News Archive (2021 - 2020)
2021
New contribution to NeurIPS: Learning with slow neurons is not a problem anymore!
- Info
- The work of Paul Haider
was selected for oral
presentation at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)!
"Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons" - Publication - Press Release
New contribution to eLife: Evolving to Learn!
"Evolving interpretable plasticity for spiking network" - Publication
-
eLife Digest
- Press Release
CRS2021 - Champalimaud Research Symposium - Oct. 15 - Info
- Talk by Walter Senn "Least action principle and error-based learning in the brain."
ACAIN 2021 - 1st International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience - Oct. 5-8 - Info
Five talk presentations:
- Jakob Jordan "Learning Bayes-optimal dendritic opinion pooling."
- Katharina Wilmes "Learning to predict in uncertainty."
- Henrik Mettler "Evolving to Learn: Automating the search for interpretable, biologically plausible synaptic plasticity rules."
- Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo "Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural network."
- Julian Göltz and Laura Kriener "Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times."
Manfred-Stärk-Symposium 2021 - Grandhotel Giessbach - Sep. 26-28
Special symposium on theoretical neuroscience and neuromorphic computation dedicated to our generous benefactor Manfred Stärk and his foundation.
Bernstein Conference - Sep. 13 - 16 - Info
Nicolas Deperrois
presented the Poster
"Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming."
For more details, read the related preprint on arXiv.
2nd PhD and Postdoc Retreat of the Department of Physiology - Sep. 10 - Info
Congrats to Henrik and Jakob for winning two of the Idorsia prizes for academic excellence for best presentations, respectively, for best Long talk - Early PhDs and Popular Vote!
New Preprint! Learning across three different global brain states!
"Memory semantization through perturbed and adversarial dreaming" - See Publications
New lab member (August)
Welcome to our new Postdoc: Dr. Katharina Wilmes
!
GECCO 2021 - The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 12 - Info
Henrik Mettler
presented the Poster
"Evolving Neuronal Plasticity Rules using Cartesian Genetic Programming"
Read our Succes Story on using the Fenix Supercomputing Infrastructure!
"HPC Simulations Support Fast and Energy Efficient Deep Neuromorphic Learning" - See Article
CNS*2021 - Computational Neuroscience Meeting - July 4 - Info
Andreas Baumbach presented the Featured Oral "Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks" -> Recording (first talk of the video)
New lab members (June)
We are thrilled to welcome Arno Granier
to our PhD program and to have
Ben von Hünerbein
continue as a PhD student!
Mushroom Body Meeting - June 2 - Info
Mila Neural-AI Reading Group - May 21 - Info
- Nicolas Deperrois presented his work on "Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming"
NeuroFrance 2021 - May 18-21 - Info
- Julian Göltz talked about "Fast and deep: energy-efficient neuromorphic learning with first-spike times" at the NeuroFrance 2021 satellite workshop "Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence"
- Walter Senn presented "An EBRAINS application: Learning a functional (iEEG) connectome"at the Symposium Theoretical and computational approaches in neuroscience: European neuroinformatics platform EBRAINS
New lab member (May)
Welcome to our new Postdoc: Dr. Federico Benitez
!
New Preprint! Single neurons perform bayes-optimal cue integration.
"Learning Bayes-optimal dendritic opinion pooling" -
See Publications
On Apr. 15, Elena Kreutzer
defending successfully her PhD thesis!
NEUROTECH Education Programme: day 6 - Apr. 13 - Info
Laura Kriener
presented her work on
"Fast and deep: energy-efficient neuromorphic learning with
first-spike times."
Our work featured in the last issue of ERCIM News
Read our contribution: "Uncovering Neuronal Learning Principles through Artificial Evolution."
New Article! How predictive plasticity encodes olfactory learning in fruit flies.
"Predictive olfactory learning in Drosophila" - See Publications
New contribution to a Preprint! How cortical oscillations shape spike-based probabilistic inference in the brain.
"Cortical oscillations implement a backbone for sampling-based computation in spiking neural networks" - See Publications
NICE 2021 - Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements - Mar. 16-19 - Info
** Congratulations to Jakob on winning one of the four NEUROTECH prizes for the best early researcher talk **
Three selected Talks
COSYNE Conference & Workshop - Feb. 23-26 - Info
Four posters to disseminate our work!
- Nicolas Deperrois : "Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming"
- Jakob Jordan
: "Learning dendritic opinion weighting by cortical neurons"
and "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 "Lava Implementation of Biologically Plausible Deep Learning with Structured Neurons"
New contribution to a Preprint! Evolving to Learn in an unsupervised network
"Evolving Neuronal Plasticity Rules using Cartesian Genetic Programming"
-> Publication
New Article! A NEAT reduction of complex neuronal models accelerates brain research
"Data-driven reduction of dendritic morphologies with preserved dendro-somatic responses"
-> Publication
New lab members (January)
Welcome to our new research assistant (internship): Ben von Hünerbein
2020
Spiking Neural Networks Workshop - Aug.-Sep. 1 - Info
Julian Göltz
presented the Talk
"Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with time-to-first-spike coding."
For more details, read the related preprint on arXiv.
New lab members (May)
Welcome to our new Postdoc Dr. Tomasz Górski
!
New lab members (May)
Welcome to our new project / lab manager Dr. Virginie Sabado
!
