The Alan Hodgkin Plenary Lecture: The Power of Self-Learning Systems

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Symposium Day One: Thursday 12th September 2019

08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee


Opening of the Symposium:
Welcome by Professor Ole Paulsen
09:00-09:10 Opening address from Professor Andy Neely
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise & Business Relations
Session One: Reinforcement Learning
Chair: Professor Matt Botvinick, DeepMind
09:10-09:40 Professor Wolfram Schultz
Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge
Reward neuroeconomics
09:40-10:10 Professor Satinder Singh
DeepMind, London
Where do Rewards come from?
10:10-10:40 Refreshments
Session One continued: Reinforcement Learning
10:40-11:10 Professor Geoffrey Schoenbaum
National Institute of Drug Abuse
Dopamine transient: prediction or prediction error?
11:10-11:40 Dr Carl Edward Rasmussen
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
TBC
11:40-12:10 Early Career Data Blitz
Convened by Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Department of Psychiatry
12:10-13:40 Lunch, Poster Session and Trade Exhibition
Session Two: Navigation
Chair: Dr Stephen Eglen, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
13:40-14:10 Dr Andrea Banino
DeepMind, London
Understanding spatial navigation: An intersection of brain science and artificial
intelligence
14:10-14:40 Dr Julija Krupic
Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge
Deformations of the hippocampal cognitive map in large irregular spaces
14:40-15:10 Professor Nachum Ulanovsky
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Neural codes for natural navigation in the bat hippocampus
15:10-15:40 Refreshments
Session Three: Robotics
Chair: Dr Adrian Weller, Department of Engineering
15:40-16:10 Professor Leslie Kaelbling
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Doing for our robots what nature did for us
16:10-16:40 Professor Barbara Webb
Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, University of Edinburgh
Robot models of insect navigation
16:40-17:10 Dr Lola Cañamero
Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire
Affective cognition in autonomous robots
17:20-18:00 The Alan Hodgkin Plenary Lecture
Introduced by Dr Paula Buttery, Department of Computer Science & Technology
Dr Demis Hassabis, DeepMind
The power of self-learning systems
18:30-22:00 Reception & conference dinner at Trinity College, Cambridge
Symposium Day Two: Friday 13th September 2019
09:00-09:30 Registration and coffee
Session Four: Vision
Chair: Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology
09:30-10:00 Professor Anthony Movshon
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Brain mechanisms of visual form perception
10:00-10:30 Dr Andrew Welchman
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge/Wellcome Trust
Can we learn anything useful about the brain from AI?
10:30-11:00 Dr Jasper Poort
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Neuronal circuits for learning and attentional task-switching in mouse visual cortex
11:00-11:30 Professor Anya Hurlbert
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
Seeing colour and light
11:30-12:00 Refreshments
Session Five: Communication
Chair: Professor Barry Everitt, Department of Psychology
12:00-12:30 Dr Marco Baroni
Facebook Research
Formal neural network linguistics
12:30-13:00 Professor Lorraine Tyler
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
DNNs as explanatory models? Vision and Language
13:00-13:40 The Andrew Huxley Plenary Lecture
Professor Catherine Dulac
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Neurobiology of social behaviours
13:40-15:00 Lunch, Poster Session and Trade Exhibition
Session Six: Mental Health
Chair: Professor Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry
15:00-15:30 Professor Michael Browning
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Computationally defined treatment targets in depression
15:30-16:00 Dr Hannah Clarke
Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge
Schizophrenia, perineuronal nets, and the hippocampal-prefrontal pathway
16:00-16:30 Professor Paul Fletcher
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
How do computational models of perception and inference help the psychiatrist?
16:30-17:00 Refreshments
Session Seven: Neuroethics of Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience (open to public)
Convenor: Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry
17:00-18:30 Panel members:
Mr Tom Feilden
Science & Environment Editor, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Professor Ann Copestake
Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge
Dr Karina Vold
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
Dr Fumiya Iida
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
18:30-19:30 Drinks reception, Foyer West Road Concert Hall

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