Crans Montana, 2-4 March 2022
| Day 1 | Wednesday 2 March | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Alberto Chiappa, EPFL | Adaptive reinforcement learning |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 14:40 – 15:10 | Alexander Meulemanns, ETHZ | Strong deep feedback control: minimizing control for credit assignment with strong feedback |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 15:20 – 15:50 | Anja Zai, ETHZ | Latent reinforcement learning |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | BREAK | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Friedemann Zenke, FMI | Self-calibrating analog neuromorphic hardware through surrogate gradients |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 17:10 – 17:40 | Christian Horvat, UZH | Density estimation on low-dimensional manifolds |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 17:50 – 18:20 | Everton Agnes, University of Basel | Regimes and mechanisms of transient amplification in abstract and biological neural networks |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| End of Day 1 – Dinner |
| Day 2 | Thursday 3 March | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Jakob Jordan, University of Bern | Cortical representation learning & Bayes-optimal cue integration |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Johanni Brea, EPFL | Can Food Caching Birds Mentally Travel in Time |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 10:20 – 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Mathias Bethge, EPFL Visiting Professor | Predicting where people look |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Victoria Shavina, UZH | Divisive normalization shapes evidence accumulation in a novel decision-making task |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Nicolas Zucchet, ETHZ | On biologically-plausible meta-learning |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| LUNCH – ski afternoon! |
| Day 3 | Friday 4 March | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Steffen Schneider, EPFL | Learnable latent embeddings for dissecting neural representations in somatosensory cortex |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Pablo Tano, University of Geneva | Fast and expressive learning in a diverse temporal difference system |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | BREAK | |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Paul Haider, University of Bern | Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Simone Blanco Malerba, IOB | Random compressed coding with Neurons |
| Discussion 10 min | ||
| 12:10 – 12:40 | Yassir Akram, ETHZ | TBC |
| LUNCH – End of retreat |
(If you intend to travel by car, parking is available at the hotel)
From Geneva/Lausanne
- Take the train IR90 from Geneva/Lausanne to Sierre/Siders (direction Brig)
- Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare
From Bern
- Take the train IC8 or EC to Visp (direction Brig)
- From Visp to Sierre/Siders take train IR90 (direction Geneve-aeroport)
- Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare
From Basel
- There are various possible routes to Sierre/Siders, please see sbb.ch
- Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare
From Zurich
- Take the train IC8 Visp (direction Brig)
- From Visp to Sierre/Siders take train IR90 (direction Geneve-aeroport)
- Take the funicular 2225 from Sierre to Montana Gare