NEST Conference 2021

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

28 Jun 2021, 08:50 → 29 Jun 2021, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Virtual

Description

The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NEST Simulator to the virtual NEST Conference 2021. The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application.

The virtual NEST Conference 2021

Due to the current restrictions on events and travel, the NEST Conference 2021 will be held as a virtual conference on

Monday/Tuesday 28/29 June

followed by a virtual NEST Hackathon until Friday 2 July.

Registration is open until June 21!

Please register via the registration form provided at the bottom of this page.

The registration fee for NEST Initiative members is 20 CHF and for non-members 50 CHF. Note that you can profit from the reduced fee by becoming a NEST Initiative member before May 16! See https://www.nest-initiative.org/membership/ for details.

Call for Contributions has been closed.

Programme

Keynotes

Julia Gallinaro - Embedding memories in a network with excitatory and inhibitory plasticity leaves a spiking regularity trace

Michael Günther Müller - Structured Information Representation with Assemblies of Spiking Neurons

Christian Huyck - NEST for Associative Memory with Winner Take All Nets

Johanna Senk - Conditions for wave trains in spiking neural networks

Christopher Kim - Dynamics of multiple interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations with delays

Talks

Sebastian Spreizer - NEST Desktop: A web-based GUI for the NEST Simulator

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

Claudia Bachmann - EBRAINS Scientific Liaison Unit

Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo - Event-driven implementation of eligibility propagation

Chiara De Luca - Towards a systematic understanding of deep-sleep-like activity effects on the network working points during learning cycles

Willem Wybo - Compartmental models with user-defined trans-membrane currents through NESTML

Flash talks

Younes Bouhadjar - Sequence learning, prediction, and generation in networks of spiking neurons

Sylvain Casteilla - Activity simulations in random networks subject to neurodegradation

Rachael Stentiford - Spiking model of the head direction cell system for orientation estimation

Petia Koprinkova-Hristova - Combining NEST Simulator and Python Modules in Parallel HPC Implementation

Anno Kurth - Sub realtime simulation of a full density microcircuit model on a single compute node

Workshops

Sandra Diaz - Structural plasticity

Charl Linssen - Modeling and simulation of synaptic plasticity using NESTML and NEST Simulator

Contact

conference@nest-initiative.org

Monday 28 June
- Mon 28 Jun
- Tue 29 Jun
- 1
  
  Welcome
  
  Official opening and introduction to the conference. Notes from the NEST Initiative elected president Hans Ekkehard Plesser.
  
  Speaker: Prof. Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
- Day 1: Morning
  
  Convener: Prof. Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
  - 2
    
    Embedding memories in a network with excitatory and inhibitory plasticity leaves a spiking regularity trace
    
    Speaker: Julia Gallinaro (Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom)
    
    Julia_NEST_Conference2021.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    Short break
    
    Get a coffee or tea, open a window, and move your legs a bit.
  - 3
    
    NEST Desktop: A web-based GUI for the NEST Simulator
    
    Speaker: Sebastian Spreizer (University of Trier)
    
    NEST_Conference2021_NEST_Desktop_Abstract.pdf
  - 4
    
    Multi-scale brain co-simulation in the Human Brain Project: EBRAINS tools for in-transit simulation and analysis
    
    Speaker: Dr Muhamad Fahad (1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, JARA, 52425 Jülich | Germany)
    
    NEST_Conference2021_Fahad_Muhammad.pdf
  - 5
    
    EBRAINS Scientific Liaison Unit
    
    Speaker: Dr Claudia Bachmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    
    abstract_nest_conference_Bachmann.pdf
  - 11:15
    
    Short break
    
    Get a coffee or tea, open a window, and move your legs a bit.
  - 6
    
    Workshop on structural plasticity
    
    Speaker: Dr Sandra Diaz (Simlab Neuroscience, JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
    
    Diaz_Breakout session on structural plasticit.docx
    
    Diaz_Breakout session on structural plasticit.pdf
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break
- Day 1: Afternoon
  
  Convener: Johanna Senk
  - 7
    
    Session Introduction
    
    Speaker: Johanna Senk
  - 8
    
    Structured Information Representation with Assemblies of Spiking Neurons
    
    Speaker: Michael Günther Müller (Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology)
    
    nestconf2021_structured_information_representation_with_assemblies_of_spiking_neurons.pdf
  - 14:20
    
    Short break
  - 9
    
    Sequence learning, prediction, and generation in networks of spiking neurons
    
    Speaker: Mr Younes Bouhadjar (INM-6/10, IAS-6, PGI-7/10, Juelich Research Center)
    
    Bouhadjar_NEST_Conference2021_Abstract.pdf
  - 10
    
    Event-driven implementation of eligibility propagation
    
    Speaker: Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo
    
    abstract_eprop-in-nest_korcsak-gorzo.pdf
  - 11
    
    Activity simulations in random networks subject to neurodegradation
    
    Speaker: Mr Sylvain Casteilla (Université de Paris)
    
    2021-05-16_NEST_Conference2021_Abstract_Casteilla_Bottani.pdf
  - 15:10
    
    Break – Grab a snack
    
    Use this break to grab a cup of your favorite beverage and maybe a snack to power up your brain again. Don't hesitate to come back early and walk around in the following "Poster"-session with your drink already.
  - 12
    
    Poster session
    
    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.
  - 13
    
    NEST for Associative Memory with Winner Take All Nets
    
    Speaker: Christian Huyck (Middlesex University)
    
    nestWTA.docx
- 14
  
  Group photo
- 15
  
  NEST Initiative General Assembly
  
  Closed session for all NEST Initiative members and official yearly assembly for reports, elections and decisions.
  
  Speaker: Prof. Hans Ekkehard Plesser ( Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway)
- 16
  
  Social gathering (open end)
  
  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
- Mon 28 Jun
- Tue 29 Jun
- Day 2: Morning
  
  Convener: Markus Diesmann
  - 17
    
    Session Introduction
    
    Speaker: Markus Diesmann
  - 18
    
    Towards a systematic understanding of deep-sleep-like activity effects on the network working points during learning cycles
    
    Speaker: Chiara De Luca (PhD Behavioural Neuroscience, La Sapienza University; INFN Sezione di Roma)
    
    NestConference_2021.pdf
  - 19
    
    Workshop on modeling and simulation of synaptic plasticity using NESTML and NEST Simulator
    
    Speakers: 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)
    
    Linssen_NEST Conference 2021 workshop.docx
    
    Linssen_NEST Conference 2021 workshop.pdf
  - 10:45
    
    Short break
  - 20
    
    Spiking model of the head direction cell system for orientation estimation
    
    Speaker: Dr Rachael Stentiford (Bristol Robotics Laboratory)
    
    RachaelStentiford_NESTabstract_2021.pdf
  - 21
    
    Conditions for wave trains in spiking neural networks
    
    Speaker: Johanna Senk
    
    NEST_Conference2021_Abstract_Johanna_Senk.pdf
- 12:00
  
  Lunch break
- Day 2: Afternoon
  
  Convener: 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)
  - 22
    
    Session Introduction
    
    Speakers: 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)
  - 23
    
    Dynamics of multiple interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations with delays
    
    Speaker: Christopher Kim (National Institutes of Health)
    
    NEST_Conference2021.pdf
  - 13:50
    
    Short break
  - 24
    
    Compartmental models with user-defined trans-membrane currents through NESTML
    
    Speaker: Willem Wybo (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    
    2021-05_Nest_Conference_Abstract_AM.pdf
  - 25
    
    Combining NEST Simulator and Python Modules in Parallel HPC Implementation
    
    Speaker: Petia Koprinkova-Hristova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
    
    NEST_Conference2021_Abstract_parallel.pdf
  - 26
    
    Sub realtime simulation of a full density microcircuit model on a single compute node
    
    Speaker: 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)
    
    NEST_Conference2021_Abstract_Kurth.pdf
  - 14:40
    
    Break – Grab a snack
    
    Use this break to grab a cup of your favorite beverage and maybe a snack to power up your brain again. Don't hesitate to come back early and walk around in the following "Poster"-session with your drink already.
  - 27
    
    Poster session
    
    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.
- 28
  
  Summary & Wrap-up
  
  Speakers: 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
  
  Community Discussions
  
  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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