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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are looking forward to an exciting Virtual NEST Conference 2024 on Monday/Tuesday 17./18. June 2024.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This years program includes keynotes by</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <b>Tadashi Yamazaki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Diversity and inclusion: Distributed simulation of multiple brain and body models in multiple simulators on multiple computers across multiple organizations</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <b>Benedetta Gambosi, University of Pavia</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>A multiarea model predicts the changes in thalamocortical beta oscillations caused by dopamine depletion in basal ganglia and cerebellum</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <b>Tobias Gemmeke, RWTH Aachen</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Accelerated Simulation of Biological Neural Networks
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b>Behnam Ghazinouri</b><b><span lang="EN-US">, Ruhr-Universität Bochum</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">The </span>attractor dynamics of behavioral flexibility in spatial and reversal learning
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">complemented by contributed talks, posters and a workshop
<i>Introducing Arbor</i>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For the full program an to register, please see
<a href="https://nest-simulator.org/conference">https://nest-simulator.org/conference</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Registration deadline is this <b>FRIDAY, 7 June 2024</b>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are looking forward to seeing you at the NEST Conference 2024!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK">Hans Ekkehard Plesser</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Data Science</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty of Science and Technology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Norwegian University of Life Sciences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway</span></p>
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