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Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Summer School
CNeuro2025 Event Schedule
This Summer School is organised in a two sessions: Basic and Advanced. It also includes a number of group discussions, hosted by the organizers and lecturers.
Please find the dates and times of the lectures (in golden yellow) and the group discussions (in dark blue).
A PDF version of this schedule can be downloaded here.
The lecture dates and times for Basel (GMT +2) and Beijing (GMT +8) are also listed separately in two respective columns.
Speaker & Moderator
Date & Time in Beijing, GMT +8
Lecture Title
DINNER
17.00-19.00
09.00-09.30
09.30-09.40
09.40-10.00
10.00-11.30
10 min
break
11.55-12.40
10 min
break
19.55-20.40
13.00-14.30
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.00
18.00-20.00
20.00-midnight
AUGUST 17 (Sunday)
10.00-11.30
13.00-14.30
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.00
20.00-midnight
AUGUST 18 (Monday)
10.00-11.30
13.00-14.30
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.00
20.00-midnight
10.00-11.30
11.30-13.00
15.00-16.00
16.00-16.30
16.30-17.30
20.00-midnight
AUGUST 20 (Wednesday)
AUGUST 21 (Thursday)
09.00-10.30
09.00-10.30
11.00-12.00
13.00-14.00
13.00-14.00
14.30-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-18.00
19.00-midnight
AUGUST 22 (Friday)
09.30-10.30
11.00-12.00
13.00-14.00
14.30-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-18.00
20.00-midnight
AUGUST 23 (Saturday)
09.00-10.30
11.00-12.00
13.00-14.00
14.30-15.30
16.00-17.00
Coding, Noise, and Decision
Theory and Method in Random Recurrent Neural Network Models
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
The Bayesian Brain: From Probabilistic Inference to Neural Codes
BASIC SESSION
Attractor Models in Working Memory and Decision Making
Hopfield Paradigm: Learning Efficiency and Representation Geometry
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Cognitive Maps: What Do They Represent and How Are They Constructed?
Moderator: Louis Tao
The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why Do We Live at 10 bits/s?
Moderator: Quan Wen
A Factor-Centric View of Cognitive Computation
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Computational Methods for Structural and Functional Imaging Analysis
Implementing RL in Biological Circuits
Normative Approaches to Understanding Neural Computation
Fine-Tuning of Attractors on a Ring Underlies the Learning of Robust Working Memory
Rapid Learning of Complex Tasks - from Phenomena to Algorithms
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Non-Hopfieldian Dynamics: Challenges and Opportunities
Bridging Network and Circuit Models: a Low-Rank Approach
Hebbian/Anti-Hebbia Networks: From Biologically Plausible Learning Rules to Representational Drift
Tracking Internal Models in the Brain
Mapping Brain Connections for Understanding Functions
Arrival & Registration
Moderator: Quan Wen
INTRODUCTION
LUNCH
11.30-13.00
BREAK
30min break
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
LIFE & SCIENCE PANEL SESSION 2
​
Qianli Yang &
Albert Compte
BREAK
30min break
LUNCH
11.30-13.00
AUGUST 19 (Tuesday)
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
Moderator: Louis Tao
LIFE & SCIENCE PANEL SESSION 3
​Haiping Huang &
Xinyu Zhao
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 3
BREAK
30min break
DINNER
16.30-19.00
BREAK
AUGUST 21 (Thursday)
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
LIFE & SCIENCE SESSION 4
Markus Meister &
Bin Min
LUNCH
12.00-13.00
BREAK
30min break
STUDENT GROUP PRESENTATIONS 1
LIFE & SCIENCE SESSION 5
Pencheng Zhou &
Adrienne Fairhall
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
DINNER
18.00-19.00
LIFE & SCIENCE PANEL SESSION 6
​Ruben Moreno-Bote &
Shanshan Qin
Moderator: Louis Tao
BREAK
30min break
Moderator: Organizers & Lecturers
AUGUST 16 (Saturday)
Welcome to CNeuro2025
LIFE & SCIENCE
SESSION 1
Rava Azeredo da Silveira & Yuxiu Shao
LUNCH
11.30-13.00
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 1
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
Moderator: Quan Wen
DINNER
18.00-20.00
BREAK
30min
LUNCH
11.30-13.00
ADVANCED SESSION
FAREWELL
BREAK
30min break
LUNCH
12.00-13.00
Modeling Factor Interactions with the Restricted-RNN Framework
The Emergence of an Abstract Cognitive Map of Reward Sequences in the Hippocampus through Learning
BREAK
30min break
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
STUDENT GROUP PRESENTATIONS 2
Moderator: Teaching Assistants
DINNER
18.00-20.00
Introduction to Soft Reinforcement Learning (basic lecture)
Behavior Without Rewards: the Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP)
Build a Bayesian Brain from Scratch: Multisensory Perception through Probabilistic Neural Codes
Memory, Decision, and Cognitive Representations
BREAK
30min break
LUNCH
12.00-13.00
BREAK
30min break
DINNER
17.30-20.00
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 2
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
FAREWELL & FEEDBACK DISCUSSION
Moderator: Quan Wen
BREAK
30min break
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 4
OPEN EVENING
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