ACAIN 2025 – Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience

September 21 – 24, 2025
Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany

Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience

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ACAIN 2025: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

The ACAIN 2025 symposium and course is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields of AI, Neuroscience, Neuroscience-Inspired AI, Human-Level AI, and Cognitive Science.

The 5^th  Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence  & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion four-day  Course and Symposium at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto), Tuscany, Italy on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial and productive environment.

Two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (September 23-24), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 21-22).

Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on continuous synergy, exchange, collaboration and efficient cooperation between the two research communities.  These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium – ACAIN 2025, which is aimed both  at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI.  ACAIN 2025 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

The Advanced Course is suited  for scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. 

The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event.

ACAIN 2025 is a residential course and symposium, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed.

Topics

• Artificial Intelligence

• Asilomar AI Principles

• Neuroscience

• Neuroscience-inspired AI

• Brain-Behavior Interactions

• Cognition & Artificial Intelligence

• Cognitive Computing

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Cognitive Robotics

• Cognitive Science

• Computational Cognitive Science

• Computational Modeling  of the Nervous System

• Computational Neuroscience

• Creativity & Artificial Intelligence

• Deep Learning

• Epistemic Planning

• Ethics for Autonomous Systems

• Explainable Artificial Intelligence

• General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

• Generative Adversarial Networks

• Human-Level AI

• Human-Robot Interaction

• Machine Learning

• Neural data Analysis Methods

• Neuroinformatics

• Neurotechnology

• Probabilistic Generative Models

• Probabilistic Programming

• Reinforcement Learning

• Robotics

• Symbolic AI & Deep Learning

• Systems Neuroscience

• Theory of Deep Learning

Lecturers

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György Buzsáki

NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University, USA

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Panos Pardalos

University of Florida, USA

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Maneesh Sahani

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, UK

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Jonathon Shlens

Google DeepMind, CA, USA

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Dimitra Thomaidou

Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

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Marina Vidaki

University of Crete, Medical School, Crete, Greece

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Tutorial Speaker(s)

(TBA)

Directors

Giuseppe Nicosia

University of Catania, Italy

Panos Pardalos

University of Florida, USA

Countdown

2025-03-31T23:59:00-12:00

Deadlines

Symposium Deadlines

• Paper Submission (Symposium): by Friday May 23, 2025 (AoE).

• Late Breaking Paper Submission (Symposium): by Tuesday June 10, 2025 (AoE).

• Notification of Decision for Papers (Symposium): by Monday June 23, 2025.

• Camera Ready Submission (Symposium): by Wednesday July 23, 2025.

• Author Registration (Symposium): by Wednesday July 23, 2025.

• Late Registration (Symposium): from Thursday July 24, 2025 to August 10.

Course Deadlines

• Regular Registration (Course): by March 23, 2025.

• Late Registration (Course): from March 24, 2025 to August 10.

• Oral Presentation Submission (Course): by March 23, 2025.

• Notification of Decision for Oral Presentation (Course): by Thursday May 15, 2025.

• Accommodation Reservation at Riva del Sole Hotel & SPA: by Wednesday July 23, 2025.

Recent News

• January 6, 2025 — Riva del Sole Resort & SPA’s map

• January 6, 2025 — ACAIN 2025 Schedule

• January 5, 2025 — ACAIN 2025 Poster

• January 4, 2025 — How to book full-board accommodation at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA

• January 4, 2025 — ACAIN 2025 (as ACAIN 2024) has an independent scientific program from LOD 2025

• January 4, 2025 — Some housekeeping…

• January 4, 2025 — ACAIN 2025 – A Residential Course and Symposium

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Venue

Riva del Sole Resort & SPA

Castiglione della Pescaia/ Grosseto – Tuscany / Italy