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October 15-17, 2025 — This is an archived version of the Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 website.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).

Wednesday, October 15

Scaling Up


08:30 — Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:30

Opening Remarks

Leonor Beleza, President of the Champalimaud Foundation

Morning Chair: Guillaume Hennequin
10:00

Whole-brain and whole-body computations for behavior and physiology

Misha B. Ahrens, PhD — Janelia Research Campus, HHMI

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11:00 — Coffee Break
11:30

Neural manifolds, invariances, and meaning

Juan Álvaro Gallego, PhD — Champalimaud Foundation

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12:00

Computational approaches towards cognitive motor control

Shreya Saxena, PhD — Yale University

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12:30

Charting the space of dynamics with hierarchical state-space models

Ayesha Vermani, PhD — Champalimaud Foundation

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12:45

Flow equivariant cybernetics

T. Anderson Keller, PhD — Harvard University

13:00 — Lunch
Morning Chair: I. Memming Park
14:30 — Poster Session I
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16:00 — Coffee Break
16:30

Active embodied perception through brain-world loops

Ehud Ahissar, PhD — Weizmann Institute of Science

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17:00

Embodied intelligence: from connectomes to body models

Bing W. Brunton, PhD — University of Washington

17:30

Flash Talks

Rui Xia — University of Cambridge
Rich Pang, PhD

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19:00 — Welcome Reception