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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 17.120001px;">The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NEST Simulator to the
<b>NEST Conference 2026</b>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 17.120001px;">Save the date for the virtual conference, taking place on
<b>June 16-17, 2026</b>!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 17.120001px;">The annual 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. Weparticularly encourage young scientists to participate in the conference!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 17.120001px;">Registration and abstract submission will open soon. For more information on the event please visit the conference website</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); line-height: 17.120001px;"><a href="https://nest-simulator.org/conference" title="https://nest-simulator.org/conference" data-outlook-id="6fa595dc-809d-496d-adc7-2a3d30d5d7f8" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://nest-simulator.org/conference</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); line-height: 14.266666px;"><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 17.120001px;">We are looking forward to seeing you in June!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 17.120001px;">Hans Ekkehard Plesser</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">- on behalf of the conference organizing committee -</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Research Committee Chair, Faculty of Science and Technology</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Faculty of Science and Technology</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Email </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no" title="mailto:hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no" data-outlook-id="e7f91fb9-9af5-4627-b456-3495af79ca29" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Home </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser" title="http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser" data-outlook-id="18c1a136-9c37-46c8-91c2-16e0f77c33ba" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser</a></u></span></p>
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