| Thursday, 3 June 2010 | |||
| 09:00 | Frontiers in Neuromorphic Computation: a Multi-FACETS Enterprise, day I, Room: Collège de France, Paris 5e Salle Halvax | ||
| 09:00‑09:25 (25+5 min) | Frontiers in Neuromorphic Computation (show presentation.pdf) | Karlheinz Meier (UHEI) | |
| 09:30‑09:55 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: What can we learn from Biology for Computing? (show presentation.pdf) An introduction into the field | Giacomo Indiveri (ETH Zürich) | |
| 10:00‑10:25 (25+5 min) | Ideas for a Biologically Inspired Bayesian Computer (show presentation.pdf) | Wolfgang Maass (TUG) | |
| 10:30‑11:00 (30 min) | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00‑11:25 (25+5 min) | Associative memory architectures on supercomputers and neuromorphic systems | Anders Lansner (KTH) | |
| 11:30‑11:55 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: The Spinnaker Project | David Lester (U Manchester) | |
| 12:00‑12:15 (15 min) | Presentation of the COST Programme, an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (show presentation.pdf) | Caroline Whelan (COST) | |
| 12:15‑14:00 (105 min) | Outside lunch Restaurant proposals in conference material | ||
| 14:00 | FACETS-ITN Joint Industry Workshop | ||
| 14:00‑14:25 (25+5 min) | In silico memristor network: learning and training | Anteo Smerieri (U Parma) | |
| 14:30‑14:55 (25+5 min) | From Biology to Technology - Computational Neuroscience in Corporate Research | Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (Honda Research Inst.) | |
| 15:00‑15:25 (25+5 min) | Design and Verification Challenges for integrated Mixed-Signal-Systems | Achim Graupner (ZMDI) | |
| 15:30‑15:55 (25+5 min) | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00‑16:25 (25+5 min) | High Density Full-Wafer Wiring | Thomas Fritzsch (Fraunhofer IZM) | |
| 16:30‑16:55 (25+5 min) | Hardware spiking neural networks: models and experiments at the cellular level | Sylvie Renaud (ENSEIRB) | |
| 17:00‑17:25 (25+5 min) | Implementing neuroscience concepts in novel hardware architectures (demonstrations) (show presentation.pdf) | Daniel Brüderle (UHEI) | |
| 17:40‑18:55 (75 min) | Round-table discussion "Neuroscience and IT - Synergies in two Directions?" (show presentation.pdf) Ryad Benosman, Gérard Berry, Alain Berthoz, Gordon Cheng, Mikael Djurfeldt, Rodney Douglas, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, David Lester, Takashi Morie, Ulrich Rückert Chair: Karlheinz Meier | Karlheinz Meier (UHEI) | |
| 19:30‑22:00 (150 min) | (Dinner, only for FACETS members and speakers) | ||
| Friday, 4 June 2010 | |||
| 09:00 | Frontiers in Neuromorphic Computation: a Multi-FACETS Enterprise, day II, Amphitéatre Marguerite de Navarre | ||
| 09:00‑09:10 (10+5 min) | Welcome address: Thinking about, modeling, and mastering computation (show presentation.pdf) | Gérard Berry (INRIA and College de France) | |
| 09:15‑09:40 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: From Brain Architecture to Computing Principles | Alain Berthoz (College de France) | |
| 09:45‑10:10 (25+5 min) | A polymorphic view of cortical dynamics: from "crystal" to "smoke" | Yves Fregnac (CNRS UNIC) | |
| 10:15‑10:40 (25+5 min) | How good are neuron models? | Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL LCN) | |
| 10:45‑11:10 (25+5 min) | Coffee break | ||
| 11:15‑11:40 (25+5 min) | Behavioural receptive fields and cortical gain control | Frederic Chavane (CNRS INCM) | |
| 11:45‑12:10 (25+5 min) | Control of interplay between excitation and inhibition by the visual input statistics: a V1 FACETS model | Jens Kremkow (ALUF) | |
| 12:15‑12:40 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: Transient dynamics in neural processing: from bees to the human brain | Gilles Laurent (MPI-BRI Frankfurt) | |
| 12:45‑14:00 (75 min) | Light Lunch (in the Foyer Marguerite de Navarre) and life demonstration of the FACETS Hardware | ||
| 14:00‑14:25 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: Lessons from Intelligent Robotics | Gordon Cheng (TU Muenchen) | |
| 14:30‑14:55 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: Attractor models of persistent activity in decision-making cortical areas (show presentation.pdf) | Nicolas Brunel (Paris 5) | |
| 15:00‑15:25 (25+5 min) | Stochastic activity and high-conductance states, from single neurons to macroscopic levels (show presentation.pdf) | Alain Destexhe (CNRS UNIC) | |
| 15:30‑15:55 (25+5 min) | Neural fields and visual texture perception (show presentation.pdf) | Olivier Faugeras (INRIA) | |
| 16:00‑16:25 (25+5 min) | Coffee break | ||
| 16:30‑16:55 (25+5 min) | Integration: a collaborative software tool-chain for neuromorphic computation (show presentation.pdf) | Andrew Davison (CNRS UNIC) | |
| 17:00‑17:25 (25+5 min) | The FACETS wafer-scale neuromorphic hardware system | Johannes Schemmel (UHEI) | |
| 17:30‑17:55 (25+5 min) | Keynote speaker: The cortical BlueBrain project and beyond | Felix Schuermann (EPFL LNMC) | |
| 18:00‑18:15 (15 min) | Where do we go from here? (show presentation.pdf) | Karlheinz Meier (UHEI) | |
| 18:15 | End of the meeting | ||