Name: NEST Conference 2022
Start: 2022-06-23T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2022-06-24T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Virtual

NEST Conference 2022

from Thursday, June 23, 2022 (8:45 AM) to Friday, June 24, 2022 (5:00 PM)

Monday, June 20, 2022
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Thursday, June 23, 2022

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
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9:15 AM Welcome & Introduction - Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
Welcome & Introduction
- Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
9:15 AM - 9:35 AM
9:35 AM
9:35 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:35 AM Simulation of optogenetic based visual prosthetic stimulation in V1 - Ján Antolik (Charles University)
10:20 AM Group Photo - Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
Group Photo
- Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM MPI parallel simulation of a multi-area spiking network model using NEST GPU - Gianmarco Tiddia (Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato (CA), Italy and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Cagliari, Monserrato (CA), Italy)
10:55 AM Short break
Short break
10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:15 AM NEST Desktop: A “Let’s Play Together” for neuroscience - Sebastian Spreizer (University of Trier)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Brain-inspired spiking neural network controller for a neurorobotic whisker system - Alberto Antonietti (BBP/EPFL)
2:10 PM Poster teasers
Poster teasers
2:10 PM - 2:22 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Incremental Awake-NREM-REM Learning Cycles: Cognitive and Energetic Effects in a Multi-area Thalamo-Cortical Spiking Model - Leonardo Tonielli (2Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy)

2:13 PM beNNch – Finding Performance Bottlenecks of Neuronal Network Simulators - Jasper Albers (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

2:16 PM NEST Desktop: Explore new frontiers - Sebastian Spreizer (University of Trier)

2:19 PM NEST is on the road to GPU integration - Jose Villamar (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
2:22 PM Contingency Break
Contingency Break
2:22 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM Poster session 1
Poster session 1
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Short break
Short break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Bio-realistic models of cortical circuits as a freely shared platform for discovery - Anton Arkhipov (Allen Institute)
5:30 PM NEST Initiative General Assembly - Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
NEST Initiative General Assembly
- Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Meeting of the NEST Initiative members
Friday, June 24, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times - Julian Göltz (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University; Department of Physiology, University of Bern) Laura Kriener (Department of Physiology, University of Bern; Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)
9:45 AM Short break
Short break
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM A Neuromorphic Compute Node Architecture for Reproducible Hyper-Real-Time Simulations of Spiking Neural Networks - Guido Trensch (Simulation and Data Laboratory Neuroscience, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)

10:25 AM Signal denoising through topographic modularity of neural circuits - Barna Zajzon (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)

10:50 AM Connecting NEST - Dennis Terhorst (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) Computational and Systems Neuroscience & Theoretical Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) Jülich Research Centre, Member of the Helmholz Association and JARA,Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

11:15 AM Unified Descriptions and Depictions of Network Connectivity - Sacha J. van Albada (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
11:40 AM Short break
Short break
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Balance and adaptation in neuronal systems - Anna Levina (University of Tübingen, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Fachbereich Informatik, Germany)
12:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:25 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Poster teasers
Poster teasers
1:30 PM - 1:42 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM New ways into NEST user documentation - Jessica Mitchell

1:33 PM Modeling spiking networks with neuron-glia interactions in NEST - Han-Jia Jiang (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)

1:36 PM Neurobiologically-constrained neural network implementation of cognitive function processing in NEST – the MatCo12 model - Sepehr Mahmoudian (Freie Universität Berlin)

1:39 PM Fully automated model generation in PyNEST - Mohamed Ayssar Benelhedi (JSC)
1:42 PM Contingency Break
Contingency Break
1:42 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM A spiking neural network control system for the investigation of sensori-motor protocols in neurorobotic simulations. - Benedetta Gambosi (Politecnico di Milano)
3:45 PM Wrap-up - Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
Wrap-up
- Hans E. Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institut Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM