“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination.” —Oliver Sacks.

The Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics, together with the University of Cologne’s Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS), invites candidates to apply for Doctoral Fellowships in Economics.

Collective behaviour is all around us from flocks of birds to schools of fish to human crowds. Collective behaviour happens across multiple spatial and temporal scales making it one of the most ubiquitous, natural phenomena around us. For a long time, organismal collective behaviour has been studied separately across many disciplines from biology to ecology to physics to engineering. The aim of this school is to bring multiple disciplinary approaches to collective behaviour, studying a wide variety of organisms using different methods. The school thus aims to prepare the next generation of scientists that are exposed to a breadth of approaches to study collective behaviour.

Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!

The goal of this course is to help produce a community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science and will lead the scientific understanding of intelligence and the development of true biologically inspired AI.

The 2026 International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC 2026) is the 44th annual gathering of the global system dynamics and systems thinking community. Organized by the System Dynamics Society, the event facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration across business, academia, government, and civil society.

The MITHIC 2026 workshop (Unveiling Complex Interactions) focuses on applying multivariate information theory and high-order interaction analysis to complex systems, held May 11-13, 2026.

EWOMS is a recurring, high-profile event dedicated to the study of working memory, held every two years at rotating European locations. This year it will be held on Aug 26-28 at Lyon (France). Abstract submission deadline is March 13th, 2026

The 23rd International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2026) will be held in Trieste, Italy, from June 22-26, 2026. This premier event focuses on novel computation forms, including quantum, molecular, and biological computing, featuring workshops on cellular automata, reaction systems, and quantum computing.

The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) will be held in Kyoto, Japan, from September 15–18, 2026, at Kyoto University. This interdisciplinary event focuses on developmental learning in humans, animals, and machines, bringing together researchers in robotics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience.