Conferences, symposia, workshops, courses. Our members are actively involved in many events. Here is the current list of upcoming events of interest to computational neuroscience researchers.
Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025
The 14th Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" is taking place on Feb 24 - Feb 28, 2025. It is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, and the Excellence Cluster "Science of Intelligence". The event is tailored for MSc and PhD students, but covers a range of topics of potential interest to other researchers, reflecting on the ethical and societal consequences of modern neuroscience.
EBRAINS Tutorials and Users Day: Accelerate Your Neuroscience Research with EBRAINS
EBRAINS is an open research infrastructure that gathers data, tools and computing facilities for brain-related research, built with interoperability at the core. The EBRAINS tutorials and users day is for two audiences: newcomers to the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure (introductions, overviews, beginner hands-on tutorials) and seasoned EBRAINS users for advanced tutorials and user discussion groups with developers.
The event offers:
- Quick demonstration of a sample set of "EBRAINS science tools in action" in the morning plenary talks (this part of the event can also be attended online free of charge)
- Followed by parallel hands-on tutorials: meeting participants can attend 3 consecutive sessions and choose for each from a set of in parallel tutorials. This part is onsite only for most tutorials.
Planetarium: Vortragsreihe über die Wahrnehmung von Tieren
NICE 2025
Göttingen Meeting 2025
The Göttingen Meeting 2025 continues and supports what was always the aim of the original Neurobiology Meeting over 40 years ago: to give (young) scientists the space they need to learn from the work of their colleagues from all disciplines and to grow with their own presentations in symposia and poster sessions.
Veronica Egger
Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Veronica Egger
Ilka Diester
Matthias Haberl
Andreas Draguhn
Madhura Ketkar
Carlotta Martelli
COSYNE 2025
The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function. The Main Meeting is single-track. A set of invited talks is selected by the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. The Workshops feature in-depth discussion of current topics of interest, in a small group setting.
Carlos Stein Brito
Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary persepectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy (GEM 2025)
Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally experienced events. Early concepts about episodic memory were based on the storage model, according to which experiential content is preserved in memory and later retrieved. However, overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that the content of episodic memory is – at least to a certain degree – constructed in the act of remembering. Even though very few contemporary researchers would oppose this view of episodic memory as a generative process, it has not become the standard paradigm of empirical memory research. This is particularly true for studies of the neural correlates of episodic memory. Further hindering progress are large conceptual differences regarding episodic memory across different fields, such as neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. This interdisciplinary conference therefore aims to bring together researchers from all relevant fields to advance the state of the art in the research on generative episodic memory.
Nikolai Axmacher
Laurenz Wiskott
Sen Cheng
The Virtual NEST Conference 2025
The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NEST Simulator to the virtual NEST Conference 2025. The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. We particularly encourage young scientists to participate in the conference!
International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS) 2025
The International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS) is an inter-disciplinary conference series, bringing together theoretical/computational neuroscientists and mathematicians. The conferences are aimed at scientists interested in using or developing mathematical techniques for neuroscience problems. ICMNS 2025 will be the tenth annual conference.
Anna Levina
Susanne Schreiber
Tilo Schwalger
Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025
After two successful editions in 2023 (Dublin, Ireland) and 2024 (Minneapolis, USA) the Computational Psychiatry Conference has established itself as the largest conference worldwide in this emerging field, annually attracting over 240 students, postdocs, and faculty from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries.
Kerstin Ritter
Barcelona summer school for Advanced Modelling of Behavior (BAMB!)
The Barcelona summer school for Advanced Modelling of Behavior (BAMB!) teaches advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other species) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels. This will be achieved through structured lectures, talks, hands-on tutorials and group projects aimed at making knowledge obtained directly applicable to the participants' own research. We want the trainees to acquire both the conceptual basis and the technical skills that will enable them to pursue a full modelling approach on their own when they come back to their lab.
NeuroAI – Neuroscience and AI
Modern deep learning methods provide some of the best tools to model behavior and brain function today. Excitingly, AI systems have become the first artificial models capable of matching human performance in sophisticated cognitive tasks, such as visual recognition, language processing, and strategic planning. This unique capability makes them a key test bed for neuroscience research: by studying how these AI systems solve complex problems, we can generate and test hypotheses about the computational principles that biological brains might use. Moreover, thanks to amazing progress in neuroscientific experimental recording techniques over the last decade, we now have access to vast amounts of complex data, which can be used in computational modeling, across multiple modalities – from neural activity of thousands of neurons, to anatomical details of neuronal circuits, to whole brain neural recordings during complex behavior of humans and animals. These exciting developments—in both AI methodology and neuroscientific recordings—have inspired an emerging area of research at the intersection of neuroscience and AI.
Janne Lappalainen
Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025
The Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour (KSCB) will take place between 21st July 2025 – 8th August 2025 at the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz. Uni Konstanz is a University of Excellence and ranked #1 young university in Germany with “Collective Behaviour" as one of five research foci. Konstanz is a vibrant, small city located on the border between Germany and Switzerland, on the shores of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). Over three weeks, students will delve deeply into the topic of collective behaviour with lectures, hands-on tutorials, and projects, making it a unique and unforgettable experience.
The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium
Peter Dayan
IEEE – International Conference on Development and Learning
AICAN 2025
Bernstein Conference 2025
Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries.
Neuroscience 2025
Each year, scientists from around the world congregate to discover new ideas, share their research, and experience the best the field has to offer. Attend so you can: present research, network with scientists, attend session and events, and browse the exhibit hall. Join the nearly half a million neuroscientists from around the world who have propelled their careers by presenting an abstract at an SfN annual meeting — the premier global neuroscience event.
The Bernstein Network will have an information booth at this event!