Workshop on Computational Neuroscience

International Conference

Start date: 8.07.2026
End date: 11.07.2026
Event location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Conference Poster

The Workshop on Computational Neuroscience aims at gathering scientists from various fields of computational neuroscience, including multi-modal brain data acquisition, data analysis and modeling of brain activity.

The main goal of the event is to share experience of world leading scientists with fellow scientists and with young researchers and establish new long-term collaborations among them. The workshop will include frontal lectures and a Round Table.

Scientific Committee:

  • Mina Teicher, Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Director WIMSA – Advancing Women in Mathematics across the Americas, USA
  • Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Velichka Milousheva, Deputy Director, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The workshop is supported by Simons Foundation and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Arrival Day: July 8, 2026
Departure Day: July 11, 2026.

The workshop will be held in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 8 Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Confirmed speakers:

  • Alexander Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University Vancouver, USA
  • Alon Katz, Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Anno Kurth, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan
  • Federico Benitez, Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Georgi Rusev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  • Markus Diesmann, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
  • Mihai A. Petrovici, Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Milena Mihaylova, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  • Mina Teicher, Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Director WIMSA – Advancing Women in Mathematics across the Americas, USA
  • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Nikolay Gabrovsky, Neurosurgery Clinic at Pirogov University Hospital
  • Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,Bulgaria
  • Sonja Grün, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine & Institute for Advanced Simulation & JARA Brain Institute I, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Venue

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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