NEST Conference 2021

Contribution List

37. Welcome

Prof. Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)

28/06/2021, 09:00

Main track

Official opening and introduction to the conference. Notes from the NEST Initiative elected president Hans Ekkehard Plesser.

26. Embedding memories in a network with excitatory and inhibitory plasticity leaves a spiking regularity trace

Julia Gallinaro (Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom)

28/06/2021, 09:15

Main track

Keynote

Day 1

18. NEST Desktop: A web-based GUI for the NEST Simulator

Sebastian Spreizer (University of Trier)

28/06/2021, 10:15

Main track

Talk & poster

Day 1

30. Multi-scale brain co-simulation in the Human Brain Project: EBRAINS tools for in-transit simulation and analysis

Dr Muhamad Fahad (1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, JARA, 52425 Jülich | Germany)

28/06/2021, 10:35

Main track

Talk & poster

Day 1

32. EBRAINS Scientific Liaison Unit

Dr Claudia Bachmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

28/06/2021, 10:55

Main track

Talk & poster

Day 1

24. Workshop on structural plasticity

Dr Sandra Diaz (Simlab Neuroscience, JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

28/06/2021, 11:30

Main track

Workshop

Day 1

44. Session Introduction

Johanna Senk

28/06/2021, 13:30

Day 1

17. Structured Information Representation with Assemblies of Spiking Neurons

Michael Günther Müller (Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology)

28/06/2021, 13:35

Main track

Keynote

Day 1

23. Sequence learning, prediction, and generation in networks of spiking neurons

Mr Younes Bouhadjar (INM-6/10, IAS-6, PGI-7/10, Juelich Research Center)

28/06/2021, 14:30

Main track

Flash talk & poster

Day 1

29. Event-driven implementation of eligibility propagation

Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo

28/06/2021, 14:40

Main track

Talk & poster

Day 1

19. Activity simulations in random networks subject to neurodegradation

Mr Sylvain Casteilla (Université de Paris)

28/06/2021, 15:00

Main track

Flash talk & poster

Day 1

40. Poster session

28/06/2021, 15:30

Poster

Day 1

This is the time to walk around in GatherTown and discuss with today's speakers about their work. On the virtual "poster walls" speakers can present additional material to spark discussion or share their screen to interactively show materials to answer specific questions by the audience.

14. NEST for Associative Memory with Winner Take All Nets

Christian Huyck (Middlesex University)

28/06/2021, 16:00

Main track

Keynote

Day 1

38. Group photo

28/06/2021, 16:45

Main track

36. NEST Initiative General Assembly

Prof. Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)

28/06/2021, 17:30

Closed session for all NEST Initiative members and official yearly assembly for reports, elections and decisions.

42. Social gathering (open end)

28/06/2021, 18:30

Meet all the other conference participants in an informal setting at the GatherTown beach, chat, play games and get to know the NEST community members around you. Don't hesitate to bring your favorite drink and lunch/dinner/snack adequate for your timezone.

This is of course an optional offering and you can also reduce your screen time and go for a real walk to regenerate (without the...

43. Session Introduction

Markus Diesmann

29/06/2021, 09:15

Day 2

20. Towards a systematic understanding of deep-sleep-like activity effects on the network working points during learning cycles

Chiara De Luca (PhD Behavioural Neuroscience, La Sapienza University; INFN Sezione di Roma)

29/06/2021, 09:25

Main track

Talk & poster

Day 2

25. Workshop on modeling and simulation of synaptic plasticity using NESTML and NEST Simulator

Mr Charl Linssen (SimLab Neuroscience, JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), Mrs Pooja Babu (Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Institute for Advanced Simulation, JARA, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

29/06/2021, 09:45

Main track

Workshop

Day 2

27. Spiking model of the head direction cell system for orientation estimation

Dr Rachael Stentiford (Bristol Robotics Laboratory)

29/06/2021, 11:05

Main track

Flash talk & poster

Day 2

16. Conditions for wave trains in spiking neural networks

Johanna Senk

29/06/2021, 11:15

Main track

Keynote

Day 2

45. Session Introduction

Prof. Abigail Morrison (1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, JARA, 52425 Jülich | Germany 2. Forschungszentrum Jülich, GmbH, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), 52425 Jülich | Germany 3. Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science 3, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstraße 55, 52074 Aachen | Germany), Abigail Morrison (INM-6 Forschungszentrum Jülich)

29/06/2021, 13:00

Day 2

15. Dynamics of multiple interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations with delays

Christopher Kim (National Institutes of Health)

29/06/2021, 13:05

Main track

Keynote

Day 2

22. Compartmental models with user-defined trans-membrane currents through NESTML

Willem Wybo (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

29/06/2021, 14:00

Main track

Talk & poster

Day 2

28. Combining NEST Simulator and Python Modules in Parallel HPC Implementation

Petia Koprinkova-Hristova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

29/06/2021, 14:20

Main track

Flash talk & poster

Day 2

21. Sub realtime simulation of a full density microcircuit model on a single compute node

Anno Kurth (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)

29/06/2021, 14:30

Main track

Flash talk & poster

Day 2

41. Poster session

29/06/2021, 15:00

Poster

Day 2

This is the time to walk around in GatherTown and discuss with today's speakers about their work. On the virtual "poster walls" speakers can present additional material to spark discussion or share their screen to interactively show materials to answer specific questions by the audience.

39. Summary & Wrap-up

Prof. Abigail Morrison (1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, JARA, 52425 Jülich | Germany 2. Forschungszentrum Jülich, GmbH, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), 52425 Jülich | Germany 3. Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science 3, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstraße 55, 52074 Aachen | Germany), Abigail Morrison (INM-6 Forschungszentrum Jülich)

29/06/2021, 15:30

Main track

47. Community Discussions

29/06/2021, 15:45

This slot will be filled during the conference and is intended for dedicated in-depth discussions of interesting topics that came up in the sessions. Topic suggestions are collected openly at the white board in the Gathertown main room and selected by the community towards the end of the conference.