Connectionists: Reminder: 'First Workshop on Topics of the nEUro-IT.net Roadmap'

[A en A de Kamps]

There are still some spots available at the 'First Workshop on Topics of the
nEUro-IT.net Roadmap'.

 

The topics are:

Bio-inspired and evolvable hardware, Brain-Machine Interfacing, Peripheral
Processing

The full programme can be found below.

 

Information page:

http://www.neuro-it.net/NeuroIT/Activities/Roadmapworkshop

 

 

Attending the workshop is free, but a registration is required. Please send
mail to:

kamps at in.tum.de

Please indicate which workshop(s) you would like to attend on Friday. 

 

 

 

 

 

---------------------Programme---------------------

 

First Workshop on Topics of the nEUro-IT.net Roadmap

Antwerp, 21/22 April 2006

Programme

Friday April 21

 

--Parallel Session 1: Bio-inspired and evolvable hardware--

Location: Campus Universiteit Antwerpen, Room K101, Kleine Kauwenberg,
Antwerpen

 

Presentations:

 

9.30 -10.00 Welcome and registration

10.00 - 10.45 Tetsuya Higuchi (AIST, Japan)

The potential of evolvable hardware for semiconductor engineering

10.45 - 11.15 Break

11.15 - 12.00 Pauline Haddow (NTNU, Norway)

Development and hardware design

12.00 - 12.30 Andy Tyrrell (University of York, UK)

Fault-tolerance and Evolvable Hardware

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 2.15 Gianluca Tempesti (EPFL Switzerland) 

Bio-inspired processing in molecular-scale devices

2.15 - 3.00 Jim Torresen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Evolvable Hardware Supplementing the Hardware Designer

3.00 - 3.30 Break

3.30 - 4.15 Adrian Stoica, D. Keymeulen, R. Zebulum, R. Rajeshani, V.
Lacayo, J. Neff, B. Meadows and S. Graves (NASA JPL, USA)

Evolvable Hardware for extreme temperature and radiation environments

4.15 - 5.15 Wrap-up session

5.15 Finish

 

 

 

'--Parallel Session 2: Brain-Machine interfacing--

Location: Campus Universiteit Antwerpen, Room K102, Kleine Kauwenberg,
Antwerpen

 

Presentations:

Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp, Belgium):

Introduction and some reflections on BMI as an experimental paradigm 

 

Ad Aertsen (Bernstein Center, University of Freiburg, Germany):

Inference of hand movements from population activity in monkey and human
sensorimotor cortex 

 

Silvestro Micera and Paolo Dario (ARTS and CRIM Labs, Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna):

Peripheral neural interfaces for the control of cybernetic hands: current
activities and future perspectives 

 

Miguel Nicolelis (Duke University, USA and Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne,
Switzerland):

Exploring the future of neuroprosthetic research 

 

Eilon Vaadia (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel):

On the yellow brick road towards neural prosthesis: New neuronal
representations in motor cortical fields evolve during learning 

 

 

 

--Parallel Session 3: Peripheral Processing--

Location: Campus Universiteit Antwerpen, Room K103, Kleine Kauwenberg,
Antwerpen

 

Presentations:

Morning: (10.00-10.30) George Jeronimidis (Reading University) and Herbert
Peremans (Universiteit Antwerpen):

CICADA + CIRCE = CILIA 

(10.30-11.30) Stefaan Peeters and Filiep Vanpoucke (Universiteit Antwerpen):

Cochlear electrode stimulating neurons

(11.30-12.30) Gijs Krijnen (Universiteit Twente):

MEMS arrays of hairs

 

 

Afternoon: (13.30-14.30) Joachim Mogdans (Universität Bonn):

Neural representation of hydrodynamic stimuli by the fish lateral line

(14.30-15.30) Leo van Hemmen (Technische Universität München):

Estimating position and velocity of a submerged moving object by the clawed
frog Xenopus and by fish 

 

Coffe Break 

(16.00-17.00) Annemie Van Der Linden (Universiteit Antwerpen):

In vivo high resolution MRI: an excellent tool for neurological research in
small animals

 

(17.00-18.00) Heike Scheuerpflug (European Research and Project Office):

Intellectual Property Rights and EU projects

 

 

 

-----Saturday April 22-------

Location

Campus Universiteit Antwerpen, Room R007, Rodestraat, 14, Antwerpen, Belgium


9.00-9.15 FET:

Comments on FP7

 

9.15-9.30 nEUro-IT.net:

Roadmap 

 

9.30 - 10.15 Tetsuya Higuchi:

Evolvable Hardware and its industrial applications

 

10.15 - 11.00 Adrian Stoica:

Evolvable Hardware: lessons learned, challenges ahead

 

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee 

 

11.30 - 12.15 Leo van Hemmen:

Mechanosensory Localization: What Owls, Frogs, and Scorpions Have in Common

 

12.15 - 13.00 Giacomo Indiveri:

Neuromorphic Address-Event Systems: Computing with spikes, in Silicon

13.00 - 13.30 Lunch 

 

13.30 - 14.15 Miguel Nicolelis:

Computing with Neural Ensembles 

 

14.15 - 14.16 Closure