Marianne Bauer,
TU Delft (NL)
Daniel M. Busiello,
University of Padova (IT)
Isabella Graf,
EMBL Heidelberg (DE)
Giorgio Nicoletti,
ICTP (IT)
Information & Decisions Across Scales: Constraints and Optimality in Neural and Biological Networks
International Workshop
18 - 22 May 2026
This interdisciplinary workshop explores how biological and artificial systems process information to make decisions under energetic and computational constraints.
Bridging scales from molecular sensing to neural processing and machine learning, we will investigate whether universal information-theoretic principles govern adaptive decision-making.
Topics include
- Information processing under constraints
- Optimality across scales
- Decision-making in biological and artificial systems
- Thermodynamics of information
- Information in stochastic systems
- Stochastic reaction networks for computation
- Collective decision-making
- Information processing in neural systems
- Information compression and representation
- Learning with artificial and biological networks
Invited speakers include
Antonio Celani (IT)
Sophie De Buyl (BE)
Thierry Emonet (US)
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (ES)
Mustafa Khammash (CH)
Tetsuya Kobayashi (JP)
Benjamin Machta (US)
Sarah Marzen (US)
Thomas Ouldridge (UK)
Viola Priesemann (DE)
Pawel Romanczuk (DE)
Monika Scholz (DE)
Agnese Seminara (IT)
Krishna Shrinivas (US)
Pieter Rein ten Wolde (NL)
Gašper Tkačik (AT)
Christoph Zechner (IT)
