News Archive

• Cosyne 2021 - Computational and Systems Neuroscience - Feb. 24 - Info

• Four selected posters and four new opportunities to disseminate our work!
  - Nicolas Deperrois
    Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming
  - Jakob Jordan
    Learning dendritic opinion weighting by cortical neurons
    Evolving to learn: discovering interpretable plasticity rules for spiking networks
  - Michael Müller
    A functional role of cortical oscillations for probabilistic computation in spiking neural networks
  
  

• New lab member (February)

• Welcome to our new Postdoc : Dr. Kevin Max
  
  
  

• Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) Workshop - Feb. -

• Laura Kriener presented the talk "Lava Implementation of Biologically Plausible Deep Learning with Structured Neurons".
  
  

• New contribution to a Preprint! E2L in an unsupervised network.

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  "Evolving Neuronal Plasticity Rules using Cartesian Genetic Programming". See Publications
  
  
  

• New Article! A NEAT reduction of complex neuronal models accelerates brain research.

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  "Data-driven reduction of dendritic morphologies with preserved dendro-somatic responses". See Publications - Press Release
  
  
  

• New lab member (January)

• Welcome to our new Research Assistant (Internship): Ben von Hünerbein
  
  
  

2020

• Bernstein Conference - Sep. 30 - Info

• Jakob Jordan presented the Poster "Evolving to learn: discovering interpretable plasticity rules for spiking networks". For more details, read the related preprint on arXiv.

• Akos F. Kungl presented the Poster "Self-sustained probabilistic computing on spike-based neuromorphic systems" - recorded presentation
  -> For more details, read the two related papers in frontiers in Neuroscience and Neural Networks .
  
  

• Spiking Neural Networks Workshop - Sep. 2 - Info

• Julian Göltz presented the Talk "Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with time-to-first-spike coding".
  -> To go further, read the related preprint on arXiv ( PDF ).
  
  

• New lab members (July)

• Welcome to our new Postdoc Dr. Tomasz Górski
  
  
  

• New lab member (May)

• Welcome to our new project / lab manager : Dr. Virginie Sabado
  
  

2019

• Cosyne 2019 - Info

• Dominik Dold presented the talk "Lagrangian dynamics of dendritic microcircuits enables real-time backpropagation of errors".

• Jakob Jordan presented the poster "Error-driven learning supports Bayes-optimal multisensory integration via conductance-based dendrites".

• -> For the abstract and recorded talk of Dominik, and the abstract of Jakob's poster see Conference Contributions.
  
  

• Now in Neural Networks : why the Bayesian brain may need no noise

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  "Stochasticity from function - Why the Bayesian brain may need no noise". See Publications
  
  
  

2018

• Now in Scientific Reports : spiking superiority

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  "Spiking neurons with short-term synaptic plasticity form superior generative networks". See Publications

2017

• Die Entdeckung von Neuroland

• UniPress Nr. 170, February 2017 - News article
  

2014

• Vergessen bringt Vorteile: die Lektionen der Fruchtfliege

• UniPress Nr. 160, April 2014 - News article - Scientific article
  Blick am Abend June 3, 2014
  
  

• Der Reiz der Rose

• Medienmitteilung der Universität Bern, Feb. 7, 2014 - Scientific article
  Bieler Tagblatt Feb. 7, 2014
  Salzburger Nachrichten Feb. 20, 2014
  

2013