CIFAR-Helmholtz: AI for Neuroscience Workshop
 
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Agenda

Day 1 Tuesday, January 15

8:00 am

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am

Welcome and Introductions

Master of Ceremonies: John Hepburn, VP Research, CIFAR

Alan Bernstein, President & CEO, CIFAR

9:15 am

National Overviews

 

The Pan-Canadian AI Strategy and Neuroscience in Canada

Elissa Strome. ED, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR

 

AI & Neuroscience at the Helmholtz Association

Katrin Amunts, Director, FZ Jülich GmbH

9:45 am

Theme 1: Neuro & AI – Featured Research

The Big Brain Collaboration - current status, critical success factors and new opportunities for AI in human brain mapping 
 

Alan Evans, Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University and Timo Dickscheid, Big Data Analysis Group, Structural and functional organisation of the brain, FZ Jülich

10:05 am

Theme 1: Neuro & AI - Current Questions & Opportunities for Collaboration

How is AI being applied to neuroscience research?

How are insights from machine learning advancing our understanding of the brain?

How are insights from cognitive science helping to advance machine learning?

 

Moderator: Elissa Strome

Blake Richards, University of Toronto & McGill University, CIFAR LMB

Simon Eickhoff, Brain and Behaviour, FZ Jülich

10:50 am

Networking Energy Break

11:20 am

Current Questions & Opportunities for Collaboration - Continued

Joel Zylberberg, York University, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, LMB

Peter Neher, Medical Image Computing, DKFZ Heidelberg

Hannah Spitzer, Big Data Analysis Group, Structural and functional organisation of the brain, FZ Jülich

12:20 pm

Networking Lunch

1:20 pm

Theme 2: ML Methods and Medical Applications - Current Questions & Opportunities for Collaboration

What are the latest advances in ML for neurology/psychiatry/biomedical challenges?

What are the gaps in research and applications?

Roland Schwarz, Evolutionary and Cancer Genomics, MDC Berlin

Carsten Marr, Single Cell Dynamics, HMGU Munich
‘Computational Pathology’

Frank Rudzicz, Vector Institute, University Health Network

2:30 pm

Networking Energy Break

3:00 pm

Theme 3: HPC & Neuro - Current Questions & Opportunities for Collaboration

How is HPC  enabling neuroscience research?

What are the limitations of HPC for neuroscience?

How can AI and HPC be applied to neuroscience?

Timo Dicksheid, Big Data Analysis Group, Structural and functional organisation of the brain, FZ Jülich

Mark Daley, Western, BrainsCAN

Morris Riedel, Juelich Super Computing Centre, FZ Juelich

Graham Taylor, Vector Institute, Guelph University , CIFAR LMB

4:00 pm

First day wrap up

4:30pm

Networking Reception

 

Day 2 Wednesday, January 16

08:00 am

Optional Information Sharing Roundtable Breakfast: Innovation in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

The 1.5 hour breakfast roundtable will provide an opportunity for startup companies that develop and utilize artificial intelligence to facilitate products and service in the neuroscience space, to interact with leading researchers.

Thought leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience from Canada and Germany will engage with up to 10 startup companies in a breakfast round table.  Startup companies will present flash talks on their technology, to promote discussion from the researchers on the latest research achievements to inform entrepreneurs.

09:30 am

Welcome and format for day 2
John Hepburn

09:35 am

Overview of German resources and facilities

Morris Riedel, Juelich Super Computing Centre, FZ Juelich

10:05 am

Overview of Canadian resources and facilities

Mark Daley, AVP Research, Western University

10:35 am

Networking Energy Break

11:00 am

Breakout sessions: Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration

 

Neuro & AI

  Katrin Amunts, Blake Richards

 

 ML methods & medical applications

  Carsten Marr, Lisa Saksida

 

HPC and Neuro

  Morris Riedel, Alan Evans

12:30 pm

Networking Lunch

1:30 pm

Report back: Opportunities identified by the parallel sessions

2:30 pm

Funding opportunities

Canadian and German funding programs that support collaborations

Kate Geddie, CIFAR

Susanne Wenzel, Helmholtz, Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain, FZ Jülich 

3:00 pm

Closing remarks, wrap up and next steps