Program
The following schedule is subject to change. Abstracts and other information are coming soon. There will be no online streaming.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration | Okochi Hall (C32) |
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| 9:30-9:40 | Introductory remarks | |
| Session 1: Intelligence of minds | ||
| 9:40-10:15 | Anne Collins (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley) "Mechanisms supporting flexible human learning" |
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| 10:15-10:50 | Tomoyo Shiramatsu (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo) "Drawing parallels between the environment and art from brain characteristics" |
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| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10-11:45 | Yukie Nagai (Project Professor, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo) "From brains to bodies: Embodied predictive processing as the foundation of intelligence" |
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| 11:45-13:15 | Lunch | Cafeteria (C61) |
| Session 2: Intelligence of neurons | Okochi Hall (C32) | |
| 13:15-13:50 | Máté Lengyel (Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge; Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University) "Simple principles underlying complex neural responses" |
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| 13:50-14:25 | Taegon Kim (Senior Researcher, Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) "Modulatory neurotransmitter system and its implications in neuroscience and application to artificial neural network" |
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| 14:25-14:45 | Coffee break | |
| 14:45-15:20 | Sukbin Lim (Assistant Professor, New York University, Shanghai) "Uncovering context-dependent dynamics in working memory: Insights from an RNN study" |
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| 15:20-15:55 | Louis Kang (Unit Leader, RIKEN CBS) "Computational demands influence seizure susceptibility in recurrent neural networks" |
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| 15:55-16:10 | Break | |
| 16:10-17:50 | Poster session |
Brain Science Central Building (C51) |
| 17:50-18:00 | Break | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Speaker's banquet | Hirosawa Club (C71) |
Friday, January 17, 2025
| 9:30-9:40 | Introductory remarks | Okochi Hall (C32) |
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| Session 3: Intelligence through mathematics | ||
| 9:40-10:15 | Masafumi Oizumi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo) "Structure-to-structure mapping between humans and AIs" |
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| 10:15-10:50 | Ryo Karakida (Senior Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) "Stable parameterization of local learning rules in the infinite-width limit" |
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| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee break (with group photo) | |
| 11:10-11:45 | Shun-ichi Amari (Honorary Scientist, RIKEN Center for Brain Science) "AI and mathematical neuroscience" |
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| 11:45-13:15 | Lunch | Cafeteria (C61) |
| Session 4: Intelligence through computation | Okochi Hall (C32) | |
| 13:15-13:50 | Tomoki Fukai (Professor, Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) "Inhibition matters: chunking and replay of attractor memories" |
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| 13:50-14:25 | Anna Levina (Assistant Professor for Computational Neuroscience, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen) "Neural timescales and how they relate to computations in the brain and artificial systems" |
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| 14:25-14:45 | Coffee break | |
| 14:45-15:20 | Takuya Isomura (Unit Leader, RIKEN CBS) "Triple equivalence for the emergence of biological intelligence" |
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| 15:20-15:55 | Pulin Gong (Associate Professor, School of Physics, University of Sydney) "Fractional neural sampling: a common computational mechanism of biological and artificial intelligence?" |
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| 15:55-16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15-16:50 | Takeru Matsuda (Unit Leader, RIKEN CBS; Associate Professor, University of Tokyo) "Analysis of kimariji in competitive karuta: sequential Bayes and reservoir computing" |
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| 16:50-17:00 | Concluding remarks |