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<div class="">Dear Colleagues!</div>
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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 href="https://www.nest-simulator.org/conference" class="">https://www.nest-simulator.org/conference</a>. Please note that we now also accept PayPal as a payment method.</div>
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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 face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Monday 29 June, 2020 (all times are CEST)</font></h3>
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<li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:00 — <strong class="">Welcome & Introduction</strong> (Susanne Kunkel)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:15 — <strong class="">NEST user-level documentation: Why, how and what’s next?</strong> (Sara Konradi)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:35 — <strong class="">Exploring new Fenix resources using NEST</strong> (Alexander Patronis)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:55 — Minibreak</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">10:45 — Coffee breakout</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">11:15 — <strong class="">Workshop: NEST multiscale co-simulation</strong> (Wouter Klijn)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">12:15 — Lunch break</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:00 — Minibreak</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:05 — <strong class="">An Integrated Model of Visual Perception and Reinforcement</strong>(Petia Koprinkova-Hristova)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:25 — <strong class="">Partial Information Decomposition Contextual Neurons in NEST</strong>(Sepehr Mahmoudian)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:45 — Coffee breakout</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">15:55 — Minibreak</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">16:45 — <strong class="">Wrap-up</strong> (Hans Ekkehard Plesser)<strong class=""></strong></font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">17:00 — Mingle</font></li></ul>
<h3 class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tuesday 30 June, 2020 (all times are CEST)</font></h3>
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<li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:00 — <strong class="">A spiking neural network builder for systematic data-to-model workflow</strong>(Carlos E Gutierrez)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:40 — Minibreak</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">09:45 — <strong class="">NEST Component for Modeling Spiking Neuron-Astrocyte Networks</strong>(Jugoslava Aćimović)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">10:30 — Coffee breakout</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">11:20 — <strong class="">Cerebro-cerebellar loops for sensorimotor adaptation</strong> (Alberto Antonietti)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">11:40 — Minibreak</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">12:30 — Lunch break</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">13:30 — <strong class="">Dendrites in NEST</strong> (Willem Wybo)<strong class=""></strong></font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">13:50 — <strong class="">Just-in-time compilation for NESTML models in NEST Simulator</strong> (Charl Linssen)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:10 — <strong class="">NEST Desktop: A web-based GUI for the NEST Simulator</strong> (Sebastian Spreizer)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:30 — Minibreak</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">14:40 — <strong class="">Evolving interpretable plasticity rules using NEST</strong> (Jakob Jordan)</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">15:25 — Coffee breakout</font></li><li class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">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 face="HelveticaNeue" class="">16:45 — <strong class="">Closing Remarks</strong></font></li></ul>
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Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser<br class="">
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