| 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
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Travel info:
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 receptionat the meeting venue. The reception is also open for the participants of the NEUROTECH event Future Application Directions for Neuromorphic Computing Technologies | ||
| 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:
SpiNNaker tutorialTitle: Running Spiking Neural Network Simulations on SpiNNaker Description: This workshop will describe how to access the SpiNNaker platform, via both Jupyter Notebooks and the HBP Collaboratory. It will then discuss how to write spiking neural networks using the PyNN language to be executed on SpiNNaker, and introduce the integration with the HBP Neurorobotics environment. Participants will be given access to the Jupyter Notebook system from which they will be able to follow some lab examples, and then go on to create their own networks running on the platform, as well as create co-simulations with the robotics environment. Structure:
Timing: The tutorial will run twice with roughly identical content, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, so it can be combined with another morning or afternoon tutorial. Access: the SpiNNaker system in Manchester is available remotely via the HBP Collaboratoy. Please find here the access procedure. Intel Loihi tutorialTitle: Intel Corporation Loihi and Nx SDK Description: The tutorial will provide an introduction to the Loihi Neuromorphic Computing Platform and its Nx SDK development toolkit. The Loihi chip features a unique programmable microcode learning engine for on-chip spiking neural networks. The chip contains 128 neuromorphic cores and is fabricated in Intel’s 14nm process.
Note that participants will not be able to follow along from their own laptops unless they engage with Intel’s Neuromorphic Research Community beforehand (email inrc_interest@intel.com for more information). Timing: The morning and the afternoon sessions are fairly self-contained, so people can pick and choose and also attend the other tutorials, as they wish. BrainScaleS tutorialTitle: Experiments on BrainScaleS Description: The tutorial will provide an introduction to and hands-on experiment with the BrainScaleS accelerated analog neuromorphic hardware system. BrainScaleS is a mixed analog-digital design operating 1,000 times faster than real-time. BrainScaleS-2 features programmable on-chip learning capabilities and a new concept called dendritic computing, developed in close collaboration with neuroscientists. Participants will gain a familiarity with biologically inspired spiking neural networks and novel computation. Timing: The tutorial will run twice with roughly identical content, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, so it can be combined with another morning or afternoon tutorial. Access: the BrainScaleS-1 system in Heidelberg is available remotely via the HBP Collaboratoy. Please find here the access procedure. | ||
| 09:00‑11:30 (150 min) | Tutorial (and coffee) In parallel ("choose one"):
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| 11:30‑12:30 (60 min) | Lunch (only for tutorial participants) | ||
| 12:30‑15:00 (150 min) | Tutorial (and coffee) In parallel ("choose one"):
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| 15:00 | End of the NICE 2020 tutorial day | ||
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