Schedule

Monday 13 December, 2021 (all times EST)

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8:45 - 9:00

Introduction

9:00 - 9:30

Invited Talk 1: Megan Peters, How Does a Brain Compute Confidence?

9:30 - 10:00

Invited Talk 2: Jürgen Schmidhuber, Credit Assignment & Meta-Learning in a Single Lifelong Trial

10:00 - 11:00

Panel Discussion 1 (Live): Megan Peters, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Simona Ghetti, Nick Roy, Oiwi Parker Jones, Ingmar Posner

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:45

Invited Talk 3: Susan Epstein, Freespace Supports Metacognition for Navigation

11:45 - 12:15

Invited Talk 4: Yoshua Bengio, Desiderata and ML Research Programme for Higher-Level Cognition

12:15 - 13:15

Panel Discussion 2 (Live): Susan Epstein, Yoshua Bengio, Lucina Uddin, Rohan Paul, Steve Fleming

13:15 - 13:25

Poster/Paper Spotlights

13:25 - 13:30

Grab Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Poster Session (Live)

15:00 - 15:30

Invited Talk 5: Taylor Webb and Hakwan Lau, Performance-Optimized Neural Networks as an Explanatory Framework for Decision Confidence

15:30 - 16:00

Invited Talk 6: Bernhard Schölkopf, Causal World Models

16:00 - 17:00

Panel Discussion 3 (Live): Taylor Webb, Hakwan Lau, Bernhard Schölkopf, Jiangying Zhou, Lior Horesh, Francesca Rossi

17:00 - 17:30

Closing Remarks