DAY 1 – Dec 9th K-500 Amphitheater – Pavillon Roger Gaudry – Université de Montréal |
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8:30 Opening day 1 - A word from organizers and sponsors
8:45 Dr Danilo Bzdok (Aachen University, Germany) "Statistics wars in imaging neuroscience: classical inference vs. pattern generalization"
9:30 Dr Pamela Douglas (UCLA) "Building Brain Computational Models"
10:15 Pause
10:35 Special Announcements
10:45 Dr Irina Rish (IBM Watson Research, NY, USA) “Modeling Brain Dynamics: van der Pol, LSTMs and beyond”
11:30 Keynote 1: Dr Yves Fregnac (CNRS, Paris) "From Big-data driven simulation of the Brain and artificial intelligence to the myth of transhumanism"
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Dr Susanna Still (Machine Learning Lab, Univ Hawaii) "From metabolic efficiency to rules of information processing" (TBC)
14:30 Dr Ben D. Huh (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA) “Exploring the space of spike-based computations”
15:15 Dr Dan Yamins (NeuroAILab, Stanford Neurosciences Institute) “Cognitively Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Neuroscience”
16:15 Keynote 2: Dr Yoshua Bengio (Mila/UdeM) "Inspiration from Brains for Deep Learning and Inspiration from Deep Learning for Brains"
17:15 Round table discussion/debate
17:45 MAIN Cocktails + Posters
DAY 2 – Dec 10th K-500 Amphitheater – Pavillon Roger Gaudry – Université de Montréal
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8:30 Opening day 2 - A word from organizers and sponsors
8:45 Dr Pascal Vincent (Mila/Facebook/UdeM) "Introduction to Deep Learning"
9:30 Dr Blake Richards (Toronto) "A deep learning recipe for neuroscience"
10:15 Pause
10:35 Special Announcements
10:45 Dr Michael Mozer (Univ Boulder Colorado, USA) - "Long-term memory in humans and machines: On the benefits of forgetting"
11:30 Keynote 3: Dr Tatyana Sharpee (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego) "Elements of cortical computation that enhance robustness of object recognition"
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Dr Sebastian Stober (Artificial Intelligence Lab, University Magdeburg) "Bridging Deep Learning & Cognitive Neuroscience - From Method Transfer to Hybrid Modeling"
14:30 Dr Alexandre Gramfort (INRIA, Université Paris Saclay, France) "Learning representations from neural signals"
15:15 Dr Radoslaw Martin Cichy (Free University Berlin, Germany) "Do DNNs in cognitive science make sense?"
16:15 Keynote 4: Dr Doina Precup (Mila/McGill/DeepMind) “Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in computers and brains”
17:15 Student prizes
19:00 MAIN Party time (Details TBA