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<div class="moz-forward-container">Dear Colleagues!
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<div class="">The virtual NEST Conference 2020 on 29/30 June
is less than two weeks away and we are happy to invite you
to an exciting program of presentations and workshops, which
you will find below. The conference will be single track to
facilitate interactions and include virtual coffee breakouts
to mix and mingle.</div>
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<div class="">Please don't forget to register by <b class="">MONDAY,
22 June 2020</b> at <a
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.nest-simulator.org/conference</a>.
Please note that we now also accept PayPal as a payment
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<div class="">See you at the NEST Conference 2020!</div>
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<div class="">Hans Ekkehard Plesser & Susanne Kunkel</div>
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<h3 class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 12px;"
face="HelveticaNeue">Monday 29 June, 2020 (all times are
CEST)</font></h3>
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<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:00 — <strong
class="">Welcome & Introduction</strong> (Susanne
Kunkel)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:15 — <strong
class="">NEST user-level documentation: Why, how and
what’s next?</strong> (Sara Konradi)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:35 — <strong
class="">Exploring new Fenix resources using NEST</strong> (Alexander
Patronis)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:55 —
Minibreak</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">10:00 — <strong
class="">Toward a </strong><strong class="">possible
integration</strong><strong class=""> of </strong><strong
class="">NeuronGPU</strong><strong class=""> in NEST</strong> (Bruno
Golosio)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">10:45 —
Coffee breakout</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">11:15 — <strong
class="">Workshop: NEST multiscale co-simulation</strong> (Wouter
Klijn)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">12:15 —
Lunch break</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">13:15 — <strong
class="">Thalamo</strong><strong class="">-cortical
spiking model of incremental learning combining </strong><strong
class="">perception</strong><strong class="">, </strong><strong
class="">context</strong><strong class=""> and
NREM-sleep-mediated noise-resilience</strong> (Chiara
De Luca)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:00 —
Minibreak</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:05 — <strong
class="">An Integrated Model of Visual Perception and
Reinforcement</strong>(Petia Koprinkova-Hristova)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:25 — <strong
class="">Partial Information Decomposition Contextual
Neurons in NEST</strong>(Sepehr Mahmoudian)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:45 —
Coffee breakout</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">15:15 — <strong
class="">deNEST</strong><strong class="">: a
declarative frontend for specifying networks and
running simulations in NEST</strong> (Tom Bugnon)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">15:35 — <strong
class="">Primate </strong><strong class="">perisylvian</strong><strong
class=""> cortex in NEST: from reflex to small world</strong> (Harry
Howard)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">15:55 —
Minibreak</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">16:00 — <strong
class="">Modeling robust and efficient coding in the
mouse primary visual cortex using computational
perturbations</strong> (Stefan Mihalas)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">16:45 — <strong
class="">Wrap-up</strong> (Hans Ekkehard Plesser)<strong
class=""></strong></font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">17:00 —
Mingle</font></li>
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<h3 class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 12px;"
face="HelveticaNeue">Tuesday 30 June, 2020 (all times are
CEST)</font></h3>
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<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:00 — <strong
class="">A spiking neural network builder for
systematic data-to-model workflow</strong>(Carlos E
Gutierrez)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:20 — <strong
class="">Insite: A Generalized Pipeline for In-transit
Visualization and Analysis</strong>(Simon Oehrl)<strong
class=""></strong></font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:40 —
Minibreak</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">09:45 — <strong
class="">NEST Component for Modeling Spiking
Neuron-Astrocyte Networks</strong>(Jugoslava Aćimović)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">10:30 —
Coffee breakout</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">11:00 — <strong
class="">Atlas-mapped reconstruction and simulation of
the cerebellar Lingula in NEST</strong> (Alice
Geminiani)<strong class=""></strong></font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">11:20 — <strong
class="">Cerebro-cerebellar loops for sensorimotor
adaptation</strong> (Alberto Antonietti)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">11:40 —
Minibreak</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">11:45 — <strong
class="">Modeling plasticity inducing stimulation
protocols in recurrent neuronal networks with
homeostatic structural plasticity</strong> (Swathi
Anil)<strong class=""></strong></font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">12:30 —
Lunch break</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">13:30 — <strong
class="">Dendrites in NEST</strong> (Willem Wybo)<strong
class=""></strong></font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">13:50 — <strong
class="">Just-in-time compilation for NESTML models in
NEST Simulator</strong> (Charl Linssen)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:10 — <strong
class="">NEST Desktop: A web-based GUI for the NEST
Simulator</strong> (Sebastian Spreizer)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:30 —
Minibreak</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">14:40 — <strong
class="">Evolving interpretable plasticity rules using
NEST</strong> (Jakob Jordan)</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">15:25 —
Coffee breakout</font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">15:45 — <strong
class="">Workshop: deNEST</strong><strong class="">: a
declarative frontend for specifying networks and
running simulations in NEST</strong> (Tom Bugnon &
William Mayner)<strong class=""></strong></font></li>
<li class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">16:45 — <strong
class="">Closing Remarks</strong></font></li>
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