MAIN 2021
Montreal AI & Neuroscience
November 29-30, 2021
Welcome to the 5th edition of the Montreal AI and Neuroscience conference, Nov 29-30, 2021. We're looking forward to two days of virtual talks, keynote lectures and discussion panels at the crossroads of biological and artificial intelligence. If you're in Montreal, come join us for some great in-person events during the conference (including a watch party + educational workshop + social event Tuesday evening)!
Live updates - Number of registered attendees so far: 2340
REGISTRATION
Registration to MAIN 2021 is free but mandatory. You will be able to attend all the talks live via Crowdcast. Registered participants will receive information by email before the meeting. Click on the button below!
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION (closed)
Submitted graphical and video abstracts are being evaluated. A selection of videos will be streamed during the lunchbreaks as lightning talks. Prizes will be announced during the closing ceremony on Tuesday !
MAIN 2021 Speakers & Panelists
Yoshua Bengio
Université de Montréal & Mila
Bing W. Brunton
University of Washington
Raymond Chua
PhD candidate
McGill University & Mila
Daniel Dennett
Tufts University
James DiCarlo
MIT McGovern Institute
Ahmed El Hady
University of Konstanz & Princeton University
Surya Ganguli
Stanford University
Marta Garrido
University of Melbourne
Alison Gopnik
University of California at Berkeley
Jordan Harrod
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program
Biyu Jade He
Neuroscience Institute, NYU
Erik Hoel
Tufts University
LLana James
AI, Medicine and Data Justice Post-Doctoral Fellow
Queen's University
Jean-Remi King
ENS - CNRS - Facebook AI Research
Jason E. Lewis
Concordia University
Yalda Mohsenzadeh
The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University
Marieke Mur
University of Western Ontario
Xaq Pitkow
Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University
Jean Baptiste Poline
McGill University
Irina Rish
Université de Montréal & Mila
Anil Seth
University of Sussex
Lucina Q. Uddin
University of California, Los Angeles
Joshua T. Vogelstein
John Hopkins University
Hao Ting Wang
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Université de Montréal
Alex H. Williams
NYU & Flatiron Institute
Guangyu Robert Yang
MIT McGovern Institute
Session Chairs and Moderators
Paul Cisek
Université de Montréal
Becket Ebitz
Université de Montréal
Karim Jerbi
Université de Montréal & Mila
Andrea Green
Université de Montréal
Guillaume Lajoie
Université de Montréal & Mila
Charlotte Maschke
PhD candidate McGill University
Lucia Melloni
Max Planck for Empirical Aesthetics
Danielle Nadin
Black In Neuro
Blake Richards
McGill University & Mila
DON'T MISS OUR IN-PERSON EVENTS
MAIN EDUCATIONAL SESSION - 🧠🤖 - NOV 25-26
MAIN WATCH PARTY - 🍿📽️ - Nov 29-30
MAIN SOCIAL EVENT - 🍕🍟🎵🐼✨ - Nov 30th, 7pm
All these in-person events are in Montreal (limited capacity/vaccine pass required)
More about these events and how to sign-up HERE
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The goal of MAIN is to bring together trainees, researchers including world leaders in Neuroscience and AI from across the globe, and build a more inclusive and diverse Neuro-AI community.
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