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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday

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AI and CogSci Researcher at Harvard and MIT. MD PhD. President, Thinking About Thinking http://neuromonster.org http://youtube.com/@Thoughtchannel

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · Apr 22

🌊 Want to come and enjoy high-profile talks on neuroscience and AI against the backdrop of the Dalmatian coast? www.neuromonster.org

Submission & registration are still open for the 6th International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI (Split, Croatia, 27-30 May)

Come and join!

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 22

Last handful of seats left, if that tickles your fancy: www.neuromonster.org

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 22

Just checked into the main venue in Croatia, to start setting up for next week's conference on the Mathematics of #Neuroscience and #AI. Everything looking great!

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks a lot to our local partners University of Rijeka, CroAI (Croatian AI Association), and Fifth Quarter Ventures

Come along and join us, present some work, or just enjoy the sun and talks!

✅ www.neuromonster.org

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 16

🌊 I can't believe it's only 10 days away! Our 6th Conference on the Mathematics of #Neuroscience and #AI in #Split, #Croatia!

The team has put together a quite unheard of line-up, with many of the original and emerging pioneers in these two influential disciplines.

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 9

We hope that by offering the world leader's research perspectives on AI, as well as recent breakthroughs, we can contribute back to this vibrant community.

Registration and abstract submission still open: www.neuromonster.org

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 9

It's a great pleasure to announce @croai.bsky.social as our official local partner for this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI in Split!

CroAI have done a tremendous job collecting and cultivating the #AI community in #Croatia via talks, workshops, & global representation

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

Ida is an inspiration to many, and we’re truly honored to have her at the conference. Follow the link below to learn more, submit something, and come and join the fun:
🏝️ www.neuromonster.org
@thoughtchannel.bsky.social

Sixth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

This broad engagement reflects Ida’s truly multi-disciplinary background: Electrophysiology, Memory, and Navigation at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, neuroscience at PNI, psychology at BCCN Berlin, philosophy of science at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and software engineering at Tehran.

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

Their recent areas of focus include many of AI's frontier problems: #multimodal generative models, #collective innovation by groups of LLMs, human-AI #alignment (in games), and multiscale #memory!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

Now let’s give a round of applause to @neuroai.bsky.social, who will give an eagerly awaited keynote talk at our upcoming conference on #neuroscience and #AI.

Ida is Principle Researcher at @msftresearch.bsky.social, where they develop novel and innovative #generative AI algorithms!

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

Submissions are still open, and registration link is in the comments below: www.neuromonster.org
@thoughtchannel.bsky.social

Sixth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

He continues to contribute, not only through provoking talks at conferences but also active research on deep learning at @stanfordhai.bsky.social and DeepMind.

Come and join us to hear from Jay and many others in #Croatia this year:

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

This was a catalyst for a decade of research and discovery in the computational aspects of intelligence, even bringing #shepherds down from the hills to study #AI.

Over his storied career, Jay has supervised many great thinkers, including @saxelab.bsky.social and @annaschapiro.bsky.social...

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 8

Today we honor one of computational #neuroscience’s founding parents, Professor Jay McClelland.

Jay, along with Rumelhart, and Hinton @nobelprize.bsky.social, is broadly thought to be responsible for ushering in the second wave of connectionism with their Parallel Distributed Processing book...

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

Come and join us to hear more! Submissions and registration are still open: www.neuromonster.org

Sixth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI

www.neuromonster.org

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, Quanta, Nautilus, and MIT Technology Review, and in 2019, they were named an MIT Tech Review Innovator Under 35.

Kim will give a keynote talk on neural theory day of our upcoming conference on the Mathematics of #Neuroscience and #AI in Split, Croatia.

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

Kim completed their PhD at @princetonneuro.bsky.social under Matthew Botvinick, focusing on the computational role of predictive representations in the hippocampus. Since then she has published widely, on successor representations, physical simulations and graph NNs, symbolic models, and more!

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

This afternoon’s focus is on @neurokim.bsky.social, research scientist at Google DeepMind and affiliate faculty at Columbia—someone that has done tremendously creative work applying computational thinking to both neuroscience and deep learning.

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

More information at:
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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 7

🏆 We are thrilled to announce that @wolframresearch.bsky.social has just generously agreed to sponsor the student poster prizes at our Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI in Croatia 🏝️

The top student submissions will receive a prize of a year of Wolfram|One Professional worth $1660

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 6

@thoughtchannel.bsky.social

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 6

Come and join us to hear more! Submissions are still open: www.neuromonster.org

Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · May 6

His work on neural codes continues to be of great inspiration for work relating brain learning dynamics to higher cognitive functions, and we enjoyed his presence last year and look forward to hearing about the work since then!