GNT20 · 11–12 June 2026 · ENS Paris

Program

Two days · four sessions · four keynotes

All talks take place at ENS, 29 rue d'Ulm. Click a talk title to jump to its abstract.

Time Day 1 — Thursday 11 June Day 2 — Friday 12 June
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome —
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote — Mate Lengyel Navigation from first principles Keynote — Ashok Litwin-Kumar Mechanisms for multi-tasking in recurrent neural networks
Session 1 — Network heterogeneity & dynamics Session 3 — Motor control & preparatory dynamics
10:15 – 10:45 Fleur Zeldenrust Heterogeneity in the brain: lessons from theory and experiment Heike Stein Motor control modelling
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 Yuxiu Shao Heterogeneous synaptic motifs bridge microscale structure and macroscale nonlinear dynamics Lorenzo Fontolan Preparatory population dynamics of timing and flexible behavior
11:45 – 12:15 Arthur Pellegrino RNNs perform task computations by dynamically warping neural representations Mark Humphries Primary and Supplementary Motor cortex implement parallel solutions for the control of rhythmic and discrete arm movements
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Lunch
Session 2 — Cortical computations: perception, beliefs & decisions Session 4 — Inference, learning & efficient computation
14:00 – 14:30 Alex Hyafil Bistable perception reveals a canonical computation in sensory processing Renaud Jardri Computational Modeling of Rigid Beliefs: An illustration with Hallucinations, Delusions and Conspiracy
14:30 – 15:00 Francesca Mastrogiuseppe Input-dependent directionality of interactions between cortical areas Viola Priesemann Dendritic contribution to learning efficient codes
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Giulio Bondanelli Single-neuron perturbations reveal a dynamical switch in decision computations in parietal cortex Pedro Goncalves Machine learning for mechanistic insight in neuroscience
16:00 – 16:45 Keynote — Cristina Savin TBA Keynote — Jonathan Pillow Characterizing the dynamics of learning from animal training data
16:45 – 17:00 End of talks Closing remarks
17:00 – 19:00 Poster session & reception See all posters —