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Cerebrum retreat - October 29, 2025
Cerebrum retreat - October 29, 2025
9:30 - 10:30 Arrival of participants / Registration + Coffee + Pastries [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
10:30 - 12:30 Mind-matching / Chair: Ian Charest
12:30 - 14:00 🍽️ Lunch / network break [Location: Éco Café]
Picture groupe
14:00 - 15:15 Ligtning talks [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Mini-Conferences
Neuromod | Lune Bellec
NSD-EEG | Ian Charest
Toolbox Shinier | Mathias Salvas-Hébert
16:30 - 17:00 Free time
17:00 - 19:00 Cocktail & Pop-quiz [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
19:00 - 21:00 🍽️ Dinner [Location: Éco Café]
21:00 - 22:00 Mystery debate (Débat mystère) [Location: Éco Café]
22:00 ♬ Party Time / DJ Xanarelle [Location: Éco Café]
UNIQUE Centre Retreat - October 30-31, 2025
UNIQUE Centre Retreat - October 30-31, 2025
October 30
9:00 - 10:00 Arrival of participants / Registration + Coffee + Pastries [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
10:15 - 10:30 Opening remarks
10:30 - 11:30 UNIQUE Axis 1 [Chair: Andrea Green & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal]
10:30 Shahab Bakhtiari (UdeM/Mila) “The curriculum effect in visual learning: A neuroAI perspective”
10:50 Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal (ULaval) “Decoding synaptic diversity with AI-assisted nanoscopy”
11:10 Marco Bonizzato (Polytechnique) “Mathematical optimization of neural interfaces”
11:30 - 12:30 UNIQUE Axis 2 [Chair: Paul Cisek]
11:30 Karim Jerbi (UdeM/Mila) “Creativity in Brains and Machines”
11:50 Paul Cisek (UdeM) “Modeling cortical and subcortical dynamics during decision-making”
12:10 Benoit Labonté (U Laval) “The Smart Vivarium: A Novel Platform for the Study of Social Dynamics”
12:30 - 14:00 🍽️ Lunch / networking break [Location: Éco Café]
Picture groupe
14:00 - 15:00 Postdoc Lightning Talks [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
14:00 Anne Calvel (Concordia) “Probing the spatiotemporal dynamics of memory consolidation with optically-pumped magnetometry”
14:10 Vanessa Hadid (McGill/UdeM) "Hidden smiles, hidden states: Machine learning and PCA map ERP signatures and low-dimensional neural trajectories"
14:20 Tommaso Tosato (UdeM/Mila) "Persistent instability in LLM's personality measurements: Effects of scale, reasoning, and conversation history"
14:30 Erinn Grigsby (UdeM) "The energetics of strategy shifts in the prefrontal cortex"
14:40 Doris Voina (UdeM/Mila) "Rethinking simplicity in computation: quick heuristics in the brain and in AI"
14:50 Isil Bilgin (UdeM/Criugm) "Friends with benefits: How your brain on a TV show helps language models generalize"
15:00 Yasmeen Hitti (UdeM) “Multimodal Behavioral Data Collection in Social VR”
15:15-15:30 Coffee / Pastries and networking break
15:30-16:30 UNIQUE Axes 3 & 4 [Chair: Guillaume Lajoie]
15:30 Paul Masset (McGill) "Distributed reinforcement learning in the brain"
15:50 Margaux Asclipe (UdeM) "Preserved dynamics across species in the primary motor cortex"
16:10 Patrick Desrosiers (ULaval) "Geometric perspectives on neuronal network dynamics"
16:30-17:00 Short talks from new UNIQUE members
16:30 Taylor Webb (UdeM) "Emergent symbol processing in transformer language models"
16:45 Suang Gao (Polytechnique) "Transmission neural networks: approximation and optimal control"
18:00-19:30 Poster session + Cocktail [Location: Hunterstown]
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20:00 🍽️ Dinner [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
21:30 🎃+🧠+♬ Neuro-AI Halloween event: networking et party time [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
October 31
7:00 - 9:00 🍽️ Breakfast - buffet [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
9:00 - 9:15 Opening comments and updates from IVADO R1: Neuro-AI cluster / Chair: Blake Richards
9:15- 9:20 Catalyst grant 1: Multi-modal & efficient foundation models closed-loop neuromodulation and forecasting
9:20 - 9:25 Catalyst grant 2: Development of a foundation model for multimodal neurophotonics data
9:25 - 9:30 Catalyst grant 3: Brain2Vec – Multimodal and Interoperable Foundation Model for Neural Time Series
9:30 - 9:35 Catalyst grant 4: Towards a multi-species foundation model of visual systems
9:35 - 9:40 Catalyst grant 5: Towards a foundation model for Magnetoencephalography and applications to probing higher-order cognition
9:40 - 9:45 Catalyst grant 6: Social VR datasets and interaction for training multimodal behavioral and social FM in neuroscience
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[9:45 - 10:45] IVADO R1 closed session: R1 Tech Team presentation and what’s next? [Room Rivière (Auberge Rivière)]
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9:45 - 10:45 Students and Postdoc discussion / Organized by UNIQUE's Student Affairs Committee [Room: Être aux oiseaux]
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee and networking break
11:00 - 11:30 Connected Minds - Gunnar Blohm (Queen's University)
11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion (incl. Irina Rish, Emily Coffey, Anthony Bilodeau, Tom George, Eilif Muller, Lea Waller + more!)
12:15 - 12:45 Student feedback + Poster awards
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13:00 🍽️ Lunch boxes
14:00 Departure (cars + Bus to Montréal)
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