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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NESTSimulator to the NEST Conference 2024.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. We explicitly encourage
young scientists to participate in the conference!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year's conference will again take place as a <b>virtual conference</b> on Monday/Tuesday <b>17/18 June 2024</b>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are delighted to welcome </p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Tadashi Yamazaki (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Behnam Ghazinouri (Ruhr University Bochum)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Benedetta Gambosi (Politecnico di Milano)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Tobias Gemmeke (RWTH Aachen University) <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">as keynote speakers at the conference.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Registration and submission of contributions are now open!</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are inviting contributions to the conference, including talks, "posters" and workshops on specific topics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please register and submit your contribution(s) via the conference website</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nest-simulator.org/conference" title="https://nest-simulator.org/conference"><b>https://nest-simulator.org/conference</b></a><b><u>.</u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important dates</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>15 April</b> 2024 - Deadline for submission of contributions </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>26 April</b> 2024 - Deadline for NEST Initiative membership applications eligible for fee reduction</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>08 May</b> 2024 - Notification of acceptance</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>07 June</b> 2024 - Registration deadline</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>17 June</b> 2024 - NEST Conference 2024 starts</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking forward to seeing you all in June!<br>
Hans Ekkehard Plesser and the conference organizing committee</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Norwegian University of Life Sciences</span></p>
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