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Convened by Thinking About Thinking · Est. 2020Vol. VII · No. 1 · Summer 20269–12 June · Villa Wolkonsky, Rome

The 7th International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI

A scientific conference on the computational foundations of intelligence.
Villa Wolkonsky, Rome
Editor’s Letter · The Inaugural Issue

Welcome to Rome.

For four days at the British Ambassador’s residence we are gathering mathematicians, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and AI researchers under one roof to discuss the computational foundations of intelligence.

This website is the hub for everything you will need across the week: schedule, venue, poster details and the Eternal City.

Daily Arrival

Please arrive at 8:45 AM each morning. Villa Wolkonsky is an active diplomatic residence and security is strict; the same check runs again after the lunch break.

By the Organisers

The doors are open. Come in.

The Organisers
The Programme
Session Chairs
Dr Marine Schimel (Meta) · Dr Kris Jensen (UCL)
  1. 08:40
    → 09:40
    Main Entrance
    Registration
    Check-in & Registration
  2. 09:40
    → 10:00
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Introductory Remarks
    Dr Ruairidh Battleday & Prof. James Whittington
  3. 10:00
    → 10:40
    Main Hall
    Keynote
    Supervised and unsupervised learning in mouse visual cortex
    Dr Marius Pachitariu · Janelia
  4. 10:40
    → 11:20
    Break Area
    Interval
    Break
  5. 11:20
    → 12:00
    Main Hall
    Keynote
    Closing the discovery loop with low-dimensional models and causal perturbations
    Prof. Tatiana Engel · Princeton
  6. 12:00
    → 14:00
    Interval
    Lunch + Poster Setup (lunch not provided — see Map & Guide)
  7. 14:00
    → 14:20
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Invited Talk
    Dr Marine Schimel · Meta
  8. 14:20
    → 14:40
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Invited Talk
    Dr YoungJu Jo · Stanford
  9. 14:40
    → 15:00
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Adaptive modulation of theta sweeps in the brain's navigation circuit
    Dr Abraham Vollan · NTNU
  10. 15:00
    → 15:40
    Break Area
    Interval
    Break + Posters
  11. 15:40
    → 16:00
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Meta-learning is expressed through altered prefrontal cortical dynamics
    Dr Xulu Sun · UCSF
  12. 16:00
    → 16:05
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Emergent specialization of distributed networks in cortically-embedded RNNs with macroscopic gradients
    Eva Sevenster · Bristol
  13. 16:05
    → 16:10
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Comparing Neural Dynamics by Identifying Optimal Linearizing Embeddings
    Mitchell Ostrow · MIT
  14. 16:10
    → 16:15
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Unsupervised pretraining in biological neural networks
    Dr Lin Zhong · Janelia
  15. 16:15
    → 16:20
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Building higher-order invariance in mouse visual cortex
    Dr Miguel Angel Nunez-Ochoa · Janelia
  16. 16:25
    → 16:30
    Main Hall
    Invited
    Unbiased detection of neural sequences
    Katharina Bracher · Freiburg
  17. 16:40
    → 18:00
    Main Hall
    Reception
    Poster Session 1 & Welcome Reception
Speakers
In This Issue

Contents

  1. I.
    The Programme
    Four days of talks, posters and conversations across neural data, theory, cognition and AI.
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  2. II.
    Poster Sessions
    Day-by-day allocations for the four afternoon poster sessions. Find your day and your fellow presenters.
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  3. III.
    Map & Local Guide
    Hotels, restaurants, cafés, science landmarks and transport, annotated by the team for the week of the conference.
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  4. IV.
    Team
    Meet the founders, core team, ambassadors and fellows behind NM2026 and Thinking About Thinking.
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  5. V.
    Team Portal
    Volunteer rota, contingency notes, venue checklist and the working backstage of the week.
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Conference Dinner
The garden of Hostaria Antica Roma at sunset, beneath an ancient Roman tomb on the Appian Way.
The dining room at Hostaria Antica Roma, set for dinner.
Wednesday · 10 June 2026 · 6:00 PM

Hostaria Antica Roma

The official conference dinner for the 7th International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI. We look forward to welcoming you for an evening of conversation, connection and celebration with fellow researchers, speakers and members of the community.

The Evening
When
6:00 PM · Wednesday 10 June 2026
Where
Hostaria Antica Roma, Rome
Coaches
Meet outside the wooden doors of the Villa; the team will escort you to two coaches (first come, first served) at 5:30 PM. Check your emails for the invite on the Luma app and have your QR code ready for when you get onto the bus.
Tickets
Student
€40
General
€60
Reserve your place →
Dinner sponsored by
Context Fund
Sponsors
Gold
XTX Markets
Prefrontal
Silver
The Kavli Foundation
Cooley
European Research Council
New Theory
Context Fund
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