Welcome to the 5th edition of the Montreal AI and Neuroscience conference. The event will take place online between 29th and 30th of November. We're looking forward to two days of talks and discussion panels at the crossroads of biological and artificial intelligence.

Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) is an international Conference  organized by the UNIQUE Centre at the University of Montreal.

MAIN 2021 Committee:  The MAIN organizing committee consists of Pierre Bellec (Université de Montréal), Andrea Green (Université de Montréal), Karim Jerbi (Université de Montréal & Mila), Guillaume Lajoie (Université de Montréal & Mila), Jean-Marc Lina (École de technologie supérieure), Bratislav Misic (MNI, McGill University), Irina Rish (Université de Montréal & Mila) and Danielle Nadin (Co-Founder Black In Neuro). Additionally, this year we are lucky to have the support of an outstanding group of highly motivated students from the UNIQUE Centre: Charlotte Maschke, Marie-Ève Picard, Andreanne Proulx, Pravish Sainath, Mandana Samiei, Nazanin Sepahvand, Laura Suarez, Mostafa Sharifzade and Theresa Wiesner.

Coordination & administration: Josefina Rossell, UNIQUE Centre coordinator.

MAIN Scientific Advisory Board: The scientific program of MAIN is established with the help of an extended group of experts in the field of AI and Neuroscience, most of whom are members of the UNIQUE Centre.

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Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) conference 2021

Opening remarks from the MAIN Organizing Committee by Karim Jerbi

Jean-Remi King - Language, A.I.'s myopia and the human brain

Panel discussion: Reverse engineering the Brain

Alex H. Williams (NYU & Flatiron Institute, NY) - Principled methods for comparing neural representations across biological and artificial networks

Surya Ganguli (Stanford University) (Keynote #2) - Mathematical theories of neural computation: from perception and navigation to semantic cognition

Lunch & Networking Break + Lightning Talks

Student Panel discussion: Career paths in Neuro-AI