforce - Ashley Ramrachia

Keynote talk from Ashley Ramrachia, Co-Founder and CEO at Academy, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au)…

AI & Education - Panel discussion at AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London Oct 24th 2024)

Panel discussion at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au). Chair: Dr James Kuht MBE - Founder and CEO (Inver…

The Power of AI in Recommender and Search Systems: An Industry Perspective - Mounia Lalmas (Spotify)

Keynote talk from Dr Mounia Lalmas, Senior Director of Research at Spotify, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/hom…

The Future of AI in the UK - Kanishka Narayan MP - AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

Talk from Kanishka Narayan MP at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au). Organized by Thinking About Thinking…

The Next 5 Years for AI/ML Algorithms - Panel at AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London)

Panel discussion at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au). Chair: Dr James Whittington - Sir Henry Dale Well…

The Physics of Sentience - Professor Karl Friston (UCL & Verses AI)

Keynote talk from Professor Karl Friston, Scientific Director ata UCL & Verses AI, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship…

Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs in medical and social computing - Maria Liakata (QMU)

Keynote talk from Professor Maria Liakata, Professor of Natural Language Processing & EPSRC/UKRI Turing Institute AI fellow at Queen Mary University of London &…

Beyond the surface: The quest to unlock the full potential of your data - Jonathan Richard Schwarz

Keynote talk from Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Head of AI Research at Thomson Reuters, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurs…

Why Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning is Central to AI - Martin Riedmiller (Google DeepMind)

Keynote talk from Dr Martin Riedmiller, Research Director at Google DeepMind, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/h…

How Should We Fund AI Research? AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (London, Oct 23-24th 2024)

Panel discussion at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algopreneurship.org/home-24-au). Chair: Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, M…

Open-Endedness and General Intelligence - Tim Rocktäschel (Google DeepMind & UCL)

Keynote talk from Professor Tim Rocktäschel, Senior Staff Research Scientist & Professor of AI at Google DeepMind & UCL, at the AE Global Summit on Open Problem…

AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI – Introductory Remarks (Ruairidh Battleday)

Introductory talk from Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, MIT, Thinking About Thinking) at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI (https://www.algop…

Reflections from the British Ambassador to Italy, Lord Llewellyn

Remarks from The Right Honourable Lord Llewellyn, British Ambassador to Italy, at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artifi…

Implicit generative models using kernel similarity matching - Shubham Choudhary (Harvard)

Virtual talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

A comp model of learning flexible navigation in a maze by layout-conforming replay of place cells

Virtual talk by Yuanxiang Gao (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neurosci…

Seeing through another’s eyes - modeling & correcting for individual differences in color appearance

Virtual talk from Camilla Simoncelli (University of Nevada Reno, USA) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Inte…

Cognitive Acausality Principle and a new kind of Phenomenological Mathematics - Michael A. Popov

Virtual talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Local prediction-learning in high-dimensional spaces enables neural networks to plan-Wolfgang Maass

Keynote talk from Professor Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universität Graz) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial I…

Symmetry and Universality - Dr Sophia Sanborn (Science)

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Modeling sensorimotor circuits with ML: hypotheses, inductive biases, latent noise and curricula

Spotlight talk from Alexander Mathis (EPFL) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (http…

Fast and slow synaptic plasticity enables concurrent control and learning - Brendan Bicknell (UCL)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Competition between reactivating memories mediates long-delay credit assignment - Subhadra Mokashe

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Cell types and layers shape the geometry of neural representations: a biophysical model of neocortex

Spotlight talk from Steeve Laquitaine (EPFL) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (htt…

The Ontogeny of the Grid Cell Network – the Topology of Neural Representations -Erik Hermansen

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Confidence estimation and second-order errors in cortical circuits - Arno Granier

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Clones of biological agents solving cognitive tasks: brain computation paradigms-Sofia Raglio

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Neural subspaces in three Parietal areas during reaching planning and execution - Stefano Diomedi

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Neural Prioritisation of Past Solutions Supports Generalisation - Sam Hall-McMaster (Harvard)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Online network reconfiguration: non-synaptic learning in RNNs - Cristiano Capone (ISS)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Is visual cortex really “language-aligned”? Colin Conwell (Johns Hopkins)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

A normative account of the psychometric function, and changes with stimulus and reward distributions

Spotlight talk from Ryan Low (UCL) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuro…

Modeling behavioral imprecision from neural representations - Matteo Alleman (Columbia)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Optimal mental representation of social networks explains biases in social learning and perception

Spotlight talk from Yulin Dong (Peking) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://…

Discovery of Cognitive Strategies for Information Sampling with Deep Neural Cognitive Modelling

Spotlight talk from Simone D'Ambrogio (Oxford) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (h…

Grounding Language about Belief in a Bayesian Theory-of-Mind - Lance Ying (Harvard)

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The maximum occupancy principle as a generative model of realistic behavior - Jorge Ramírez-Ruiz

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Better modeling of human vision by incorporating robustness to blur in convolutional neural networks

Spotlight talk from Professor Frank Tong (Vanderbilt) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome…

Extensions of the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter to Wiener diffusion processes - Antonino Visalli

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Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition- Roey Schurr (Harvard)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Policy regularization in the brain enables robustness and flexibility - Lucy Lai (Harvard)

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Developmental differences in exploration reveal differences in structure inference - Nora Harhen

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Latent learning progress guides hierarchical goal selection in humans - Gaia Molinaro (UC Berkeley)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

The Intriguing Loss of Cortical Layer IV; Thermodynamics of Heat Dissipation in the Cetacean Brain

Spotlight talk from Alejandro Chinea Manrique de Lara (UNED) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence…

Analytically tractable hierarchical models: neural data analysis and modelling - Sacha Sokoloski

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Feedback controllability constrains learning timescales of motor adaptation - Harsha Gurnani

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS ENABLES NOISE-ROBUST WORKING MEMORY - Angus Chadwick (University of Edinburgh)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Nonlinear manifold capacity theory with contextual information - Francesca Mignacco

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Structure learning in the human hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex - Deng Pan (Oxford)

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Backpropagation through space, time and the brain - Paul Haider (University of Bern)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Controlled Maximal Variability Leads to Reliable Performance in RNNs - Chiara Mastrogiuseppe

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Object-centric reasoning and control from pixels -Pablo Lanillos (Spanish National Research Council)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Human-like Behavior and Neural Representations Emerge in DNN Search for Natural Objects from Pixels

Spotlight talk from Motahareh Pourrahimi (McGill; Mila) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome…

Correlations are ruining your gradient descent - Nasir Ahmad (Donders Institute)

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RL Algorithms Are BAMDP Policies - Aly Lidayan

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Computational mechanics predicts internal representations of transformers - Paul Riechers (BITS)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

A Mechanistic Analysis of Same-Different Relations in ViTs - Michael Lepori and Alexa Tartaglini

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Investigating Causal Judgments in Humans and Large Language Models - Anita Keshmirian (LMU)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Egocentric value maps of the near-body environment - Rory John Bufacchi (Chinese Academy of Sci)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

A generalized neural tangent kernel for surrogate gradient learning - Luke Eilers (Bern)

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Task structure, geometry, and learning mechanism: compositional generalization - Samuel Lippl

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Emergence and Function of Abstract Representations in Self-Supervised Transformers - Quentin Ferry

Spotlight talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Record…

Panel: The Future of Computational Neuroscience - Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI (Rome, 2024)

Panel discussion at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Pane…

Roles of inhibition in shaping the response of cortical networks - Professor Nicolas Brunel

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Circuits and computations for learning and exploiting sensory statistics - Professor Athena Akrami

Invited talk from Professor Athena Akrami (UCL) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (…

An attractor model of planning in frontal cortex - Dr Kris Jensen (UCL)

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Controlling the Controller: Manipulations of Pavlovian Influences via Dopamine-Professor Peter Dayan

Keynote talk from Professor Peter Dayan (MPI Tübingen) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome…

Predictability and stability in the manipulation of complex objects - Professor Dagmar Sternad

Invited talk from Professor Dagmar Sternad (Northeastern) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Ro…

Abstractions in Motor Memory and Planning - Professor Samuel McDougle (Yale)

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Understanding Human Learning and Abstraction Using Cognitive Models & Neural Networks-Maria Eckstein

Invited talk from Dr Maria Eckstein (DeepMind) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (h…

Cultural evolution of compositional problem solving - Dr Fred Callaway (NYU / Harvard)

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Pitfalls and advances in computational cognitive modeling - Professor Anne Collins (UC Berkeley)

Keynote talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps - Dr James Whittington

Invited talk from Dr James Whittington (Oxford / Stanford / Zyphra) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intell…

Dendritic computations underlying experience-dependent hippocampal representation - Prof Grienberger

Invited talk from Professor Christine Grienberger (Brandeis) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence…

A Rose by Any Other Name: Towards a Mathematical Theory of the Neuroimmune System - Dan Nicolau Jr

Invited talk from Professor Dan Nicolau Jr (KCL) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024…

Panel on Fundamental Challenges in AI Research - Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI

Panel discussion at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Pane…

Modelling diverse learning tasks with predictive coding - Professor Rafal Bogacz (Oxford)

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Learning from almost no data - Dr Ilia Sucholutsky (Princeton)

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Predictive representations: building blocks of intelligence - Dr Wilka Carvalho (Harvard)

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Generalised policy updates and neuroscience - Dr Andre Barreto (DeepMind)

Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Doing experiments and acquiring concepts using language and code - Professor Kevin Ellis

Keynote talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Recorded…

Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI 2024 - Opening remarks (Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday)

Opening remarks for the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Pres…

Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI 2024: Closing remarks (Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday)

Closing remarks from the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromonster.org). Rec…

Challenges for AI in Biomedicine - Panel Discussion (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Panel discussion on Challenges for AI in Biomedicine at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI (htt…

New Professional Pathways in AI Research - Panel Discussion (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Panel discussion on New Professional Pathways in AI Research at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for…

Can we capture intelligence in a neural network? Professor Jay McClelland (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Keynote talk from Professor Jay McClelland for the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI (https://www…

Longevity and Optimization Lunch. Julius Ritter / BASIS Health (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Lunch at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI was provided by BASIS Health (https://www.algoprene…

Human-AI Interactions in the Age of LLMs. Professor Diyi Yang (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Keynote talk from Professor Diyi Yang at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI (https://www.algopr…

Fundamental Challenges for AI - Panel Discussion (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Panel discussion on Fundamental Technical Challenges for Developing ML/AI Algorithms at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fu…

Decision making with data: a path to resourceful autonomous agents. Sergey Levine (AE Spring 2024).

Keynote talk from Professor Sergey Levine at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI (https://www.al…

New Landscapes for AI Research - Panel Discussion (AE Spring Summit 2024)

Panel discussion on New Organizational Landscapes for AI Research at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenge…

Closing Remarks. Ruairidh Battleday (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Closing remarks from Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (https://www.battleday.org/ruairidh) for the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit…

Veridical data science towards trustworthy AI. Professor Bin Yu (AE Spring Summit 2024).

Keynote talk from Professor Bin Yu at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI (https://www.algoprene…

AE Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI - Opening Remarks (Ruairidh Battleday)

Opening remarks from Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (https://www.battleday.org/ruairidh) for the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024 Spring Summit…

Dr Mayank Agrawal - Turing Test Today: Understanding the Role of Humans in Human Research

Talk by Dr Mayank Agrawal (Roundtable CEO), entitled "Turing Test Today: Understanding the Role of Humans in Human Research". Presented at the Algorithmic Innov…

Professor Hidenori Tanaka - AI for Decoding the Blackbox of Natural/Artificial Intelligence

Talk by Professor Hidenori Tanaka (Harvard University/NTT Research, Inc.), entitled "Interpretable AI for Decoding the Blackbox of Natural and Artificial Intell…

Professor Dan V Nicolau Jr - Algorithms for early clinical trial stoppage: Preservation of blinding

Talk by Professor Dan V Nicolau Jr (Presentient Technologies, Kings College London), entitled "Algorithms for early clinical trial stoppage with guaranteed pres…

Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday: Opening remarks - Cognitive Models of Algorithmic Science

Talk by Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday (Harvard and MIT) and Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr, entitled "Cognitive Models of Algorithmic Science". Presented at the Algorit…

Dr Momchil Tomov - Automated Neuroscientist: Algorithmic Theory Discovery for The Cognitive Sciences

Talk by Dr Momchil Tomov (Motional, Harvard University), entitled "Automated Neuroscientist: Algorithmic Theory Discovery for The Cognitive Sciences". Presented…

Professor George Church - Machine Learning and Multiplex Libraries

Talk by Professor George Church (Harvard University), entitled "Machine Learning and Multiplex Libraries". Presented at the Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepren…

Dr James Whittington - A Tale of Two Algorithms: Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex

Talk by Dr James Whittington (Stanford University & Oxford University), entitled "A Tale of Two Algorithms: Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex". Presented at the…

Taylor Beck - The Motivated Mind: Bipolar Disorder & the Roots of Drive

Talk by Taylor Beck (The Pierrepont School), entitled "The Motivated Mind: Bipolar Disorder & the Roots of Drive". Presented at the Algorithmic Innovation and E…

Hanna Derets - Distance Metrics and Minimization of Epsilon Automata: EEG Microstate Sequences

An ε-machine is a probabilistic finite state automaton constructed from a series of discrete observations and representing the minimal statistics sufficient to…

Professor Marcelo Bertalmío - Modeling challenging visual phenomena dynamic dendritic nonlinearities

The so-called standard model of vision is grounded on the notion of a linear neural summation process followed by a nonlinearity. But the assumption that neural…

Dr Ilias Rentzeperis - Modelling a continuum of simple to complex cell behaviour in V1 with INRF

A recent model of neural summation, the intrinsically nonlinear receptive field (INRF), has shown very promising results in overcoming the limitations of the li…

Dr Andreea Bobu - Aligning Robot and Human Representations

To perform tasks that humans want in the world, robots rely on a representation of salient task features; for example, to hand me a cup of coffee, the robot con…

Professor Mayank Kejriwal- Fodor's theory of modularity: Situate large language models in larger AGi

Mental modules have been of interest in the philosophy of cognition since the early 1980's with the release of Fodor's seminar work on the subject. More recentl…

Professor Bradley Love - Aligning embedding spaces for model evaluation and learning

Talk by Professor Bradley Love, entitled "Aligning embedding spaces for model evaluation and learning." Presented at the 4th International Symposium on the Math…

Professor Iris Groen - Are DNNs representationally aligned with human scene-selective cortex?

Talk by Professor Iris Groen, entitled "Are DNNs representationally aligned with human scene-selective cortex? Elucidating the influence of image dataset, netwo…

Dr Ilia Sucholutsky - How and why we should study representational alignment

A recent model of neural summation, the intrinsically nonlinear receptive field (INRF), has shown very promising results in overcoming the limitations of the li…

Arvind Saraf - Simulating the (Equinamous) Subconscious Mind

This talk proposes a modular software simulation model of the human mind as a reinforcement learning agent with novel components around subconscious thinking &…

Dr Anita Keshmirian - Deciphering Causal Reasoning Human vs. Language Models

Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) provide a widely used framework for representing causal structures. BBNs employ graphical models to depict intricate relationshi…

Dr Aslan Satary Dizaji - Dimensionality of Intermediate Representations of Deep Neural Networks

It is generally believed that deep neural networks and animal brain solve a vision task by changing the dimensionality of input stimuli across deep hierarchy. H…

Francesco Guido Rinaldi - Intuitive Interpretation in Uncertain Environments: A Bayesian Perspective

In order to survive, animals constantly face decisions where they have to choose between competing interpretations for noisy and sparse sensory data. In statist…

Dr Charles Cohen - Identifying the active properties of layer 5 myelinated axons

Rapid saltatory conduction over myelinated axons is shaped by a confluence of biophysical mechanisms. These include linear conductive and capacitive properties…

Professor Volker Tresp-The Tensor Brain A Unified Theory of Perception, Memory and Semantic Decoding

We present a unified computational theory of an agent’s perception and memory. In our model, both perception and memory are realized by different operational mo…

Dr Michael Popov - Round Numbers and Representational Alignment. Fundamental of Ramanujan’s theorems

Humans build not only the models of external reality but also the models of subjective experience (unconscious, imaginary feelings, inner states). This is a les…

Shivang Rawat - Coherence influences the dimensionality of communication subspaces

The brain relies on communication between specialized cortical areas to accomplish complex cognitive tasks. There are two leading hypotheses for communication b…

Dr Thomas Parr - From models to maladies

This talk aims to do two things. The first is to overview the idea that our brains—and perhaps other sentient systems—employ internal models of our surroundings…

Dr Tommaso Salvatori - On the past, present, and future of predictive coding

This talk will discuss past, present, and future of predictive coding, with a special emphasis on potential applications in machine intelligence. To do this, we…

Tyler Giallanza - Adapting to a changing environment with controlled retrieval of episodic memories

The flexibility of human cognition has long been associated with both episodic memory and cognitive control. To investigate the interactions between these syste…

Dr James Whittington - A unifying framework for frontal and temporal representation of memory

Talk by Dr James Whittington, entitled "A unifying framework for frontal and temporal representation of memory." Presented at the 4th International Symposium on…

Carol Upchurch - Persistent Silencing of PV+ Inhibitory Interneurons

Persistent activity in excitatory principal cells has been suggested as a mechanism to maintain memory traces during working memory. Persistent interruption of…

Professor Peter Latham - What’s the question and how do we answer it?

We have been gathering facts about the brain at an alarming, and accelerating, rate, at a cost of around 10 billion US dollars/year. In 2022 alone over 160,000…

Hang Li - Do Artificial Neural Networks Understand Each Other

Language is a major means of exchanging information between agents. But how can we be sure that the first agent has the same understanding of what a cat or a do…

Sabahaddin Taha Solakoglu - Synaptic inputs onto mPFC dendrites in mouse models of stress

Stress decreases branching and spine numbers in apical dendrites of layer II/III and layer V pyramidal neurons of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). In the light…

Dr Jonathan V Gill - The geometry and role of sequential activity in olfactory processing

Animals depend on their senses for survival. Mice, who rely on olfaction to navigate the world, can rapidly identify odours within a single sniff across a wide…

Professor Dan Nicolau Sr - The case of space searching by populations of filamentous fungal hyphae

The ubiquity of filamentous fungi suggest that they possess efficient space searching in microconfining environments, which were experimentally probed in microf…

Rahul Jain - You Got Hexxed Persistence during Complex Skill Learning

In the last decade, AIs trained using reinforcement learning (RL) have reached human-level performance on many challenging games. These AIs, however, require ex…

Professor Daniel Graham - Collision Models of Brain Network Communication

Coding models dominate neurotheory, yet with few exceptions, models of how neuronal networks manage dynamic message passing (routing) among nodes are lacking. I…

Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday - Probabilistic Models of Cognition and Machine Learning

Talk by Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday, entitled "Probabilistic Models of Cognition and Machine Learning: past and future directions." Presented at the 4th Internatio…

Dr Panagiotis Mougkogiannis - Towards proteinoid neuromorphic computers

In this talk, we will delve into the potential of using proteinoids to create neuromorphic computing systems that can mimic and adapt like neuronal networks. Pr…

Jia Li - Self organization of log-normally distributed connection strength

The studies of brain network connectivity in various species have revealed a consistent long-tailed, typically lognormal, distribution of connection strengths…

Dr Steeve Laquitaine - Using a large scale biophysically detailed neocortical circuit model to map

Accurate spike sorting on extracellular recordings is critical to decipher neural codes. The development of spike sorting algorithms is supported by evaluation…

Professor Aapo Hyvärinen - Painful intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering

This talk introduces Professor Aapo Hyvärinen's recent e-book with the same title, freely available at https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/painintl/. The book…

Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday and Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr - Welcome Notes

Talk by Dr Ruairidh M. Battleday and Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr, entitled "Welcome Notes". Presented at the 4th International Symposium on the Mathematics of N…

Welcome video - Ruairidh Battleday

Introductory video for 2nd International Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience. Copyright Thinking About Thinking, Inc. All rights reserved.

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

Presentation given by Professor Michael Levin, TUFTS University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Re…

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Study of Social Welfare and Fairness

Presentation given by Dr Aslan Satary Dizaji, AutocurriculaLab & Neuro-Inspired Vision. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022)…

Thinking with comics: How the medium can reflect the mind

Presentation given by Amey Zhang, . Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Recorded and hosted with genero…

The flat plane between experiential horizons of motion

Presentation given by Dr Andrew Duggins, University of Sydney. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Reco…

Scientific theories of consciousness, the closure of the (current) physical, and collapse

Presentation given by Professor Kobi Kremnitzer, University of Oxford. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster…

Constructing a continuous estimate of the future

Presentation given by Professor Marc Howard, Boston University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Rec…

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

Presentation given by Professor Kevin Burrage, Queensland University of Technology. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www…

Can physics solve the hard problem of consciousness? A new relativistic theory of consciousness

Presentation given by Dr Nir Lahav, Bar Illan University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Recorded…

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

Presentation given by Dr James Whittington, University of Oxford; Stanford University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) w…

Ambiguity and confirmation bias in reward learning

Presentation given by Professor Rahul Bhui, MIT. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Recorded and hoste…

The Motivated Mind: Bipolar Disorder and the Roots of Drive

Presentation given by Taylor Beck, The Pierrepont School. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Recorded…

A Theory of Unsupervised Machine Translation Motivated by Understanding Whale Communication

Presentation given by Orr Paradise, University of California, Berkeley. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster…

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

Presentation given by Dr Kerry Nix, University of Pennsylvania. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Rec…

Radical thought experiments with human consciousness in Number theory

Presentation given by Professor Michael Alekseevich Popov, Kant Mission ESA; UK Synaesthesia Association; OMCAN. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Ne…

Face dissimilarity judgments are predicted by representational distance

Presentation given by Dr Kamila Maria Jóźwik, University of Cambridge. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonste…

Modelling action selection in large substantia nigra pars compacta dopamine neurons

Presentation given by Chris Rourk, Citizen Scientist. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Recorded and…

Novel application of hidden Markov models for naturalistic event processing in higher cortical areas

Presentation given by Jamal Williams, Princeton University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Recorde…

The emergence of geometric worldviews in qualia space

Presentation given by Professor Pedro Resende, Instituto Superior Técnico. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromons…

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

Presentation given by Andrew Ligeralde, University of California, Berkeley. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromon…

Learning from almost no data

Presentation given by Dr Ilia Sucholutsky, Princeton University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Re…

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

Presentation given by Dr Golnaz Baghdadi, Amirkabir University of Technology. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neurom…

Pruning for efficiency in Hopfield networks

Presentation given by Dr Steeve Laquitaine, Leuven University. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Reco…

Setting the Benchmark Test for Archetypal Models in Mathematical Consciousness Science

Presentation given by Dr Jonathan Mason, University of Oxford. Third Annual Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Crete (2022) www.neuromonster.org Reco…