join 300+ participants from 37 countries & 40 institutions worldwide / register now: don’t miss the regular fee until 3 Oct / detailed programme now available / 4 keynote + 10 invited + 14 selected talks + 2 poster sessions with a total of 73 posters + 1 discussion panel / social programme: scale up your connections beyond the conference /



wed 15

scaling up
thu 16

cybernetic
loops
fri 17

models
and robots

︎  Time in Lisbon (WEST)


wed 15  / scaling up


morning chair:
Guillaume Hennequin, PhD
University of Cambridge. Cambridge, United Kingdom
afternoon chair:
I. Memming Park, PhD
Neural Dynamics Lab, Champalimaud Foundation. Lisbon, Portugal


08:30

Registration & Welcome Coffee




09:30

Opening Remarks


Leonor Beleza, President of the Champalimaud Foundation



10:00

Misha B. Ahrens, PhD 

Janelia Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, Virginia, USA




11:00

Coffee Break




11:30

Neural manifolds, invariances, and meaning


Juan Álvaro Gallego, PhD
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, PT




12:00

Computational approaches towards cognitive motor control


Shreya Saxena, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wu Tsai Institute
Yale, United States




12:30

Charting the space of dynamics with hierarchical state-space models


Ayesha Vermani, PhD
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, PT




12:45

Flow equivariant cybernetics


T. Anderson Keller, PhD
The Kempner Institute For the Study of Natural & Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University
Cambridge, USA



13:00

Lunch




16:30

Ehud Ahissar, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel


18:00 & 18:30

Champalimaud Tours


Get to know the inside of the Champalimaud Foundation and discover the groundbreaking science conducted within its walls.