The Swartz Foundation also organizes and sponsors neuroscience workshops and meetings. Core themes have included communication in brain systems, neurobiology of decision making, and large-scale neural network modeling. The Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has hosted the following series of workshops since 1998:

• Searching for Principles Underlying Memory in Biological Systems (April 12-15, 2009)
• Attention in Visual and Auditory Systems (April 20-23, 2008)
• New Frontiers in Studies of Nonconscious Processing (2007)
• Computational Approaches to Cortical Functions (2006)
• Neurobiology of Decision-Making (2005)
• Communication in Brain Systems (2004) *
• Can a Machine Be Conscious? (2001)
• Persistent Neural Activity (2000) *
• Toward Animal Models of Attention and Consciousness (2000)
• Functional Organization of the Thalamus and Cortex and their Interactions (1999)
• Neurocomputational Strategies: From Synapses to Behavior (1998)

*co-sponsored with The Sloan Foundation