UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop & Call for Posters – Dec 16, 2025

[Dimitris Pinotsis]

UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop & Call for Posters – Dec 16, 2025   

We are delighted to invite you to the UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop, taking place on December 16, 2025, at City St George’s, University of London.

This one-day workshop in central London will bring together researchers from across the UK and beyond to share ideas, present cutting-edge work, and spark discussions on computational and theoretical neuroscience. Please find the schedule and details below.

   Highlights:

• An exciting lineup of invited talks covering diverse areas of theoretical and computational neuroscience.
• A Poster Session, offering a platform to showcase your research and engage with peers.
• A Poster Award, recognizing outstanding contributions and presentations.

   Schedule:

09:05–09:40 —  Claudia Clopath — Semantic extraction via systems consolidation
09:40–10:15 — Dan Goodman — TBA
10:15–10:50 — Thomas Nowotny — Harnessing the adjoint method for gradient descent in spiking neural networks
10:50–11:15 — Break & Posters
11:15–11:50 — Li Su — Digital twin models that talk the talk and walk the walk

11:50–12:25 — Sean Froudist-Walsh —  Cortically-Embedded RNNs: anatomically-constrained cortex-wide models of cognition

12:25–13:00 — Vassilis Cutsuridis — Super memory retrieval in the hippocampus
13:00–14:00 — Lunch & Posters
14:00–14:35 — Karl Friston — Active inference and artificial curiosity

14:35–15:10 — Rick Adams —  Excitation-inhibition balance in schizophrenia: what it means and how  to measure it

15:10–15:45 — Conor Houghton — TBA
15:45–16:10 — Break & Posters
16:10–16:45 — Peter Grindrod — The insights from neuroscience driving next generation neuromorphic AI and information processing

16:45–17:20 — Enrico Amico — Higher-order connectomics of human brain function
17:20–17:30 — Poster Award & Closing Remarks

 Call for Posters (with Poster Award):
We invite poster submissions across theoretical and computational neuroscience. Present your work, spark new collaborations, and compete for the Poster Award.

 Venue: City St George’s, University of London (Auditorium B200)
 Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025

 Register / Submit a Poster: [ link ]

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We look forward to welcoming you to London for a stimulating day of theory-driven neuroscience!

Best regards,

Steve Coombes and Dimitris Pinotsis