NCAS 2025 - Neurocybernetics at Scale

October 15-17, 2025 — This is an archived version of the Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 website. The original site was hosted at symposium.fchampalimaud.science. See also the Internet Archive for historical snapshots. Download the symposium booklet (PDF).

Thursday, October 16

Cybernetic Loops


08:30 — Coffee
Morning Chair: Shreya Saxena
09:00

Keynote Lecture

Adrienne Fairhall, PhD — University of Washington

Watch on YouTube →

10:00

Brain mechanisms for efficient and robust learning

Taro Toyoizumi, PhD — RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Watch on YouTube →

11:00 — Coffee Break
11:30

Keynote Lecture

Jonathan Pillow, PhD — Princeton University

Watch on YouTube →

12:45 — Lunch
Morning Chair: Sean Escola
14:30 — Poster Session II
View poster abstracts →
16:00 — Coffee Break
17:00

Visuomotor control of locomotion in the fly

Eugenia Chiappe, PhD — Champalimaud Foundation

17:30

Optimal efficient coding and message-passing for neural circuits

Máté Lengyel, PhD — University of Cambridge

Watch on YouTube →

19:00 — Dinner in Town