Day 1: Thursday 19.March 2026 

WEBEX-Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mbc0562f9b741c8c5e136758799edb7a9 

  9:30 Coffee

10:00 Opening (Timo Torsten Schmidt & David Schwartzman) History and Safety in Strobe Research

10:30 Session 1: Clinical work and applications

10:30 (45+15 min) Rosalind Firenze: 40Hz Stimulation and Dementia

11:30 (20+10 min) Danny Nacker Strobe and Depression

12:00 Lunch Break 

13:00 Session 2: Arts and Exhibitors

13:00 (7+1 min) Tom Galea (Lumenate Growth Ltd)

13:08 (7+1 min) Philipp Caspari (Healyan GmbH)

13:16 (7+1 min) Adrien Stoeger (LLUMA GmbH)

13:24 (7+1 min) Engelbert Winkler (Light Attendance GmbH)

13:32 (7+1 min) Alexx Cuthbertson (ZenSpec)

13:40 (7+1 min) Alex Quaranta (Roxiva Ltd)

13:48 (7+1 min) David Schwartzman & Danny Nacker (University of Sussex) 

13:56 (7+1 min) Till Holzapfel & David Lobser (Light Clinic / Brain Candy)

14:04 (7+1 min) Philip Vermeulen (Studio Philip Vermeulen) 

14:12 (7+1 min) Stratos Bichakis (Universität der Künste, Berlin) 

14:20 (7+1 min) Teun Vonk (Studio Tony Spark) & Noortje van den Eijnde (Studio Noralie)

14:30 Coffee + Tour 1: Laboratories of the CCNB: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin

15:30 Session 3: Psychophysics and Cognition I 

15:30  (15+5 min) Reshanne Reeder (online): Individual differences in mental imagery and personality traits shape Ganzflicker experiences

15:50  (15+5 min) Trevor Hewitt: Measures to assess Stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations

16:10  (15+5 min) Xaver Funk (online): Effects of Stroboscopic Light stimulation on time perception

16:30  (15+5 min) Tim Hirschfeld: The Altered States Database to compare subjective experiences across different experiences

17:00 Buffet Scientific Program

Day 2: Friday 20.March 2026

WEBEX-Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=md83d695ac7f58d9759fe35dacf3b4537

  9:30 Coffee

10:00 Wake Up with Lumenate NOVA

10:30 Session 4: Mechanisms and Entrainment

10:30   (20+10 min) James Dowsett: Methods of entrainment in comparison

11:00   (20+10 min) Ayete Landau: Rhythmic Architecture Reveals Distinct Modes of Neural Dynamics

11:30   (20+10 min) Afra Wohlschläger: A Kuramoto-Approach to EEG Analysis 

12:00 Lunch Break 

13:00 Session 5: Mathematical Modelling

13:00 (45+15 min) Bard Ermentrout (online) Mathematical Models of Stroboscopic Effects on the Cortex

14:00 (10+5 min) Ethan Grove A Large-Scale Computer-Vision Mapping of the Geometric Structures of Stroboscopically-Induced Visual Hallucinations

14:30 Coffee Tour 2 (90min) Guided Campus Walk: 100 years of science in the "German Oxford"

16:00 Session 6: Psychophysics and Cognition II

16:00  (10+5 min) Anton Potrykus: EEG-Effects of Individual Alpha Frequency (IAF) Stimulation

16:15  (10+5 min) Yoel Gordon: Entrainment by Drumming Sounds 

16:30  (10+5 min) Rebecca Delfendahl: Effects of Stroboscopic Light on Connectome Harmonics

16:45  (10+5 min) James Thurbon: Online Flicker Light: Challenges and Considerations

17:00 Closing Timo Torsten Schmidt & David Schwartzman

Exhibitor Space