Programme

Early Career Researcher (ECR) workshop

The ECR workshop will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday, 9 July, and the morning of Thursday, 10 July. It will include networking, talks, and sessions on career development, grants, starting a lab, and more. Targeted at PhD students and postdocs.

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Main conference

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  • 11:30–12:30
    Registration and lunch

  • 12:30–12:45
    Welcome from the organisers

  • 12:45–13:00
    Jacques Carolan (ARIA)

    Precision Neurotechnologies for Human Therapeutics

  • 13:00–13:30
    Jonathan Cornford (University of Leeds)

    Normative brain-like learning algorithms

  • 13:30–14:00
    Ian Hawes (University of Edinburgh)

    Context-specific speed integration enables memory generalisation

  • 14:00–14:30
    Jennifer Bizley (UCL)

    How does the brain construct auditory space?

  • 14:30–15:00
    Coffee

  • 15:00–15:30
    Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge)

    The neural and computational blueprint for surviving pain

  • 15:30–16:00
    Andrea Colins Rodriguez (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez / University of Nottingham)

    Rhythmic and discrete arm movements arise from the same control strategy in Primary Motor Cortex but not in the Supplementary Motor Area

  • 16:30–16:30
    Petr Znamenskiy (Francis Crick Institute)

    A depth map of visual space in the primary visual cortex

  • 16:30–18:30
    Posters session 1 & Networking Reception

    sponsored by The Francis Crick Institute

  • 9:30–10:00
    Simon Schultz (Imperial College)

    Neural manifold inference by maximising information

  • 10:00–10:30
    Jack Cook (University of Oxford)

    Brain-Like Pathways Form in Models With Heterogeneous Experts

  • 10:30–11:00
    Claudia Clopath (Imperial College)

    Estimating the uncertainty of feedforward and feedback inputs with prediction-error circuits

  • 11:00–11:30
    Coffee

  • 11:30–13:00
    ARIA Breakout Session

    Research funding opportunities and priorities

  • 13:00–14:00
    Lunch (overlaps with start of poster session)

  • 13:30–15:00
    Poster session 2

  • 15:00–15:30
    Petra Vertes (University of Cambridge)

    Reservoir Computing as a Window into Structure-Function Relationships in Neural Systems

  • 15:30–16:00
    Sebastian Castedo (Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS)

    Energy-Efficient Neural Coding Under Food Restriction: Structure, Noise, and Resilience

  • 16:00–16:30
    Paul Graham (University of Sussex)

    Spatial computations in shallow, insect-inspired networks

  • 16:30–17:00
    Coffee

  • 17:00–17:45
    Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)

    Predictive coding: effective learning with local plasticity

  • 17:45–18:00
    UKNC organisers

    Closing