Tuesday, July 8, 2025 (09:00-12:30)
Session: Structure and Dynamics (Chair: Claus C. Hilgetag)
Gorka Zamora-Lopez, UPF, Barcelona, Spain (9:00-9:30): Making (some) sense of the structure-function relationship in brain connectivity
Mariia Popova, UKE, Hamburg, Germany (9:30-10:00): Topological building blocks define attractors in a model of excitable brain dynamics on signed directed graphs
Douglas Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (10:00-10:30): From Dendrites to Networks: Linking Structure, Dynamics, and Function in Neuronal Systems
Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)
Friedrich Schuessler, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany (11:00-11:30): Low-rank connectivity structures from learning in recurrent neural networks.
Session: Function and Structure (Chair: Kayson Fakhar)
Petra Vertes, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (11:30-12:00): Reservoir Computing as a Window into Structure-Function Relationships in Neural Systems
Lidia Ripoll-Sánchez, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (12:00-12:30): Molecular connectomes: building the neuropeptide connectome
Speakers' dinner (19:00, individual schedules permitting)
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 (09:00-12:30)
Session (continued): Function and Structure
Anna Levina, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (9:00-9:30): E/I connectivity shapes outcomes of synaptic plasticity
Session: Dynamics and Function (Chair: Wilhelm Braun)
Katharina Wilmes, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (9:30-10:00): Predictive processing in uncertainty
Leo Agueci, ENS, Paris, France (10:00-10:30): A distributed learning framework for motor adaptation
Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)
Agostina Palmigiano, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK (11:00-11:30): Theory of responses to holographic optogenetics in recurrent circuits
Melika Payvand, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (11:30-12:00): Form and Function in Neural Systems: Bidirectional Insights from Neuromorphic Engineering
Panel discussion (12:00-12:30, moderated by Claus C. Hilgetag)