2-3 Apr 2015 Paris (France)

Planning

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:45 Coffee & croissants  
09:45 - 10:10 Meeting opening  
10:00 - 10:15 Session 1 : Structured Neurons and Dentritic Computations - "Overview of the hardware" - Karlheinz Meier, U Heidelberg  
10:15 - 10:30 Session 1 : Structured Neurons and Dendritic Computations - "A multi-compartment neuron model implementation in analog neuromorphic hardware." - Andreas Hartel, U. Heidelberg  
10:30 - 10:45 Session 1 : Structured Neurons and Dendritic Computations - "The microanatomy of pyramidal cells" - Ruth Benavides-Piccione, Cajal Inst.  
10:45 - 11:00 Session 1 : Structured Neurons and Dendritic Computations - "Optimisation and validation of dendritic integration in cortical neuron models" - Christian Roessert, EPFL (collab. Eilif Muller)  
11:00 - 11:15 Session 1 : Structured Neurons and Dendritic Computations - Romain Veltz, INRIA  
11:15 - 11:35 Discussion  
11:35 - 12:05 Coffee break  
12:05 - 12:20 Session 2 : Plasticity and Development - "An error-correcting learning rule for dendritic synapses" - Walter Senn, U. Bern  
12:20 - 12:35 Session 2 : Plasticity and Development - "Mapping plasticity rules to hardware in a flexible way" - Simon Friedman, U. Heidelberg  
12:35 - 12:50 Session 2 : Plasticity and Development - "Network rewiring as Bayesian inference" - David Kappel, TU Graz  
12:50 - 13:05 Session 2 : Plasticity and Development - "The Synapse: a cross cutting proposal" - Nathan Skene, Edinburg U.  
13:05 - 13:25 Discussion  
13:25 - 14:55 Lunch  
14:55 - 15:10 Session 5 : Network States - Pierre Yger, Institut de la Vision  
15:10 - 15:25 Session 3 : Stochasticity and Computation - "A Wish List for Practical Neuromorphic Computation" - Michael Hopkins, U Manchester  
15:25 - 15:40 Session 3 : Stochasticity and Computation - "Dynamic stability of sequential stimulus representations" - Abigail Morrison, Juelich  
15:40 - 15:55 Session 3 : Stochasticity and Computation - "Deterministic neural networks as sources of uncorrelated noise for probabilistic computation" - Tom Tetzlaff, Juelich  
15:55 - 16:15 Discussion  
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break  
16:45 - 17:00 Session 4 : Spatial Scales and Mean-Field Methods - "Stochastic neural networks and mean field effect" - Etienne Tanre, INRIA  
17:00 - 17:15 Session 4 : Spatial Scales and Mean-Field Methods - "Population density methods: between neurons and mechanistic cognitive models" - Marc de Kamps, U. Leeds  
17:15 - 17:30 Session 4 : Spatial Scales and Mean-Field Methods - Gustavo Deco, U Barcelona (video conference)  
17:30 - 17:45 Session 4 : Spatial Scales and Mean-Field Methods - Alain Destexhe, EITN CNRS-UNIC  
17:45 - 18:05 Discussion  
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner with the speakers  

Friday, April 3, 2015

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:15 Session 5 : Network States - "A multi-area model at the resolution of neurons and synapses" - Markus Diesmann, Juelich  
09:15 - 09:30 Session 5 : Network States - "Spontaneous activity regime in a model of primary visual cortex" - Jan Antolik, CNRS-UNIC  
09:30 - 09:45 Session 3 : Stochasticity and Computation - "Neuromorphic Neural Sampling: Chances and Challenges" - Mihai Petrovici, U. Heidelberg  
09:45 - 10:00 Session 5 : Network States - "Gap Junctions in the neocortex and their incorporation into the HBP microcircuitry" - Oren Amsalem, Hebrew University  
10:00 - 10:20 Discussion  
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break  
10:50 - 11:35 Session 6 : Diversity - "Variability and diversity of biophysical solutions underlying neuronal activity" - Jean-Marc Goaillard, U. Marseille (invited speaker)  
11:35 - 11:50 Session 6 : Diversity - “Making Models that tolerate diversity" - Michael Schmuker and Thomas Nowotny, U of Sussex  
11:50 - 12:05 Session 6 : Diversity - "Heterogeneity and calibration of analog neuromorphic circuits" - Sebastian Schmitt, U. Heidelberg  
12:05 - 12:20 Session 6 : Diversity - "Simulating the Emulator: A characterization of mixed-signal neuromorphic modeling" - Paul Mueller, U. Heidelberg  
12:20 - 12:40 Discussion  
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:45 General discussion - Writing a position paper for the future directions of neuromorphic computing in HBP  
15:45 - 16:00 Summary and closing the meeting  
  
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