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Monday, 16 March 2020

NICE 2020 in Heidelberg

6th March 2020: We are sorry to announce that NICE 2020, scheduled to be held on March 17-20 2020, will be postponed to a later date. Please see here for the new date in March 2021

Meeting venue: Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Pre-NICE events on Monday, 16 March 2020 (both POSTPONED as well)

Travel info:

  • Getting to the venue:
    • the nearest tram stop to the meeting venue is "Heidelberg Bunsengymnasium" (marked in the map linked above) [online timetable]https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de//bin/query.exe/en?Z=Neuenheim+Bunsengymnasium,+Heidelberg), provided by German Railway. Here you can also buy tickets online
  • Getting to Heidelberg

Hotels: These hotels are relatively close to the meeting venue (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, see the map above). A lot more hotels are listed in online hotel booking sites (e.g. on booking.com)

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19:30‑21:30
(120 min)

NICE 2020 Welcome reception

at the meeting venue.

The reception is also open for the participants of the NEUROTECH event Future Application Directions for Neuromorphic Computing Technologies


Tuesday, 17 March 2020
08:45
NICE 2020, workshop day I -- NOTE: NICE will be POSTPONED!

(Registration booth opens at 8:30h)

09:00‑09:10
(10+5 min)		 Welcome to NICE 2020
09:15‑09:45
(30 min)		 Organizer Round
09:45‑10:25
(40+5 min)		 Keynote IMike Davies (Intel)
10:30‑10:50
(20+5 min)		 Luping Shi (Tsinghua University)
11:00‑11:30
(30 min)		 Coffee break
11:30‑11:50
(20+5 min)		 Evaluating complexity and resilience trade-offs in emerging memory inference machines

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11:55‑12:15
(20+5 min)		 Johannes Schemmel (Heidelberg University)
12:20‑12:30
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: From clean room to machine room: towards accelerated cortical simulations on the BrainScaleS wafer-scale system

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Sebastian Schmitt (Heidelberg University)
12:35‑13:00
(25 min)		 Poster Lightning Talks

1 min - 1 slide poster appetizers

all Poster Presenters
13:00‑14:30
(90 min)		 Lunch, poster setup, demonstrators setup
14:30‑14:40
(10+5 min)		 Group photo at NICE

(The group photo will be placed on the internet. By showing up for the photo you grant your permission for the publication of the photo)
14:45‑15:05
(20+5 min)		 Why is Neuromorphic Event-based Engineering the future of AI?

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15:10‑15:30
(20+5 min)		 Neuromorphic and AI research at BCAI (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)

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Thomas Pfeil
15:35‑15:55
(20+5 min)		 Mapping Deep Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2

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Florian Kelber et al.
16:00‑16:30
(30 min)		 Coffee break
16:30‑16:50
(20+5 min)		 Closed-loop experiments on the BrainScaleS-2 architecture

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Korbinian Schreiber et al.
16:55‑17:05
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Adaptive control for hindlimb locomotion in a simulated mouse through temporal cerebellar learning

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Thomas Passer Jensen (Technical University of Denmark)
17:10‑17:55
(45 min)		 Open mic / discussions
19:00‑21:30
(150 min)		 Poster dinner

The max. poster size is A0, orientation PORTRAIT (841 mm wide x 1189 mm high)


Wednesday, 18 March 2020
08:45
NICE 2020, workshpo day II -- NOTE: NICE will be postponed!
09:00‑09:15
(15 min)		 Welcome / overview
09:15‑09:55
(40+5 min)		 KeynoteWolfgang Maass
10:00‑10:20
(20+5 min)		 On the computational power and complexity of Spiking Neural Networks

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(Nils Donselaar)
10:25‑10:45
(20+5 min)		 The speed of sequence processing in biological neuronal networks

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Younes Bouhadjar et. al
11:00‑11:30
(30 min)		 Coffee brek
11:30‑11:50
(20+5 min)		 Walter Senn
11:55‑12:15
(20+5 min)		 Conductance-based dendrites perform reliability-weighted opinion pooling

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Jakob Jordan et al.
12:20‑12:30
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Natural gradient learning for spiking neurons

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Elena Kreutzer et al.
12:35‑12:45
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: The Computational Capacity of Mem-LRC Reservoirs

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Forrest Sheldon et al.
13:00‑14:00
(60 min)		 Lunch
14:00‑14:20
(20+5 min)		 Making spiking neurons more succinct with multi-compartment models

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Johannes Leugering
14:25‑14:45
(20+5 min)		 Evolutionary Optimization for Neuromorphic Systems

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Catherine Schuman et al.
14:50‑15:00
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Implementing Backpropagation for Learning on Neuromorphic Spiking Hardware

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Andrew Sornborger et al.
15:05‑15:15
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Spike Latency Reduction generates Efficient Predictive Coding

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Pau Vilimelis Aceituno et al.
15:20‑16:10
(50 min)		 Special coffee break: EINC & BrainScaleS 1
16:10‑16:30
(20+5 min)		 Real-time Mapping on a Neuromorphic Processor

Guangzhi Tang and Konstantinos Michmizos

Navigation is so crucial for our survival that the brain hosts a dedicated network of neurons to map our surroundings. Place cells, grid cells, border cells, head direction cells and other specialized neurons in the hip- pocampus and the cortex work together in planning and learning maps of the environment [1]. When faced with similar navigation challenges, robots have an equally important need for generating a stable and accurate map. In our ongoing effort to translate the biological network for spatial navigation into a spiking neural network (SNN) that controls mobile robots in real-time, we first focused on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), being one of the critical problems in robotics that relies highly on the accuracy of map representation [2]. Our approach allows us to leverage the asynchronous computing paradigm commonly found across brain areas and therefore has already demonstrated to be a significant energy-efficient solution for 1D SLAM [3], that can spur the emergence of the new neuromorphic processors, such as Intel’s Loihi [4] and IBM’s TrueNorth [5]. In this paper, we expand our previous work by proposing a SNN that forms a cognitive map of an unknown environment and is seamlessly integrated to Loihi.

[1] S. Poulter, T. Hartley, and C. Lever, "The neurobiology of mammalian navigation," Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 17, pp. R1023-R1042, 2018.

[2] G. Grisetti, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard, "Improved techniques for grid mapping with rao-blackwellized particle filters," IEEE transactions on Robotics, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 34, 2007.

[3] G. Tang, A. Shah, and K. P. Michmizos, "Spiking neural network on neuromorphic hardware for energy- efficient unidimensional SLAM," in IEEE/RSJ International Conference onIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019, pp. 1-6.

[4] M. Davies et al., "Loihi: A neuromorphic manycore processor with on-chip learning," IEEE Micro, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 82-99, 2018.

[5] P. A. Merolla et al., "A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface," Science, vol. 345, no. 6197, pp. 668-673, 2014.

(Konstantinos Michmizos )
16:35‑16:55
(20+5 min)		 Inductive bias transfer between brains and machines

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Fabian Sinz
17:00‑17:45
(45 min)		 Open mic / discussion
18:00‑21:00
(180 min)		 Conference dinner

Thursday, 19 March 2020
08:45
NICE 2020, workshop day III -- NOTE: NICE will be postponed!
09:00‑09:15
(15 min)		 Welcome / overview
09:15‑09:55
(40+5 min)		 Keynote: Bottom-up and top-down neuromorphic processor design: Unveiling roads to embedded cognition

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Charlotte Frenkel
10:00‑10:20
(20+5 min)		 A Neuromorphic Future for Classic Computing Tasks

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Brad Aimone
10:25‑10:35
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Benchmarking of Neuromorphic Hardware Systems

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Christoph Ostrau et al.
10:40‑10:50
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Robot Sensory-motor Decision Tasks of Varying Difficulty

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(J David Schaffer)
11:00‑11:30
(30 min)		 Coffee break
11:30‑11:50
(20+5 min)		 Natural density cortical models as benchmarks for universal neuromorphic computersMarkus Diesmann
11:55‑12:15
(20+5 min)		 Platform-Agnostic Neural Algorithm Composition using Fugu

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William Severa
12:20‑12:40
(20+5 min)		 Programming neuromorphic computers: PyNN and beyond

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Andrew Davison
12:45‑12:55
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Caspian: A Neuromorphic Development Platform

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(John (Parker) Mitchell)
13:00‑14:00
(60 min)		 Lunch
14:00‑14:20
(20+5 min)		 BrainScaleS: Development Methodologies and Operating System

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Eric Müller
14:25‑14:35
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Cognitive Domain Ontologies: HPCs to Ultra Low Power Neuromorphic Platforms

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Tarek Taha et al.
14:40‑14:50
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Comparing Neural Accelerators & Neuromorphic Architectures The False Idol of Operations

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Craig Vineyard et al.
14:55‑15:05
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Subspace Locally Competitive Algorithms

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Dylan Paiton et al.
15:10‑15:20
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with first-spike coding

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Julian Göltz et al.
15:25‑15:35
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Graph Algorithms: Extracting Longest ShortestPaths and Minimum Spanning Trees

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15:40‑15:50
(10+5 min)		 Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Computing for Spacecraft’s Terrain Relative Navigation: A Case of Event-Based Crater Classification Task

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Kazuki Kariya et al.
15:55‑16:25
(30 min)		 Coffee break
16:25‑16:45
(20+5 min)		 Beyond Backprop: Different Approaches to Credit Assignment in Neural Nets

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16:50‑17:10
(20+5 min)		 Batch << 1: Why Neuromorphic Computing Architectures Suit Real-Time Workloads

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Jonathan Tapson (GrAI Matter Labs)
17:15‑17:35
(20+5 min)		 Relational Neurogenesis for Lifelong Learning Agents

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Tej Pandit et al.
17:40‑18:10
(30 min)		 open mic / discussions
18:20‑18:30
(10 min)		 Wrap-up / adjourn
18:30
End of NICE 2020 for non-tutorial attendants
19:00‑20:30
(90 min)		 Dinner (only for tutorial attendants)

Friday, 20 March 2020
09:00
NICE 2020, Tutorials day: NOTE: NICE will be POSTPONED!

The tutorial day can be booked as one of the registration options. On the tutorial day hands-on interactive tutorials with several different neuromorphic compute systems will be offered:

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09:00‑11:30
(150 min)		 Tutorial (and coffee)

In parallel ("choose one"):

  • BrainScaleS
  • SpiNNaker
  • Loihi: an overview of the Loihi hardware architecture and SDK basics
11:30‑12:30
(60 min)		 Lunch (only for tutorial participants)
12:30‑15:00
(150 min)		 Tutorial (and coffee)

In parallel ("choose one"):

  • BrainScaleS
  • SpiNNaker
  • Loihi: live examples and step-by-step iPhython-based tutorials of a wide variety of algorithmic examples
15:00
End of the NICE 2020 tutorial day
Contact: bjoern.kindler@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
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