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Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Summer School
CNeuro2026 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.
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Speaker & Moderator
Date & Time in Beijing, GMT +8
Lecture Title
JULY 7 (Tuesday)
BREAK & DINNER
18.00-20.00
BREAK & DINNER
17.00-19.00
09.00-09.30
09.30-10.00
10.00-11.30
13.00-14.30
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.30
18.30-20.00
20.00-21.00
JULY 8 (Wednesday)
10.00-11.30
13.00-14.30
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.30
18.30-20.00
20.00-21.00
JULY 9 (Thursday)
10.00-11.30
13.00-14.30
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.00
20.00-21.00
10.30-11.30
13.00-14.00
14.30-15.30
15.30-17.00
20.00-21.00
JULY 11 (Saturday)
09.00-10.30
11.00-12.00
10.00-11.30
13.00-14.30
14.30-15.00
15.00-18.30
10.00-11.00
JULY 14 (Tuesday)
13.00-14.00
14.30-15.30
16.00-17.00
to be announced
How We (and AI) Solve New Problems
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Brain-Wide Imaging in C. Elegans Behavioural Neuroscience
ADVANCED SESSION
BASIC SESSION
How Deep Networks Represent Concepts - from Gender, Time and Geography to Composite Notions
Recurrent Networks for Cognitive Computation: Foundations and a Case Study in Econoimc Decision-Making
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Organizing Behaviors across Timescales
Moderator: Louis Tao
Valuation and Deliberation in the Brain
Moderator: Quan Wen
to be announced
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Brain Inspired Dual Timescale Recurrent Model
How Neural Scaling Laws Emerge from the Statistics of Natural Language - and How to Beat Them
High-Throughput Data Analysis and Segmentation in Brain-Wide Imaging
Leveraging AI for Automated Discovery of Interpretable Cognitive Models
to be announced
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Information Theoretical Approaches to Model Synaptic Plasticity
Recurrent Networks for Cognitive Computation: Perception-Memory-Decision Interactions
Modeling How the Brain Learns to Represent Ambiguous Environments: Abstraction and Probability
Arrival & Registration
INTRODUCTION
LUNCH BREAK
11.30-13.00
BREAK
30min break
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
LIFE & SCIENCE PANEL SESSION 2
Matthieu Wyart &
Sukbin Lim
BREAK
30min break
LUNCH BREAK
11.30-13.00
JULY 10 (Friday)
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
Moderator: Quan Wen
LIFE & SCIENCE PANEL SESSION 3
Nathaniel Daw &
Louis Tao
BREAK
30min break
BREAK
JULY 13 (Monday)
LUNCH BREAK
11.30-13.00
BREAK & DINNER
18.30-20.00
LUNCH BREAK
11.00-13.00
Opening Remarks
LIFE & SCIENCE
SESSION 1
Hang Zhang &
Aravinthan Samuel
LUNCH BREAK
11.30-13.00
STUDENT SElF-PRESENTATIONS 1
Groups 1-3
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
Moderator: Rava Azeredo da Silveira
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
Moderator: Quan Wen
BREAK
30min
LUNCH BREAK
11.30-13.00
STUDENT SELF-PRESENTATIONS 2
Groups 4-6
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
BREAK & DINNER
17.00-20.00
BREAK & DINNER
17.00-20.00
LAB VISIT
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
WORKSHOP
Building Bridges:
Where Neural Networks Meet Cognition, And Theory Meets Data
10.00-18.00
JULY 12 (Sunday)
GROUP PROJECT
Poster Sessions
FAREWELL
LIFE & SCIENCE
SESSION 4
Michael Häusser &
Taro Toyoizumi
Moderator: Louis Tao
TEACHING ASSISTANTS' OFFICE HOUR
FAREWELL & FEEDBACK DISCUSSION
BREAK
30min break
Moderator:
Organizers & Lecturers
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