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Wednesday, 8th May
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Speaker(s) |
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| 16:00 - 18:30 |
Bus (3744 Rue Jean-Brilliant, Montréal -> Hôtel Ambassadeur, Québec) |
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| 20:00 - 🌙 |
Social Event @ CERVO |
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Thursday, 9th May
| Time (EDT) |
Session |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
Links |
| 08:45 - 09:15 |
Breakfast |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Opening Remarks |
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| 09:30 - 10:45 |
Session 1 |
Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal
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Antoine Légaré
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Catherine Bouchard
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Cellular Neuroscience through the lens of AI
- Decoding the diversity of neuronal nanostructures with AI-assisted nanoscopy.
- Structural and genetic constraints on zebrafish brain networks.
- Multiplexing fluorescence microscopy images with multi-dimensional deep networks.
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Panel Discussion 1 |
Nazanin Mohammadi
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Colin Bredenberg
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Lama Saouma
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Dane Malenfant
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Ethics and EDI in Neuro-AI |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 - 14:15 |
Session 2 |
Patrick Desrosiers
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Jordan O'Byrne
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Colin Bredenberg
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Brain's Complexity
- Mathematical Perspectives on the Structure-Function Relationship of Neuronal Networks.
- Criticality, Complexity and Consciousness.
- The oneirogen hypothesis: modeling the mechanism of classical psychedelic hallucinations with the Wake-Sleep algorithm.
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| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Break |
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| 14:30 - 16:00 |
Workshop 1 |
Marc-Antoine Moinnereau
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Hailey Eckersberg
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Toky Raharison Ralambomihanta
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Frédéric Simard
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Allison Murdock
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Rhea Xinxo
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Jean-Simon Boucher
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Neurotechnology and AI
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| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Poster session + cocktails 🍸 |
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Selected posters presented by participants
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| 17:30 - 19:00 |
Social Event |
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Friday, 10th May
| Time (EDT) |
Session |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
Links |
| 08:45 - 09:15 |
Breakfast |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Opening Remarks |
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| 09:30 - 10:45 |
Session 3 |
Anwesha Bhattacharya
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Sébastien Tremblay
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Nima Fathi
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AI in Medical Neuroscience
- Cell-type transcriptome modules reveal shared genetic mechanisms between Alzheimer's and Parkison's disorders.
- Understanding the neural correlates of cognition in primates.
- DeCoDEx: Confounder Detector Guidance for Improved Diffusion-based Counterfactual Explanations.
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Interactive Panel Discussion |
Sarah-Julie Bouchard
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William Leclerc
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Julia Obergasteiger
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 - 14:15 |
Session 4 |
Kira Dolhan
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Catherine Duclos
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Charlotte Maschke
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Consciousness in Brains and Machines
- Kinds of Consciousness: Sentience in Humans, Invertebrates, and AI.
- Novel tools to better understand, modulate and predict consciousness in critical and surgical care: how can consciousness in brains allow us to suspect consciousness in machines?
- Are you consciousness?
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| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Break |
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| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Panel Discussion 2 |
Nathalie Sanon
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Marc-Antoine Moinnereau
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Adel Abdeladim
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Industry and Academia |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Closing Remarks |
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| 16:00 - 18:30 |
Bus (CERVO, Québec -> 3744 Rue Jean-Brilliant, Montréal) |
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