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AI, Neuroscience and Music
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Pre-print 🧠🧪 Is mechanism modeling dead in the AI era? ML models trained to predict neural activity fail to generalize to unseen opto perturbations. But mechanism modeling can solve that. We say "perturbation testing" is the right way to evaluate mechanisms in data-constrained models 1/8
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Shahab Bakhtiari
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I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by
@ivado.bsky.social
and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience:
ivado.ca/en/regroupem...
). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖
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https://ivado.ca/en/regroupements/ia-neuroscience/
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Victoria Bosch
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Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n
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Dan Goodman
9 days ago
Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).
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Stanislas Dehaene
10 days ago
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site
@college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
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Arna Ghosh
12 days ago
LLMs are trained to compress data by mapping sequences to high-dim representations! How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔 Announcing our
#NeurIPS2025
📄 that dives into this. 🧵below
#AIResearch
#MachineLearning
#LLM
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
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#EPFL
has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...
https://www.epfl.ch/about/working/assistant-associate-professor-of-ai-assisted-biophysics-at-the-ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne-epfl-and-group-leader-at-the-paul-scherrer-institute-psi/
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Viet Anh Khoa Tran
5 months ago
New
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preprint on
#ContinualLearning
! Continual learning methods struggle in mostly unsupervised environments with sparse labels (e.g. parents telling their child the object is an 'apple'). We propose that in the cortex, predictive coding of high-level top-down modulations solves this! (1/6)
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Alexander Mathis
27 days ago
The team just picked up the latest data from the Swiss National Parc. Full of goodies - find out more about the first paper from the project:
eceo-epfl.github.io/MammAlps/
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Martin Schrimpf
30 days ago
Applications open for postdoc fellowships at the
@epfl-ai-center.bsky.social
, deadline Nov 3.
www.epfl.ch/research/fun...
. Great opportunity to work with our world class faculty; the fellowship is set up for collaboration between multiple labs, including my
#NeuroAI
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EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 2nd call is now open with a deadline for submissions of 3 November (17.00 CET)!Applications are encouraged from researchers at the postdoctoral level with a keen interest in collaborative, interdi...
https://www.epfl.ch/research/funding/epfl-programmes/ai-center
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Neuralink is making viral posts for bringing voice synthesis to non-verbal ALS patients. Great And let's non forget the academic groups that have shown the way (Willett et al. 2023). And continue to lead the innovation in this field:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
about 1 month ago
(YouTube) From LSD to AI with Switzerland's brain explorers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnA...
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@trackingactions.bsky.social
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From LSD to AI with Switzerland's Brain Explorers | Hello World with Ashlee Vance
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnAU-dybhU
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Lea Duncker
about 1 month ago
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend
#Cosyne25
! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12.
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application:
shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info:
www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
https://www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Valentin Schmutz
about 2 months ago
🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at
#NeurIPS2025
🎉 Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kathy Rastle
about 1 month ago
** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
and collaborating with
@denisdrieghe.bsky.social
(Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...
https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=0925-228
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Alireza Modirshanechi
about 2 months ago
New in
@pnas.org
:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
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Dan Goodman
about 2 months ago
Today is the last day for submissions to the free online SNUFA spiking neural network workshop! This is a great opportunity to present your work (hundreds of participants and sometimes thousands of YouTube views per talk), and abstract submission is easy (300 words). Do it now! 🤖🧠🧪
snufa.net/2025/
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SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
https://snufa.net/2025/
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Martin Jaggi
about 2 months ago
We're hiring again for AI research engineering roles: Join the team behind the Apertus LLM, if you share our passion to work on impactful AI that's truly open.
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AI Research Engineers - Swiss AI Initiative
AI Research Engineers - Swiss AI Initiative
https://careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne-AI-Research-Engineers-Swiss-AI-Initiative/1163395655/
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Friedemann Zenke
about 2 months ago
Truly honored (and a little overwhelmed) to see our work featured in The Transmitter's "This Paper Changed My Life." Huge thanks to
@neural-reckoning.org
for the kind words - and to our amazing community that keeps pushing spiking neural network research forward 🙏
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Dan Goodman
about 2 months ago
Submissions (short!) due for SNUFA spiking neural networks conference in <2 weeks! 🤖🧠🧪
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XkZLavhaJe
More info at
snufa.net/2025/
Note that we normally get around 700 participants and recordings go on YouTube and get 100s-1000s views. Please repost.
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Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
https://snufa.net/2025/
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Emilie Macé
2 months ago
Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Meredith Whittaker
2 months ago
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
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Janelia Research Campus
2 months ago
Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia. 🔍 Use computation & theory to tackle biological problems. 🖥️ Leverage state-of-the-art computational infrastructure 🤝 Collaborate across scientific disciplines Apply by Nov. 3 @
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Margaret Mitchell
2 months ago
🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content.
www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c...
Translating in 🧵.
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Adam Kucharski
2 months ago
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (
xkcd.com/2400/
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James Dyke
2 months ago
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Cian O'Donnell
3 months ago
incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩
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Joao Barbosa
4 months ago
Is there any Bernstein member out there willing to support my membership application? 🙏
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
is one of my favorite conferences and I have been going for a while, but never became a member and would like to.
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This summer I am on a scientific train tour 🧪🧠 🚂 now in Florence for CNS conference. Austrian night trains are amazing. I tested the new mini-sleeper cabin (economy class). 5 ⭐ sleeping experience, but a bit small to eat the (included!) breakfast 🍞 ☕
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Ioana Manolescu
4 months ago
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Sauvons le Palais de la Découverte! ✍️
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Sauvons le Palais de la découverte
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Mathew Kiang
5 months ago
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
https://ki.se/en/about-ki/jobs-at-ki/join-a-global-community-of-excellence
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Caroline Menard
5 months ago
And one more again at McGill in artificial intelligence in Psychiatry
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Psychiatry, Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry, McGill University – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
https://can-acn.org/assistant-professor-research-department-of-psychiatry-artificial-intelligence-in-psychiatry-mcgill-university/
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Basile Confavreux
5 months ago
We’ve successfully automated part of the (neuro)scientific process. Now I may be out of a job. After a lot of iterations, here’s our framework for automatic discovery, built to embrace degeneracy and the realities of underconstrained modeling.
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Tim Vogels
5 months ago
We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever
#ML
to find
#plasticity
quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They
#memorise
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning
Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656584v1
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Now there are so many GPU super computers in Europe 😍 When I need FLOPs, I know some idle GPUs are waiting for me somewhere... The hard part is, I don't know where. And I don't know who to ask
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Tiago Pimentel
6 months ago
If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :)
github.com/tpimentelms/...
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Jean-Rémi King
6 months ago
🔎We're looking for volunteers to study the brain: - Native English? - 🇫🇷in Paris? - 🧠Want to participate in a brain imaging experiment? - 💶 8 sessions of 2 hours paid 80€ each - 📩 contact:
[email protected]
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ELLIS
6 months ago
🏹 Job alert: Tenure-Track position "Transformative Health Care, focusing on Medical Technology" at
@jku.at
The position is open to a junior female researcher (PhD level) in engineering or life sciences. 📍 Linz 🇦🇹 📅 June 18
https://bit.ly/3YUXZtp
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Transformative Health Care mit Schwerpunkt Technik in der Medizin
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To our fellow researchers at Harvard and elsewhere. 🧪🧠 I have funds for visiting PhDs or postdocs at TU in Vienna. For short stay or full PhD email me. For professors, check for instance, this tenure track opening or ask in private for options
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2909
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Joao Barbosa
6 months ago
Two (tenure track) Junior Professorship Chair in Nice, France on: 'Modeling in Neurosciences and Cognition'
math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/...
'Mathematics of Life"
math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/...
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Junior Professorship Chair: Modeling in Neurosciences and Cognition | Mathématiques et Interactions à Nice
The J. A. Dieudonné research unit and the NeuroMod Institute at Université Côte d'Azur are proud to announce the opening of a Junior Professorship Chair on
https://math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/news/junior-professorship-chair-modeling-neurosciences-and-cognition
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François Fleuret
7 months ago
I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer. That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
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Joao Barbosa
7 months ago
15 positions of Fellow in AI in Paris (teaching + research positions) Required field(s) of studies: mathematics, computer science, physics, astrophysics, chemistry, life sciences, cognitive sciences, etc.
prairie-institute.fr/fellow-in-ar...
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JOB OFFERS: 15 positions of Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (M/F) - Prairie
at PSL University funded by IA-Cluster PR[AI]RIE-PSAI Working environment and context PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres) is a global university that brings together all areas of knowledge and creativity in the sciences, economics and social sciences, humanities, engineering and the arts. It comprises eleven institutions: Collège de France, Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique - PSL,
https://prairie-institute.fr/fellow-in-artificial-intelligence-m-f/
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Edouard Machery
7 months ago
the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.
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ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU
The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...
https://sciencebusiness.net/r-d-funding/european-research-council/erc-double-allowance-researchers-moving-eu
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Alexander Ecker
7 months ago
📣 Now out in Nature Communications as part of the MICrONS package: Our study on excitatory morphological cell types in mouse visual cortex led by Marissa Weis. We describe a set of principles that capture the morphological diversity excitatory neurons. A thread: (1/12)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An unsupervised map of excitatory neuron dendritic morphology in the mouse visual cortex - Nature Communications
Excitatory neurons in the neocortex exhibit considerable morphological diversity, yet their organizational principles remain a subject of ongoing research. Here, the authors use unsupervised learning ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58763-w
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Lénaïc Chizat
7 months ago
Announcing : The 2nd International Summer School on Mathematical Aspects of Data Science
mathsdata2025.github.io
EPFL, Sept 1–5, 2025 Speakers: Bach
@bachfrancis.bsky.social
Bandeira Mallat Montanari Peyré
@gabrielpeyre.bsky.social
For PhD students & early-career researchers Apply before May 15!
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Mathematical Aspects of Data Science
Graduate Summer School - EPFL - Sept. 1-5, 2025
https://mathsdata2025.github.io
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Caswell Barry
7 months ago
Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)?
@amansaleem.bsky.social
and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!
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Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/computational-neuroscience-neuroai-phd-at-ucl/?p184367
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Iris Groen
7 months ago
A little less than 24hrs to go! ⏱️
@neurosteven.bsky.social
and I are *very much* looking forward to receiving your 2-page abstract on your latest exciting findings at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience and AI ♟️🧠🤖 and to welcome you to Amsterdam in August!
bsky.app/profile/cogc...
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Blake Richards
7 months ago
BTSP, but not STDP, can account for place field changes in hippocampus, out in Nature Neuroscience today:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the hippocampus. The probability of BTS...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01894-6
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Joao Barbosa
7 months ago
This guy is speaking at 'legendary Piano Vache bar 🍺' this Friday at 5pm (one free drink included!)
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Serge Belongie
8 months ago
Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
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We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezao8Be0d3lP7stopj1u72uWRwumumEkLVcupqdbKqYDeosA/viewform
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