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 year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renown conferences worldwide in this field, attracting
 students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries.
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This year’s <b>Bernstein Conference</b> will take place <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
September 29 – October 1, 2020</b> and will be held entirely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
online</b> for the first time. It will be followed by the online <b>Bernstein PhD Symposium</b> on
<b>October 2, 2020</b></span></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">satellite workshops</b> are now published: <a href="https://bit.ly/BC20workshops">bit.ly/BC20workshops</a>
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 SPEAKERS<br>
William Bialek (Princeton University, USA)<br>
Michael Brecht (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)<br>
Laura Busse (LMU Munich, Germany)<br>
Megan Carey (Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)<br>
Rosa Cossart (Institut de neurobiologie de la méditerranée, Marseille, France)<br>
Ann Hermundstad (Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA)<br>
Roozbeh Kiani (New York University, New York City, USA)<br>
Vanessa Ruta (The Rockefeller University, New York City, USA)<br>
David Sussillo (Google AI, Mountain View, USA)<br>
Srdjan Ostojic (L'École normale supérieure, Paris, France)<br>
Fred Wolf (Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany)</span></p>
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 COMMITTEE<br>
Udo Ernst (Conference Chair)<br>
Elad Schneidmann (Program Chair)<br>
Julijana Gjiorgjieva (Program Vice Chair)<br>
Tim Vogels (Workshop Chair)<br>
Marion Silies (Workshop Vice Chair)<br>
Henning Sprekeler (Conference Host)<br>
Danielle Bassett, Matthew Botvinick, Peter Dayan, Alain Destexhe, Tim Gollisch, Stephanie Palmer, Nathalie Rochefort, Nicole Rust, Gasper Tkacik</span></p>
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Dr. Anja Dorrn
Scientific Coordinator

Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience | Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS)
Branch Office of the Forschungszentrum Juelich
at the Univerity of Freiburg
Hansastr. 9A | 79104 Freiburg, Germany

phone: (+49) 0761 203 9589
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:a.dorrn@fz-juelich.de">a.dorrn@fz-juelich.de</a>
web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bernstein-network.de">www.bernstein-network.de</a></pre>
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