| Thursday, 2 October 2014 |
08:45
| BrainScaleS 4th Frontiers in Neuromorphic Computing Conference |
08:45‑09:00
| | Welcome and introductions | Karlheinz Meier (UHEI) |
09:00
| Area: Theory |
09:00‑09:25
| | Memory and the statistical structure of the world (show presentation.pdf) | Sam Gershman (MIT) |
09:30‑09:55
| | Design rules that enable networks of spiking neurons to carry out complex computations | Wolfgang Maass (TUG) |
10:00‑10:15
| | Coffee break |
10:25
| Area: Modelling |
10:25‑10:50
| | Structural plasticity for learning priors in probabilistic neural networks | Tomoki Fukai (Riken) |
10:55‑11:20
| | Modeling Cortical Layers (show presentation.pdf) | Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) |
11:25‑11:50
| | Linking the Functional and Structural Human Connectome | Gustavo Deco (UPF) |
11:55
| Area: Neuromorphic computing |
11:55‑12:20
| | Large, multi-scale models of brain function | Chris Eliasmith (Waterloo) |
12:25‑12:50
| | Accelerated Analog Neuromorphic Hardware: Chances and Challenges | Johannes Schemmel (UHEI) |
12:55‑13:55
| | Buffet lunch |
13:55
| Area: Neuro-Biology |
13:55‑14:20
| | Representation and computation in visual cortical circuits | Tony Movshon (NYU, USA) |
14:25‑14:50
| | A multi-scale view of the early visual system: an example of FET-driven interdisciplinarity | Yves Fregnac (CNRS UNIC) |
14:55‑15:10
| Coffee break |
15:20
| Area: High performance computing (HPC) |
15:20‑15:45
| | Spiking network simulation code for the peta scale (show presentation.pdf) | Markus Diesmann (Juelich) |
15:50‑16:15
| | Supercomputers: instruments for science or dinosaurs that didn't go extinct yet? (show presentation.pdf) | Thomas C. Schulthess (CSCS) |
16:20
| Conclusion |
16:20‑16:45
| FACETS and BrainScaleS: a 10 year journey | Karlheinz Meier (UHEI) |
16:45
| End of the conference |
16:45‑17:00
| | Farewell coffee |
20:00
| Speakers dinner |