Name: NEST Conference 2021
Start: 2021-06-28T08:50:00+02:00
End: 2021-06-29T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Virtual

NEST Conference 2021

from Monday 28 June 2021 (08:50) to Tuesday 29 June 2021 (17:00)

Monday 28 June 2021
09:00 Welcome - Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
Welcome (Main track)
- Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
09:00 - 09:15
Official opening and introduction to the conference. Notes from the NEST Initiative elected president Hans Ekkehard Plesser.
09:15 Morning
Morning
09:15 - 12:30
Contributions

09:15 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)

10:15 NEST Desktop: A web-based GUI for the NEST Simulator - Sebastian Spreizer (University of Trier)

10:35 Multi-scale brain co-simulation in the Human Brain Project: EBRAINS tools for in-transit simulation and analysis - Muhamad Fahad (1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, JARA, 52425 Jülich | Germany)

10:55 EBRAINS Scientific Liaison Unit - Claudia Bachmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

11:30 Workshop on structural plasticity - Sandra Diaz (Simlab Neuroscience, JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Afternoon
Afternoon
13:30 - 16:45
Contributions

13:30 Session Introduction - Johanna Senk

13:35 Structured Information Representation with Assemblies of Spiking Neurons - Michael Günther Müller (Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology)

14:30 Sequence learning, prediction, and generation in networks of spiking neurons - Younes Bouhadjar (INM-6/10, IAS-6, PGI-7/10, Juelich Research Center)

14:40 Event-driven implementation of eligibility propagation - Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo

15:00 Activity simulations in random networks subject to neurodegradation - Sylvain Casteilla (Université de Paris)

15:30 Poster session

16:00 NEST for Associative Memory with Winner Take All Nets - Christian Huyck (Middlesex University)
16:45 Group photo
Group photo (Main track)
16:45 - 17:00
17:30 NEST Initiative General Assembly - Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
NEST Initiative General Assembly
- Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
17:30 - 18:30
Closed session for all NEST Initiative members and official yearly assembly for reports, elections and decisions.
18:30 Social gathering (open end)
Social gathering (open end)
18:30 - 20:30
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 community though). We'll hopefully see each other again tomorrow.
Tuesday 29 June 2021
09:15 Morning
Morning
09:15 - 12:00
Contributions

09:15 Session Introduction - Markus Diesmann

09:25 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)

09:45 Workshop on modeling and simulation of synaptic plasticity using NESTML and NEST Simulator - Charl Linssen (SimLab Neuroscience, JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) Pooja Babu (Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Institute for Advanced Simulation, JARA, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

11:05 Spiking model of the head direction cell system for orientation estimation - Rachael Stentiford (Bristol Robotics Laboratory)

11:15 Conditions for wave trains in spiking neural networks - Johanna Senk
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Afternoon
Afternoon
13:00 - 15:30
Contributions

13:00 Session Introduction - 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)

13:05 Dynamics of multiple interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations with delays - Christopher Kim (National Institutes of Health)

14:00 Compartmental models with user-defined trans-membrane currents through NESTML - Willem Wybo (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

14:20 Combining NEST Simulator and Python Modules in Parallel HPC Implementation - Petia Koprinkova-Hristova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

14:30 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)

15:00 Poster session
15:30 Summary & Wrap-up - Abigail Morrison (INM-6 Forschungszentrum Jülich) 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)
Summary & Wrap-up (Main track)
- Abigail Morrison (INM-6 Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- 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)
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 Community Discussions
Community Discussions
15:45 - 17:00
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.

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