RIKEN CBS Co-Creation International Conference


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

9:30-9:40 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"
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"
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"
11:45-13:15 Lunch

Session 2: Intelligence of neurons
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"
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"
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"
15:20-15:55 Louis Kang (Unit Leader, RIKEN CBS)
"Computational demands influence seizure susceptibility in recurrent neural networks"
15:55-16:05 Group picture
16:05-16:15 Break
16:15-17:45 Poster session
17:45-18:00 Break
18:00-20:00 Speaker's banquet

Friday, January 17, 2025

9:30-9:40 Introductory remarks

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"
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"
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:45 Shun-ichi Amari (Honorary Scientist, RIKEN Center for Brain Science)
"AI and mathematical neuroscience"
11:45-13:15 Lunch

Session 3: Intelligence through computation
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"
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"
14:25-14:45 Coffee break
14:45-15:20 Mizuki Oka (Associate Professor, Graduate School for Sciences and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba)
"Open-ended evolution: bridging the gap between biological and artificial intelligence"
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?"
15:55-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-16:50 Takeru Matsuda (Unit Leader, RIKEN CBS; Associate Professor, University of Tokyo)
to be announced
16:50-17:00 Concluding remarks