Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

NOW 2025: Nature-Neurotechnology-Olfactory-Wellbeing Workshop (May 10–11, 2025, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland)

Overview

The “NOW” workshop delves into the multifaceted intersection of technology, neuroscience, and aging, aiming to promote healthy aging and mitigate age-related neurodegenerative conditions. Discussions will encompass cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, its applications in healthcare, and innovative approaches to understanding and influencing brain health.

Day #1, May 10, 2025: AI MATHEMATICAL FUNDAMENTALS & HEALTHY HUMAN AGING

Topics:

• AI Theory & Applications: Theory and Methods
• AI in Healthcare: Pioneering the Future of Healthcare with AI

Invited Keynote Session

9:00~9:30 CEST (16:00~16:30 JST via ZOOM)
“Current source reconstruction from theory to practical applications: how to choose the best methods” by Tomasz Górski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

9:30~10:00 CEST (16:30~17:00 JST via ZOOM)
“Developing Japanese Vision Language Models” by Ryuichiro Hataya, SB Intuitions, Tokyo, Japan

10:00~10:30 CEST (17:00~17:30 JST via ZOOM)
“Joint Empirical Risk Minimization for Positive-unlabeled Data “by Wojciech Rejchel, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

10:30~11:00 CEST (17:30~18:00 JST via ZOOM)
“Mapping Brain Activity: Spectral Fingerprinting Reveals Frequency Gradients” by Michał Lemańczyk and B-NICER Team, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

11:00~11:30 CEST (18:00~18:30 JST break on ZOOM)

11:30~12:00 CEST (18:30~19:00 JST via ZOOM)
“MVP-NAI Framework for E/MEG Inverse Problem Using MNE-Python” by Julia Jurkowska, and Tomasz Piotrowski, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

12:00~12:30 CEST (19:00~19:30 JST via ZOOM)
“The Most Stable Changing Structures throughout Life in Healthy Aging: Brain Age Prediction from Morphometric MRI Data using Machine Learning” by Maria Waligórska and Tomasz Wolak, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, and Bioimaging Research Center, Institute for Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Kajetany, Poland

12:30~13:00 CEST (19:30~20:00 JST via ZOOM)
“Riemannian Geometry of Covariance Matrices: from Information Geometry to Optimal Transport” by Minh Ha Quang, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Tokyo, Japan

Day #2, May 11, 2025: MULTIMODAL APPROACHES IN DEMENTIA PREVENTION

Topics:

• The Role of Smell and Taste in Healthy Aging
• Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, Respiration, and Meditation for Healthy Aging
• Music for Healthy Aging and Dementia Prevention
• Neurotechnology and Multisensory Stimulation for Healthy Aging

Invited Keynote Session #1

9:00~9:30 CEST (16:00~16:30 JST via ZOOM)
TBA by Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK

9:30~10:00 CEST (16:30~17:00 JST via ZOOM)
“A retinal eye tracker combined with a DPI and P-CR eye trackers for high-accuracy and high-precision registration of all kinds of eye movements” by Maciej Szkulmowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

10:00~10:30 CEST (17:00~17:30 JST via ZOOM)
TBA by Victor Manuel Pando Naude, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark

10:30~11:00 CEST (17:30~18:00 JST via ZOOM)
“Impact of Deep Brain Stimulation on Eye Movement in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease” by Marta Skrok, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

11:00~11:30 CEST (18:00~18:30 JST break on ZOOM)
Coffee Break

11:30~12:00 CEST (18:30~19:00 JST via ZOOM)
“What can Recurrence Quantitative Analysis tell us about pathological abnormalities in eye movements?” by Bogna Bylicka, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

12:00~12:30 CEST (19:00~19:30 JST via ZOOM)
TBA by Arkadiusz Gut, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

12:30~13:00 CEST (19:30~20:00 JST via ZOOM)
“Sleep Capital for Healthy Aging and Dementia Prevention” by Tomasz Komendziński, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

13:00 ~ 14:00 CEST (20:00~21:00 JST break on ZOOM)
Lunch break

Invited Keynote Session #2

14:00~14:30 CEST (21:00~21:30 JST via ZOOM)
TBA by Mihoko Otake-Matsuura, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Tokyo, Japan

14:30~15:00 CEST (21:30~22:00 JST via ZOOM)
TBA by Bibianna Bałaj, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

15:00~15:30 CEST (22:00~22:30 JST via ZOOM)
“ASME-BCI: An Auditory Brain-Computer Interface Leveraging Auditory Stream Segregation” by Simon Kojima, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

15:30~16:00 CEST (22:30~23:00 JST break on ZOOM)
Coffee Break

16:00~16:30 CEST (23:00~23:30 JST via ZOOM)
“Passive BCI for Dementia Prediction Using Information Geometry Tools” by Tomasz M. Rutkowski, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Tokyo, Japan; and Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

16:30~17:00 CEST (23:30~24:00 JST via ZOOM)
“The Promises and Pitfalls of Passive Neuroart Brain-Computer-Interfaces for Health and Well-being” by Marc Welter, Inria, LaBRI, Bordeaux, France

17:00~17:30 CEST (23:00~23:30 JST via ZOOM)
“Intermedia and Wholistic Music: from Audiovisual Piano to VR” by Jarosław Kapuściński, Stanford University, CA, USA

17:30 ~ 17:45 CEST Closing Remarks (23:30~23:45 JST via ZOOM)

Organizing Committee

Co-chair PL: Dr. Tomasz Komendziński, Department of Cognitive Science, Institute of Information and Communication Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland
Co-chair JP: Dr. Tomasz M. Rutkowski, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Tokyo, Japan

OC Members:

Prof. Marta Podhorecka, Department of Geriatrics (NCU), Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland
Prof. Agnieszka Hamerlińska, Institute of Educational Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland
Dr. Bibianna Bałaj, Institute of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń, Poland
Dr. Minh Ha Quang, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Tokyo, Japan
Jan Nikadon, Department of Cognitive Science, Institute of Information and Communication Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland
Michał Joachimiak, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland
Simon Kojima, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP) & Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), Tokyo, Japan
Hubert Kasprzak, Academia Copernicana, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Toruń, Poland

For more information, please see the following website.
NOW: Nature-Neurotechnology, Olfactory, Wellbeing – AI, Healthy Aging, Sleep, Music and Dementia Prevention –