The International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI
Our annual, submission-led research meeting on how intelligence is represented, learned and instantiated in biological and artificial systems. Peer-reviewed, selective, and convened in a different city each year.
The conference convenes researchers across neuroscience and cognitive science; machine learning, applied mathematics, and theoretical computer science; and the adjacent fields, to examine how intelligence is represented, learned and instantiated in biological and artificial systems. The points at which the two literatures disagree are, in our experience, the most useful.
The conference is, in our view, a serious research venue: submission-led, peer-reviewed, selective and oriented toward open problems, conceptual clarity and rigorous exchange. It is not a venue for product demonstrations or speculative futures. For our other annual meeting in London on Open Problems for AI, see the AE Global Summit.
Neural Data
Rich behavioural and neural recordings, and the collaborations between experimental and theoretical work that turn them into computational paradigms.
Neural Theory
Mechanistic accounts of how networks of neurons afford complex computation, and the mathematical theories of why they behave as they do.
Cognitive Science
How an intelligent agent should infer, act and learn under uncertainty, using tools from probability theory and statistical inference.
Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning and the foundations of intelligence, and the points at which the artificial and biological literatures most usefully disagree.
Each field has developed its own computational language for a set of overlapping principles. The conference exists to build bridges between them.
The conference is now in its seventh edition. Past programmes, keynote rolls and session listings are kept below, the way we have held them.
- 2026Rome, 2026Seventh edition. 9-12 June 2026. Villa Wolkonsky, Rome.View →
- 2025Split, 2025Sixth edition. May 27-30th, 2025. Radisson Blu, Split, Croatia.View →
- 2024Rome, 2024Fifth edition. Tuesday 28th - Friday 31st May, 2024. Villa Wolkonsky, Rome.View →
- 2023Rhodes, 2023Fourth edition. 28th September - 1st October, 2023. Old Town, Rhodes. Virtual or in-person..View →
- 2022Crete, 2022Third edition. 24th and 25th September, 2022. Crete. Virtual or in-person..View →
AIs that set their own goals - learning general purpose world models for efficient planning & acting
Keynote speaker Professor Juergen Schmidhuber from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and IDSIA presents his talk "A…
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Symmetry and Universality - Dr Sophia Sanborn (Science)
Invited talk at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, 2024 (https://neuromo…
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Are People Still Smarter than Machines? (Professor Jay McClelland)
Keynote speaker Professor Jay McClelland from Stanford University presents his talk "Are People Still Smarter than Machines?" Today, AI syst…
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How perturbations and climate change shape dynamics of neurons and circuits (Eve Marder)
Keynote speaker Professor Eve Marder from Brandeis University presents her talk on "Perturbations and climate change shape dynamics of neuro…
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Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps - Dr James Whittington
Invited talk from Dr James Whittington (Oxford / Stanford / Zyphra) at the 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience a…
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Discovering symbolic cognitive models with LLMs (Dr Kim Stachenfeld)
Keynote speaker Dr Kim Stachenfeld from Google DeepMind presents her talk "Discovering symbolic cognitive models with LLMs" Symbolic models…
Watch →Each edition runs a public call for submissions in the months beforehand. Talks and spotlights are selected by peer review, and keynotes are invited. Dates and the host city for the next edition are announced on neuromonster.org. To propose a partnership, sponsorship or a session, write to clare@thinkingaboutthinking.org.