Phase-1 took place online in June 10-11

Structure

Session I: Theoretical Challenges

Assuming unlimited access to organismal data, what are important theoretical challenges that we still need to solve in order to understand the neuromechanical basis of behavior?

Chair: Eduardo Izquierdo. Thu. 1-3p EST

Session II: Individuality and Redundancies

How do the same neural circuits produce different behaviors, different circuits the same behavior, and what is the role of parallel, redundant, or even antagonistic circuits?

Chair: Eva Naumann, Thu. 3-5p EST

Social hour

Thu. 5-6p EST

Session III: Memory and Computation in Navigation

Navigation circuits in brains and intelligent machines - functional logic of key computational and memory elements.

Chair: Aurel A. Lazar. Fri. 1-3p EST

Session IV: Questions in the Rough

This session will reverse the usual order of discussion by presenting a question followed by an argument, instead of an argument, followed by questions.

Chair: Gal Haspel. Fri. 3:05-5p EST

General Discussion

Fri. 5:05-6p EST

Guidelines

• Only speakers will have their cameras and microphones on (we have 518 registered attendees).

• Each speaker will present, uninterrupted for 10 minutes, followed by questions and discussion from other speakers and by chat from registered attendees.

• In some sessions there will be a general discussion.

• Privacy: We will record the workshop for documentation purposes. If speakers agree, we will share their presentation and the following discussion on the meeting website, but only with their explicit permission.

Invited Speakers

Alex Gomez-Marin (Universidad Miguel Hernández), Astrid Prinz (Emory University), Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh), Ben De Bivort (Harvard University), C. Randy Gallistel (Rutgers University), Eva Dyer (Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine), Eve Marder (Brandeis University), Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego), Gwyneth Card (HHMI Janelia Research Campus), Hillel Chiel (Case Western Reserve University), Horacio G. Rotstein (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Kamran Khodakhah (Einstein College), Katherine Nagel (New York University), Kenta Asahina (Salk Institute), Konrad Kording (University of Pennsylvania), Leslie M. Kay (University of Chicago), Netta Cohen (University of Leeds), Pavan Ramdya (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Randall D. Beer (Indiana University), Sara Solla, (Northwestern University), Steve Flavell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Current number of registrants: 518

Organizers

Gal Haspel (Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Eduardo J. Izquierdo (Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University Bloomington)

Aurel A. Lazar (Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University)

Eva A. Naumann (Department of Neurobiology, Duke University)