Connectionists: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science 2020 in Tokyo

[Kenji Doya]

We are pleased to announce a symposium that brings together researchers in the forefront of AI and neuroscience. Application for poster presentation is open till June 1st and general registration will start from July 1st, 2020.

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International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science
Date: October 10-12 (Sat-Mon), 2020
Venue: Ito Hall, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Web site: http://www.brain-ai.jp/symposium2020/

Program (it may be held online depending on the COVID-19 situation)
• Saturday, October 10th (from 1pm)
    Keynote: Josh Tenenbaum (MIT)
    Session 1: Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning
        Yann LeCun (NYU, Facebook), Yutaka Matsuo (U Tokyo), Doina Precup (McGill U)
        David Silver (DeepMind), Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN AIP/U Tokyo IRCN)
• Sunday, October 11th
    Session 2: World Model Learning and Inference
        Ila Fiete (MIT), Karl Friston (UCL), Yukie Nagai (U Tokyo IRCN)
        Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Unit), Tadahiro Taniguchi (Ritsumeikan U)
    Poster Session
    Session 3: Metacognition and Metalearning
        Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind), Ryota Kanai (ARAYA), Angela Langdon (Princeton U)
        Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN CBS), Xiao-Jing Wang (NYU)
• Monday, October 12th
    Session 4: AI for Neuroscience and Neuromorphic Technologies
        Jim DiCarlo (MIT), Yukiyaku Kamitani (Kyoto U), Rosalyn Moran (King’s College London)
        Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute), Hidehiko Takahashi (Tokyo MDU)
    Session 5: Social Impact and Neuro-AI Ethics
        Anne Churchland (CSHL), Kenji Doya (OIST), Arisa Ema (U Tokyo IFI)
        Hiroaki Kitano (SONY CSL), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley)

Poster Registration: May 11th - June 1st (review result notified by June 20)
General Registration: July 1st - 31st (or when the capacity is reached)
Please check the web site: http://www.brain-ai.jp/symposium2020/

Sponsor:
    KAKENHI Project on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science (http://www.brain-ai.jp)
Co-sponsors:
    RIKEN AIP (https://aip.riken.jp/?lang=en)
    U Tokyo IFI (https://ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/)
    U Tokyo IRCN (https://ircn.jp/en/)
Contact: ncus at oist.jp

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Kenji Doya <doya at oist.jp>
Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
1919-1 Tancha, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
Phone: +81-98-966-8594; Fax: +81-98-966-2891
https://groups.oist.jp/ncu