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Announcing the 2014 Open Source Brain Workshop: Building and sharing
models of the cortex. May 14-16th, Alghero, Sardinia.<br>
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There are an increasing number of cortical cell and network models
being developed and made publicly available, from networks of leaky
integrate and fire neurons based on cortical connectivity and firing
properties, to multicompartmental, conductance based cell models.
Many of these are being reused, reimplemented and extended to
address new scientific questions by labs around the world.<br>
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In this meeting, we will look at the range of cortico-thalamic
models out there which are of widespread interest and work towards
getting these into public, open source repositories, in standardised
formats such as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.neuroml.org">NeuroML</a> and <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://neuralensemble.org/PyNN/">PyNN</a>.
We will investigate the steps needed to ensure these models are well
tested, annotated and ready for use as research tools by the
attendees and the wider community.<br>
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There will be presentations from experimentalists who are producing
the data to constrain these models, as well as simulator and
application developers who will create the infrastructure to build,
simulate, analyse and share the models.<br>
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<b> Confirmed speakers</b><br>
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Sharon Crook, Arizona State University, USA<br>
Markus Diesmann, Research Center Jülich, Germany<br>
Dirk Feldmeyer, Aachen University, Germany<br>
Rick Gerkin, Arizona State University, USA<br>
Alon Korngreen, Bar-Ilan University, Israel<br>
Dave Lester, SpiNNaker project, University of Manchester, UK<br>
Angus Silver, University College London<br>
Tim Vogels, University of Oxford, UK<br>
Daniel Wójcik, Nencki Institute, Poland<br>
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Full details of the workshop can be found here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.opensourcebrain.org/projects/osb/wiki/OSB2014">http://www.opensourcebrain.org/projects/osb/wiki/OSB2014</a>.
The meeting is free to attend, but registration is required
(deadline April 15th). <br>
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The <a href="http://www.opensourcebrain.org">Open Source Brain
initiative</a> aims to encourage collaborative, open source model
development in computational neuroscience and is primarily supported
by the Wellcome Trust.<br>
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Regards,<br>
The OSB 2014 organising committee<br>
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Padraig Gleeson
Room 321, Anatomy Building
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology& Pharmacology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
+44 207 679 3214
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.gleeson@ucl.ac.uk">p.gleeson@ucl.ac.uk</a>
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