Workshop program
| Mon, 23.04. | Introduction: Neuroscience & Neuromorphic Engineering | Gaby Michel, Moritz Milde | |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Who, what, when and how?! Organization of the workshop | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel, Rodney Douglas, Giacomo Indiveri |
Lecture room |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | A road map to the beauty of the brain | Rodney Douglas | Lecture room |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | A road map to neuromorphic engineering | Tobi Delbruck, Giacomo Indiveri |
Lecture room |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| Tue, 24.04. | Introduction: Neuron & Synapse models | Gaby Michel, Moritz Milde | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | The building blocks of neural computation I: Neurons | Elisa Donati, Saray Soldado Magraner, Melika Payvand |
Lecture room |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | The building blocks of neural computation II: Synapses | Aaron Voelker, Abhishek Banerjee, Melika Payvand |
Lecture room |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup organization & planing | Tobi Delbruck, Moritz Milde |
Lecture room |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: SpiNNaker crash course | Alan Stokes, Andrew Rowley |
LAB! |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: GPU-accelerated insect (and other!) brain simulations | Thomas Nowotny, Jamie Knight |
Lab |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Lab tour | Moritz Milde | Disco |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
Sala Panorama |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic SLAM | Raphaela Kreiser, Karla Burelo |
Lab |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Predicting gene expression patterns | Denis Jabaudon, Gabriela Michel |
Lobby |
| 22:00 - 23:00 | Workgroup: Relational Networks for goal-directed sensory-motor task | Moritz Milde, Nicoletta Risi, Dmitrii Zendrikov |
Lecture Room |
| Wed, 25.04. | Development in vivo & in silico | Gaby Michel | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | How to grow and configure yourself | Denis Jabaudon, Gabriela Michel, Rodney Douglas |
Lecture room |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Self-construction of biological brains vs. design of artificial computing architectures | Carsten Nielsen, Zoltan Toroczkai, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture room |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Winner take all behavior in continuous rate-based and discrete spiking systems | Alpha Renner | sea entrance of the lab |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Power Management Applied to Neuromorphic Sensor Inputs | Christian Mayr, Johannes Partzsch |
Lab/Disco |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Exploring unsupervised online learning in digital spiking neural networks | Charlotte Frenkel | Sala Panorama (Hotel 1st floor, above main hall) |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Evolving very small SNNs for simple computational tasks, robust to noise and damage | Borys Wrobel | Main lecture room |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Dendritic Computation | Michael Hopkins | Meet at bar |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Hands-on working group “BrainScaleS-2” | Yannik Stradmann, Christian-Gernot Pehle, Korbinian Schreiber, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer |
Disco/Lab |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Workgroup: Power Management Applied to Neuromorphic Sensor Inputs | Christian Mayr, Johannes Partzsch |
Lab/Disco |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
Sala panorama |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Filtering the noise from event-based vision sensors for learning patterns in spiking neural networks | Dongchen Liang | Panorama |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic SLAM | Raphaela Kreiser, Karla Burelo |
Lab ("Disco") |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Predicting gene expression patterns | Denis Jabaudon, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture Room |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: GPU-accelerated insect (and other!) brain simulations | Thomas Nowotny, Jamie Knight |
Lab |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Relational Networks for goal-directed sensory-motor task | Moritz Milde, Nicoletta Risi, Dmitrii Zendrikov |
Lab / Disco |
| 22:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Brain Simulation | Christian Mayr, Johannes Partzsch |
Sala Panorama |
| 22:00 - 23:00 | Workgroup: Event-based Unsupervised Learning of Epipolar Geometry | Nicoletta Risi | Lobby |
| Thu, 26.04. | Sensing & Perception | Chiara Bartolozzi, Moritz Milde | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Workgroup: Winner take all behavior in continuous rate-based and discrete spiking systems | Alpha Renner | sea entrance of the lab |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic Touch | Benjamin Ward-Cherrier | Panorama room (1st floor) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Workgroup: Biological inspired motor control - neurorobotics | Juan Camilo Vasquez Tieck | Sala Panorama |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
outside |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Evolving very small SNNs for simple computational tasks, robust to noise and damage | Borys Wrobel | Panorama |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: DVS/DAVIS event camera crash course | Tobi Delbruck | Lecture |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Sensory adaptation to dynamic statistics of a changing environment | Tobias Heed, Olivier Bertrand, Michael Schmuker, Mathew Diamond |
Lecture room |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Time matters: Reasoning about (low-level) sensory input | Gregory Cohen, Moritz Milde, Shih-Chii Liu, Andre van Schaik |
Lecture room |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Tiny brains | Korbinian Schreiber | Panorama |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic SLAM | Raphaela Kreiser, Karla Burelo |
Lab ("Disco") |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Noise and variability in neuromorphic hardware (neurons and synapses) | Borys Wrobel | Panorama |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Recurrent connections in cortex and ANNs | Christian Jarvers | Panorama |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Spiking Neural Network Transfer to Asynchronous Analog Neuromorphic Devices | Carsten Nielsen | Lab |
| 22:00 - 23:00 | Workgroup: Relational Networks for goal-directed sensory-motor task | Moritz Milde, Nicoletta Risi, Dmitrii Zendrikov |
Lecture Room |
| 22:00 - 23:00 | Workgroup: Exploring unsupervised online learning in digital spiking neural networks | Charlotte Frenkel | Sala Panorama |
| Fri, 27.04. | Decision Making | Valerio Mante | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Unboxing decision making - reductionism vs. emergence: The pieces of the puzzle | Yulia Sandamirskaya, Barry Richmond, Mathew Diamond, Paolo Del Giudice, Valerio Mante |
Lecture room |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Unboxing decision making - reductionism vs. emergence: Discussion | Yulia Sandamirskaya, Barry Richmond, Mathew Diamond, Paolo Del Giudice, Valerio Mante |
Lecture room |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Primate recognition and tracking | Sepp Kollmorgen, Valerio Mante |
Lab |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Evolving very small SNNs for simple computational tasks, robust to noise and damage | Borys Wrobel | Panorama |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Exploring unsupervised online learning in digital spiking neural networks | Charlotte Frenkel | Lecture Room |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Winner take all behavior in continuous rate-based and discrete spiking systems | Alpha Renner | lab |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Insect Inspired Neuromorphic Computing | Thomas Dalgaty | Terrace |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Decision making continued | Valerio Mante | Outside the lab |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Dendritic Computation | Michael Hopkins | Meet at bar again |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Using Spinnaker in the Neurorobotics Platform | jacques kaiser, Hossain Mahmud |
Lecture room |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:00 - 00:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
Sala panorama |
| 21:00 - 23:00 | Workgroup: Time matters | Gregory Cohen, Moritz Milde |
Bar |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Brain Simulation | Christian Mayr, Johannes Partzsch |
Lecture Room |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: DVS/DAVIS event camera crash course | Tobi Delbruck | lecture |
| Sat, 28.04. | Demo | All | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Workgroup presentations | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture Room |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup Demos | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel |
Disco |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
Sala Panorama |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| Sun, 29.04. | Free | All | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 10:00 - 18:00 | Workgroup: Rope climbing | Moritz Milde | Capo Caccia rock |
| Mon, 30.04. | Large-scale Processing | Matthew Cook, Moritz Milde | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | How to compute | Matthew Cook, Georg Keller, Christian Mayr |
Lecture room |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | How to design | Christian Mayr, Georg Keller |
Lecture room |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
Sala Panorama |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Using Spinnaker in the Neurorobotics Platform | jacques kaiser, Hossain Mahmud |
Lecture room |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Exploring unsupervised online learning in digital spiking neural networks | Charlotte Frenkel | Sala Panorama |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: DVS/DAVIS event camera crash course | Tobi Delbruck | lecture |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Dendritic Computation | Michael Hopkins | Meet at bar (again) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Spiking Neural Network Transfer to Asynchronous Analog Neuromorphic Devices | Carsten Nielsen | Lab |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 18:30 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Pizza in Alghero | Sergio Solinas | Alghero |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:00 - 23:00 | Workgroup: Time matters | Gregory Cohen, Moritz Milde |
Panorama |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | Workgroup: Nengo Tutorial | Aaron Voelker | Lecture Room |
| Tue, 01.05. | Movement & Action | Florian Engert | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic Touch | Benjamin Ward-Cherrier | Panorama |
| 09:00 - 11:00 | Workgroup: Biological inspired motor control - neurorobotics | Juan Camilo Vasquez Tieck | Lobby |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Relational Networks for goal-directed sensory-motor task | Moritz Milde, Nicoletta Risi, Dmitrii Zendrikov |
Lab |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Workgroup: Power Management Applied to Neuromorphic Sensor Inputs | Christian Mayr, Johannes Partzsch |
Outside Disco |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: DVS/DAVIS event camera crash course | Tobi Delbruck | lecture |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Tiny brains | Korbinian Schreiber | Panorama |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Tools for Hardware and Software Communication (YARP/ROS) | Massimiliano Iacono, Arren Glover |
Disco |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Sensing your movement and actions: how to process self generated sensory feedback | Yulia Sandamirskaya, Florian Engert, Georg Keller |
Lecture room |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Prediction-error stack vs. cooperative action selection networks | Matthew Cook, Moritz Milde, Georg Keller |
Lecture room |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Workgroup: Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Brain Simulation | Christian Mayr, Johannes Partzsch |
Sala Panorama |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Workgroup: Memristors in Neuromorphic Circuits | Thomas Dalgaty, Daniel Mannion, Melika Payvand |
Bar |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Workgroup: Why do we need episodic long term memory? | Yulia Sandamirskaya, Alpha Renner |
panorama |
| Wed, 02.05. | Learning | Emre Neftci | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Synaptic Plasticity: Experimental and Hardware Challenges | Jean-Pascal Pfister, Emre Neftci, Giacomo Indiveri |
Lecture room |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Synaptic Plasticity and Machine Learning | Yulia Sandamirskaya, Friedemann Zenke |
Lecture room |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Workgroup: Winner take all behavior in continuous rate-based and discrete spiking systems | Alpha Renner | lecture room |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Hands on YARP installation and use | Arren Glover | Disco |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Exploring the classification of biomedical signals using plasticity in recurrent networks of ... | Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand |
Panorama |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workgroup: Dendritic Computation | Michael Hopkins | Meet at bar |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Structural plasticity on neuromorphic hardware | Richard George, David Kappel, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer |
Panorama |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Time matters | Gregory Cohen, Moritz Milde |
Panorama |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic Touch | Benjamin Ward-Cherrier | lobby |
| Thu, 03.05. | Memory | Emre Neftci | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Memory and Consolidation in Brains and Hardware | Matthew Cook, Richard George |
Lecture room |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Memory Technologies for Continual Learning | Richard George, Stefano Ambrogio, Giacomo Indiveri |
Lecture room |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Workgroup: Spatio-temporal coding in the retinal circuit | Naofumi Suematsu, Tetsuya Yagi |
Disco |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Recurrent connections in cortex and ANNs | Christian Jarvers | Panorama |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| Fri, 04.05. | Wrap-up & Outlook | Moritz Milde, Gaby Michel | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Wrap-up | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture Room |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Chiara Bartolozzi | Terrace |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Wrap-up | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture Room |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Valerio Mante | Restaurant |
| 13:30 - 16:00 | Demos | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture Room |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Workgroup: Dendritic Computation | Michael Hopkins | Meet at bar |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social/Sports break | Moritz Milde | Outside |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Workgroup: Neuromorphic pictures, movies and more | Michiel Van Dyck | Bar, near the Piano |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Happy Hour | Giacomo Indiveri | Lobby |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | Rodney Douglas | Restaurant |
| Sat, 05.05. | Demos | All | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | Gabriela Michel | Restaurant |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Write-up | Moritz Milde, Gabriela Michel |
Lecture Room |