Rice University: LLMs and the Brain conference

Rice University will host a small conference on LLMs and the Brain. This conference will bring together faculty whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive science, and large language models.
Note: it is a free event, but it is recommended that you register: https://www.haydenlab.com/llmbrain

##### Schedule:

8:00 a.m. Breakfast (provided)
9:00 a.m. Opening remarks, Benjamin Hayden (BCM/Rice)
9:10 a.m. Anna Ivanova (Georgia Tech): LLMs as a tool to understand the human mind and brain
9:40 a.m. Elliot Murphy (UTH): Intracranial investigations of compositional syntactic structures: the search for a Universal Neural Grammar
10:10 a.m. Coffee break (provided)
10:35 a.m. Taylor Webb (U Montreal): Emergent symbol processing in transformer language models
11:05 a.m. Melissa Franch (BCM): Vectorial representations of word meaning
11:35 a.m. Shailee Jain (UCSF): Interpreting LLMs to interpret the brain

12:05 p.m. Lunch (provided)

1:00 p.m. Sam Nastase (USC): Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features
1:30 p.m. Hanjie Chen (Rice University): Interpretability and Control in Large Language Models
2:00 p.m. Coffee (provided)
2:25 p.m. Sameer Sheth (BCM/Rice): Neural encoding of language under anesthesia
2:55 p.m. Kyle Mahowald (U Texas): Cognitive and Linguistic Insights from Language Models
3:25 p.m. Lightning Talks from trainees
3:40 p.m. Poster session
5:00 p.m. End