09:15 - 17:00
Location: Floor 1, Main Entrance Reception Area
Registration and Help desk available throughout the day

 
09:45 - 11:00
Location: IVAM Auditorium - Keynote Seminars / 1 min walk
9:45 - 10:00 Welcome words by Rosa Sanchidrian, Exc. Rector of Universidad Europea de Valencia
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10.00- 11.00 Keynote 1 - Dean Mobbs - California Institute of Technology

Title: Survival Decisions in a Complex World

Abstract: How did our nomadic ancestors continually adapt to the seemingly limitless and unpredictable number of dangers in the natural world? Naturalistic observations show that decisions to avoid or escape predators occur at different spatiotemporal scales and that they are supported by different computations and neural circuits. At their extremes, proximal threats are addressed by a limited repertoire of reflexive and myopic actions, reflecting reduced decision and state spaces and model-free (MF) architectures. Conversely, distal threats allow increased information processing supported by model-based (MB) operations, including affective prospection, replay, and planning. However, MF and MB computations are often intertwined, and under conditions of safety, the foundations for future effective reactive execution can be laid through MB instruction of MF control. Together, these computations are associated with distinct population codes embedded within a distributed defensive circuitry whose goal is to determine and realize the best policy.
 
11:00 - 11:30
Location: Venue for Refreshments - outside area
11:30 - 13:00
Location: G04
Chair/s:
shaun hargreaves heap
11:30 - 13:00
Location: G05
Chair/s:
Martin Aranguren
11:30 - 13:00
Location: G07
Chair/s:
Oliver Feltham
11:30 - 13:00
Location: G08
Chair/s:
Brian Kelly
11:30 - 13:00
Location: G09
Chair/s:
Ignacio Jurado
11:30 - 13:00
Location: G10
Chair/s:
Angelo Romano
13:00 - 14:00
Location: Venue for Refreshments - outside area
14:00 - 15:30
Location: Lecture Hall in Building G
Chair/s:
Raymond Duch, Enrique Fatas
15:30 - 16:00
Location: Venue for Refreshments - outside area
16:00 - 17:30
Location: G05
Chair/s:
Matthew DiGiuseppe
16:00 - 17:30
Location: G04
Chair/s:
Nuria Rodriguez-Priego
16:00 - 17:30
Location: G07
Chair/s:
Joshua Doyle
16:00 - 17:30
Location: G09
Chair/s:
Anna Sokolova
16:00 - 17:30
Location: G08
Chair/s:
Thomas Karl Alfred Woiczyk
16:00 - 17:30
Location: G10
Chair/s:
Adriana Alventosa
17:45 - 18:45
Location: Venue for Refreshments - outside area
Wine, beer and soft drinks provided