Celebrating 13 Years of Research at NeuroMat: a Look at the Past and the Future

Mar 25, 2026

The Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat) will hold its closing event, Celebrating 13 Years of Research at NeuroMat: a Look at the Past and the Future, on June 24 - 25, 2026, at the Multipurpose Auditorium of NeuroMat, located in the Antonio Galves Building (NeuroMat headquarters), São Paulo, Brazl.

This two-day workshop will bring together researchers, collaborators, and students to celebrate NeuroMat’s scientific achievements and to reflect on the research perspectives and new directions that have emerged from its activities over more than a decade. The event will feature a series of thematic sessions covering stochastic neuronal networks, the statistical brain hypothesis, computational modeling, and neurobiological and clinical applications, highlighting the breadth and impact of NeuroMat’s contributions.

The program includes invited talks by leading researchers from Brazil and abroad, with both in-person and remote presentations, as well as a special tribute to Antonio Galves. Topics range from stochastic modeling of neural systems and large-scale computational models to applications in neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and neurological disease.

The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, with live streaming available for remote participants. Recordings of the talks will be made available afterward on the NeuroMat YouTube channel.

Poster Session (In-Person Only)

On the final day (June 25), the event will include a poster session, to be held strictly in person. NeuroMat researchers and students are warmly invited to submit their work.

To submit a poster, please send an email to antonior@usp.br and claudiadvargas@gmail.com including:

• Poster title
• Authors and affiliations
• A brief abstract (up to 250 words)

Please also indicate whether the presenting author will require travel and/or housing support.

Organization

The workshop is organized by:

• Antonio Roque (University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto)
• Claudia Vargas (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Local organization:

• Arthur Rodrigues (University of São Paulo, São Paulo)
• Lourdes Neto (University of São Paulo, São Paulo)
• Matheus Teixeira (University of São Paulo, São Paulo)

Schedule

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Wednesday, June 24

Time	Speaker	Activity
08:50 – 09:00	Roberto Marcondes (Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science)	Opening talk
09:00 – 09:10	São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Representative	TBA
Module 1: Stochastic Neuronal Networks (Chair: Florencia Leonardi)
09:10 – 09:40	Eva Löcherbach (remote)	Talk 1 - Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle(s): 13 years of modeling spiking neurons with stochastic point processes
09:40 – 10:10	Guilherme Ost	Talk 2 - Rigorous statistical inference for large but partially observed networks of neurons
10:10 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00	Morgan André	Talk 3 - Metastability in systems of spiking neurons
11:00 – 11:30	Florencia Leonardi	Talk 4 - Past and present developments in the statistical analysis of neuronal random networks
11:30 – 12:00	Eva Löcherbach(remote), Morgan André, Cláudia Vargas and João Peschanski	Tribute to Christophe Pouzat
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
Module 2: Statistical Brain (Chair: Cláudia Vargas)
14:00 – 14:30	Leonardo Cohen (remote)	Talk 5 - How skills are learned: a computational perspective
14:30 – 15:00	Aline Duarte	Talk 6 - TBA
15:00 – 15:10	Interval
15:10 – 15:40	Cláudia Vargas	Talk 7 - Electrophysiological correlates of stochastic sequence learning
15:40 – 16:10	Marcela Svarc	Talk 8 - Clustering EEG data by law
16:10 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00	André Helene	Talk 9 -Applied perspectives on the statistical brain conjecture
17:00 – 18:30	Poster session

Thursday, June 25

Time	Speaker	Activity
Module 3: Computational Models (Chair: Antonio Roque)
09:10 – 09:40	Markus Diesmann (remote)	Talk 10 - NeuroMat advanced reproducibility of large-scale models
09:40 – 10:10	Mauro Copelli (remote)	Talk 11 - Brain criticality and cortical states
10:10 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00	William Lycon (remote)	Talk 12 - The missing middle: we need neurons in neural networks
11:00 – 11:30	Viktor Jirsa (remote)	Talk 13 - TBA
11:30 – 12:00	Antonio Roque	Talk 14 - NeuroMat SimLab: a decade of contributions
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
Module 4: Neurobiological and Clinical Applications (Chair: Maria Elisa Piemonte)
14:00 – 14:30	Daniel Fraiman	Talk 15 - Statistical comparison of brain networks
14:30 – 15:00	Daniel Takahashi (remote)	Talk 16 - Inferring information flow in high-dimensional systems from incomplete and asynchronous observations
15:00 – 15:10	Interval
15:10 – 15:40	Oswaldo Baffa	Talk 17 - The legacy of the CEPID NeuroMat project in transcranial magnetic stimulation research
15:40 – 16:10	Pantelis Lioumis	Talk 18 - Neuroimaging-guided TMS, TMS-EEG and multi-locus TMS: towards a fully automated, individualized, and precise brain simulation
16:10 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00	Maria Elisa Piemonte	Talk 19 - Rede AMPARO at 10 years: from scientific knowledge to community impact in Parkinson's disease
17:00 – 17:15	Oswaldo Baffa, Claudia Vargas, Antonio Roque	Tribute to NeuroMat's administrative professionals
17:15 – 19:00	João Peschanski	Screening of a film in tribute to Antonio Galves