Dear All,

The deadline for abstract submission to the workshop "Collective Dynamics and Information Processing in Neural Systems" has been extended to May 15, 2025.

To apply please visit https://liphlab.github.io/NeuroStatPhys_Satellite/registration/

The workshop will take place in Venice, Italy, on 30 June - 02 July 2025 at the European Center for Living Technology (ECLT).

A longstanding question is how populations of neurons cooperate and coordinate to perform function and maintain an “optimal” state for information processing and computation. While electrophysiological recordings in behaving animals have provided considerable information about what the firing patterns of single neurons encode in isolation, it remains largely a mystery how populations of neurons interact to perform brain functions. How do emergent collective behaviors, such as neuronal oscillations, waves, or avalanches, support function? And what is the nature of the brain’s internal state and how that affects function?

With the aim of further strengthening the connection between neuroscience and statistical physics, this satellite workshop is intended to gather neuroscientists, physicists, and mathematicians who work on collective dynamics, cognition and behavior, and provide an interdisciplinary stage to discuss recent theoretical/computational and experimental advances on the role of neural ensembles for brain function. The workshop will be carefully planned to foster discussion and interaction between attendees, and to encourage the establishment of professional relationships. Particular emphasis will be given to participation of young PI’s and scholars and to the diversity in the pool of participants, with a good balance between physicists, mathematicians, theoretical and experimental neuroscientists.  
   
Topics that will be covered in this workshop include (but are not limited to):