Schedule

09:15 – Welcome remarks

09:30 – Alex Cayco Gajic, ENS Paris

“A distributed framework for systems consolidation in multi-region RNNs”

10:00 – Fanny Cazettes, Aix Marseille

“The fingerprint of serotonin in mouse foraging”

10:30 – Garrett Stuber, UW

“Hierarchical circuit dynamics for reward learning: from neural encoding to meta-learning”

11:00 – Break

11:30 – Alison Duffy, UW

“Natural behavior is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement”

12:00 - Ilya Monosov, Johns Hopkins

“Uncertainty reduction in the brain”

12:30 – Lunch and poster session #1

02:30 – Elad Schneidman, Weizmann

03:00 – Sue Su, Allen Institute

“Reinforcement-learning signals in locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons”

03:30 – Break

04:00 – Guillaume Lajoie, Mila/Université de Montréal

“Generalizable, real-time neural decoding with hybrid state-space models”

04:30 - David McCormick, Oregon

“Psychedelics dramatically enhance the infraslow oscillation.  A mechanism for neuroplasticity enhancement”

05:00 - 6:30 Poster Session #2

09:30 - Jean-Baptiste Masson, Pasteur Institute

“Experimental and statistical signature of neuromodulation at the single neuron level”

10:00 – Blake Richards, McGill

“Representational geometry in self-supervised learning”

10:30 – Shuchen Wu, Allen Institute/UW

“The Emergence of Entities from Perceptual Sequences”

10:50 – Break

11:20 - Jake Sacks, UW

“Fast and slow population-level mechanisms of learning in the motor cortex”

11:40 – Lukas Braun, Allen Institute

“An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity”

12:00 – Christian Schmid, Oregon

“Rate Expectations: Perceptrons Gone Critical”

12:20 – Lunch

02:00 - Jeremy Seamans, UBC

”Dopamine modulates prefrontal cortex dynamics but not in the service of reinforcement learning”

02:30 – Li Zhaoping, Max Planck

“What does the primary visual cortex (V1) do?”

03:00 - Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic, Allen

“Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions shape decision trajectories”

03:30 - Break

04:00 - Panel Discussion

“How do we integrate our rapidly increasing understanding of AI and the brain’s parts list into network models of brain function?”

05:30 - 8:00 – Reception at Center for Wooden Boats (1010 Valley St, Seattle, WA 98109)