COSYNE 2026 WORKSHOPS

16 March 2026

Advances in population level perspectives for neural activity perturbations
Organizers: Joana Soldado-Magraner, Asma Motiwala, Emily Oby, Yuki Minai


Algorithms for Learning from Scratch
Organizers: Alison Comrie, Laura Grima


Biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities
Organizers: Nicolas Skatchkovsky, Jascha Achterberg


Bridging the gap between cell types and spike trains
Organizers: Josh Siegle, Kenji Lee


Edge of Tomorrow: Theory and Practice of Closed-Loop Neural Control
Organizers: Nina Kudryashova, Melina Müller, Matthias Hennig, Luke Bashford


Efficient Coding in the Modern Age: Adaptive Representations for Vision Across Brains and Machines
Organizers: Simone Azegli, Sonica Saraf, Pietro Zamberlan


Multi agent modeling of social dynamics and collective decision making
Organizers: Kay Tye, Sounak Mohanta


Renormalization Principles in Neural Systems: From Circuits to Cognition
Organizers: Jesseba Fernando, Giovanni Petri , Andrea Santoro


Synapses at scale I: what we learn from comparing connectomes across species
Organizers: Michael Winding, David Deutsch


The Neural Code of Action Sequences: From Learning to Execution
Organizers: Meghana G. Potta, Saurabh Vyas, Mehrdad Jazayeri


17 March 2026

100 years of spikes – but why?
Organizers: Tobias Kuhn, Jean-Pascal Pfister


Agent-based Models in Neuroscience: Theory, Autonomy, Embodiment and Environment
Organizers: Satpreet Singh, Aran Nayebi, Elliott Abe


AI for Interpretable Model Discovery in Neuroscience
Organizers: Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon


Circuits, Dynamics, and Computation in Social Behavior
Organizers: Aditi Jha, Libby Zhang


Inferring neural latent states from behavior
Organizers: Fanny Cazettes, Marieke Schölvinck


Mechanisms for learning across distributed neural populations
Organizers: Taiga Abe, Catherine Wang


Mechanistic interpretability in brains and machines: shared concepts and converging methods
Organizers: Ciana Deveau, Jake Russin


Replaying the future: neural mechanisms of generative replay
Organizers: Kristopher Jensen, Diksha Gupta, Eleanor Spens


Symbols as foundational to the biological basis of intelligent behavior
Organizers: Lucas Tian, Mathias Sablé-Meyer


Synapses at scale II: what we learn from connectomes when building models
Organizers: Julijana Gjorgjieva, Nuno Maçarico da Costa, Bethanny Danskin