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will be a workshop/tutorial offered at July 27, 2022 in Toronto. Chaired by Centre Director Britt Anderson it is for all who are interested in new mathematical approaches to the problem domains of cognitive science.

Winter Term Colloquia Speakers confirmed.


Feb 22 - Richard Naud (U Ottawa)

March 8 - Mayank Mehta (UCLA)


March 22 - Karim Jerbi (UdeM)

Additional details (exact times, titles and abstracts) will follow closer to the meeting times. Currently we anticipate virtual presentations, but are still hoping that we can arrange some in-person visits for later in the term.

Thanks to Bryan Tripp for all the work coordinating these visits.

Thursday, November 4, 2021

All Four Brain Day Speakers Confirmed

The speaker list for Brain Day 2022 is growing. Jeff Orchard has confirmed:

1. Frances Egan, Rutgers ()

2. Jacqueline Gottlieb, Columbia ()

3. Viktor Jirsa, Aix-Marseille Universite, France ()

4. Lila Davachi,聽 Columbia ()

Please mark your calendar for April 6, 2022.

Friday, October 15, 2021

New Course! Neural Networks

(cross listed as CS 679) is a new course to be offered for the first time Winter 2022. The course is developed by Jeff Orchard (CTN Core member). It was developed over 4 offerings of CS 489 (鈥淎dvanced topics in CS鈥), and should be of interest to undergraduates and graduates with interests in theoretical neuroscience.聽 For details and pre-requisites please consult

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

CTN Moves to New E7 Building

The CTN has moved into new space in the just finished E7 building.聽 See the updated location information for a map.聽 This move provides unified space for CTN faculty and students to more closely interact on a day to day basis.聽 The space includes offices, visitor space, collaboration space, meeting space, and research space. If you're wandering by E7, come check us out on the 6th floor.

Professor Jeff Orchard and third-year undergraduate computer science student Louis Castricato received a best paper award at the (ICONIP 2017) for their paper titled 鈥淐ombating adversarial inputs using a predictive-estimator network.鈥

The conference was held in Guangzhou, China from November 14鈥18, 2017, and provided an international forum for scientists, researchers, educators, industrial professionals and students to present research results,