Connectionists: Call for Abstracts & Registration: Neuro-Cybernetics at Scale (Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025)

[I. Memming Park]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce that registration and abstract submission are
now open for the upcoming Champalimaud Research Symposium: *Neuro-Cybernetics
at Scale*, organized jointly by Memming Park (Champalimaud), Guillaume
Hennequin (Cambridge), and Shreya Saxena (Yale).

We will explore how behavior emerges through complex feedback loops across
neural circuits, bodies, and varied environments. The symposium draws
inspiration from the recent advances in AI and machine learning, where
scaling has unlocked unprecedented performance. We believe neuroscience may
be approaching a similar inflection point (e.g. foundation model for
neuroscience). By convening researchers in experimental neuroscience,
robotics, machine learning, control theory, and theoretical neuroscience,
we aim to explore how ideas of scaling and feedback can shape the future of
systems neuroscience.

🗓 Dates: *15-17th October 2025*
📍 Location: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
🌟 Keynote Speakers: Eva Dyer, Auke Ijspeert, Misha Ahrens, Adrienne
Fairhall
🎙 Invited Speakers: Bing Brunton, Ehud Ahissar, Eugenia Chiappe, Jonathan
Pillow, Máté Lengyel, Srini Turaga, Taro Toyoizumi, Bence Ölveczky, and
more!

We invite you to:
✅ Submit an abstract for consideration for a contributed talk or a poster
presentation.
🏆 You can win monetary awards for the best posters or best talk! (thanks
to support from Protocol Labs)
🏆 There are travel grants!
✅ Register to attend the symposium.

Full details and submission links are available here:
👉 https://symposium.fchampalimaud.science/

Best,
Memming, Shreya, and Guillaume
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