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 |