Please find the tentative schedule below!

The following speakers will share their expertise in keynotes and workshops:

  • Prof. Dr. Martin Butz
  • Dr. Asya Achimova
  • Dr. Marcel Binz
  • Dr. Sarah Schwöbel

Stay tuned for more exciting speakers!

About the PhD Research talks:

Participants may give a short talk, present a poster, or both; please indicate this in the registration form. Talks are planned for ten-minute slots with five minutes for questions. The talks are an opportunity to present an overview of your research and discuss it with your fellows. They will be assigned to a timeslot on one of the three days of the symposium.

About the Project Challenge (Hackathon):

Context is a term of emerging importance with many interpretations and potential applications across cognitive science. Many facets of how context affects or springs from our cognition and may be integrated into (neural network or AI) models still remain to be investigated.

How may we find out more about it? Answering this question is the aim of the symposium’s Project Challenge.

This challenge, as a central and active part of the symposium, is intended to be tackled in groups. In particular, we aim for groups of participants from different fields with different specialties and areas of expertise, to reap the benefits of diverse perspectives, pool their knowledge, and hopefully, allow for new insights and connections to drive future research. In this challenge, the participants will work together to conceptualize a project probing our understanding of context in cognition.

Your task will be to form a team, come up with a project, conceptualize it, and pitch it at the end of the symposium (day 3).

Guidelines for the projects:

  • Specify a research question or hypothesis to tackle. It should relate to the topic of ‘Context’, otherwise, you may choose without restriction. Feel free to be creative!

  • Methodology or subject matter are also free to choose. You could design or code a new cognitive model, or work out an experimental design aimed at answering an open question in the field. Again, creativity is welcome and encouraged.

  • While there may not be time to complete your project within the bounds of the symposium, do prepare a plan of how you would do so, the more specific the better.

  • Naturally, you do not need to actually implement your project proposal after the symposium, although it would be fantastic if you did. This is intended as an opportunity to connect with potential collaborators, discover new approaches and gain inspiration for future work. We hope you keep this in mind while making your choice.

  • Prizes will be awarded for the best project at the end of the symposium!