CNS*2026 Halifax: Program

The full program for CNS*2026 will be available on sched.

A preliminary summary version is provided below. Please note that exact timings may still be subject to change.

Saturday July 11th

08:15-19:00 Registration
09:00-16:00 Tutorials 
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:20 Welcome & Keynote 1 
17:20-19:30 Welcome Reception
(Free entry for all registrants)

Sunday July 12th

08:15-19:00 Registration
09:00-10:10 Keynote 2 
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:30 Oral session 1
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:50 Oral session 2
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:20 Live podcast with Gaute Einevoll
17:20-19:20 Poster Session 1 

Monday July 13th

08:30-18:00 Registration
09:00-10:10 Keynote 3 
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:30 Oral session 4
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:50 Oral session 5
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-18:20 Poster Session 2 
19:45 Conference Dinner

Tuesday July 14th

08:30-18:00 Registration
09:00-12:30 Workshops 
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:20 Keynote 4 
21:30 Conference Photo
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Members Meeting
17:00-19:00 Poster Session 3 
21:30 CNS Party

Wednesday July 15th

08:30-17:00 Registration
09:00-17:30 Workshops
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
              

Accepted Workshops

Scott Rich, Richard Gast
Neuronal heterogeneity’s role in network dynamics and computation
Guillaume Girier, Isa Dallmer-Zerbe, Helmut Schmidt, Jaroslav Hlinka
Modeling Ion Dynamics in the Brain: From Cells to Networks and Global (Dys)-Functional States
Thomas Tarnaud, Emmeric Tanghe
Computational modeling of neuromodulation technologies
Paula Kuokkanen, Jérémie Sibille
Mapping extracellular waveforms produced by the three neuronal compartments
Abraham Nunes, Selena Singh
Building clinically impactful models in computational psychiatry: A worked example using induced pluripotent stem-cell derived neuronal data
James Pang
Constraining large-scale models of brain dynamics with local biological properties: Methods and applications
Jan Steinkühler, Wilhelm Braun, Hermann Kohlstedt
Evolution, Computation and the Origins of Nervous Systems: from Animal Models to Neuromorphic Engineering
Etay Hay, Heng Kan Yao, Alexandre Guet-McCreight
Detailed models of brain microcircuit activity and signals in clinical applications
Guillaume Dumas, Trang-Anh Nghiem, Anne-Marie Wolff, Xiaojun Zhou
Social Neuro-AI
Brian Lundstrom
Controlling Neural Network Stability
Joe Lizier,  Marilyn Gatica
Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
Maurizio De Pitta, Hermann Cuntz, Jeremie Lefebvre, Gabriel Benigno, Alex Bird
The 4D Connectome: Development, Structure, Function and Dynamics