2nd European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems: Call for participation

[Dr L S Smith]

(Apologies if you receive this more than once)

Call for Participation:

2nd European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems (EWNS2)

3-5 September 1999, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling,
Stirling, Scotland

Neuromorphic systems are implementations in silicon of sensory and
neural systems whose architecture and design are based on
neurobiology.  The area is at the intersection of many disciplines:
neurophysiology, computer science and electrical engineering.

Registration Forms and Further Information are available from the
WWW page

http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/EWNS2

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Provisional Programme

Friday September 3

0900-1030: Registration and Coffee
1030-1115: Pedro Marijuan, Dept. Ingen. Electronica y
Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain: From Darwin to
Cajal: The Quest for a Neurodynamic Optimization Principle

Session 1: General Papers

1115-1145: Babara Webb, University of Stirling: A Framework for
Models of Biological Behaviour
1145-1215: Catherine Breslin and Leslie Smith, University of
Stirling: Silicon Cellular Morphology
1215-1245: J Love, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne,
Florida USA and K M Johnson National Research Council, NASA
Kennedy Space Center, Florida USA: Towards Evolvable Neuromorphic
Ststems: Adaptive Ontogenetic Engineering of Artificial
Sensorineural Vestibular Organs

1245-1400: Lunch

Session 2: Auditory I

1400-1445 Simon Jones, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University
of Loughborough, England: (title to be announced)
1445-1515: Mete Erturk, C P Brown, D J Klein and S A Shamma,
Institute for Systems Research and Dept. of Electrical
Engineering, University of Maryland, USA:  A Neuromorphic Approach
to the Analysis of Monaural and Binaural auditory Signals
1515-1545: Amir Hussain and Douglas R Campbell, Dept of Applied
Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland: Speech Intelligibility
- Improvements Using a Binaural Adaptive-Shceme Based Conceptually
on the Human-Auditory System

1545-1610: Tea

Session 3: Vision I

1610-1640 Tobi Delbruk, Institute for Neuronformatics, Zurich,
Switzerland: Three Silicon Retinas for Simple Consumer
Applications
1640-1710 Seiji Kameda, Akira Honda, Tetsuya Yagi, Faculty of
Computer Science and Ststems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Fukuoka, Japan: Real Time Image Processing with an
Analog Vision Chip System

1930 Wine and Cheese Reception in the Atrium
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Saturday September 4

Session 4: Auditory II

0900-0945: Andre van Schaik, Craig Jin and Simon Carlile,
University of Sydney, Australia: Human Localisation of Band-Pass
Filtered Noise
0945-1015: Amir Hussain, Dept of Applied Computing, University of
Dundee, Scotland: Binaural Neural-Network Based Sub-Band
Processing of Noisy Speech Signals
1015-1045: Sofia Cavaco, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and John
Hallam, University of Edinburgh: A Biologically Plausible Acoustic
Motion Detection System for a Robotic Cat


1045-1115: Coffee

Session 5: Vision II

1115-1145: E Ros, F J Pelayo, D Palomar, I Rojas, J L Bernier and
A Prieto, Dept of Architecture and Tecnology of Computers,
University of Granada, Spain: Stimulus correlation and Adaptive
Local Motion Detection
1145-1215: Reid R Harrison and Christof Koch, Computation and
Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, USA:
An Analog VLSI Implementation of a Visual Interneuron: Enhanced
Sensory Processing through Biophysical Modelling
1215-1245: R Timothy Edwards, Johns Hopkins University, Applied
Physics Laboratory, Maryland, USA: Acoustic Transient
Classification with a Template Correlation Processor

1245-1400: Lunch

1400-1445 Avis Cohen, Dept of Biology and Neuroscience and
Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, USA: (title to be
announced)

Session 6: Robotics

1445-1515 Timothy Chapman and Babara Webb, University of Stirling:
A Neuromorphic Hair Sensor Model of Wind-Mediated Escape in the
Cricket
1515-1545: R Mudra, R Hahnloser and R J Douglas, Institute for
Neuroinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland: Integrating neuromorphic
action-oriented perceptual inputs to generate a navigation
behaviour for a robot

1545-1615 Coffee

1615-1645 Mark Blanchard, P F M J Verschure, Institute of
Neuroinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland and F C Rind, Dept of
Neurobilogy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Using
Mobile Robots to Study Locust Collision Avoidance Responses
1645-1715 Ralf Moller, Dept of Computer Science and Dept of
Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland: Visual Homing in
Analog Hardware

1915: Conference Dinner
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Sunday September 5

Session 7 Hardware

1000-1045: Shii Chii: Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich,
Switzerland: (title to be announced)
1045-1115: Peter Paschke and Carsten Schauer, Technical University
of Ilmenau, Germany: A Spike-Based Model of Binaural Sound
Localization
1115-1145: Cyprian Grassmann and Joachim K Anlauf, University of
Bonn, Germany: Fast Digital Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks
and Neuromorphic Integration with SPIKELAB

1145-1215: B E Eriksson, L S Smith, University of Stirling, M
Glover, DERA, A Hamilton, University of Edinburgh, Scotland: SPIKE
II: An integrate-and-fire aVLSI chip.

1215-1315: Lunch

1315-1345: Best Paper Prize

1345-1500: Panel Discussion: Neuromorphic Systems - The Ways
Forward
Presentation on EPSRC Silicon and Neurobiology Network (L.S.
Smith)

1500: Tea and Close of Conference

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Gatsby Charitable
Foundation.