Full Program

ACAIN-2024-Program ver01


Arrival: September 21


9:00 -
LOD Opening (Crown room)

9:05 - 9:45
Towards a statistical foundation for machine learning methods (Crown room)
Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

9:45 - 10:30
AI and Data Sciences for Sleep Disorders (Crown room)
Panos Pardalos

10:30 - 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 -
ACAIN Opening

11:20 - 12:00
Lecture 1/2 “Exploring locomotion control circuits in the spinal cord using biorobots and simulations. Part 1: lamprey and salamander locomotion”
Auke Jan Ijspeert

12:00 - 12:45
Lecture 1/3 “Reinforcement Learning 1: Psychology and Artificial Intelligence”
Maria K. Eckstein

12:45 - 14:45
Lunch

14:45 - 15:30
Lecture 2/2 “Exploring locomotion control circuits in the spinal cord using biorobots and simulations. Part 2: mammalian and human locomotion”
Auke Jan Ijspeert

15:30 - 16:15
Lecture 1/3 "An overview of active inference"
Thomas Parr

16:15 - 17:00
Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45
Lecture 1/2 "Structured Generative Models"
Loic Matthey

17:45 - 18:30
Lecture 1/3 "Mind-wandering as a window onto spontaneous cognition and creativity"
Alessandro Treves

18:30 - 19:15
Lecture 2/3 "The dynamics of beliefs"
Thomas Parr

19:15 - 20:00
Lecture 2/3 "Analysing differential cortical contributions to latching dynamics"
Alessandro Treves

20:00 - 21:30
Dinner

9:00 - 9:45
How LLMs might accelerate biomedical discovery and help scale world class healthcare to everyone (Crown room)
Vivek Natarajan

9:45 - 10:30
Algorithmic LLM alignment (Crown room)
Michal Valko

10:30 - 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 - 12:00
Lecture 3/3 "Quantifying the subjective, beyond-Wikipedia experience"
Alessandro Treves

12:00 - 12:45
Lecture 3/3 "Message passing in the brain"
Thomas Parr

12:45 - 14:45
Lunch

14:45 - 15:30
Lecture 1/2 “Introduction to brain-inspired computing”
Melika Payvand

15:30 - 16:15
Lecture 2/3 “Reinforcement Learning 2: Neuroscience and Cognitive Modeling”
Maria K. Eckstein

16:15 - 17:00
Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45
Lecture 2/2 “What's so hard about model-based agents?”
Loic Matthey

17:45 - 18:30
Lecture 3/3 “Cognitive Modeling with Neural Networks: Theory Discovery Using Novel Methods”
Maria K. Eckstein

18:30 - 19:15
Lecture 2/2 “Brain-inspired computing: Trends, applications, outlook”
Melika Payvand

19:15 - 20:00
Free time

20:00 - 21:30
Dinner

9:00 - 9:45
Data Science in the Era of Foundation Models – Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice (Crown room)
Sven Giesselbach

9:45 - 10:30
Challenges, approaches, needs and points of vire for industry grade AI (Crown room)
Raniero Romagnogli

10:30 - 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45
Session 1

12:45 - 14:45
Lunch

14:45 - 15:30
Session 2

15:30 - 18:30
Free time

18:30 - 20:00
Session 3

20:00 - 21:30
Dinner

9:00 - 10:30
Session 4

10:30 - 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45
Session 5

12:45 - 14:45
Lunch

14:45 - 16:10
Session 6

16:10 -
Closing

16:15 - 20:00
Free time

20:00 - 21:30
Social Dinner


Departure: September 26