Computation and Cognition
WTI Symposium
Monday, March 2, 2026
9:00 am - 12:35 pm
100 College Street
Floor 11, Workshop 1116
The Wu Tsai Institute presents a symposium featuring neurocomputation experts at 100 College Street on Monday, March 2, 2026. All members of the Yale community are invited to attend a morning of groundbreaking science hosted by John Lafferty, Director of WTI’s Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence.
View speakers and agenda below. Send questions to wti@yale.edu.
Speakers + Agenda
John Lafferty will welcome attendees and open the symposium.
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University
“Identifiability and universality in neural computation”
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
“Memory-centric deep learning: Advancing machine intelligence and informing cognitive neuroscience”
Refreshments will be available in the Lounge.
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
"Geometry guides generalization in zero-shot learning of dynamical systems"
Neuromorphic Algorithms Research Lead, Intel
“The critical role of factorization in perception and understanding”
The symposium concludes.