Programme
ECR workshops
The workshops will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday, 9 July, and the morning of Thursday, 10 July. They will include networking, sessions on career development, and other activities relevant to ECRs. Targeted at PhD students and postdocs. A schedule will be sent to all ECR workshop attendees.
Main conference
Download the provisional programme
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11:30–12:30
Registration and lunch
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12:30–12:45
Welcome from the organisers
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12:45–13:00
Jacques Carolan (ARIA)
Precision Neurotechnologies for Human Therapeutics
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13:00–13:30
Jonathan Cornford (University of Leeds)
Normative brain-like learning algorithms
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13:30–14:00
Ian Hawes (University of Edinburgh)
Context-specific speed integration enables memory generalisation
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14:00–14:30
Jennifer Bizley (UCL)
How does the brain construct auditory space?
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14:30–15:00
Coffee
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15:00–15:30
Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge)
TBD
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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
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16:30–16:30
Petr Znamenskiy (Francis Crick Institute)
A depth map of visual space in the primary visual cortex
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16:30–18:30
Posters session 1 & Networking Reception
sponsored by The Francis Crick Institute
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9:30–10:00
Simon Schultz (Imperial College)
Neural manifold inference by maximising information
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10:00–10:30
Jack Cook (University of Oxford)
Brain-Like Pathways Form in Models With Heterogeneous Experts
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10:30–11:00
Claudia Clopath (Imperial College)
Estimating the uncertainty of feedforward and feedback inputs with prediction-error circuits
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11:00–11:30
Coffee
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11:30–13:00
ARIA Breakout Session
Research funding opportunities and priorities
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13:00–14:00
Lunch (overlaps with start of poster session)
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13:30–15:00
Poster session 2
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15:00–15:30
Petra Vertes (University of Cambridge)
Reservoir Computing as a Window into Structure-Function Relationships in Neural Systems
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15:30–16:00
Sebastian Castedo (Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS)
Energy-Efficient Neural Coding Under Food Restriction: Structure, Noise, and Resilience
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16:00–16:30
Paul Graham (University of Sussex)
Spatial computations in shallow, insect-inspired networks
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16:30–17:00
Coffee
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17:00–17:45
Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Predictive coding: effective learning with local plasticity
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17:45–18:00
UKNC organisers
Closing