• Moshe Abeles (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)
• Fatihcan Atay (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) *
• Nihat Ay (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) *
• Werner Backhaus (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) *
• Nicolas Brunel (Université René Descartes - Paris 5, France)
• Gustavo Deco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
• Sophie Deneve (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
• Daniel Durstewitz (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
• André Grüning (SISSA Trieste, Italy) *
• Boris Gutkin (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) *
• J. Leo van Hemmen (Technische Universität München, Germany)
• Lubomir Kostal (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic) *
• Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universität Graz, Austria)
• Klaus Pawelzik (Universität Bremen, Germany)
• Helge Ritter (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
• Thimo Rohlf (Santa Fe Institute, USA) *
• Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)
• Alessandro Treves (SISSA Trieste, Italy, and Norwegian University of Science and Technolgy, Trondheim, Norway)
• Thomas Wennekers (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
• David Wolpert (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
• Florentin Wörgötter (Universität Göttingen, Germany)

( * = Contributed talk)