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
