Tentative Program: time in JST=GMT+9

<Monday July 4th>
9:00   Registration
9:40   Opening: Kenji Doya
10:00-12:00     Session 1: AI for Brain Science
      Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Unit)
      Angela Langdon (NIMH)
      Xiao-Jing Wang (NYU)
      Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute)
12:00-14:00     Lunch and Poster Session
14:00-16:00     Session 2: Biological and robotic motor control
      Chair: Hiroaki Gomi
      Tetsuya Ogata (Waseda U)
      Tom Macpherson (Osaka U)
      Jun Izawa (Tsukuba U)
      Rieko Osu (Waseda U)
16:30-18:30     Session 3: Brain-inspired AI
      Jun Tani (OIST)

      Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN AIP)
      Yutaka Matsuo (U Tokyo)
      Aida Nematzadeh (DeepMind)
<Tuesday July 5th>
10:00-12:00     Session 4: AI, Brain, and Society
      Ryota Kanai (ARAYA)
      Yoshua Bengio (U Montreal)
      Ai Koizumi (Sony CSL)
      Patricia Churchland (Salk Institute)
12:00-13:00     Lunch and Poster Session
13:00-15:00     Session 5: Natural and artificial consciousness
      Chair: Naotsugu Tsuchiya
      Hideaki Shimazaki (Hokkaido U)
      Keisuke Suzuki (Hokkaido U)
      Makiko Yamada (QST)
      Tadahiro Taniguchi (Ritsumeikan U)
15:30-17:30 Session 6: Unifying models of cognition
      Chair: Tadahiro Taniguchi
      Karl Friston (UCL)
      Yuichi Yamashita (NCNP)

      Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind)

17:30-18:00 General Discussion - Closing

Co-organizers:

      Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
      Karl Friston (University College London)
      Hiroaki Gomi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
      Takao Hensch (The University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence)

      Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit)
      Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project)
      Tadahiro Taniguchi (Ritsumeikan University)
      Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash University)

Secretariat: 

      Neural Computation Unit, OIST: ncus@oist.jp