Name: NEST Conference 2024
Start: 2024-06-17T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-18T17:35:00+02:00
Location: Virtual

NEST Conference 2024

from Monday 17 June 2024 (08:45) to Tuesday 18 June 2024 (17:35)

Monday 17 June 2024

08:45

08:45 - 09:00

09:00

09:00 - 09:15
09:15
09:15 - 10:00
Contributions

09:15 Diversity and inclusion: Distributed simulation of multiple brain and body models in multiple simulators on multiple computers across multiple organizations - Tadashi Yamazaki (The University of Electro-Communications)
10:00
10:00 - 10:20
Contributions

10:00 A bottom-up, mesoscale approach for the study of the claustrum function - Razvan Gamanut (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)
10:20

10:20 - 10:35
10:35
10:35 - 11:15
Contributions

10:35 70 Years of Spiking Network Simulations: Past, Present, Perspectives - Hans Ekkehard Plesser (Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Forschungszentrum Jülich; Käte Hamburger Kolleg RWTH Aachen)

10:55 An approach to handle provenance-tracked analysis of NEST simulations using Alpaca - Cristiano Köhler (Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany and RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
11:15
11:15 - 11:30
Contributions

11:15 Exploiting network structure in NEST: Efficient communication in brain-scale simulations - Melissa Lober (Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

11:18 Continuous benchmarking of brain-research simulation code: Keeping pace with an evolving ecosystem of models and technologies - Jan Vogelsang (Forschungszentrum Jülich - PGI-15)

11:21 NEST Replication of a Brain-Constrained Model of Semantic Grounding with Spiking Neurons and Brain-like Connectivity - Maxime Carrière (Freie Universität Berlin)

11:24 Event-Based Eligibility Propagation with Additional Biologically Inspired Features - Jesus Andres Espinoza Valverde (School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany)
11:30 Contingency break
Contingency break
11:30 - 11:40

11:40

11:40 - 12:40

12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 14:40
Contributions

13:40 From Corticogenesis to Functional Networks - Umar Abubacar (University of Surrey)

14:00 Introducing NEST Desktop v4.0 - Sebastian Spreizer (University of Trier; Forschungszentrum Jülich)

14:20 A simplified model of NMDA-receptor-mediated dynamics in leaky integrate-and-fire neurons - Jan Eirik Skaar (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
14:40 Short break
Short break
14:40 - 14:50
14:50
14:50 - 15:10
Contributions

14:50 CA1 Human Hippocampus Model - Sergio Mauro Gavino Solinas (University of Sassari)
15:10
15:10 - 15:55
Contributions

15:10 A multiarea model predicts the changes in thalamocortical beta oscillations caused by dopamine depletion in basal ganglia and cerebellum - Benedetta Gambosi (Politecnico di Milano)
15:55

15:55 - 17:00

17:30 NEST Initiative General Assembly
NEST Initiative General Assembly
17:30 - 18:30
Tuesday 18 June 2024
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Contributions

09:00 Accelerated Simulation of Biological Neural Networks - Tobias Gemmeke (IDS, RWTH Aachen University)
09:45
09:45 - 10:25
Contributions

09:45 Modeling and simulating spiking neurons with NESTML on NEST GPU - Pooja Babu (Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; Software Engineering, Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

10:05 Enabling brain-scale spike-timing dependent plasticity by incorporating axonal and dendritic transmission delays in massively parallel spiking neural network simulations - Jan Vogelsang (Forschungszentrum Jülich - PGI-15)
10:25

10:25 - 10:35
10:35
10:35 - 12:05
Contributions

10:35 Introduction Arbor --- Extending your Toolbox with Multi-Compartment Simulation - Han Lu (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH)
12:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:05 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 13:40
Contributions

13:00 Comparing data-driven architecture reconstructions of cortical microcircuits - Anno Kurth (Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, RWTH Aachen University)

13:20 Simplified neuronal model capturing brain-state specific apical-amplification, -isolation and -drive induced by calcium dynamics - Elena Pastorelli (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - sezione di Roma)
13:40
13:40 - 14:25
Contributions

13:40 The attractor dynamics of behavioral flexibility in spatial and reversal learning - Behnam Ghazinouri (Ruhr-University Bochum)
14:25
14:25 - 14:40
Contributions

14:25 Implementation and Validation of a Balanced Excitatory-Inhibitory Network in Loihi - Alexander Dimitrov (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

14:28 Elucidating the spatial complexity of brain circuits with the NEST::multiscale toolchain - Joshua Boettcher (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

14:31 Developing NEST GPU: from code optimization to validation - Luca Sergi (University of Cagliari)

14:34 Good practices for handling metadata in simulation workflows - Jose Villamar (Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
14:40 Contingency break
Contingency break
14:40 - 14:55

14:55

14:55 - 15:55

15:55

15:55 - 16:10

16:10

16:10 - 17:00

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