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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

18.00-20.00

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

18.00-20.00

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

13.00-14.30

15.00-16.00

16.00-16.30

AUGUST 20 (Wednesday)

09.00-10.00

09.00-10.30

10.30-12.00

13.00-14.00

13.00-14.00

14.30-15.30

15.30-16.00

16.00-18.00

20.00-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

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

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

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

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

18.00-20.00

BREAK

AUGUST 21 (Thursday)

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

18.00-20.00

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: 
Organizers & Lecturers

Moderator: Quan Wen

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

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

18.00-20.00

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 2

Moderator: 
Organizers & Lecturers

FAREWELL & FEEDBACK DISCUSSION

Moderator: Quan Wen

BREAK

30min break

OPEN EVENING

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Molecular & Clinical
Ophthalmology Basel

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100084 Beijing, China

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