Registration Open: Braitenberg 100: Computational Neuroscience - Past, Present, and Future, June 29-July 1, 2026 in Tuebingen, Germany

[Li Zhaoping]

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that registration is open for a landmark symposium on the occasion of Valentino Braitenberg's 100^th birthday in our campus's Max Planck House, Tübingen, Germany,  June 29-July 1st, 2026:

Braitenberg 100: Computational Neuroscience - Past, Present, and Future

The symposium will gather many of the world’s  leading experts to celebrate past achievements,  showcase current breakthroughs, and
brainstorm the future of computational neuroscience.  There will be keynote speeches, poster sessions, and various program events to facilitate intellectual exchanges and interactions.

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Keynote Speakers Include:

Neil Burgess • Patrick Cavanagh • Kathleen Cullen • Peter Dayan • Kenji Doya • Ivan De Araujo • Wulfram Gerstner • Michael Hasselmo • Sabine Kastner • Read Montague  • Reza Shadmehr • Naoshige Uchida • Li Zhaoping

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To facilitate interactions and discussions, we have a limited capacity of 130 seats.
>> Register now at https://app2.edoobox.com/en/MPI/Braitenberg100 <<

We look forward to welcoming you to Tübingen for Braitenberg 100—an inspiring celebration of computational neuroscience’s past, present, and future.

Warm regards,
The Organizing Committee,
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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Please direct inquiries to braiten...@tue.mpg.de
http://www.braitenberg100-theoretical-neuroscience.de/

[Zhaoping Li]

Vision Science Virtual Summer School & Symposium: July 8^th – July 31^st, 2026

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Applications are invited for a virtual edition of the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium that took place in Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany in August 2023 and August 2025 and virtual in 2024. 

This year, the virtual edition enables students to attend from afar by formal lectures via Zoom and informal and social communications via a Slack channel.

Systems Vision Science combines computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions

and their implementations in neural circuits. This summer school is designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. 

We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models. The syllabus content will be very similar to the edition in 2024.
Experience or knowledge in (A) computational methods, (B) visual psychophysics, and (C) vision neuroscience, is not required.

However, experience in at least one of (A), (B), and (C), and a readiness to learn, is expected.

The Summer School will be followed by a Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium on July 31^st.  All admitted summer school students will be invited to attend this symposium

and are encouraged to submit for a presentation at the symposium. The symposium will also feature two invited keynote presentations.

A certificate of completion of the summer school course will be provided after the student’s successful completion of the summer school.

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Important Dates:

 

March 28, 2026                 Deadline for applications

April 10, 2026                    Notification of acceptance

April 27, 2026                    Registration fees due

 

July 8 –                                Virtual Systems Vision Science Summer School takes place

July 30, 2026                      (formal lectures via Zoom and informal and social communications via a Slack channel)

                                                              

July 31, 2026                      Virtual  Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place

   (3 -7 pm German time)

 

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Please click here  to find more details and to apply by  March 28, 2026.

 

Summer School admission will be based on interest/motivation and prior knowledge/experience of the applicants, and on how much the applicants could benefit from participation.

 

Please direct inquiries to svs.summ...@tue.mpg.de

 

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Organizing Team

 

Li Zhaoping

Maria Pavlovic

Vladislav Aksiotis

Franziska Lohrmann

 

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

University of Tuebingen

www.lizhaoping.org