Champalimaud Research Symposium – Quantitative Approaches to Behaviour and Neural Systems
Lisbon, PT
Attendance type(s): In Person
Event Dates: 23—26 Oct 2018
Registrations are now open for the Champalimaud Research Symposium “Quantitative Approaches to Behaviour and Neural Systems”, held in Lisbon, Portugal from 23rd-26th October 2018. The symposium features a prestigious line-up of speakers in theoretical and behavioural neuroscience.
The Symposium aims to define and address the challenges present in developing theory-oriented quantitative approaches to understanding the behaviour of organisms, the function and structure of their nervous systems, and the emergence of organisation in complex adaptive systems. Seminars will span a range of levels from pure theory to data analysis and experimental work. As well as highlighting detailed investigations of specific problems, talks will emphasise the identification of general principles and key theoretical frameworks that should lay the foundation of the neuroscience and biology of the future.
The Symposium will be structured as a single-track programme in which talks by a distinguished line-up of invited speakers, as well as speakers selected from submitted abstracts, are interleaved with poster sessions where symposium participants present their research. Discussion sessions with panels composed by invited speakers will also be part of the programme.
The event will be held at our Centre, in a stunning setting on the waterfront in Lisbon, and will also feature a social programme which will give participants the chance to explore this beautiful and historic city.
Confirmed Speakers:
Uri Alon (Weizmann)
Albert-Lászlá Barabási (Northeastern)
Tim Behrens (Oxford)
Matthew Botvinick (Princeton/Google)
Megan Carey (Champalimaud Research)
Anne Churchland (CSHL)
John Doyle (CalTech)
Florian Engert (Harvard)
Rainer Friedrich (FMI, Basel)
Surya Ganguli (Stanford)
Maria Geffen (U. Penn)
Stuart Geman (Brown)
Mark Humphries (Univ. Manchester)
Christian Machens (Champalimaud Research)
Josh McDermott (MIT)
Nicole Rust (U. Penn)
Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University)
Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young Univ.)
Barbara Webb (Univ. Edinburgh)
Angela Yu (UCSD)