join 200+ participants from 35 countries & 30 institutions worldwide / register now: don’t miss the regular fee until 3 Oct / detailed programme now available / 4 keynote + 11 invited + 14 selected talks + 2 poster sessions with a total of 80 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



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

TBA


Juan Álvaro Gallego, PhD
Imperial College London
London, UK




12:00

Neural population structure underlying multifunctional brain-computer interfaces


Chethan Pandarinath, PhD
Emory University and Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia, USA




12:30

Charting the space of dynamics with hierarchical state-space models


Ayesha Vermani, PhD candidate
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 & Meet the Expert




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.