COSYNE 2025 WORKSHOPS

31 March 2025

Agent-based models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond
Organizers: Ching Fang, Satpreet Singh, Gizem Ozdil


Learning, fast and slow: Mechanisms for multi-timescale behavioral flexibility (Day 1)
Organizers: Harsha Gurnani, Jacob Sacks, Matt Golub


What makes us unique: Deconstructing the sources of individual differences
Organizers: Deryn LeDuke, Felix Taschbach, Kay Tye


Navigation under uncertainty
Organizers: Jan Drugowitsch, Máté Lengyel


Towards an Algorithmic Framework for Studying Compositionality in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
Organizers: Sina Tafazoli, Adel Ardalan, Timothy Buschman


Causal perturbation based approaches to uncovering neural dynamics
Organizers: Aditi Jha, Anushri Arora, Yoel Sanchez Araujo


Brain mechanisms of working memory: where do we stand?
Organizers: Klaus Wimmer, Albert Compte


It’s all connected! – Graph approaches to geometric complexity in neuroscience
Organizers: Brian DePasquale, Kim Stachenfeld, Sam Lewallen


Building a foundation model for the brain: datasets, theory, and models (Day 1)
Organizers: Nanda H Krishna, Blake Richards, Avery Hee-Woon Ryoo, Mehdi Azabou, Cole Hurwitz, Eva Dyer


Dynamics of brain computations through the lens of control theory
Organizers: Lea Duncker, Piotr Sokol, Kristofer Bouchard, Dmitri Chklovskii


20 years of grid cells: Technological advances lead to new perspectives
Organizers: Dori Derdikman, Charlotte Boccara


01 April 2025

Learning, fast and slow: Mechanisms for multi-timescale behavioral flexibility (Day 2)
Organizers: Harsha Gurnani, Jacob Sacks, Matt Golub


Reimagining Reinforcement Learning in the Brain
Organizers: Alison Comrie, Nathaniel Daw


Object-centric Neuronal Representations Across Biological and Artificial Vision Systems
Organizers: Katrin Franke, Maria Diamantaki


Latest developments and future directions in systems and computational human neuroscience, capitalizing on intracranial electrophysiology technologies
Organizers: Mauricio Rangel-Gomez, Merav Sabri


Neural computations without neurons
Organizers: Shervin Safavi, Leo Kozachkov, Inbal Goshen


What biological details matter at mesoscopic scales?
Organizers: Gabriel Ocker, Braden Brinkman


Collectively Emerged Timescales
Organizers: Merav Stern, Giancarlo La Camera


The Dynamic Brain: Modeling Time-Varying Computations Underlying Natural and Innate Behaviors
Organizers: Aditya Nair, Scott W Linderman, David J Anderson, Adam S. Charles, Noga Mudrik


Building a foundation model for the brain: datasets, theory, and models (Day 2)
Organizers: Nanda H Krishna, Blake Richards, Avery Hee-Woon Ryoo, Mehdi Azabou, Cole Hurwitz, Eva Dyer


Dynamics of brain computations through the lens of control theory
Organizers: Lea Duncker, Piotr Sokol, Kristofer Bouchard, Dmitri Chklovskii