Summer 2026 - Second edition of the Summer School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience (SCAN), taking place on May 14th and 15th at Florida Atlantic University, organized by the Pena lab and hosted at the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute.

School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience (SCAN)

Florida Atlantic University | May 14–15, 2026
Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute | Computational Neuroscience Lab

Homewood Suites by Hilton Palm Beach Gardens
4700 Donald Ross Rd, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418

9:00 am – Opening Remarks and Workshop Start — Dr. Rodrigo Pena, Introduction to SCAN
10:00 am – Dr. Yue Liu, Recurrent Neural Networks
11:00 am – Dr. Cristina Ferrer, Protein Structures
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:30 pm – Dr. Juan Lopez, Methods for Connectomic Dataset Access
2:30 pm – Dr. Cesar Ceballos, Connectomic Data Analysis
3:30 pm – Ty Roachford, Large-scale Connectomic Simulations
4:30 pm – Lindsey Knowles, Quantum Computing Introduction and Applications
6:30 pm – Dinner @ TBD

Name	Institution
Ethan Johnson	Florida International University
Anika Chowdhury	Florida International University
Soleil Escobar	Florida International University
Gillian Durta	Florida State University
Devyani Jain	Florida State University
Victoria Montalvo	Florida State University
Max Boyington	Florida State University
Zorianna Starks	Florida State University
Maisha Milon	Florida State University
Daniel Miranda	Florida State University
Eva Allen	Florida State University
Sofia Sierra	Florida State University
Sebastian Ruiz	Florida State University
Yabsera Negussie	Nova Southeastern University
Wyatt Boyington	University of Florida
Mason Martin	Florida Atlantic University
Rebecca Goodman	Florida Atlantic University
Tasianna Giordano	Florida Atlantic University

Summer 2025 - First edition of the Summer School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience (SCAN), taught at Florida State University. The course was invited by the CompNeuroSociety.